Search engine advertising has become the main stream of online advertising system. In current search engine advertising systems, all users will get the same advertisement rank if t...
An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
Eligibility traces have been shown to speed reinforcement learning, to make it more robust to hidden states, and to provide a link between Monte Carlo and temporal-difference meth...
Doina Precup, Richard S. Sutton, Satinder P. Singh
Computing statistical information on probabilistic data has attracted a lot of attention recently, as the data generated from a wide range of data sources are inherently fuzzy or ...
Abstract. This text is an informal review of several randomized algorithms that have appeared over the past two decades and have proved instrumental in extracting efficiently quant...