— When an agent observes its environment, there are two important characteristics of the perceived information. One is the relevance of information and the other is redundancy. T...
Zhihui Luo, David A. Bell, Barry McCollum, Qingxia...
This paper presents a spoken dialogue framework that helps users in making decisions. Users often do not have a definite goal or criteria for selecting from a list of alternatives...
We consider the policy search approach to reinforcement learning. We show that if a “baseline distribution” is given (indicating roughly how often we expect a good policy to v...
J. Andrew Bagnell, Sham Kakade, Andrew Y. Ng, Jeff...
Planning problems are often formulated as heuristic search. The choice of the heuristic function plays a significant role in the performance of planning systems, but a good heuris...
An interpretation system finds the likely mappings from portions of an image to real-world objects. An interpretation policy specifies when to apply which imaging operator, to whi...