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ICML
2010
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Finite-Sample Analysis of LSTD
In this paper we consider the problem of policy evaluation in reinforcement learning, i.e., learning the value function of a fixed policy, using the least-squares temporal-differe...
Alessandro Lazaric, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Ré...
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EUROCOLT
1999
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Regularized Principal Manifolds
Many settings of unsupervised learning can be viewed as quantization problems — the minimization of the expected quantization error subject to some restrictions. This allows the ...
Alex J. Smola, Robert C. Williamson, Sebastian Mik...
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COLT
2001
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Smooth Boosting and Learning with Malicious Noise
We describe a new boosting algorithm which generates only smooth distributions which do not assign too much weight to any single example. We show that this new boosting algorithm ...
Rocco A. Servedio
FOCS
2009
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
A Complete Characterization of Statistical Query Learning with Applications to Evolvability
Statistical query (SQ) learning model of Kearns is a natural restriction of the PAC learning model in which a learning algorithm is allowed to obtain estimates of statistical prop...
Vitaly Feldman
PKDD
2009
Springer
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15 years 5 months ago
Boosting Active Learning to Optimality: A Tractable Monte-Carlo, Billiard-Based Algorithm
Abstract. This paper focuses on Active Learning with a limited number of queries; in application domains such as Numerical Engineering, the size of the training set might be limite...
Philippe Rolet, Michèle Sebag, Olivier Teyt...