Policy gradient methods for reinforcement learning avoid some of the undesirable properties of the value function approaches, such as policy degradation (Baxter and Bartlett, 2001...
Evan Greensmith, Peter L. Bartlett, Jonathan Baxte...
Abstract--Kernel-based algorithms such as support vector machines have achieved considerable success in various problems in batch setting, where all of the training data is availab...
Jyrki Kivinen, Alex J. Smola, Robert C. Williamson
Although many real-world stochastic planning problems are more naturally formulated by hybrid models with both discrete and continuous variables, current state-of-the-art methods ...
Carlos Guestrin, Milos Hauskrecht, Branislav Kveto...
This paper discusses implementation of a sequential procedure to construct proportional half-width confidence intervals for a simulation estimator of the steady-state quantiles an...
This paper presents preliminary work done on simulationbased optimization of a stochastic material-dispatching system in a retailer network. The problem we consider is one of dete...