Most dialogue systems are built with a single task in mind. This makes the extension of an existing system one of the major problems in the field as large parts of the system hav...
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...
Swarm Intelligence has been a successful approach to solve some combinatorial problems through the metaphor of interacting evolving individuals of a a population P in a closed toru...
Main memory is responsible for a large and increasing fraction of the energy consumed by servers. Prior work has focused on exploiting DRAM low-power states to conserve energy. Ho...
Qingyuan Deng, David Meisner, Luiz E. Ramos, Thoma...
As a simple XML query language but with enough expressive power, XPath has become very popular. To expedite evaluation of XPath queries, we consider the problem of rewriting XPath...