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ECML
2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Estimation of Mixture Models Using Co-EM
We study estimation of mixture models for problems in which multiple views of the instances are available. Examples of this setting include clustering web pages or research papers ...
Steffen Bickel, Tobias Scheffer
NIPS
2001
15 years 4 months ago
Variance Reduction Techniques for Gradient Estimates in Reinforcement Learning
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...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Reducing the run-time of MCMC programs by multithreading on SMP architectures
The increasing availability of multi-core and multiprocessor architectures provides new opportunities for improving the performance of many computer simulations. Markov Chain Mont...
Jonathan M. R. Byrd, Stephen A. Jarvis, A. H. Bhal...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Incorporating prior knowledge into a transductive ranking algorithm for multi-document summarization
This paper presents a transductive approach to learn ranking functions for extractive multi-document summarization. At the first stage, the proposed approach identifies topic th...
Massih-Reza Amini, Nicolas Usunier
JUCS
2008
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15 years 3 months ago
A Standards-based Modelling Approach for Dynamic Generation of Adaptive Learning Scenarios
: One of the key problems in developing standard based adaptive courses is the complexity involved in the design phase, especially when establishing the hooks for the dynamic model...
Jesus Boticario, Olga C. Santos