Blocking is a technique commonly used in manual statistical analysis to account for confounding variables. However, blocking is not currently used in automated learning algorithms...
When mobile robots perform tasks in environments with humans, it seems appropriate for the robots to rely on such humans for help instead of dedicated human oracles or supervisors...
Stephanie Rosenthal, Manuela M. Veloso, Anind K. D...
Much evidence has shown that prediction markets, when used in isolation, can effectively aggregate dispersed information about uncertain future events and produce remarkably accur...
Yiling Chen, Xi Alice Gao, Rick Goldstein, Ian A. ...
We consider a new class of planning problems involving a set of non-negative real variables, and a set of non-deterministic actions that increase or decrease the values of these v...
Siddharth Srivastava, Shlomo Zilberstein, Neil Imm...
In many real world applications, the number of examples to learn from is plentiful, but we can only obtain limited information on each individual example. We study the possibiliti...