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2001
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On the Convergence of Leveraging
We give an unified convergence analysis of ensemble learning methods including e.g. AdaBoost, Logistic Regression and the Least-SquareBoost algorithm for regression. These methods...
Gunnar Rätsch, Sebastian Mika, Manfred K. War...
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NIPS
2003
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Policy Search by Dynamic Programming
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...
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NIPS
1998
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Inference in Multilayer Networks via Large Deviation Bounds
We study probabilistic inference in large, layered Bayesian networks represented as directed acyclic graphs. We show that the intractability of exact inference in such networks do...
Michael J. Kearns, Lawrence K. Saul
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NIPS
2000
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The Missing Link - A Probabilistic Model of Document Content and Hypertext Connectivity
We describe a joint probabilistic model for modeling the contents and inter-connectivity of document collections such as sets of web pages or research paper archives. The model is...
David A. Cohn, Thomas Hofmann
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2003
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Hierarchical Topic Models and the Nested Chinese Restaurant Process
We address the problem of learning topic hierarchies from data. The model selection problem in this domain is daunting—which of the large collection of possible trees to use? We...
David M. Blei, Thomas L. Griffiths, Michael I. Jor...