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2004
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Exploration-Exploitation Tradeoffs for Experts Algorithms in Reactive Environments
A reactive environment is one that responds to the actions of an agent rather than evolving obliviously. In reactive environments, experts algorithms must balance exploration and ...
Daniela Pucci de Farias, Nimrod Megiddo
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2004
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A Cost-Shaping LP for Bellman Error Minimization with Performance Guarantees
We introduce a new algorithm based on linear programming that approximates the differential value function of an average-cost Markov decision process via a linear combination of p...
Daniela Pucci de Farias, Benjamin Van Roy
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2004
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Sampling Methods for Unsupervised Learning
We present an algorithm to overcome the local maxima problem in estimating the parameters of mixture models. It combines existing approaches from both EM and a robust fitting algo...
Robert Fergus, Andrew Zisserman, Pietro Perona
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2004
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A Hidden Markov Model for de Novo Peptide Sequencing
De novo Sequencing of peptides is a challenging task in proteome research. While there exist reliable DNA-sequencing methods, the highthroughput de novo sequencing of proteins by ...
Bernd Fischer, Volker Roth, Joachim M. Buhmann, Jo...
NIPS
2004
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Joint Probabilistic Curve Clustering and Alignment
Clustering and prediction of sets of curves is an important problem in many areas of science and engineering. It is often the case that curves tend to be misaligned from each othe...
Scott Gaffney, Padhraic Smyth