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ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Quasi deterministic POMDPs and DecPOMDPs
In this paper, we study a particular subclass of partially observable models, called quasi-deterministic partially observable Markov decision processes (QDET-POMDPs), characterize...
Camille Besse, Brahim Chaib-draa
FTML
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Graphical Models, Exponential Families, and Variational Inference
The formalism of probabilistic graphical models provides a unifying framework for capturing complex dependencies among random variables, and building large-scale multivariate stat...
Martin J. Wainwright, Michael I. Jordan
CORR
2007
Springer
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15 years 6 months ago
Estimation of the Rate-Distortion Function
—Motivated by questions in lossy data compression and by theoretical considerations, the problem of estimating the rate-distortion function of an unknown (not necessarily discret...
Matthew T. Harrison, Ioannis Kontoyiannis
ECCC
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
Testing Symmetric Properties of Distributions
We introduce the notion of a Canonical Tester for a class of properties on distributions, that is, a tester strong and general enough that “a distribution property in the class ...
Paul Valiant
ECCC
2007
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Algebraic Lower Bounds for Computing on Encrypted Data
In cryptography, there has been tremendous success in building primitives out of homomorphic semantically-secure encryption schemes, using homomorphic properties in a blackbox way...
Rafail Ostrovsky, William E. Skeith III