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JMLR
2010
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15 years 1 months ago
Finite-sample Analysis of Bellman Residual Minimization
We consider the Bellman residual minimization approach for solving discounted Markov decision problems, where we assume that a generative model of the dynamics and rewards is avai...
Odalric-Ambrym Maillard, Rémi Munos, Alessa...
SIAMNUM
2010
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15 years 1 months ago
Recovery-Based Error Estimators for Interface Problems: Mixed and Nonconforming Finite Elements
Abstract. In [9], we introduced and analyzed a recovery-based a posteriori error estimator for conforming linear finite element approximation to interface problems. It was shown th...
Zhiqiang Cai, Shun Zhang
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
A mode preserving particle filter
A new particle filtering technique is proposed which addresses the problem of mode preservation in the approximation of multi-modal posteriors. The key is a resampling step which...
Mark R. Morelande, Alan M. Zhang
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
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15 years 11 months ago
Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation
Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we ...
Yossi Matias, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang
CORR
2008
Springer
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15 years 7 months ago
Algorithmic Pricing via Virtual Valuations
Algorithmic pricing is the computational problem that sellers (e.g., in supermarkets) face when trying to set prices for their items to maximize their profit in the presence of a ...
Shuchi Chawla, Jason D. Hartline, Robert Kleinberg