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ATAL
2009
Springer
16 years 25 days ago
An empirical analysis of value function-based and policy search reinforcement learning
In several agent-oriented scenarios in the real world, an autonomous agent that is situated in an unknown environment must learn through a process of trial and error to take actio...
Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Peter Stone
ISAAC
2003
Springer
133views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 2003»
15 years 11 months ago
The Intractability of Computing the Hamming Distance
Given a string x and a language L, the Hamming distance of x to L is the minimum Hamming distance of x to any string in L. The edit distance of a string to a language is analogous...
Bodo Manthey, Rüdiger Reischuk
AAAI
2007
15 years 8 months ago
Automated Online Mechanism Design and Prophet Inequalities
Recent work on online auctions for digital goods has explored the role of optimal stopping theory — particularly secretary problems — in the design of approximately optimal on...
Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Robert D. Kleinberg, Tu...
KDD
2005
ACM
80views Data Mining» more  KDD 2005»
16 years 6 months ago
Wavelet synopsis for data streams: minimizing non-euclidean error
We consider the wavelet synopsis construction problem for data streams where given n numbers we wish to estimate the data by constructing a synopsis, whose size, say B is much sma...
Sudipto Guha, Boulos Harb
STOC
2005
ACM
135views Algorithms» more  STOC 2005»
16 years 6 months ago
Quadratic forms on graphs
We introduce a new graph parameter, called the Grothendieck constant of a graph G = (V, E), which is defined as the least constant K such that for every A : E R, sup f:V S|V |-1 ...
Noga Alon, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makarychev,...