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NIPS
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Signal-to-Noise Ratio Analysis of Policy Gradient Algorithms
Policy gradient (PG) reinforcement learning algorithms have strong (local) convergence guarantees, but their learning performance is typically limited by a large variance in the e...
John W. Roberts, Russ Tedrake
FGCS
2007
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15 years 7 months ago
Design and analysis of a load balancing strategy in Data Grids
Developing Data Grids has increasingly become a major concern to make Grids attractive for a wide range of data-intensive applications. Storage subsystems are most likely to be a ...
Xiao Qin
CCGRID
2010
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Towards Autonomic Service Provisioning Systems
This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...
Michele Mazzucco
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
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16 years 7 months ago
Holistic Aggregates in a Networked World: Distributed Tracking of Approximate Quantiles
While traditional database systems optimize for performance on one-shot queries, emerging large-scale monitoring applications require continuous tracking of complex aggregates and...
Graham Cormode, Minos N. Garofalakis, S. Muthukris...
WSC
2000
15 years 8 months ago
A comparison of five steady-state truncation heuristics for simulation
We compare the performance of five well-known truncation heuristics for mitigating the effects of initialization bias in the output analysis of steady-state simulations. Two of th...
K. Preston White, Michael J. Cobb, Stephen C. Spra...