We study how to find plans that maximize the expected total utility for a given MDP, a planning objective that is important for decision making in high-stakes domains. The optimal...
A simple learning rule is derived, the VAPS algorithm, which can be instantiated to generate a wide range of new reinforcementlearning algorithms. These algorithms solve a number ...
We show that a fast algorithm for the QR factorization of a Toeplitz or Hankel matrix A is weakly stable in the sense that RT R is close to AT A. Thus, when the algorithm is used ...
Adam W. Bojanczyk, Richard P. Brent, Frank R. de H...
We improve upon a method introduced in (Bertalmio et. al. JCP 2001) for solving evolution PDEs on codimension-one surfaces in RN. As in the original method, by representing the su...
Abstract--The 2-D Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) consumes up to 68% of the JPEG2000 encoding time. In this paper, we develop efficient implementations of this important kernel on...
Asadollah Shahbahrami, Ben H. H. Juurlink, Stamati...