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UAI
2001
15 years 8 months ago
The Optimal Reward Baseline for Gradient-Based Reinforcement Learning
There exist a number of reinforcement learning algorithms which learn by climbing the gradient of expected reward. Their long-run convergence has been proved, even in partially ob...
Lex Weaver, Nigel Tao
ICIP
2003
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
Rate distortion optimized mode decision in the scalable video coding
In this paper, we discuss how to apply the rate distortion technique to select the optimal mode in the scalable coding. Firstly, we analyze this problem from a general scalable mo...
Zhijie Yang, Feng Wu, Shipeng Li
ICIP
1999
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Nonlinear Multigrid Optimization for Bayesian Diffusion Tomography
Optical diffusion tomography attempts to reconstruct an object cross section from measurements of scattered and attenuated light. While Bayesian approaches are well suited to this...
Jong Chul Ye, Charles A. Bouman, Rick P. Millane, ...
ACL
2011
14 years 10 months ago
Better Hypothesis Testing for Statistical Machine Translation: Controlling for Optimizer Instability
In statistical machine translation, a researcher seeks to determine whether some innovation (e.g., a new feature, model, or inference algorithm) improves translation quality in co...
Jonathan H. Clark, Chris Dyer, Alon Lavie, Noah A....
ICPR
2008
IEEE
16 years 8 months ago
EK-SVD: Optimized dictionary design for sparse representations
Sparse representations using overcomplete dictionaries are used in a variety of field such as pattern recognition and compression. However, the size of dictionary is usually a tra...
Raazia Mazhar, Paul D. Gader