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IJCAI
2003
15 years 7 months ago
Covariant Policy Search
We investigate the problem of non-covariant behavior of policy gradient reinforcement learning algorithms. The policy gradient approach is amenable to analysis by information geom...
J. Andrew Bagnell, Jeff G. Schneider
ICDCN
2010
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Bandwidth Provisioning in Infrastructure-Based Wireless Networks Employing Directional Antennas
Abstract— Motivated by the widespread proliferation of wireless networks employing directional antennas, we study the problem of provisioning bandwidth in such networks. Given a ...
Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan, Bo Zhao, Sudarshan V...
FLAIRS
2006
15 years 7 months ago
Using Web Searches on Important Words to Create Background Sets for LSI Classification
The world wide web has a wealth of information that is related to almost any text classification task. This paper presents a method for mining the web to improve text classificati...
Sarah Zelikovitz, Marina Kogan
SWAT
2010
Springer
242views Algorithms» more  SWAT 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Minimizing the Diameter of a Network Using Shortcut Edges
We study the problem of minimizing the diameter of a graph by adding k shortcut edges, for speeding up communication in an existing network design. We develop constant-factor appro...
Erik D. Demaine, Morteza Zadimoghaddam
BMCBI
2010
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15 years 6 months ago
Orientation-dependent backbone-only residue pair scoring functions for fixed backbone protein design
Background: Empirical scoring functions have proven useful in protein structure modeling. Most such scoring functions depend on protein side chain conformations. However, backbone...
Andrew J. Bordner