Many strategic actions carry a ‘contagious’ component beyond the immediate locale of the effort itself. Viral marketing and peacekeeping operations have both been observed to ...
We consider symbolic dynamic programming (SDP) for solving Markov Decision Processes (MDP) with factored state and action spaces, where both states and actions are described by se...
Aswin Raghavan, Saket Joshi, Alan Fern, Prasad Tad...
Non-intrusive appliance load monitoring is the process of disaggregating a household’s total electricity consumption into its contributing appliances. In this paper we propose a...
Oliver Parson, Siddhartha Ghosh, Mark Weal, Alex R...
We propose to model relative attributes1 that capture the relationships between images and objects in terms of human-nameable visual properties. For example, the models can captur...
Selecting the optimal kernel is an important and difficult challenge in applying kernel methods to pattern recognition. To address this challenge, multiple kernel learning (MKL) ...