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2005
IEEE
16 years 6 days ago
Mechanism Design via Machine Learning
We use techniques from sample-complexity in machine learning to reduce problems of incentive-compatible mechanism design to standard algorithmic questions, for a wide variety of r...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Jason D. Hartlin...
HICSS
2003
IEEE
142views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
15 years 12 months ago
Evolution of a Knowledge Focused Computer Supported Learning System by Ensuring Extensibility through Generalization and Replica
If sufficient attention is not paid to the information models on which Learning Platforms are based the ability to deliver rich functionality is hindered. This paper describes the...
David White, Lesley A. Gardner, Don Sheridan
CAIP
2003
Springer
222views Image Analysis» more  CAIP 2003»
15 years 11 months ago
Learning Statistical Structure for Object Detection
Abstract. Many classes of images exhibit sparse structuring of statistical dependency. Each variable has strong statistical dependency with a small number of other variables and ne...
Henry Schneiderman
NIPS
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Structured ranking learning using cumulative distribution networks
Ranking is at the heart of many information retrieval applications. Unlike standard regression or classification in which we predict outputs independently, in ranking we are inter...
Jim C. Huang, Brendan J. Frey
NIPS
1994
15 years 8 months ago
Reinforcement Learning with Soft State Aggregation
It is widely accepted that the use of more compact representations than lookup tables is crucial to scaling reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms to real-world problems. Unfortun...
Satinder P. Singh, Tommi Jaakkola, Michael I. Jord...