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AAAI
2012
13 years 9 months ago
Transportability of Causal Effects: Completeness Results
The study of transportability aims to identify conditions under which causal information learned from experiments can be reused in a different environment where only passive obser...
Elias Bareinboim, Judea Pearl
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LION
2007
Springer
192views Optimization» more  LION 2007»
16 years 25 days ago
Learning While Optimizing an Unknown Fitness Surface
This paper is about Reinforcement Learning (RL) applied to online parameter tuning in Stochastic Local Search (SLS) methods. In particular a novel application of RL is considered i...
Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato, Paolo Campigotto
ELPUB
2006
ACM
16 years 20 days ago
Modelling a Layer for Real-Time Management of Interactions in Web Based Distance Learning
In the last few years, the University of Aveiro, Portugal, has been offering several distance learning courses over the Web, using e-learning platforms. Experience showed that dif...
Carlos Sousa Pinto, Fernando M. S. Ramos
IBPRIA
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
Large Scale Online Learning of Image Similarity through Ranking
ent abstract presents OASIS, an Online Algorithm for Scalable Image Similarity learning that learns a bilinear similarity measure over sparse representations. OASIS is an online du...
Gal Chechik, Varun Sharma, Uri Shalit, Samy Bengio
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ECTEL
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Getting to Know Your Student in Distance Learning Contexts
Abstract. Good teachers know their students, and exploit this knowledge to adapt or optimise their instruction. Teachers know their students because they interact with them face-to...
Claus Zinn, Oliver Scheuer