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AAAI
2011
14 years 6 months ago
Policy Gradient Planning for Environmental Decision Making with Existing Simulators
In environmental and natural resource planning domains actions are taken at a large number of locations over multiple time periods. These problems have enormous state and action s...
Mark Crowley, David Poole
DEXAW
2009
IEEE
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16 years 1 months ago
Automatic Cluster Number Selection Using a Split and Merge K-Means Approach
Abstract—The k-means method is a simple and fast clustering technique that exhibits the problem of specifying the optimal number of clusters preliminarily. We address the problem...
Markus Muhr, Michael Granitzer
JMLR
2012
13 years 9 months ago
Message-Passing Algorithms for MAP Estimation Using DC Programming
We address the problem of finding the most likely assignment or MAP estimation in a Markov random field. We analyze the linear programming formulation of MAP through the lens of...
Akshat Kumar, Shlomo Zilberstein, Marc Toussaint
AAAI
2012
13 years 9 months ago
Semi-Supervised Kernel Matching for Domain Adaptation
In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised kernel matching method to address domain adaptation problems where the source distribution substantially differs from the target distri...
Min Xiao, Yuhong Guo
PPSN
2000
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...