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DOCENG
2008
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Satisficing scrolls: a shortcut to satisfactory layout
We present at a new approach to finding aesthetically pleasing page layouts. We do not aim to find an optimal layout, rather the aim is to find a layout which is not obviously wro...
Nathan Hurst, Kim Marriott
NIPS
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Signal-to-Noise Ratio Analysis of Policy Gradient Algorithms
Policy gradient (PG) reinforcement learning algorithms have strong (local) convergence guarantees, but their learning performance is typically limited by a large variance in the e...
John W. Roberts, Russ Tedrake
ISCAPDCS
2004
15 years 8 months ago
Heuristics-Based Replication Schemas for Fast Information Retrieval over the Internet
Internet today, has transformed into a global information hub. The increase in its usage and magnitude have sparkled various research problems. Because of the diverse user populat...
Samee Ullah Khan, Ishfaq Ahmad
UAI
2000
15 years 8 months ago
Rao-Blackwellised Particle Filtering for Dynamic Bayesian Networks
Particle filters (PFs) are powerful samplingbased inference/learning algorithms for dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs). They allow us to treat, in a principled way, any type of prob...
Arnaud Doucet, Nando de Freitas, Kevin P. Murphy, ...
CEC
2010
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
An adaptive ensemble of fuzzy ARTMAP neural networks for video-based face classification
A key feature in population based optimization algorithms is the ability to explore a search space and make a decision based on multiple solutions. In this paper, an incremental le...
Jean-François Connolly, Eric Granger, Rober...