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STOC
2001
ACM
134views Algorithms» more  STOC 2001»
16 years 6 months ago
Data-streams and histograms
Histograms are typically used to approximate data distributions. Histograms and related synopsis structures have been successful in a wide variety of popular database applications...
Sudipto Guha, Nick Koudas, Kyuseok Shim
GECCO
2008
Springer
168views Optimization» more  GECCO 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
Parameterizing pair approximations for takeover dynamics
Pair approximations have often been used to predict equilibrium conditions in spatially-explicit epidemiological and ecological systems. In this work, we investigate whether this ...
Joshua L. Payne, Margaret J. Eppstein
JMM2
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
A Framework for Linear Transform Approximation Using Orthogonal Basis Projection
—This paper aims to develop a novel framework to systematically trade-off computational complexity with output distortion in linear multimedia transforms, in an optimal manner. T...
Yinpeng Chen, Hari Sundaram
AAAI
2006
15 years 7 months ago
Sample-Efficient Evolutionary Function Approximation for Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning problems are commonly tackled with temporal difference methods, which attempt to estimate the agent's optimal value function. In most real-world proble...
Shimon Whiteson, Peter Stone
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Approximate dynamic programming with affine ADDs
The Affine ADD (AADD) is an extension of the Algebraic Decision Diagram (ADD) that compactly represents context-specific, additive and multiplicative structure in functions from a...
Scott Sanner, William T. B. Uther, Karina Valdivia...