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ICML
2002
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
Algorithm-Directed Exploration for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning in Factored MDPs
One of the central challenges in reinforcement learning is to balance the exploration/exploitation tradeoff while scaling up to large problems. Although model-based reinforcement ...
Carlos Guestrin, Relu Patrascu, Dale Schuurmans
WWW
2008
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
Using graphics processors for high-performance IR query processing
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...
Shuai Ding, Jinru He, Hao Yan, Torsten Suel
KDD
2008
ACM
176views Data Mining» more  KDD 2008»
16 years 7 months ago
Febrl -: an open source data cleaning, deduplication and record linkage system with a graphical user interface
Matching records that refer to the same entity across databases is becoming an increasingly important part of many data mining projects, as often data from multiple sources needs ...
Peter Christen
OSDI
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
On the Impact of Disk Scrubbing on Energy Savings
The increasing use of computers for saving valuable data imposes stringent reliability constraints on storage systems. Reliability improvement via use of redundancy is a common pr...
Guanying Wang, Ali Raza Butt, Chris Gniady
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
137views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
16 years 6 months ago
Robust and efficient algorithms for rank join evaluation
In the rank join problem we are given a relational join R1 1 R2 and a function that assigns numeric scores to the join tuples, and the goal is to return the tuples with the highes...
Jonathan Finger, Neoklis Polyzotis