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ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Cultivating desired behaviour: policy teaching via environment-dynamics tweaks
In this paper we study, for the first time explicitly, the implications of endowing an interested party (i.e. a teacher) with the ability to modify the underlying dynamics of the ...
Zinovi Rabinovich, Lachlan Dufton, Kate Larson, Ni...
ECAI
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Bayesian Monte Carlo for the Global Optimization of Expensive Functions
In the last decades enormous advances have been made possible for modelling complex (physical) systems by mathematical equations and computer algorithms. To deal with very long run...
Perry Groot, Adriana Birlutiu, Tom Heskes
CONEXT
2009
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
ThunderDome: discovering upload constraints using decentralized bandwidth tournaments
ThunderDome is a system for collaboratively measuring upload bandwidths in ad-hoc peer-to-peer systems. It works by scheduling bandwidth probes between pairs of hosts, wherein eac...
John R. Douceur, James W. Mickens, Thomas Moscibro...
ICML
2010
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
OTL: A Framework of Online Transfer Learning
In this paper, we investigate a new machine learning framework called Online Transfer Learning (OTL) that aims to transfer knowledge from some source domain to an online learning ...
Peilin Zhao, Steven C. H. Hoi
CDC
2008
IEEE
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15 years 6 months ago
Necessary and sufficient conditions for success of the nuclear norm heuristic for rank minimization
Minimizing the rank of a matrix subject to constraints is a challenging problem that arises in many applications in control theory, machine learning, and discrete geometry. This c...
Benjamin Recht, Weiyu Xu, Babak Hassibi