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ICML
2006
IEEE
16 years 7 months ago
An intrinsic reward mechanism for efficient exploration
How should a reinforcement learning agent act if its sole purpose is to efficiently learn an optimal policy for later use? In other words, how should it explore, to be able to exp...
Özgür Simsek, Andrew G. Barto
CADE
2009
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Efficient Intuitionistic Theorem Proving with the Polarized Inverse Method
The inverse method is a generic proof search procedure applicable to non-classical logics satisfying cut elimination and the subformula property. In this paper we describe a genera...
Sean McLaughlin, Frank Pfenning
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
124views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
16 years 6 months ago
BLAS: An Efficient XPath Processing System
We present BLAS , a Bi-LAbeling based System, for efficiently processing complex XPath queries over XML data. BLAS uses Plabeling to process queries involving consecutive child ax...
Yi Chen, Susan B. Davidson, Yifeng Zheng
EDBT
2006
ACM
129views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
16 years 6 months ago
Efficient Quantile Retrieval on Multi-dimensional Data
Given a set of N multi-dimensional points, we study the computation of -quantiles according to a ranking function F, which is provided by the user at runtime. Specifically, F compu...
Man Lung Yiu, Nikos Mamoulis, Yufei Tao
DCC
2002
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
Image Compression using an Efficient Edge Cartoon + Texture Model
Wavelet-based image coders optimally represent smooth regions and isolated point singularities. However, wavelet coders are less adept at representing perceptually important edge ...
Michael B. Wakin, Justin K. Romberg, Hyeokho Choi,...