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ICMAS
1998
15 years 7 months ago
Principles of Trust for MAS: Cognitive Anatomy, Social Importance, and Quantification
After arguing about the crucial importance of trust for Agents and MAS, we provide a definition of trust both as a mental state and as a social attitude and relation. We present t...
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Rino Falcone
CGF
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Real-time Shading with Filtered Importance Sampling
We propose an analysis of numerical integration based on sampling theory, whereby the integration error caused by aliasing is suppressed by pre-filtering. We derive a pre-filter f...
Jaroslav Krivánek, Mark Colbert
IJLT
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
How do you know they are learning? The importance of alignment in higher education
: The success of any learning environment is determined by the degree to which there is adequate alignment among eight critical factors: 1) goals, 2) content, 3) instructional desi...
Thomas C. Reeves
TNN
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Importance Sampling to Accelerate Training of a Neural Probabilistic Language Model
Previous work on statistical language modeling has shown that it is possible to train a feed-forward neural network to approximate probabilities over sequences of words, resulting...
Yoshua Bengio, Jean-Sébastien Senecal
QUESTA
2007
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15 years 5 months ago
Alternative proof and interpretations for a recent state-dependent importance sampling scheme
Recently, a state-dependent change of measure for simulating overflows in the two-node tandem queue was proposed by Dupuis et al. (Ann. Appl. Probab. 17(4):1306– 1346, 2007), to...
Pieter-Tjerk de Boer, Werner R. W. Scheinhardt