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COLT
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Open Loop Optimistic Planning
We consider the problem of planning in a stochastic and discounted environment with a limited numerical budget. More precisely, we investigate strategies exploring the set of poss...
Sébastien Bubeck, Rémi Munos
COLT
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
On the Margin Explanation of Boosting Algorithms
Much attention has been paid to the theoretical explanation of the empirical success of AdaBoost. The most influential work is the margin theory, which is essentially an upper bou...
Liwei Wang, Masashi Sugiyama, Cheng Yang, Zhi-Hua ...
CRYPTO
2001
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
On the Cost of Reconstructing a Secret, or VSS with Optimal Reconstruction Phase
Consider a scenario where an l-bit secret has been distributed among n players by an honest dealer using some secret sharing scheme. Then, if all players behave honestly, the secre...
Ronald Cramer, Ivan Damgård, Serge Fehr
KDD
2002
ACM
125views Data Mining» more  KDD 2002»
14 years 9 months ago
Pattern discovery in sequences under a Markov assumption
In this paper we investigate the general problem of discovering recurrent patterns that are embedded in categorical sequences. An important real-world problem of this nature is mo...
Darya Chudova, Padhraic Smyth
ICML
2007
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Multi-armed bandit problems with dependent arms
We provide a framework to exploit dependencies among arms in multi-armed bandit problems, when the dependencies are in the form of a generative model on clusters of arms. We find ...
Sandeep Pandey, Deepayan Chakrabarti, Deepak Agarw...