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SIAMSC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Abstract. We present a new derivative-free algorithm, ORBIT, for unconstrained local optimization of computationally expensive functions. A trust-region framework using interpolati...
CORR
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2010
Springer
Temporal difference methods are theoretically grounded and empirically effective methods for addressing reinforcement learning problems. In most real-world reinforcement learning ...
WSC
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
We develop and evaluate a semiparametric method to estimate the mean-value function of a nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) using one or more process realizations observed over...
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
We treat the text summarization problem as maximizing a submodular function under a budget constraint. We show, both theoretically and empirically, a modified greedy algorithm can...
VC
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Abstract We present an efficient method for importance sampling the product of multiple functions. Our algorithm computes a quick approximation of the product on-the-fly, based on ...