The neural representation of space in rats has inspired many navigation systems for robots. In particular, Self-Organizing (Feature) Maps (SOM) are often used to give a sense of lo...
Computation in the physical world is restricted by the following spatial locality constraint: In a single unit of time, information can only travel a bounded distance in space. A ...
Policy gradient methods for reinforcement learning avoid some of the undesirable properties of the value function approaches, such as policy degradation (Baxter and Bartlett, 2001...
Evan Greensmith, Peter L. Bartlett, Jonathan Baxte...
Traditional goal-oriented approaches to building intelligent agents only consider absolute satisfaction of goals. However, in continuous domains there may be many instances in whi...
This paper presents a novel method for detecting and localizing objects of a visual category in cluttered real-world scenes. Our approach considers object categorization and figure...