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TR
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Previous work on planning accelerated life tests has been based on large-sample approximations to evaluate test plan properties. In this paper, we use more accurate simulation met...
NIPS
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
Policy gradient (PG) reinforcement learning algorithms have strong (local) convergence guarantees, but their learning performance is typically limited by a large variance in the e...
TOMACS
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
In this paper, we develop a stochastic approximation method to solve a monotone estimation problem and use this method to enhance the empirical performance of the Q-learning algor...
ICML
2002
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
Previous discretization techniques have discretized numeric attributes into disjoint intervals. We argue that this is neither necessary nor appropriate for naive-Bayes classifiers...
CDC
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
2010
IEEE
Abstract-- The focus of this article is to undertake a comparative analysis of multi-step-ahead linear multivariate predictors. The approach considered for the estimation will be b...