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ISAAC
2007
Springer
109views Algorithms» more  ISAAC 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Separating Populations with Wide Data: A Spectral Analysis
In this paper, we consider the problem of partitioning a small data sample drawn from a mixture of k product distributions. We are interested in the case that individual features a...
Avrim Blum, Amin Coja-Oghlan, Alan M. Frieze, Shuh...
SIGMETRICS
2004
ACM
115views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
Emulating low-priority transport at the application layer: a background transfer service
Low priority data transfer across the wide area is useful in several contexts, for example for the dissemination of large files such as OS updates, content distribution or prefet...
Peter B. Key, Laurent Massoulié, Bing Wang
CDC
2009
IEEE
132views Control Systems» more  CDC 2009»
14 years 11 days ago
Q-learning and Pontryagin's Minimum Principle
Abstract— Q-learning is a technique used to compute an optimal policy for a controlled Markov chain based on observations of the system controlled using a non-optimal policy. It ...
Prashant G. Mehta, Sean P. Meyn
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Decentralized planning under uncertainty for teams of communicating agents
Decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes (DEC-POMDPs) form a general framework for planning for groups of cooperating agents that inhabit a stochastic and part...
Matthijs T. J. Spaan, Geoffrey J. Gordon, Nikos A....
AAAI
2004
13 years 9 months ago
SOFIA's Choice: An AI Approach to Scheduling Airborne Astronomy Observations
We describe an innovative solution to the problem of scheduling astronomy observations for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, an airborne observatory. The probl...
Jeremy Frank, Michael A. K. Gross, Elif Kürkl...