See a PPT file with videos at www.research.microsoft.com/users/jojic/FlexiblesSprites.htm We propose a technique for automatically learning layers of "flexible sprites" ...
The recent and unprecedented surge of public interest in peer-to-peer file sharing has led to a variety of interesting research questions. In this paper, we will address the ince...
Philippe Golle, Kevin Leyton-Brown, Ilya Mironov, ...
This paper describes a computationally feasible approximation to the AIXI agent, a universal reinforcement learning agent for arbitrary environments. AIXI is scaled down in two ke...
Joel Veness, Kee Siong Ng, Marcus Hutter, William ...
A key problem in reinforcement learning is finding a good balance between the need to explore the environment and the need to gain rewards by exploiting existing knowledge. Much ...
Distributed heterogeneous search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers d...