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NIPS
2001
13 years 9 months ago
Variance Reduction Techniques for Gradient Estimates in Reinforcement Learning
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...
GECCO
2006
Springer
186views Optimization» more  GECCO 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Characterizing large text corpora using a maximum variation sampling genetic algorithm
An enormous amount of information available via the Internet exists. Much of this data is in the form of text-based documents. These documents cover a variety of topics that are v...
Robert M. Patton, Thomas E. Potok
BMCBI
2006
86views more  BMCBI 2006»
13 years 7 months ago
Identification of QTLs controlling gene expression networks defined a priori
Background: Gene expression microarrays allow the quantification of transcript accumulation for many or all genes in a genome. This technology has been utilized for a range of inv...
Daniel J. Kliebenstein, Marilyn A. L. West, Hans v...
AUTOMATICA
2007
104views more  AUTOMATICA 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Improving off-line approach to robust MPC based-on nominal performance cost
This paper gives two alternative off-line synthesis approaches to robust model predictive control (RMPC) for systems with polytopic description. In each approach, a sequence of ex...
BaoCang Ding, YuGeng Xi, Marcin T. Cychowski, Thom...
ASPDAC
2010
ACM
161views Hardware» more  ASPDAC 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
A dual-MST approach for clock network synthesis
Abstract--In nanometer-scale VLSI physical design, clock network becomes a major concern on determining the total performance of digital circuit. Clock skew and PVT (Process, Volta...
Jingwei Lu, Wing-Kai Chow, Chiu-Wing Sham, Evangel...