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ML
2002
ACM
143views Machine Learning» more  ML 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
A Sparse Sampling Algorithm for Near-Optimal Planning in Large Markov Decision Processes
An issue that is critical for the application of Markov decision processes MDPs to realistic problems is how the complexity of planning scales with the size of the MDP. In stochas...
Michael J. Kearns, Yishay Mansour, Andrew Y. Ng
IPL
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
On the Positive-Negative Partial Set Cover problem
The Positive-Negative Partial Set Cover problem is introduced and its complexity, especially the hardness-of-approximation, is studied. The problem generalizes the Set Cover probl...
Pauli Miettinen
COLT
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Concentration Bounds for Unigrams Language Model
Abstract. We show several PAC-style concentration bounds for learning unigrams language model. One interesting quantity is the probability of all words appearing exactly k times in...
Evgeny Drukh, Yishay Mansour
SODA
2004
ACM
115views Algorithms» more  SODA 2004»
13 years 9 months ago
Minimizing the stabbing number of matchings, trees, and triangulations
The (axis-parallel) stabbing number of a given set of line segments is the maximum number of segments that can be intersected by any one (axis-parallel) line. We investigate probl...
Sándor P. Fekete, Marco E. Lübbecke, H...
CORR
2008
Springer
122views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Strategy Improvement for Concurrent Safety Games
We consider concurrent games played on graphs. At every round of the game, each player simultaneously and independently selects a move; the moves jointly determine the transition ...
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Luca de Alfaro, Thomas A. H...