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AAAI
2008
15 years 5 months ago
HTN-MAKER: Learning HTNs with Minimal Additional Knowledge Engineering Required
We describe HTN-MAKER, an algorithm for learning hierarchical planning knowledge in the form of decomposition methods for Hierarchical Task Networks (HTNs). HTNMAKER takes as inpu...
Chad Hogg, Héctor Muñoz-Avila, Ugur ...
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NIPS
2007
15 years 4 months ago
A General Boosting Method and its Application to Learning Ranking Functions for Web Search
We present a general boosting method extending functional gradient boosting to optimize complex loss functions that are encountered in many machine learning problems. Our approach...
Zhaohui Zheng, Hongyuan Zha, Tong Zhang, Olivier C...
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AOIS
2004
15 years 4 months ago
Market-Based Recommender Systems: Learning Users' Interests by Quality Classification
Recommender systems are widely used to cope with the problem of information overload and, consequently, many recommendation methods have been developed. However, no one technique i...
Yan Zheng Wei, Luc Moreau, Nicholas R. Jennings
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AAAI
2000
15 years 4 months ago
Localizing Search in Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement learning (RL) can be impractical for many high dimensional problems because of the computational cost of doing stochastic search in large state spaces. We propose a ...
Gregory Z. Grudic, Lyle H. Ungar
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NIPS
1994
15 years 4 months ago
Reinforcement Learning with Soft State Aggregation
It is widely accepted that the use of more compact representations than lookup tables is crucial to scaling reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms to real-world problems. Unfortun...
Satinder P. Singh, Tommi Jaakkola, Michael I. Jord...