We consider learning in a Markov decision process where we are not explicitly given a reward function, but where instead we can observe an expert demonstrating the task that we wa...
An explicit exploration strategy is necessary in reinforcement learning (RL) to balance the need to reduce the uncertainty associated with the expected outcome of an action and the...
We analyze the application of ensemble learning to recommender systems on the Netflix Prize dataset. For our analysis we use a set of diverse state-of-the-art collaborative filt...
Ensembles of learning machines have been formally and empirically shown to outperform (generalise better than) single predictors in many cases. Evidence suggests that ensembles ge...
Incorporating background knowledge into data mining algorithms is an important but challenging problem. Current approaches in semi-supervised learning require explicit knowledge p...
Samah Jamal Fodeh, William F. Punch, Pang-Ning Tan