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ICML
2000
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Reinforcement Learning in POMDP's via Direct Gradient Ascent
This paper discusses theoretical and experimental aspects of gradient-based approaches to the direct optimization of policy performance in controlled ??? ?s. We introduce ??? ?, a...
Jonathan Baxter, Peter L. Bartlett
SIAMIS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
A New Alternating Minimization Algorithm for Total Variation Image Reconstruction
We propose, analyze and test an alternating minimization algorithm for recovering images from blurry and noisy observations with total variation (TV) regularization. This algorith...
Yilun Wang, Junfeng Yang, Wotao Yin, Yin Zhang
KI
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
An Extensible Modular Recognition Concept That Makes Activity Recognition Practical
Abstract. In mobile and ubiquitous computing, there is a strong need for supporting different users with different interests, needs, and demands. Activity recognition systems for c...
Martin Berchtold, Matthias Budde, Hedda Rahel Schm...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
A smart hill-climbing algorithm for application server configuration
The overwhelming success of the Web as a mechanism for facilitating information retrieval and for conducting business transactions has led to an increase in the deployment of comp...
Bowei Xi, Zhen Liu, Mukund Raghavachari, Cathy H. ...
CPAIOR
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Conflict-Directed A* Search for Soft Constraints
As many real-world problems involve user preferences, costs, or probabilities, constraint satisfaction has been extended to optimization by generalizing hard constraints to soft co...
Martin Sachenbacher, Brian C. Williams