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SIAMCO
2002
13 years 7 months ago
2002
As shown in [7], optimal control problems with either ODE or PDE dynamics can be solved efficiently using a setting of consistent approximations obtained by numerical discretizati...
HYBRID
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. This paper derives an optimization-based control methodology for networks of switched and hybrid systems in which each mode is governed by a partial differential equatio...
JMLR
2006
2006
Geometric Variance Reduction in Markov Chains: Application to Value Function and Gradient Estimation
13 years 7 months ago
We study a sequential variance reduction technique for Monte Carlo estimation of functionals in Markov Chains. The method is based on designing sequential control variates using s...
PVM
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2005
Springer
We consider a parallel decomposition technique for solving the large quadratic programs arising in training the learning methodology Support Vector Machine. At each iteration of th...
IJCAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
2003
We investigate the problem of non-covariant behavior of policy gradient reinforcement learning algorithms. The policy gradient approach is amenable to analysis by information geom...