The role of explicit feedback in learning has been studied from a variety of perspectives and in many contexts. In this paper, we examine the impact of the specificity of feedback ...
Matthew Hays, H. Chad Lane, Daniel Auerbach, Mark ...
Perfect recall is the common and natural assumption that an agent never forgets. As a consequence, the agent can always condition its choice of action on any prior observations. I...
Kevin Waugh, Martin Zinkevich, Michael Johanson, M...
Abstract— This paper examines the performance characteristics of both asynchronous and synchronous parallel particle swarm optimisation algorithms in heterogeneous, fault-prone e...
Ian Scriven, David Ireland, Andrew Lewis, Sanaz Mo...
—This paper reviews the different gradient-based schemes and the sources of gradient, their availability, precision and computational complexity, and explores the benefits of usi...
Boyang Li, Yew-Soon Ong, Minh Nghia Le, Chi Keong ...
Link analysis is a critical component of current Internet search engines' results ranking software, which determines the ordering of query results returned to the user. The o...