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IJCAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Covariant Policy Search
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...
J. Andrew Bagnell, Jeff G. Schneider
ICDCN
2010
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Bandwidth Provisioning in Infrastructure-Based Wireless Networks Employing Directional Antennas
Abstract— Motivated by the widespread proliferation of wireless networks employing directional antennas, we study the problem of provisioning bandwidth in such networks. Given a ...
Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan, Bo Zhao, Sudarshan V...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Using Web Searches on Important Words to Create Background Sets for LSI Classification
The world wide web has a wealth of information that is related to almost any text classification task. This paper presents a method for mining the web to improve text classificati...
Sarah Zelikovitz, Marina Kogan
SWAT
2010
Springer
242views Algorithms» more  SWAT 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Minimizing the Diameter of a Network Using Shortcut Edges
We study the problem of minimizing the diameter of a graph by adding k shortcut edges, for speeding up communication in an existing network design. We develop constant-factor appro...
Erik D. Demaine, Morteza Zadimoghaddam
BMCBI
2010
112views more  BMCBI 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Orientation-dependent backbone-only residue pair scoring functions for fixed backbone protein design
Background: Empirical scoring functions have proven useful in protein structure modeling. Most such scoring functions depend on protein side chain conformations. However, backbone...
Andrew J. Bordner