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AUSAI
2005
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Accelerating Real-Valued Genetic Algorithms Using Mutation-with-Momentum
: In a canonical genetic algorithm, the reproduction operators (crossover and mutation) are random in nature. The direction of the search carried out by the GA system is driven pur...
Luke Temby, Peter Vamplew, Adam Berry
ARCS
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Latent Semantic Indexing in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Searching in decentralized peer-to-peer networks is a challenging problem. In common applications such as Gnutella, searching is performed by randomly forwarding queries to all pee...
Xuezheng Liu, Ming Chen, Guangwen Yang
CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
ATAL
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Probabilistic policy reuse in a reinforcement learning agent
We contribute Policy Reuse as a technique to improve a reinforcement learning agent with guidance from past learned similar policies. Our method relies on using the past policies ...
Fernando Fernández, Manuela M. Veloso
MCS
2000
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Combining Fisher Linear Discriminants for Dissimilarity Representations
Abstract Investigating a data set of the critical size makes a classification task difficult. Studying dissimilarity data refers to such a problem, since the number of samples equa...
Elzbieta Pekalska, Marina Skurichina, Robert P. W....