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TIFS
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
A new framework for adaptive multimodal biometrics management
This paper presents a new evolutionary approach for adaptive combination of multiple biometrics to ensure the optimal performance for the desired level of security. The adaptive c...
Ajay Kumar, Vivek Kanhangad, David Zhang
COLT
2000
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Estimation and Approximation Bounds for Gradient-Based Reinforcement Learning
We model reinforcement learning as the problem of learning to control a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (  ¢¡¤£¦¥§  ), and focus on gradient ascent approache...
Peter L. Bartlett, Jonathan Baxter
GECCO
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Novelty of behaviour as a basis for the neuro-evolution of operant reward learning
An agent that deviates from a usual or previous course of action can be said to display novel or varying behaviour. Novelty of behaviour can be seen as the result of real or appar...
Andrea Soltoggio, Ben Jones
PLDI
2003
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Meta optimization: improving compiler heuristics with machine learning
Compiler writers have crafted many heuristics over the years to approximately solve NP-hard problems efficiently. Finding a heuristic that performs well on a broad range of applic...
Mark Stephenson, Saman P. Amarasinghe, Martin C. M...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Learning to rank at query-time using association rules
Some applications have to present their results in the form of ranked lists. This is the case of many information retrieval applications, in which documents must be sorted accordi...
Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de Almeida, Marcos...