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AAAI
2006
14 years 10 days ago
Properties of Forward Pruning in Game-Tree Search
Forward pruning, or selectively searching a subset of moves, is now commonly used in game-playing programs to reduce the number of nodes searched with manageable risk. Forward pru...
Yew Jin Lim, Wee Sun Lee
NIPS
2001
14 years 9 days ago
Variance Reduction Techniques for Gradient Estimates in Reinforcement Learning
Policy gradient methods for reinforcement learning avoid some of the undesirable properties of the value function approaches, such as policy degradation (Baxter and Bartlett, 2001...
Evan Greensmith, Peter L. Bartlett, Jonathan Baxte...
CDC
2009
IEEE
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14 years 22 hour ago
Discrete invasive weed optimization algorithm: application to cooperative multiple task assignment of UAVs
This paper presents a novel discrete population based stochastic optimization algorithm inspired from weed colonization. Its performance in a discrete benchmark, timecost trade-off...
Mohsen Ramezani Ghalenoei, Hossein Hajimirsadeghi,...
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A robust minimum volume enclosing simplex algorithm for hyperspectral unmixing
Hyperspectral unmixing is a process of extracting hidden spectral signatures (or endmembers) and the corresponding proportions (or abundances) of a scene, from its hyperspectral o...
Arul-Murugan Ambikapathi, Tsung-Han Chan, Wing-Kin...
CORR
2008
Springer
91views Education» more  CORR 2008»
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A Distributed MAC Protocol for Cooperation in Random Access Networks
WLAN is one of the most successful applications of wireless communications in daily life because of low cost and ease of deployment. The enabling technique for this success is the ...
Georg Böcherer, Alexandre de Baynast