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ICML
2003
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
The Influence of Reward on the Speed of Reinforcement Learning: An Analysis of Shaping
Shaping can be an effective method for improving the learning rate in reinforcement systems. Previously, shaping has been heuristically motivated and implemented. We provide a for...
Adam Laud, Gerald DeJong
RAS
2010
117views more  RAS 2010»
15 years 4 months ago
Extending BDI plan selection to incorporate learning from experience
An important drawback to the popular Belief, Desire, and Intentions (BDI) paradigm is that such systems include no element of learning from experience. We describe a novel BDI exe...
Dhirendra Singh, Sebastian Sardiña, Lin Pad...
CIKM
2009
Springer
16 years 10 days ago
Learning to rank from Bayesian decision inference
Ranking is a key problem in many information retrieval (IR) applications, such as document retrieval and collaborative filtering. In this paper, we address the issue of learning ...
Jen-Wei Kuo, Pu-Jen Cheng, Hsin-Min Wang
IEEEIA
2009
15 years 3 months ago
How Emotional Mechanism Helps Episodic Learning in a Cognitive Agent
In this paper we propose the CTS (Concious Tutoring System) technology, a biologically plausible cognitive agent based on human brain functions.This agent is capable of learning a...
Usef Faghihi, Philippe Fournier-Viger, Roger Nkamb...
KDD
2010
ACM
282views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
15 years 9 months ago
Optimizing debt collections using constrained reinforcement learning
In this paper, we propose and develop a novel approach to the problem of optimally managing the tax, and more generally debt, collections processes at financial institutions. Our...
Naoki Abe, Prem Melville, Cezar Pendus, Chandan K....