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ICML
2000
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Eligibility Traces for Off-Policy Policy Evaluation
Eligibility traces have been shown to speed reinforcement learning, to make it more robust to hidden states, and to provide a link between Monte Carlo and temporal-difference meth...
Doina Precup, Richard S. Sutton, Satinder P. Singh
JMLR
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Ranking Categorical Features Using Generalization Properties
Feature ranking is a fundamental machine learning task with various applications, including feature selection and decision tree learning. We describe and analyze a new feature ran...
Sivan Sabato, Shai Shalev-Shwartz
CIKM
1999
Springer
14 years 4 days ago
Training a Selection Function for Extraction
In this paper we compare performance of several heuristics in generating informative generic/query-oriented extracts for newspaper articles in order to learn how topic prominence ...
Chin-Yew Lin
AIRS
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Learning to Rank with Supplementary Data
This paper is concerned with a new task of ranking, referred to as "supplementary data assisted ranking", or "supplementary ranking" for short. Different from c...
Wenkui Ding, Tao Qin, Xu-Dong Zhang
EOR
2010
84views more  EOR 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
The selection efficiency of tournaments
We discuss tournaments in terms of their efficiency as probabilistic mechanisms that select high-quality alternatives ("players") in a noisy environment. We use two crit...
Dmitry Ryvkin