We consider learning in a Markov decision process where we are not explicitly given a reward function, but where instead we can observe an expert demonstrating the task that we wa...
This is an introductory book about machine learning. Notice that this is a draft book. It may contain typos, mistakes, etc.
The book covers the following topics: Boolean Functio...
Many sources of information relevant to computer vision and machine learning tasks are often underused. One example is the similarity between the elements from a novel source, suc...
Many applications in text and speech processing require the analysis of distributions of variable-length sequences. We recently introduced a general kernel framework, rational ker...
Abstract. Seeking to identify the constituent parts of the multidimensional auditory attribute that musicians know as timbre, music psychologists have made extensive use of multidi...