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NIPS
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Approximate Policy Iteration with a Policy Language Bias
We study an approach to policy selection for large relational Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). We consider a variant of approximate policy iteration (API) that replaces the usual...
Alan Fern, Sung Wook Yoon, Robert Givan
PAMI
2002
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13 years 8 months ago
Approximate Bayes Factors for Image Segmentation: The Pseudolikelihood Information Criterion (PLIC)
We propose a method for choosing the number of colors or true gray levels in an image; this allows fully automatic segmentation of images. Our underlying probability model is a hid...
Derek C. Stanford, Adrian E. Raftery
ECCC
2006
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13 years 8 months ago
Derandomizing the AW matrix-valued Chernoff bound using pessimistic estimators and applications
Ahlswede and Winter [AW02] introduced a Chernoff bound for matrix-valued random variables, which is a non-trivial generalization of the usual Chernoff bound for real-valued random...
Avi Wigderson, David Xiao
OOPSLA
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Modeling architectural patterns using architectural primitives
Architectural patterns are a key point in architectural documentation. Regrettably, there is poor support for modeling architectural patterns, because the pattern elements are not...
Uwe Zdun, Paris Avgeriou
PKAW
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Finding Relation between PageRank and Voter Model
Abstract. Estimating influence of a node is an important problem in social network analyses. We address this problem in a particular class of model for opinion propagation in whic...
Takayasu Fushimi, Kazumi Saito, Masahiro Kimura, H...