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WIOPT
2011
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
LIFO-Backpressure achieves near optimal utility-delay tradeoff
There has been considerable recent work developing a new stochastic network utility maximization framework using Backpressure algorithms, also known as MaxWeight. A key open probl...
Longbo Huang, Scott Moeller, Michael J. Neely, Bha...
ACG
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
RSPSA: Enhanced Parameter Optimization in Games
Most game programs have a large number of parameters that are crucial for their performance. Tuning these parameters by hand is rather difficult. Therefore automatic optimization a...
Levente Kocsis, Csaba Szepesvári, Mark H. M...
AUTOMATICA
2006
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15 years 4 months ago
Simulation-based optimization of process control policies for inventory management in supply chains
A simulation-based optimization framework involving simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) is presented as a means for optimally specifying parameters of intern...
Jay D. Schwartz, Wenlin Wang, Daniel E. Rivera
IJCAI
2001
15 years 5 months ago
R-MAX - A General Polynomial Time Algorithm for Near-Optimal Reinforcement Learning
R-max is a very simple model-based reinforcement learning algorithm which can attain near-optimal average reward in polynomial time. In R-max, the agent always maintains a complet...
Ronen I. Brafman, Moshe Tennenholtz
CORR
2010
Springer
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15 years 1 months ago
Optimal Distributed Online Prediction using Mini-Batches
Online prediction methods are typically presented as serial algorithms running on a single processor. However, in the age of web-scale prediction problems, it is increasingly comm...
Ofer Dekel, Ran Gilad-Bachrach, Ohad Shamir, Lin X...