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ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient agents for cliff-edge environments with a large set of decision options
This paper proposes an efficient agent for competing in Cliff Edge (CE) environments, such as sealed-bid auctions, dynamic pricing and the ultimatum game. The agent competes in on...
Ron Katz, Sarit Kraus
AAAI
2010
13 years 9 months ago
The Model-Based Approach to Autonomous Behavior: A Personal View
The selection of the action to do next is one of the central problems faced by autonomous agents. In AI, three approaches have been used to address this problem: the programming-b...
Hector Geffner
UAI
2003
13 years 9 months ago
On the Convergence of Bound Optimization Algorithms
Many practitioners who use EM and related algorithms complain that they are sometimes slow. When does this happen, and what can be done about it? In this paper, we study the gener...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
KDD
2010
ACM
289views Data Mining» more  KDD 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Exploitation and exploration in a performance based contextual advertising system
The dynamic marketplace in online advertising calls for ranking systems that are optimized to consistently promote and capitalize better performing ads. The streaming nature of on...
Wei Li 0010, Xuerui Wang, Ruofei Zhang, Ying Cui, ...
EMNLP
2011
12 years 7 months ago
Watermarking the Outputs of Structured Prediction with an application in Statistical Machine Translation
We propose a general method to watermark and probabilistically identify the structured outputs of machine learning algorithms. Our method is robust to local editing operations and...
Ashish Venugopal, Jakob Uszkoreit, David Talbot, F...