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WSCG
2004
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13 years 10 months ago
Metropolis Iteration for Global Illumination
This paper presents a stochastic iteration algorithm solving the global illumination problem, where the random sampling is governed by classical importance sampling and also by th...
László Szirmay-Kalos, Bálazs ...
TIT
2011
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13 years 4 months ago
Strongly Consistent Estimation of the Sample Distribution of Noisy Continuous-Parameter Fields
The general problem of defining and determining the sample distribution in the case of continuousparameter random fields, is addressed. Defining a distribution in the case of d...
Shahar Z. Kovalsky, Guy Cohen, Joseph M. Francos
CCECE
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Estimation of boundary properties using stochastic differential equations
The inverse diffusion problems deal with the estimation of many crucial parameters such as the diffusion coefficient, source properties, and boundary conditions. Such algorithms ...
Ashraf Atalla, Aleksandar Jeremic
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
The Impact of Stochastic Noisy Feedback on Distributed Network Utility Maximization
—The implementation of distributed network utility maximization (NUM) algorithms hinges heavily on information feedback through message passing among network elements. In practic...
Junshan Zhang, Dong Zheng, Mung Chiang
WSC
2008
13 years 11 months ago
On step sizes, stochastic shortest paths, and survival probabilities in Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a simulation-based technique useful in solving Markov decision processes if their transition probabilities are not easily obtainable or if the probl...
Abhijit Gosavi