2354 search results - page 222 / 471 » Randomness, Stochasticity and Approximations |
166
click to vote
ISAAC
2003
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
2003
Springer
Abstract. In this paper, we propose a Markov chain for sampling a random vector distributed according to a discretized Dirichlet distribution. We show that our Markov chain is rapi...
151
click to vote
DAM
2008
15 years 6 months ago
2008
We investigate the Semidefinite Programming based Sums of squares (SOS) decomposition method, designed for global optimization of polynomials, in the context of the (Maximum) Sati...
132
Voted
JNS
2010
15 years 4 months ago
2010
This paper introduces a new method to show the validity of a continuum description for the deterministic dynamics of many interacting particles. Here the many particle evolution is...
178
click to vote
CORR
2010
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
2010
Springer
In this paper, we consider the problem of planning and learning in the infinite-horizon discounted-reward Markov decision problems. We propose a novel iterative direct policysearc...
172
click to vote
CORR
2011
Springer
15 years 26 days ago
2011
Springer
We prove that for any real-valued matrix X ∈ Rm×n , and positive integers r k, there is a subset of r columns of X such that projecting X onto their span gives a r+1 r−k+1 -a...