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CORR
2007
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2007
Springer
—Motivated by questions in lossy data compression and by theoretical considerations, the problem of estimating the rate-distortion function of an unknown (not necessarily discret...
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
2007
We develop and analyze an algorithm for nonparametric estimation of divergence functionals and the density ratio of two probability distributions. Our method is based on a variati...
GECCO
2006
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
2006
Springer
This paper investigates the limits of the predictions based on the classical progress rate theory for Evolution Strategies. We explain on the sphere function why positive progress...
NIPS
2001
13 years 11 months ago
2001
We investigate the generalization performance of some learning problems in Hilbert functional Spaces. We introduce a notion of convergence of the estimated functional predictor to...
NIPS
1998
13 years 11 months ago
1998
In this paper, we address two issues of long-standing interest in the reinforcement learning literature. First, what kinds of performance guarantees can be made for Q-learning aft...