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ICML
2003
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Q-Decomposition for Reinforcement Learning Agents
The paper explores a very simple agent design method called Q-decomposition, wherein a complex agent is built from simpler subagents. Each subagent has its own reward function and...
Stuart J. Russell, Andrew Zimdars
ISQED
2007
IEEE
97views Hardware» more  ISQED 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Probabilistic Congestion Prediction with Partial Blockages
— Fast and accurate routing congestion estimation is essential for optimizations such as floorplanning, placement, buffering, and physical synthesis that need to avoid routing c...
Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert, Stephen T. Quay, Sachi...
FPGA
2005
ACM
80views FPGA» more  FPGA 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Simultaneous timing-driven placement and duplication
Logic duplication is an effective method for improving circuit performance. In this paper we present an algorithm named SPD that performs simultaneous placement and duplication to...
Gang Chen, Jason Cong
PCM
2009
Springer
130views Multimedia» more  PCM 2009»
14 years 8 days ago
Image Quality Assessment Using Spatial Frequency Component
Image quality assessment (IQA) is a crucial technique in perceptual image/video coding, because it is not only a ruler for performance evaluation of coding algorithms but also a me...
Guangyao Cao, Luhong Liang, Siwei Ma, Debin Zhao
COLT
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Relating Clustering Stability to Properties of Cluster Boundaries
In this paper, we investigate stability-based methods for cluster model selection, in particular to select the number K of clusters. The scenario under consideration is that clust...
Shai Ben-David, Ulrike von Luxburg