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CGF
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Sequential Monte Carlo Adaptation in Low-Anisotropy Participating Media
This paper presents a novel method that effectively combines both control variates and importance sampling in a sequential Monte Carlo context. The radiance estimates computed dur...
Vincent Pegoraro, Ingo Wald, Steven G. Parker
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Fresh Look at Multicanonical Monte Carlo from a Telecom Perspective
—The Multicanonical Monte Carlo (MMC) technique is a new form of adaptive importance sampling (IS). Thanks to its blind adaptation algorithm, it does not require an in-depth syst...
Alberto Bononi, Leslie A. Rusch, Amirhossein Ghazi...
WSC
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Function-Approximation-Based Importance Sampling for Pricing American Options
Monte Carlo simulation techniques that use function approximations have been successfully applied to approximately price multi-dimensional American options. However, for many pric...
Nomesh Bolia, Sandeep Juneja, Paul Glasserman
NIPS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Action Spaces through Sequential Monte Carlo Methods
Learning in real-world domains often requires to deal with continuous state and action spaces. Although many solutions have been proposed to apply Reinforcement Learning algorithm...
Alessandro Lazaric, Marcello Restelli, Andrea Bona...
WSC
2004
13 years 8 months ago
Adaptive Control Variates
Adaptive Monte Carlo methods are specialized Monte Carlo simulation techniques where the methods are adaptively tuned as the simulation progresses. The primary focus of such techn...
Sujin Kim, Shane G. Henderson