While empirical evaluations are a common research method in some areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), others still neglect this approach. This article outlines both the opportun...
We present a simple general scheme for improving margins that is inspired on well known margin theory principles. The scheme is based on a sample re-weighting strategy. The very b...
The emergence of social conventions in multi-agent systems has been analyzed mainly in settings where every agent may interact either with every other agent or with nearest neighb...
TD-Gammon is a neural network that is able to teach itself to play backgammon solely by playing against itself and learning from the results. Starting from random initial play, TD...
an abstract optimization problem arising from biomolecular sequence analysis. For a sequence A of pairs (ai, wi) for i = 1, . . . , n and wi > 0, a segment A(i, j) is a consecu...