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2004
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Spike-timing Dependent Plasticity and Mutual Information Maximization for a Spiking Neuron Model
We derive an optimal learning rule in the sense of mutual information maximization for a spiking neuron model. Under the assumption of small fluctuations of the input, we find a s...
Taro Toyoizumi, Jean-Pascal Pfister, Kazuyuki Aiha...
NIPS
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Solitaire: Man Versus Machine
In this paper, we use the rollout method for policy improvement to analyze a version of Klondike solitaire. This version, sometimes called thoughtful solitaire, has all cards reve...
Xiang Yan, Persi Diaconis, Paat Rusmevichientong, ...
NIPS
2004
13 years 11 months ago
A Direct Formulation for Sparse PCA Using Semidefinite Programming
We examine the problem of approximating, in the Frobenius-norm sense, a positive, semidefinite symmetric matrix by a rank-one matrix, with an upper bound on the cardinality of its...
Alexandre d'Aspremont, Laurent El Ghaoui, Michael ...
NIPS
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Nearly Tight Bounds for the Continuum-Armed Bandit Problem
In the multi-armed bandit problem, an online algorithm must choose from a set of strategies in a sequence of n trials so as to minimize the total cost of the chosen strategies. Wh...
Robert D. Kleinberg
NIPS
2004
13 years 11 months ago
An Application of Boosting to Graph Classification
This paper presents an application of Boosting for classifying labeled graphs, general structures for modeling a number of real-world data, such as chemical compounds, natural lan...
Taku Kudo, Eisaku Maeda, Yuji Matsumoto