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2007
13 years 11 months ago
Theoretical Analysis of Heuristic Search Methods for Online POMDPs
Planning in partially observable environments remains a challenging problem, despite significant recent advances in offline approximation techniques. A few online methods have a...
Stéphane Ross, Joelle Pineau, Brahim Chaib-...
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Incremental Natural Actor-Critic Algorithms
We present four new reinforcement learning algorithms based on actor-critic and natural-gradient ideas, and provide their convergence proofs. Actor-critic reinforcement learning m...
Shalabh Bhatnagar, Richard S. Sutton, Mohammad Gha...
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
A Randomized Algorithm for Large Scale Support Vector Learning
This paper investigates the application of randomized algorithms for large scale SVM learning. The key contribution of the paper is to show that, by using ideas random projections...
Krishnan Kumar, Chiru Bhattacharyya, Ramesh Hariha...
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Local Algorithms for Approximate Inference in Minor-Excluded Graphs
We present a new local approximation algorithm for computing MAP and logpartition function for arbitrary exponential family distribution represented by a finite-valued pair-wise ...
Kyomin Jung, Devavrat Shah
NIPS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Probabilistic Matrix Factorization
Many existing approaches to collaborative filtering can neither handle very large datasets nor easily deal with users who have very few ratings. In this paper we present the Prob...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Andriy Mnih