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2000
13 years 9 months ago
PEGASUS: A policy search method for large MDPs and POMDPs
We propose a new approach to the problem of searching a space of policies for a Markov decision process (MDP) or a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP), given a mo...
Andrew Y. Ng, Michael I. Jordan
UAI
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Feature Selection and Dualities in Maximum Entropy Discrimination
Incorporating feature selection into a classi cation or regression method often carries a number of advantages. In this paper we formalize feature selection speci cally from a dis...
Tony Jebara, Tommi Jaakkola
UAI
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Gaussian Process Networks
In this paper we address the problem of learning the structure of a Bayesian network in domains with continuous variables. This task requires a procedure for comparing different c...
Nir Friedman, Iftach Nachman
UAI
2000
13 years 9 months ago
Compact Securities Markets for Pareto Optimal Reallocation of Risk
The securities market is the fundamental theoretical framework in economics and finance for resource allocation under uncertainty. Securities serve both to reallocate risk and to ...
David M. Pennock, Michael P. Wellman
UAI
2000
13 years 9 months ago
A Decision Theoretic Approach to Targeted Advertising
A simple advertising strategy that can be used to help increase sales of a product is to mail out special o ers to selected potential customers. Because there is a cost associated...
David Maxwell Chickering, David Heckerman