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ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Intra-Option Learning about Temporally Abstract Actions
tion Learning about Temporally Abstract Actions Richard S. Sutton Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003-4610 rich@cs.umass.edu Doina Precup D...
Richard S. Sutton, Doina Precup, Satinder P. Singh
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Heading in the Right Direction
Stochastic topological models, and hidden Markov models in particular, are a useful tool for robotic navigation and planning. In previous work we have shown how weak odometric dat...
Hagit Shatkay, Leslie Pack Kaelbling
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Value Function Based Production Scheduling
Production scheduling, the problem of sequentially con guring a factory to meet forecasted demands, is a critical problem throughout the manufacturing industry. The requirement of...
Jeff G. Schneider, Justin A. Boyan, Andrew W. Moor...
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Ridge Regression Learning Algorithm in Dual Variables
Craig Saunders, Alexander Gammerman, Volodya Vovk
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
RL-TOPS: An Architecture for Modularity and Re-Use in Reinforcement Learning
This paper introduces the RL-TOPs architecture for robot learning, a hybrid system combining teleo-reactive planning and reinforcement learning techniques. The aim of this system ...
Malcolm R. K. Ryan, Mark D. Pendrith
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
The Case against Accuracy Estimation for Comparing Induction Algorithms
We analyze critically the use of classi cation accuracy to compare classi ers on natural data sets, providing a thorough investigation using ROC analysis, standard machine learnin...
Foster J. Provost, Tom Fawcett, Ron Kohavi
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
A Randomized ANOVA Procedure for Comparing Performance Curves
Three factors are related in analyses of performance curves such as learning curves: the amount of training, the learning algorithm, and performance. Often we want to know whether...
Justus H. Piater, Paul R. Cohen, Xiaoqin Zhang, Mi...
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
Q2: Memory-Based Active Learning for Optimizing Noisy Continuous Functions
This paper introduces a new algorithm, Q2, foroptimizingthe expected output ofamultiinput noisy continuous function. Q2 is designed to need only a few experiments, it avoids stron...
Andrew W. Moore, Jeff G. Schneider, Justin A. Boya...