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ICML
1998
IEEE
15 years 15 days ago
An Efficient Boosting Algorithm for Combining Preferences
We study the problem of learning to accurately rank a set of objects by combining a given collection of ranking or preference functions. This problem of combining preferences aris...
Yoav Freund, Raj D. Iyer, Robert E. Schapire, Yora...
ICML
1998
IEEE
15 years 15 days ago
Relational Reinforcement Learning
Relational reinforcement learning (RRL) is both a young and an old eld. In this paper, we trace the history of the eld to related disciplines, outline some current work and promis...
Kurt Driessens
ICML
1998
IEEE
15 years 15 days ago
The MAXQ Method for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
This paper presents a new approach to hierarchical reinforcement learning based on the MAXQ decomposition of the value function. The MAXQ decomposition has both a procedural seman...
Thomas G. Dietterich
ICML
1998
IEEE
15 years 15 days ago
Multiagent Reinforcement Learning: Theoretical Framework and an Algorithm
In this paper, we adopt general-sum stochastic games as a framework for multiagent reinforcement learning. Our work extends previous work by Littman on zero-sum stochastic games t...
Junling Hu, Michael P. Wellman
ICML
1998
IEEE
15 years 15 days ago
Feature Selection via Concave Minimization and Support Vector Machines
Computational comparison is made between two feature selection approaches for nding a separating plane that discriminates between two point sets in an n-dimensional feature space ...
Paul S. Bradley, Olvi L. Mangasarian
ICML
1998
IEEE
15 years 15 days ago
Learning Collaborative Information Filters
Predicting items a user would like on the basis of other users' ratings for these items has become a well-established strategy adopted by many recommendation services on the ...
Daniel Billsus, Michael J. Pazzani
ICML
1998
IEEE
15 years 15 days ago
Genetic Programming and Deductive-Inductive Learning: A Multi-Strategy Approach
Genetic Programming (GP) is a machine learning technique that was not conceived to use domain knowledge for generating new candidate solutions. It has been shown that GP can bene ...
Ricardo Aler, Daniel Borrajo, Pedro Isasi
ICML
1999
IEEE
15 years 15 days ago
Lazy Bayesian Rules: A Lazy Semi-Naive Bayesian Learning Technique Competitive to Boosting Decision Trees
Lbr is a lazy semi-naive Bayesian classi er learning technique, designed to alleviate the attribute interdependence problem of naive Bayesian classi cation. To classify a test exa...
Zijian Zheng, Geoffrey I. Webb, Kai Ming Ting
ICML
1999
IEEE
15 years 15 days ago
Machine-Learning Applications of Algorithmic Randomness
Most machine learning algorithms share the following drawback: they only output bare predictions but not the con dence in those predictions. In the 1960s algorithmic information t...
Volodya Vovk, Alexander Gammerman, Craig Saunders