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1998
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Conjectural Equilibrium in Multiagent Learning
Abstract. Learning in a multiagent environment is complicated by the fact that as other agents learn, the environment effectively changes. Moreover, other agents’ actions are oft...
Michael P. Wellman, Junling Hu
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1998
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Statistical Mechanics of Online Learning of Drifting Concepts: A Variational Approach
We review the application of statistical mechanics methods to the study of online learning of a drifting concept in the limit of large systems. The model where a feed-forward netwo...
Renato Vicente, Osame Kinouchi, Nestor Caticha
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1998
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Colearning in Differential Games
Game playing has been a popular problem area for research in artificial intelligence and machine learning for many years. In almost every study of game playing and machine learnin...
John W. Sheppard
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1998
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Bayesian Landmark Learning for Mobile Robot Localization
To operate successfully in indoor environments, mobile robots must be able to localize themselves. Most current localization algorithms lack flexibility, autonomy, and often optim...
Sebastian Thrun
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1998
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Learning Team Strategies: Soccer Case Studies
We use simulated soccer to study multiagent learning. Each team's players (agents) share action set and policy, but may behave di erently due to position-dependent inputs. All...
Rafal Salustowicz, Marco Wiering, Jürgen Schm...
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1998
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Learning from Examples and Membership Queries with Structured Determinations
It is well known that prior knowledge or bias can speed up learning, at least in theory. It has proved di cult to make constructive use of prior knowledge, so that approximately c...
Prasad Tadepalli, Stuart J. Russell
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1998
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Learning to Improve Coordinated Actions in Cooperative Distributed Problem-Solving Environments
Abstract. Coordination is an essential technique in cooperative, distributed multiagent systems. However, sophisticated coordination strategies are not always cost-effective in all...
Toshiharu Sugawara, Victor R. Lesser
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1998
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Co-Evolution in the Successful Learning of Backgammon Strategy
Following Tesauro’s work on TD-Gammon, we used a 4000 parameter feed-forward neural network to develop a competitive backgammon evaluation function. Play proceeds by a roll of t...
Jordan B. Pollack, Alan D. Blair
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1998
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Machine Learning for the Detection of Oil Spills in Satellite Radar Images
During a project examining the use of machine learning techniques for oil spill detection, we have encountered several essential questions that we believe deserve the attention of ...
Miroslav Kubat, Robert C. Holte, Stan Matwin
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1998
ACM
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Pharmacophore Discovery Using the Inductive Logic Programming System PROGOL
This paper is a case study of a machine aided knowledge discovery process within the general area of drug design. More speci cally, the paper describes a sequence of experiments in...
Paul W. Finn, Stephen Muggleton, David Page, Ashwi...