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NIPS
2000
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Programmable Reinforcement Learning Agents
We present an expressive agent design language for reinforcement learning that allows the user to constrain the policies considered by the learning process.The language includes s...
David Andre, Stuart J. Russell
NIPS
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Speech Denoising and Dereverberation Using Probabilistic Models
This paper presents a unified probabilistic framework for denoising and dereverberation of speech signals. The framework transforms the denoising and dereverberation problems into...
Hagai Attias, John C. Platt, Alex Acero, Li Deng
NIPS
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Dendritic Compartmentalization Could Underlie Competition and Attentional Biasing of Simultaneous Visual Stimuli
Neurons in area V4 have relatively large receptive fields (RFs), so multiple visual features are simultaneously "seen" by these cells. Recordings from single V4 neurons ...
Kevin A. Archie, Bartlett W. Mel
NIPS
1998
13 years 11 months ago
A High Performance k-NN Classifier Using a Binary Correlation Matrix Memory
This paper presents a novel and fast k-NN classifier that is based on a binary CMM (Correlation Matrix Memory) neural network. A robust encoding method is developed to meet CMM in...
Ping Zhou, Jim Austin, John Kennedy
NIPS
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Robot Docking Using Mixtures of Gaussians
This paper applies the Mixture of Gaussians probabilistic model, combined with Expectation Maximization optimization to the task of summarizing three dimensional range data for a ...
Matthew M. Williamson, Roderick Murray-Smith, Volk...
NIPS
1998
13 years 11 months ago
SMEM Algorithm for Mixture Models
When learning a mixture model, we suffer from the local optima and model structure determination problems. In this paper, we present a method for simultaneously solving these prob...
Naonori Ueda, Ryohei Nakano, Zoubin Ghahramani, Ge...
NIPS
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Orientation, Scale, and Discontinuity as Emergent Properties of Illusory Contour Shape
A recent neural model of illusory contour formation is based on a distribution of natural shapes traced by particles moving with constant speed in directions given by Brownian mot...
Karvel K. Thornber, Lance R. Williams