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NIPS
2001
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Self-regulation Mechanism of Temporally Asymmetric Hebbian Plasticity
Recent biological experimental findings have shown that the synaptic plasticity depends on the relative timing of the pre- and postsynaptic spikes which determines whether Long Te...
N. Matsumoto, M. Okada
NIPS
2001
14 years 29 days ago
Orientation-Selective aVLSI Spiking Neurons
We describe a programmable multi-chip VLSI neuronal system that can be used for exploring spike-based information processing models. The system consists of a silicon retina, a PIC...
Shih-Chii Liu, Jörg Kramer, Giacomo Indiveri,...
NIPS
2001
14 years 29 days ago
The Steering Approach for Multi-Criteria Reinforcement Learning
We consider the problem of learning to attain multiple goals in a dynamic environment, which is initially unknown. In addition, the environment may contain arbitrarily varying ele...
Shie Mannor, Nahum Shimkin
NIPS
2001
14 years 29 days ago
Predictive Representations of State
We show that states of a dynamical system can be usefully represented by multi-step, action-conditional predictions of future observations. State representations that are grounded...
Michael L. Littman, Richard S. Sutton, Satinder P....
NIPS
2001
14 years 29 days ago
A Variational Approach to Learning Curves
We combine the replica approach from statistical physics with a variational approach to analyze learning curves analytically. We apply the method to Gaussian process regression. A...
Dörthe Malzahn, Manfred Opper
NIPS
2001
14 years 29 days ago
Boosting and Maximum Likelihood for Exponential Models
We derive an equivalence between AdaBoost and the dual of a convex optimization problem, showing that the only difference between minimizing the exponential loss used by AdaBoost ...
Guy Lebanon, John D. Lafferty
NIPS
2001
14 years 29 days ago
Optimising Synchronisation Times for Mobile Devices
With the increasing number of users of mobile computing devices (e.g. personal digital assistants) and the advent of third generation mobile phones, wireless communications are be...
Neil D. Lawrence, Antony I. T. Rowstron, Christoph...
NIPS
2001
14 years 29 days ago
(Not) Bounding the True Error
We present a new approach to bounding the true error rate of a continuous valued classifier based upon PAC-Bayes bounds. The method first constructs a distribution over classifier...
John Langford, Rich Caruana
NIPS
2001
14 years 29 days ago
Minimax Probability Machine
When constructing a classifier, the probability of correct classification of future data points should be maximized. In the current paper this desideratum is translated in a very ...
Gert R. G. Lanckriet, Laurent El Ghaoui, Chiranjib...