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SODA
2001
ACM
147views Algorithms» more  SODA 2001»
14 years 24 days ago
Sublinear time approximate clustering
Clustering is of central importance in a number of disciplines including Machine Learning, Statistics, and Data Mining. This paper has two foci: 1 It describes how existing algori...
Nina Mishra, Daniel Oblinger, Leonard Pitt
UAI
2008
14 years 26 days ago
CORL: A Continuous-state Offset-dynamics Reinforcement Learner
Continuous state spaces and stochastic, switching dynamics characterize a number of rich, realworld domains, such as robot navigation across varying terrain. We describe a reinfor...
Emma Brunskill, Bethany R. Leffler, Lihong Li, Mic...
COLT
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Covering Numbers for Support Vector Machines
—Support vector (SV) machines are linear classifiers that use the maximum margin hyperplane in a feature space defined by a kernel function. Until recently, the only bounds on th...
Ying Guo, Peter L. Bartlett, John Shawe-Taylor, Ro...
GECCO
2003
Springer
118views Optimization» more  GECCO 2003»
14 years 4 months ago
Population Sizing Based on Landscape Feature
Abstract. Population size for EvolutionaryAlgorithms is usually an empirical parameter. We study the population size from aspects of fitness landscapes’ ruggedness and Probably ...
Jian Zhang, Xiaohui Yuan, Bill P. Buckles
COLT
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Lower Bounds on the Sample Complexity of Exploration in the Multi-armed Bandit Problem
We consider the Multi-armed bandit problem under the PAC (“probably approximately correct”) model. It was shown by Even-Dar et al. [5] that given n arms, it suffices to play th...
Shie Mannor, John N. Tsitsiklis
HICSS
2003
IEEE
93views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2003»
14 years 4 months ago
A General Method for Statistical Performance Evaluation
In the paper, we propose a general method for statistical performance evaluation. The method incorporates various statistical metrics and automatically selects an appropriate stat...
Longzhuang Li, Yi Shang, Wei Zhang, Hongchi Shi