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UAI
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Exploiting Qualitative Knowledge in the Learning of Conditional Probabilities of Bayesian Networks
Algorithms for learning the conditional probabilities of Bayesian networks with hidden variables typically operate within a high-dimensional search space and yield only locally op...
Frank Wittig, Anthony Jameson
UAI
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Nash Convergence of Gradient Dynamics in General-Sum Games
Multi-agent games are becoming an increasingly prevalent formalism for the study of electronic commerceand auctions. The speed at which transactions can take place and the growing...
Satinder P. Singh, Michael J. Kearns, Yishay Manso...
UAI
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Pivotal Pruning of Trade-offs in QPNs
Qualitative probabilistic networks have been designed for probabilistic reasoning in a qualitative way. Due to their coarse level of representation detail, qualitative probabilist...
Silja Renooij, Linda C. van der Gaag, Simon Parson...
UAI
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Probabilistic State-Dependent Grammars for Plan Recognition
Techniques for plan recognition under uncertainty require a stochastic model of the plangeneration process. We introduce probabilistic state-dependent grammars (PSDGs) to represen...
David V. Pynadath, Michael P. Wellman
UAI
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Value-Directed Belief State Approximation for POMDPs
We consider the problem belief-state monitoring for the purposes of implementing a policy for a partially-observable Markov decision process (POMDP), specifically how one might ap...
Pascal Poupart, Craig Boutilier
UAI
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Learning to Cooperate via Policy Search
Cooperative games are those in which both agents share the same payoff structure. Valuebased reinforcement-learning algorithms, such as variants of Q-learning, have been applied t...
Leonid Peshkin, Kee-Eung Kim, Nicolas Meuleau, Les...
UAI
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Compact Securities Markets for Pareto Optimal Reallocation of Risk
The securities market is the fundamental theoretical framework in economics and finance for resource allocation under uncertainty. Securities serve both to reallocate risk and to ...
David M. Pennock, Michael P. Wellman
UAI
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Collaborative Filtering by Personality Diagnosis: A Hybrid Memory and Model-Based Approach
The growth of Internet commerce has stimulated the use of collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms as recommender systems. Such systems leverage knowledge about the known preferenc...
David M. Pennock, Eric Horvitz, Steve Lawrence, C....
UAI
2000
14 years 26 days ago
Conversation as Action Under Uncertainty
Conversations abound with uncertainties of various kinds. Treating conversation as inference and decision making under uncertainty, we propose a task independent, multimodal archi...
Tim Paek, Eric Horvitz