UAI
2004
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Reasoning about agent preferences on a set of alternatives, and the aggregation of such preferences into some social ranking is a fundamental issue in reasoning about uncertainty ...
UAI
2004
13 years 10 months ago
2004
We introduce the study of sequential information elicitation in strategic multi-agent systems. In an information elicitation setup a center attempts to compute the value of a func...
UAI
2004
13 years 10 months ago
2004
We present a novel POMDP planning algorithm called heuristic search value iteration (HSVI). HSVI is an anytime algorithm that returns a policy and a provable bound on its regret w...
UAI
2004
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Modeling dynamical systems, both for control purposes and to make predictions about their behavior, is ubiquitous in science and engineering. Predictive state representations (PSR...
UAI
2004
13 years 10 months ago
2004
We present a new method for nonlinear prediction of discrete random sequences under minimal structural assumptions. We give a mathematical construction for optimal predictors of s...
UAI
2004
13 years 10 months ago
2004
We characterize probabilities in Bayesian networks in terms of algebraic expressions called quasi-probabilities. These are arrived at by casting Bayesian networks as noisy AND-OR-...
UAI
2004
13 years 10 months ago
2004
UAI
2004
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Recent research has made significant progress on the problem of bounding log partition functions for exponential family graphical models. Such bounds have associated dual paramete...
UAI
2004
13 years 10 months ago
2004
A causal claim is any assertion that invokes causal relationships between variables, for example, that a drug has a certain e ect on preventing a disease. Causal claims are establ...
UAI
2004
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Probabilistic inference problems arise naturally in distributed systems such as sensor networks and teams of mobile robots. Inference algorithms that use message passing are a nat...