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CORR
2006
Springer
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15 years 7 months ago
Nearly optimal exploration-exploitation decision thresholds
While in general trading off exploration and exploitation in reinforcement learning is hard, under some formulations relatively simple solutions exist. Optimal decision thresholds ...
Christos Dimitrakakis
VLDB
2005
ACM
93views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
16 years 1 months ago
Indexing Mixed Types for Approximate Retrieval
In various applications such as data cleansing, being able to retrieve categorical or numerical attributes based on notions of approximate match (e.g., edit distance, numerical di...
Liang Jin, Nick Koudas, Chen Li, Anthony K. H. Tun...
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
199views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
16 years 7 months ago
Approximate XML Query Answers
The rapid adoption of XML as the standard for data representation and exchange foreshadows a massive increase in the amounts of XML data collected, maintained, and queried over th...
Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E....
CIKM
2000
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Dimensionality Reduction and Similarity Computation by Inner Product Approximations
—As databases increasingly integrate different types of information such as multimedia, spatial, time-series, and scientific data, it becomes necessary to support efficient retri...
Ömer Egecioglu, Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu
ATAL
2007
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Model-based function approximation in reinforcement learning
Reinforcement learning promises a generic method for adapting agents to arbitrary tasks in arbitrary stochastic environments, but applying it to new real-world problems remains di...
Nicholas K. Jong, Peter Stone