CBCL Memos (1993 - 2004): Recent submissions

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    • An Electronic Market-Maker 

      Chan, Nicholas Tung; Shelton, Christian (2001-04-17)
      This paper presents an adaptive learning model for market-making under the reinforcement learning framework. Reinforcement learning is a learning technique in which agents aim to maximize the long-term accumulated rewards. ...

    • An Empirical Comparison of SNoW and SVMs for Face Detection 

      Alvira, Mariano; Rifkin, Ryan (2001-01-01)
      Impressive claims have been made for the performance of the SNoW algorithm on face detection tasks by Yang et. al. [7]. In particular, by looking at both their results and those of Heisele et. al. [3], one could infer that ...

    • Policy Improvement for POMDPs Using Normalized Importance Sampling 

      Shelton, Christian R. (2001-03-20)
      We present a new method for estimating the expected return of a POMDP from experience. The estimator does not assume any knowle ge of the POMDP and allows the experience to be gathered with an arbitrary set of policies. ...