Variational inference for policy search in changing situations

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 817-824

  Neumann, Gerhard ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

KL-DIVERGENCE; KULLBACK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; POLICY SEARCH; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; VARIATIONAL INFERENCE;

ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

INFERENCE ENGINES;

EID: 80053459456     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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