Bayesian kernel shaping for learning control

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21 - Proceedings of the 2008 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1673-1680

  Ting, Jo Anne ^a   Kalakrishnan, Mrinal ^a   Vijayakumar, Sethu ^b   Schaal, Stefan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN; DATA DENSITY; DECISION BOUNDARY; GRADIENT DESCENT TECHNIQUES; KERNEL BASED REGRESSION; LEARNING CONTROL; LOCAL KERNEL; NON-PARAMETRIC REGRESSION; STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS; SURFACE BOUNDARIES;

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

EID: 84858769951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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