Nonparametric density estimation for stochastic optimization with an observable state variable

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23: 24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2010, NIPS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hannah, Lauren A ^a   Powell, Warren B ^b   Blei, David M ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

DIRICHLET PROCESS; NOISY OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; NONPARAMETRIC DENSITY ESTIMATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION VALUES; OPTIMAL DECISIONS; SOLUTION METHODS; STATE-VARIABLES; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATIONS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 85162047754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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