Questions tagged [algorithm]
For questions about algorithm's that exhibit characteristics of intelligence, or are critical components in systems that exhibit intelligence, and problem-solving and goal-based algorithms in general.
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Why does the discount rate in the REINFORCE algorithm appear twice?
I was reading the book Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction by Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto (complete draft, November 5, 2017). On page 271, the pseudo-code for the episodic Monte-Carlo ...
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Are information processing rules from Gestalt psychology still used in computer vision today?
Decades ago there were and are books in machine vision, which by implementing various information processing rules from gestalt psychology, got impressive results with little code or special hardware ...
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What are the differences between A* and greedy best-first search?
What are the differences between the A* algorithm and the greedy best-first search algorithm? Which one should I use? Which algorithm is the better one, and why?
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Which machine learning algorithm can be used to identify patterns in a dataset of the cache performance of a CPU?
I need a machine learning algorithm to identify patterns in a dataset (saved in a CSV file) that contains details of the cache performance of a CPU. More specifically, the dataset contains columns ...
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What are the limitations of the hill climbing algorithm and how to overcome them?
What are the limitations of the hill climbing algorithm? How can we overcome these limitations?
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How can these 7 AI problem characteristics help me decide on an approach to a problem?
If this list1 can be used to classify problems in AI ... Decomposable to smaller or easier problems Solution steps can be ignored or undone Predictable problem universe Good solutions are ...
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MCTS: How to choose the final action from the root
When the time allotted to Monte Carlo tree search runs out, what action should be chosen from the root? The original UCT paper (2006) says bestAction in their ...
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What artificial intelligence strategies are useful for summarization?
If I have a paragraph I want to summarize, for example: Ponzo and Fila went to the mall during the day. They walked for a long while, stopping at shops. They went to many shops. At first, they didn'...
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Is there a term to denote AI algorithms that are not trained?
Before the advent of neural architectures, many AI domains (e.g. speech recognition and computer vision) used algorithms that consisted of a series of hand-crafted transformations for feature ...
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How to determine if an Amazon review is likely to be fake using text classification
I'm currently in the research stage of building a web app in ASP.NET where the user can input a URL to an Amazon product, then the app would determine how likely its reviews are to be genuine. I need ...
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Which machine learning algorithm is used in self-driving cars?
Which deep neural network is used in Google's driverless cars to analyze the surroundings? Is this information open to the public?
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How to use computer vision to find corners of a soccer field based on location coordinates?
I want to use computer vision to allow my robot to detect the corners of a soccer field based on its current position. Matlab has a detectHarrisFeatures feature, but I believe it is only for 2D ...
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Why is the larger value, as opposed to the smaller one, chosen, in the hill climbing algorithm?
In the hill climbing algorithm, the greater value, compared to the current value, is selected, but I cannot understand why it takes the larger value instead of the smaller one. Why is that? I greatly ...
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What is the difference between local search and global search algorithms?
What is the difference between local search and global (or complete) search algorithms?
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What kind of algorithm is the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm?
Is a Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm a type of back-propagation algorithm or is it a different category of algorithm? Wikipedia says that it is a curve fitting algorithm. How is a curve fitting ...
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