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most citedWomen, politics and Twitter: Using machine learning to change the discourse

13 citations · 22 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.AI2020

What's a Good Prediction? Challenges in evaluating an agent's knowledge

Alex Kearney, Anna Koop, Patrick M. Pilarski

Constructing general knowledge by learning task-independent models of the world can help agents solve challenging problems. However, both constructing and evaluating such models re…

cs.SI201913 cited

Women, politics and Twitter: Using machine learning to change the discourse

Lana Cuthbertson, Alex Kearney, Riley Dawson +4

Including diverse voices in political decision-making strengthens our democratic institutions. Within the Canadian political system, there is gender inequality across all levels of…

cs.LG2019

Examining the Use of Temporal-Difference Incremental Delta-Bar-Delta for Real-World Predictive Knowledge Architectures

Johannes Günther, Nadia M. Ady, Alex Kearney +2

Predictions and predictive knowledge have seen recent success in improving not only robot control but also other applications ranging from industrial process control to rehabilitat…

cs.LG20192 cited

When is a Prediction Knowledge?

Alex Kearney, Patrick M. Pilarski

Within Reinforcement Learning, there is a growing collection of research which aims to express all of an agent's knowledge of the world through predictions about sensation, behavio…

cs.AI2019

Making Meaning: Semiotics Within Predictive Knowledge Architectures

Alex Kearney, Oliver Oxton

Within Reinforcement Learning, there is a fledgling approach to conceptualizing the environment in terms of predictions. Central to this predictive approach is the assertion that i…

cs.LG20197 cited

Learning Feature Relevance Through Step Size Adaptation in Temporal-Difference Learning

Alex Kearney, Vivek Veeriah, Jaden Travnik +2

There is a long history of using meta learning as representation learning, specifically for determining the relevance of inputs. In this paper, we examine an instance of meta-learn…