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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…