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stat.ML2018★ 3 cited
On Exploration, Exploitation and Learning in Adaptive Importance Sampling
Xiaoyu Lu, Tom Rainforth, Yuan Zhou +2
We study adaptive importance sampling (AIS) as an online learning problem and argue for the importance of the trade-off between exploration and exploitation in this adaptation. Bor…
stat.CO2018★ 5 cited
Inference Trees: Adaptive Inference with Exploration
Tom Rainforth, Yuan Zhou, Xiaoyu Lu +4
We introduce inference trees (ITs), a new class of inference methods that build on ideas from Monte Carlo tree search to perform adaptive sampling in a manner that balances explora…