2 papers
cs.LG2017
Hierarchical Modeling of Seed Variety Yields and Decision Making for Future Planting Plans
Huaiyang Zhong, Xiaocheng Li, David Lobell +2
Eradicating hunger and malnutrition is a key development goal of the 21st century. We address the problem of optimally identifying seed varieties to reliably increase crop yield wi…
cs.AI2017
Quantile Markov Decision Process
Xiaocheng Li, Huaiyang Zhong, Margaret L. Brandeau
The goal of a traditional Markov decision process (MDP) is to maximize expected cumulative reward over a defined horizon (possibly infinite). In many applications, however, a decis…