Kevin's Weblog 2003-12-11

Weds Afternoon

2003-12-11 12:22 in /tech/nips

"All Learning is Local" -- multiple agents collaborating with some global goal, with limited local information availible to each one. Applications for load balancing? Maybe not... fairly easy to get global information.

After that, another interesting talk about a strategy for combining strategies in games. It seems to work well for the Prisoner's dilemna, but I was disappointed to see that they don't seem to have done any real testing in practice, for example in Rock-Paper-Scissors competitions.

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