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Jan R Peters

3 accepted papers

2016

Catching heuristics are optimal control policies

NeurIPS 2016poster

Two seemingly contradictory theories attempt to explain how humans move to intercept an airborne ball. One theory posits that humans predict the ball trajectory to optimally plan future actions; the other claims that, instead of performing such complicated computations, humans employ heuristics to r…

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2015

Model-Based Relative Entropy Stochastic Search

NeurIPS 2015poster

Stochastic search algorithms are general black-box optimizers. Due to their ease of use and their generality, they have recently also gained a lot of attention in operations research, machine learning and policy search. Yet, these algorithms require a lot of evaluations of the objective, scale poorl…

Cited by 106SourcePDFScholar