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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Policy Learning"”.
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Generalized Policy Learning with Planning
Generalized policy learning seeks to find policies that solve multiple tasks within a planning domain. We introduce methods to search for policies independently in a domain from empty initialized policies. As an extension, we also propose a problem setting to learn satisficing policies between …
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Statistical Methods for Off-Policy Learning
… science, engineering, and business. The task of learning good policies from historical records collected under another policy—commonly referred to as off-policy learning—has mainly been studied in two settings: dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs), which focus on controlling for confounding in …
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View Synthesis for Visuomotor Policy Learning
Visuomotor policy learning is the problem of teaching machines how to use visual information to determine how to interact with their environment. Recent approaches have harnessed deep learning models to demonstrate impressive results in multi-modal and multi-task generalization. However, these …
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Building Energy Efficiency - Policy, learning and technology change
… To promote energy efficiency, various policy instruments have been in place since the 1970s. Nevertheless, energy efficiency improvements still lag behind their potential in the building sector, which indicates that there is a lack of knowledge about the performance of policies. To …
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Scalable Models and Policy Learning for Online Marketplaces
… three essays on designing scalable models and policy learning methods for online marketplaces. The underlying theme across all chapters is the development of data-driven practical solutions that help improve business operations and customer experiences in e-commerce. The first chapter offers a …
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Generalizable Robot Manipulation through Unified Perception, Policy Learning, and Planning
… In this thesis, I will present my work in robot learning and planning that enables multi-step manipulation in partially observable environments, towards general-purpose embodied agents. Specifically, I will talk about my work in 1) constructing a modular framework that estimates affordances with …
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Policy learning : new challenges for smart value capture in Colombia
… strategy to make PLVI a politically sustainable policy instrument. This study explores how local political economy has shaped and influenced the development of these two instruments, highlighting that despite their common conceptual origins, SA and PLVI are significantly different. Acknowledging …
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Policy Learning and the Development of Renewable Energy Policy in the United Kingdom
… the extent, nature and constraints on ‘policy learning’ within UK renewable energy policy. Policy learning has emerged in recent years as an innovative way of exploring the roles of knowledge acquisition and use in policy change. This study examines the contribution of policy learning to …
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Coalition Networks and Policy Learning: Interest Groups on the Losing Side of Legal Change
Network, organizational, and policy learning literatures indicate that when interest groups face failure they will seek out alternative ideas and strategies that will enhance their potential for future success. Research with regard to interest groups and legal change has found that interest groups, …
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Collective Climate Action, Policy Learning and COVID-19: A Comparative Analysis of the Global Governance and Responses
… governance of two global challenges in terms of policy learning and collective action. The COVID-19 pandemic and anthropogenic climate change pose critical challenges to human well-being as much as they depend on collective responses to contain them. The comparative analysis of governance …
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An exploration of 'Pentecostal/Charismatic' church responses to the HIV and AIDS pandemic in the Western Cape : a policy learning approach
… to the HIV and AIDS pandemic? (2): What Policy Learning can be derived from the examination of these churches' responses to the HIV and AIDS pandemic in the Western Cape?
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Policy responses to partnered women outside the labour market: What can Britain learn from Australia and Denmark?
… from workless couples into work, with a focus on policy learning for Britain. The research uses case studies comprising of documentary analysis and 52 elite interviews with policy actors to create a contextual analysis based on the notion of ‘hard’ policy learning (Dolowitz, 2009). It also …
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Reinforcement Learning and Reward Estimation for Dialogue Policy Optimisation
Modelling dialogue management as a reinforcement learning task enables a system to learn to act optimally by maximising a reward function. This reward function is designed to induce the system behaviour required for goal-oriented applications, which usually means fulfilling the user’s goal as …
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Sources of Change in Community Forestry - The Roles of Learning and Beliefs in the Policy Process
Community forestry has become a prominent policy instrument over the past decades as a response to deforestation pressures and rural poverty. Its political implementation involves a complex process with a profound structural change - away from state-based forestry to locally based decision-making …
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DexWrist: A Robotic Wrist for Constrained and Dynamic Manipulation
… wrist designs. The DexWrist can supercharge policy learning by (i) enabling faster teleoperation and therefore making data collection more scalable; (ii) completing tasks in fewer steps which reduces trajectory lengths and therefore can ease policy learning; (iii) DexWrist is designed to be …
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Learning how to learn in the Chinese policy making process
… accepted that a decentralised system can enhance policy learning and the spread of best practices, an under-researched question is where that learning process takes place, and another more important and intriguing question is what supports and sustains that learning. As a highly decentralised …
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Wills and ways : policy dynamics of HOPE IV from 1992-2002
… analysis of the stability and change of HOPE VI policy offers insights into the potentials and the pitfalls of this major public housing program and similar federal policies in the American political system. I will suggest strategic ways to deploy political advocacy and to facilitate genuine …
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Intergovernmental cultural policy coordination in the European Union: the open method of coordination and the 2011-2014 work plan for culture
… of Coordination (OMC) in the field of cultural policy. The OMC, a method of intergovernmental policy coordination that is centrally coordinated by the European Commission, was introduced in the cultural field in 2008. Using a case study of Policy Priority A in the 2011-2014 Work Plan for …
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Efficient Imitation Learning for Robust, Adaptive, Vision-based Agile Flight Under Uncertainty
… Power (CSWaP)constraints. The existing imitation learning strategies that can train computationally efficient deep neural network policies from those algorithms have limited robustness and/or are impractical (large number of demonstrations, training time), limiting rapid policy learning once new …
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The Impact of Citizens' Knowledge On Public Administration: Exploring the Links in Three Social Movements
… civic innovations, community of practice, policy learning, and knowledge production in social movements. The framework connects social movement, policy expert, and administrative knowledge through the processes of social, policy, and organizational learning. This dissertation further …
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