Speeding up software with VecCore

Speeding Up Robot Control Software Through Seamless Integration With FPGA

Today robotic computing systems are usually implemented using general purpose processors because of their accessibility and simplicity which do not require specific knowledge. However, this approach restricts several optimization opportunities and may not always satisfy performance, cost, and energy requirements [5]. FPGA infrastructures can be considered as a good solution for these issues, es...

Speeding-up Reinforcement Learning with

Speeding Up Dynamic Programming with Applications to

Consider the problem of computing E[j] = mit:! {D[k] + w(k, j)}, j = 1, ... , n, O~k~]-l where w is a given weight function, D[D] is given and for every k = 1, ... , n, D[k] is easily computable from E[k]. This problem appears as a subproblem in dynamic programming solutions to various problems. Obviously, it can be solved in time O( n ), and for a general weight function no better algorithm is...

Speeding up Web Page Loads with Shandian

Web page loads are slow due to intrinsic inefficiencies in the page load process. Our study shows that the inefficiencies are attributable not only to the contents and structure of the Web pages (e.g., three-fourths of the CSS resources are not used during the initial page load) but also the way that pages are loaded (e.g., 15% of page load times are spent waiting for parsing-blocking resources...

Speeding Up Reinforcement Learning with Behavior Transfer

Reinforcement learning (RL) methods (Sutton & Barto 1998) have become popular machine learning techniques in recent years. RL has had some experimental successes and has been shown to exhibit some desirable properties in theory, but it has often been found very slow in practice. In this paper we introduce behavior transfer, a novel approach to speeding up traditional RL. We present experimental...