Twenty Questions with Noise: Bayes Optimal Policies for Entropy Loss

DOI10.1239/JAP/1331216837zbMath1318.62017OpenAlexW2136817255MaRDI QIDQ5388744

Raphael Sznitman, Peter I. Frazier, Bruno Jedynak

Publication date: 20 April 2012

Published in: Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jap/1331216837

zbMATH Keywords

searchentropy lossobject detectionBayesian experimental designbisectionsequential experimental designdynamic programingtwenty questions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Search theory (90B40) Dynamic programming (90C39)

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