STatistical AI Reading Group previous readings: Feb-May, 2001

Feb 13, 2001 (stairmaster: Christian):
Using All Your Experiences (abstract)
Feb 27, 2001 (stairmaster: Leslie):
Schmidhuber, J. "Algorithmic Theories of Everything." Technical Report IDSIA-29-00. Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Dec 2000. (Compressed PostScript)
Mar 6, 2001:
Postponed due to weather. See you all next week!
Mar 13, 2001 (stairmaster: Leslie):
Reprise of Schmidhuber's "Algorithmic Theories of Everything," focusing on Sections 6 and 7. (Compressed PostScript)
Mar 27, 2001:
Spring break. Go find some sun or something. We won't be here -- neither should you.
Apr 3, 2001 (stairmaster: Terran):
Webb, G. (1996). Further experimental evidence against the utility of Occams razor. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. 4: 397-417. ( PostScript)
April 10:
Cancelled due to sick stairmaster.
Apr 17, 2001 (stairmaster: Christian):
Freund, Y. and Schapire, R. E., Adaptive game playing using multiplicative weights. Games and Economic Behavior, 29:79-103, 1999. ( PostScript)
April 24, 2001 (stairmaster: Terran):
J. Yedidia, W. T. Freeman, and Y. Weiss Generalized Belief Propagation To appear in: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 13, 2001. (PDF).
Related works:
W. T. Freeman and E. C. Pasztor Markov networks for super-resolution. Published in Proceedings of 34th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2000), Dept. Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-5263, March, 2000. (PDF)
Y. Weiss and W. T. Freeman Correctness of Belief Propagation in Gaussian Graphical Models of Arbitrary Topology. Also published as UC Berkeley CS Department TR UCB//CSD-99-1046. (PDF)
May 8, 2001 (stairmaster: Terran/Erik):
S. Amari and S.C. Douglas, Why Natural Gradient, IEEE International Conf. Acoust., Speech, Signal Processing, Seattle, WA, May 1998. (Not available online.)
S. Amari, A. Cichocki, and H. H. Yang, A New Learning Algorithm for Blind Signal Separation, In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8, Editors D. Touretzky, M. Mozer, and M. Hasselmo, pp. 752-763, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1996. ( Compressed PostScript.)
Shun-ichi Amari, Natural Gradient Works Efficiently in Learning, Neural Computation, Vol.10, pp.251-276, 1998. ( Compressed PostScript.)
May 15, 2001 (SPECIAL LOCATION: NE43-516):
Special meeting: talk by visiting scholar Georgios Theocharous from Michigan State University. Hierarchical Learning and Planning using Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (Abstract)