STatistical AI Reading Group previous readings: Feb-May, 2003

February 5 (Stairmaster: Georgios):
Pascal Poupart and Craig Boutilier, "Value-directed Compression of POMDPs", in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14(NIPS), Vancouver, 2002 Postscript .

February 12 (Stairmaster: John Leonard):
S. Thrun, D. Koller, Z. Ghahramani, H. Durrant-Whyte, and A.Y. Ng. Simultaneous mapping and localization with sparse extended information filters:theory and initial results. In Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, Nice, France, 2002. link .

(Same method applied to real data):

Y. Liu and S. Thrun. Results for outdoor-SLAM using sparse extended information filters. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Taipei, Korea, 2003. ICRA. link .

February 19 (Stairmaster: John Leonard):
This week we will continue our discussion on constant time SLAM algorithms. We will be discussing some recent work by John Leonard. You can pick up a hard-copy of his paper outside office NE43-749.

February 26 (Stairmaster: Georgios):
The Brains and machines seminar series is hosting Michael Kearns Who will be talking about Graphical models for game theory. The talk is in E25-401 at 4:00. Abstract.

(We will be discussing the following paper right before the talk:)
Graphical Models for Game Theory. M. kearns, M. Littman, S. Singh. 2001. In Proceedings of UAI 2001. Postscript .

(Optional additional readings:)
Correlated Equilibria in Graphical Games. S. Kakade, M. Kearns J. Langford, and L. Ortiz. Preprint, November 2002. Postscript .
Nash Propagation for Loopy Graphical Games. L. Ortiz, M. Kearns. To appear, Proceedings of NIPS 2002. Postscript .

March 5 (Stairmaster: Georgios):
This week Georgios will be presenting his past and present work on learning and planning in hierarchical POMDPs.

March 12 (Stairmaster: Kurt):
David Larkin, Rina Dechter, "Bayesian Inference in the Presence of Determinism", Proceedings of the Ninth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics Postscript .

April 2 (Stairmaster: Hanna):
"Realtional Markov Models and their Application to Adaptive Web Navigation" by Corin Anderson, Pedro Domnigos, and Daniel Weld Compressed pdf

April 9 (Stairmaster: Hanna):
"Dynamic Probabilistic Relational Models" by Sumit Sanghai, Pedro Domingos, and Daniel Weld (Copies available from an envelope taped outside NE43-713.)

"Learning Probabilistic Relational Models" by Friedman, Getoor, Koller, and Pfeffer. IJCAI version in Postscript, Detailed Book chapter in Postscript

April 16 (Stairmaster: Hanna):
Lise Getoor will be our visiting speaker. Her talk is entitled "Learning Statistical Models from Relational Data" Abstract.

April 23 (Stairmaster: Kevin):
"Control of selective perception using Bayes nets and decision theory", Rimey and Brown, IJCV 12:2/3, 1994. (Hard-copies outside room NE43-749)

April 30 (Stairmaster: Hanna & Natalia):
Joseph Y. Halpern, "An analysis of first-order logics of probability", Artificial Intelligence 46, 1990, pp. 311-350. link .

Mark A. Paskin. "Maximum Entropy Probabilistic Logic". Technical Report UCB/CSD-01-1161, University of California, Berkeley 2002. Postscript, PDF.

May 7 (Stairmaster: Kevin):
This week Kevin will give a tutorial on graphical models and his Bayesian net toolbox for matlab.

May 14 (Stairmaster: Natalia):
Natalia will give a short talk on some of her recent work. The title is: "planning under time constraints with probabilistic relational rules"

May 21 (Stairmaster: Luke):
A Maximum Entropy Approach to Natural Language Processing (1996) Adam L. Berger, Stephen A. Della Pietra, Vincent J. Della Pietra Computational Linguistics. Postscript .