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

February 18 (Stairmaster: Leonid):
Leonid's work
February 25 (Stairmasters: Hanna and Luke):
  1. Learning Domain-Specific Control Knowledge from Random Walks, by Alan Fern, SungWook Yoon, and Robert Givan, ICAPS-2004.
  2. Approximate Policy Iteration with a Policy Language Bias, by Alan Fern, SungWook Yoon, and Robert Givan, NIPS-2003.
March 3 (Stairmaster: Mike):
What Energy Functions Can Be Minimized via Graph Cuts? by V. Kolmogorov, R. Zabih, in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, February 2004.
April 28 (Stairmaster: Natalia):
  1. Labeled RTDP: Improving the Convergence of Real-Time Dynamic Programming, by Blai Bonet and Hector Geffner, Proc. of ICAPS-03.
  2. LAO*: A heuristic search algorithm that finds solutions with loops, by Eric Hansen and Shlomo Zilberstein, Artificial Intelligence 2001.
May 5 (Stairmaster: Hanna):
  1. Markov Logic Networks, by Matthew Richardson and Pedro Domingos.
May 12 (Stairmaster: Luke):
  1. Solving Concurrent Markov Decision Processes, by Mausam and Daniel S. Weld, to be presented at AAAI04.