Mar 1, 2000: special guest host Michael Littman (AT&T Labs - Research). Reading: F. Jiang and M. Littman, "Approximate Dimension Equalization in Vector-based Information Retrieval," submitted. (abstract.txt; postscript, 7 pages)
Mar 8, 2000: field trip to SSG seminar, 4:00pm, 35-338 for "Tutorial Overview of Graphical Models and Estimation Issues" (abstract)
Mar 29, 2000: Koller and Parr (see 4/14 below).
Apr 5, 2000, NE43-941: talk by Tim Oates (U Mass - Amherst), "Embodied Language Learning: A Unified View of Language and Planning." (abstract)
Apr 12, 2000: postponed due to David Lewis' talk in the AI Colloquium
Apr 14, 2000, 2:00pm: continuation of Mar 29 discussion: D. Koller and R. Parr, "Policy Iteration for Factored MDPs." Submitted to UAI-00. (postscript) Stairmaster: lpk.
Apr 26, 2000: A. McCallum, D. Freitag and F. Pereira, "Maximum Entropy Markov Models for Information Extraction and Segmentation." Submitted. (postscript) Stairmaster: jrennie.
May 3, 2000: A. Berger, "A gentle introduction to iterative scaling." Informal tutorial note. (postscript; context) Stairmaster: lpk.
May 10, 2000: M. Wellman, M. Ford, and K. Larson, "Path Planning Under Time-Dependent Uncertainty." UAI-95. (postscript) Stairmaster: jab.
May 17, 2000: no meeting
May 31, 2000 and May 24, 2000: D. Precup, R. Sutton and S. Singh, "Eligibility Traces for Off-Policy Policy Evaluation." (postscript) Stairmaster: Nicolas.
June 7, 2000: V. R. Konda and J. N. Tsitsiklis, "Actor-Critic Algorithms," NIPS-99. (postscript, 7 pages)
Thursday July 20, 2000: discussion of our own "research nuggets"! Here they are for downloading.