STatistical AI Reading Group previous readings: Sept-Dec, 2000
- Sep 15, 2000, 1:00pm, 6th floor seminar room
- . Special seminar:
We revisit "Policy Iteration for Factored MDPs", by D. Koller and R. Parr,
courtesy of visiting stairmaster Daphne Koller. (postscript)
Note special time and location.
- Sep 18, 2000:
- B. Anderson, A. W. Moore, and D. Cohn: "A Nonparametric
Approach to Noisy and Costly Optimization," (ICML-2000). (postscript)
Stairmaster: jab.
- Sep 25, 2000:
- G. Schohn and D. Cohn: "Less is More: Active Learning
with Support Vector Machines," (ICML-2000). (postscript)
Stairmaster: lpk.
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- Oct 2, 2000:
- T. Joachims, "Transductive Inference for Text Classification
using Support Vector Machines". (postscript)
Stairmaster: polina.
- Oct 9, 2000:
- postponed due to holiday. This STAIR has
been rescheduled to:
- Oct 11, 2000:
- S. Singh and D. Cohn, "How to Dynamically Merge
Markov Decision Processes." Advances in Neural Information Processing
Systems 10 (NIPS), 1998, pp 1057-1063. (postscript
) Stairmaster: terran. Same time, same place.
- Oct 16, 2000:
- Shannon X. Ju, Michael J. Black, and Allan D. Jepson,
"Estimating Image Motion in Layers: The `Skin and Bones' Model."
(submitted to IJCV).
(
Postscript, 38 pages
). Stairmaster: Mike.
- Oct 23, 2000 (stairmaster: Christian):
- Satinder Singh, Michael Kearns, and Yishay Mansour,
"Nash Convergence of Gradient Dynamics in General-Sum Games."
Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial
Intelligence (UAI 2000).
(
Compressed PostScript).
- Michael Kearns and Satinder Singh, "'Bias-Variance' Error Bounds
for Temporal Difference Updates."
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Computational
Learning Theory (COLT 2000).
(
Compressed PostScript).
- Oct 30, 2000 (stairmaster: Leonid):
- Kearns, M., Mansour, Y., and Ng, A. Y., "Approximate planning in
large POMDPs via reusable trajectories." NIPS 12, 2000. (Postscript).
- Extended version of the above. (Postscript).
- Nov 6, 2000:
- Reprise of Oct 30, focusing on section 5 and the appendices to the
long version of the paper.
- Nov 13, 2000:
- Special event: beta-test of James Kurien's Thesis Proposal
(Abstract). SAME TIME, SPECIAL
LOCATION: 6th floor playroom.
- Nov 20, 2000:
- Cancelled on account of holiday, business, and general
mass-hysteria.
- Nov 27, 2000 (stairmaster: Frank):
- Dayan, P., "Feudal Q-Learning." The conference version (NIPS '93)
is here,
while a longer version is
here (both compressed PostScript).
- Dec 4, 2000 (stairmaster: Yu-Han):
- Ron, D., Singer, Y., and Tishby, N. "The Power of Amnesia:
Learning Probabilistic Automata with Variable Memory Length." Machine
Learning, 25(2), Nov 1996. pp. 117-149.
(
Compressed PostScript)
- Dec 11, 2000 (stairmaster: Terran):
- LAST STAIR OF THE SEMESTER. Special event: Terran
presents his thesis research. The associated papers and such can be found
here.