STatistical AI Reading Group previous readings: September-December, 2001
- Sept 13:
- Cancelled due to the AI lab BBQ and general
chaos.
- Sept 20:
- Cancelled because many of us will be in New
Jersey at Sutton's mini-RL workshop.
- Sept 27 (STAIRmaster: Natalia):
- Carlos Guestrin and Dirk Ormoneit, "Information-Theoretic Features
for Reinforcement Learning", submitted to NIPS-2001.
PostScript
- Oct 4:
- Special STAIR outing This week's AI colloquium
features Moshe Tennenholtz speaking on R-Max. Meets in NE43-941 at
2:30. Abstract.
- Oct 11 (stairmaster: Terran (well, ok, Leslie really)):
- Pasula, H. and Russell, S., "Approximate Inference for First-Order
Probabilistic Languages." IJCAI-01.
PostScript
- Oct 18 (Stairmaster: Leslie):
- Hanna Pasula, Stuart Russell, Michael Ostland, and Ya'acov Ritov,
``Tracking many objects with many sensors.'' In Proc. IJCAI-99,
Stockholm, 1999.
PostScript.
- Nov 1 (Stairmaster: Sarah):
- Coelho, J., Piater, J., and Grupen, R., "Developing Haptic and
Visual Perceptual Categories for Reaching and Grasping with a Humanoid
Robot." First IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots.
Cambridge, MA, 2000.
PostScript
- Nov 15 (Stairmaster: Terran):
- Howard, R. A. and Matheson, J. E., "Risk Sensitive Markov Decision
Processes." Management Science 18(7), 1972. [Paper not available
online, to my knowledge, though I do have copies in my office. -- Terran]
- Dec 13 (STAIRmaster: Terran):
- Baum, J. and Nicholson, A. E.:
"Dynamic non-uniform abstractions for approximate planning in large
structures stochastic domains", (Technical report 98/18) School of
Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University,
Melbourne, 18pp. Technical report 1998/18.
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