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. (PostScript)