Karl Pfleger, On-Line Cumulative Learning of Hierarchical Sparse
n-grams, submitted to NIPS-2002.
Postscript .
September 23 (Stairmaster: Yu-Han):
Carlos Guestrin and Geoffrey Gordon, Distributed Planning in
Hierarchical Factored MDPs, UAI-2002.
Postscript .
September 30 (Stairmaster: Leslie):
Yoav Freund, Robert
E. Schapire, A decision-theoretic generalization of on-line
learning and an application to boosting, European Conference on
Computational Learning Theory (1995).
Compressed postscript
October 7 (Stairmaster: Georgios):
Benjamin Kuipers and
Patrick Beeson. 2002. Bootstrap learning for place recognition.
Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-02).
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J. Wolf, W. Burgard, H. Burkhardt. Robust Vision-based
Localization for Mobile Robots using an Image Retrieval System
Based on Invariant Features. In Proc. of the IEEE International
Conference on Robotics & Automation.
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October 21 ( Special STAIR outing):
This week's brains & machines seminar series features
Stephen Smale speaking on statistical learning . Meets in
E25-401 at 3:00.
Abstract
October 28 (Stairmaster: Natalia):
"Inductive Policy Selection for First-Order Markov Decision
Processes", UAI-2002 Sung Wook Yoon, Alan Fern, Robert
Givan,
Postscript
"Learning generalized policies in planning using concept
languages", KR-2000 Mario Martin and Hector Geffner, Postscript
November 4 ( Special STAIR outing):
This week we will attend Rich Sutton's talk in NE43-941 at
4:00. Abstract
(there is an associated tech report that is very similar to the JAIR paper, and so we won't be talking about it)
November 25 (Stairmaster: Georgios):
N. Roy and G. Gordon. ``Exponential Family PCA for Belief Compression in
POMDPs''. Advances in Neural Information Processing (15) NIPS, Vancouver,
BC. Dec. 2002. To appear.
Compressed postscript .
PDF .
(Recommended background reading)
Michael Collins Sanjoy Dasgupta Robert E. Schapire. "A
Generalization of Principal Component Analysis to the
Exponential Family". NIPS 2001 . Postscript.
Geoggrey J. Gordon. "Generalized Linear Models". NIPS
2002. To appear.
Compresed postscript.
December 3rd(Stairmaster: Kevin):
Katy S. Azoury, M. K. Warmuth. "Relative Loss Bounds for On-line
Density Estimation with the Exponential Family of
Distributions". Machine Learning, 43:211-246, 2001.
Postscript .