STatistical AI Reading Group

This group meets every other week to host a speaker, brainstorm about research in progress, or discuss a paper in the areas of statistical artificial intelligence and machine learning.  Topics include:
  • Markov decision processes (RL, HMMs, POMDPs...)
  • multi-agent AI and stochastic games
  • stochastic control and optimization 
  • statistical information retrieval
  • natural language processing
  • robotics and uncertainty
  • graphical models for object detection
  • first order probabilistic reasoning
... and whatever else strikes our fancy.
All are welcome!
web page: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/stair

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organizer:  Jenny Barry (JLBarry AT mit.edu)

Spring 2009
Alternating Fridays at 3:00pm
Stata Center, Gates 4th floor

Current Semester:

October 2 (Stairmaster: Meg)
Hierarchical Models of Objects in Scenes:

Devi Parikh and Tsuhan Chen.
Hierarchical Semantics of Objects (hSOs).
In ICCV (2007).

Carolina Galleguillos, Andrew Rabinovich, Serge Belongie.
Object Categorization using Co-Occurrence, Location and Appearance.
CVPR (2008).

Stephen Gould, Jim Rodgers, David Cohen, Gal Elidan, Daphne Koller.
Multi-Class Segmentation with Relative Location Prior.
IJCV (2008).
October 9 (Stairmaster: Sam)
Attend Classification and Beyond Talk by Shimon Ullman on Oct 6 if possible.

Boris Epshtein and Shimon Ullman.
Feature Hierarchies for Object Classification.
In ICCV (2005).
October 16 (Stairmaster: David)
Hui Li, Xuejun Liao, Lawrence Carin.
Multi-task Reinforcement Learning in Partially Observable Stochastic Environments.
JMLR 10(May):1131--1186, (2009).

October 30 (Stairmaster: Jenny)
Kee-Eung Kim and Thomas Dean.
Solving factored Markov decision processes using non-homogeneous partitions.
Artificial Intelligence, 147(1-2):225–251 (2003).
November 13 (Stairmaster: Tomas)
Michael Erdmann.
On the Topology of Discrete Strategies.
International Journal of Robotics Research. To appear.
November 13 (Stairmaster: Tomas)
Michael Erdmann.
On the Topology of Discrete Strategies.
International Journal of Robotics Research. To appear.

CANCELED
November 13 (Stairmaster: Chris Watkins)
Vicky Choi and Yang Huang.
Faster Algorithms for Constructing a Concept (Galois) Lattice, Enumerating all Maximal Bipartite Cliques.
Presented at SIAM Conference on Discrete Mathematics. (2006)
December 6 (Stairmaster: ??)

Previous Readings:

February-May, 2009

December-September, 2008

February-May, 2008

December-September, 2007

December-September, 2006

June-Aug, 2006

February-May, 2006

September-December, 2005

June-August, 2005

February-May, 2005

September-December, 2004

February-May, 2004

September-December, 2003

February-May, 2003

September-December, 2002

June-August, 2002

September-December, 2001

June-August, 2001

February-May, 2001

September-December, 2000

March-July, 2000

October-December, 1999


Organizers:

Jenny Barry
Leslie Pack Kaelbling