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

mailing list: <stair-group@csail.mit.edu>
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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.

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