STatistical AI Reading Group previous readings: September-December, 2007

September 10th (Stairmaster: Brian): S. Saria, U. Nodelman, D. Koller.
Reasoning at the Right Time Granularity.
In Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (2007)

October 12th (Stairmaster: Luke): P. J. Gmytrasiewicz, P. Doshi.
A Framework for Sequential Planning in Multi-Agent Settings.
Journal of Artificial Intelligence 24 (2005) 49-79.

October 26th (Stairmaster: Kristian): R. Dechter.
Bucket Elimination: A Unifying Framework for Probabilistic Inference.
Uncertainty in Artifical Intelligence (1996) 211-219.
and
K. Kask, R. Dechter, J. Larrosa and F. Cozman
Bucket-Tree Elimination for Automated Reasoning.
ICS Technical Report.

November 9th (Stairmaster: Bhaskara): R. Raina, A. Battle, H. Lee, B. Packer, A. Y. Ng.
Self-taught Learning: Transfer Learning from Unlabeled Data.
In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Machine Learning, Corvallis, OR (2007).