STatistical AI Reading Group previous readings: September-December, 2008

September 12th (Stairmaster: Luke): A. Hansen, S. Zilberstein.
LAO*: A Heuristic Search Algorithm that Finds Solutions with Loops.
Artificial Intelligence 129 (2001) 35-62.

September 26th (Stairmaster: Meg): E. Sudderth, A. Torralba, W. Freeman, and A. Willsky.
Describing Visual Scenes Using Transformed Objects and Parts.
International Journal of Computer Vision 77 (May 2008).

October 17th (Stairmasters: Marti and Luke): S. Gelly, D. Silver.
Combining Online and Offline Knowledge in UCT.
In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Machine Learning Corvallis, OR (2007).

October 24th (Stairmaster: David): C. Kemp, J. B. Tenenbaum.
The Discovery of Structural Form.
In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(31) 10687-10692 (August 5, 2008).
Appendix

November 14th (Stairmaster: Sarah): J. Choi, E. Amir.
Factor-Guided Motion Planning for a Robot Arm
Unpublished (?).

November 21st (Stairmaster: Jenny): N. Mehta, S. Ray, P. Tadepalli, T. Dietterich.
Automatic Discovery and Transfer of MAXQ Hierarchies
In Proceedings of the 25th ICML Helinski, Finland (2008).