STatistical AI Reading Group previous readings: September-December, 2010

September 17 (Stairmaster: Tomas): Hanna Kurniawati, Yanzhu Du, David Hsu, and Wee Sun Lee.
Motion Planning Under Uncertainty for Robotic Tasks with Long Time Horizons.
International Symposium on Robotics Research (2009).

September 24 (Stairmaster: Dan): Daniel Hsu, Sham M. Kakade, and Tong Zhang.
A Spectral Algorithm for Learning Hidden Markov Models.
COLT (2009).

October 8 (Stairmaster: Jared): Andrew Stein and Martial Hebert.
Occlusion Boundaries from Motion: Low-Level Detection and Mid-Level Reasoning.
IJCV (2009).

October 22 (Stairmaster: David Wingate): Emanuel Todorov.
Efficient Computation of Optimal Actions.
PNAS Volume 106(28), p. 11478-83 (July, 2009).; Emanuel Todorov.
Compositionality of Optimal Control Laws.
NIPS (2009).

November 5 (Stairmaster: Sam): Kirshnamurthy Dvijotham and Emanuel Todorov.
Inverse Optimal Control with Linearly-Solvable MDPs.
ICML (2010).

November 19 (Stairmaster: Huan): Guy Shani.
Evaluating Point-Based POMDP Solvers on Multicore Machines.
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Volume 40(4) (August, 2010).

December 3 (Stairmaster: Lawson): Rajat Raina, Andrew Y. Ng, and Daphne Koller.
Constructing Informative Priors Using Transfer Learning.
ICML (2006).; Gal Elidan, Benjamin Packer, Geremy Hietz, and Daphne Koller.
Convex Point Estimation Using Undirected Bayesian Transfer Hierarchies.
UAI (2008).

December 10 (Stairmaster: Jenny): Moritz Tenorth and Michael Beetz.
Priming Transformational Planning with Observations of Human Activities.
ICRA (2010).