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IAS machine learning reading club

13 May 2005, 1.00pm, F0.13---Jan Nunnink
Justifying multiply sectioned Bayesian networks, Y. Xiang and V. Lesser, ICMAS'00.

29 April 2005, 1.00pm, F0.13---Taylan Cemgil
A Tutorial on the Cross-Entropy Method, P.T. de Boer, D.P. Kroese, S. Mannor, R.Y. Rubinstein, 2004.

8 April 2005, 3.00pm, F2.07---Olaf Booij
The Analysis of a Probabilistic Approach to Nearest Neighbor Searching, S. Maneewongvatana and D. M. Mount, WADS'01.

18 March 2005, 3.30pm, F2.47---Nikos Vlassis
A Sparse Sampling Algorithm for Near-Optimal Planning in Large Markov Decision Processes, M. Kearns, Y. Mansour, A.Y. Ng, IJCAI'99.

4 March 2005, 1pm, F2.47---Sjaak Verbeek
Robust Real-time Object Detection, P. Viola, M. Jones, IJCV 57(2):137-154, 2004.

11 February 2005, 1pm, F0.09---Themis Panayiotopoulos (Guest speaker, Univ. of Pireaeus)
Title of the talk: Intelligent Virtual Agents.
Synthetic Characters with Emotional States, N. Avradinis, S. Vosinakis, T. Panayiotopoulos, LNAI, 3025, pp.505-514, 2004.

14 January 2005, 1pm, F2.47---Matthijs Spaan
Approximate Solutions for Partially Observable Stochastic Games with Common Payoffs, R. Emery-Montemerlo, G. Gordon, J. Schneider, S. Thrun, AAMAS'04.

3 December 2004, 1pm, F2.47---Nikos Vlassis
Value-directed Compression of POMDPs, P. Poupart, C. Boutilier, NIPS-15, 2003.

19 November 2004, 1pm, F2.47---Jelle Kok
Bellman Goes Relational, K.Kersting, M.van Otterlo and L. De Raedt, ICML'04.

5 November 2004, 1pm, F2.47---Nikos Vlassis
Predictive Representations of State, M.L. Littman, R.S. Sutton, and S. Singh, NIPS-14, 2002.

15 October 2004, 1pm, F2.47---Zoran Zivkovic,
Learning Flexible Sprites in Video Layers, N. Jojic and B. Frey, CVPR'01.

1 October 2004, 1pm, F2.47---Sjaak Verbeek
Incremental Visual Tracking, D. Ross, J. Lim, M.-H. Yang, ECCV'04.

24 June 2004, 2pm, F0.09---Bram Bakker
Finite-Sample Rates of Convergence for Q-Learning and Indirect Methods, M. Kearns and S. Singh, NIPS'99.

10 June 2004, 2pm, F0.09---Wojciech Zajdel
Factor Graphs and the Sum-Product Algorithm, F.R. Kschischang, B.J. Frey, H.-A. Loeliger, IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory (2001). (Reading t/m p.503, sec.II)

29 Apr 2004, 2pm, F0.09---Zoran Zivkovic,
Recognition of Planar Object Classes, M.C. Burl and P. Perona, ICCV'96.

16 Apr 2004, 3.30pm, F0.09---Gregor Pavlin
Efficient reasoning in qualitative probabilistic networks, M. J. Druzdzel, AAAI'93.

24 Mar 2004, 2pm, F0.09---Nikos Vlassis
Model-Free Least-Squares Policy Iteration, M.G. Lagoudakis and R. Parr, NIPS-14, 2002.

18 Feb 2004, 2pm, F0.09---Wojciech Zajdel
Hierarchical Topic Models and the Nested Chinese Restaurant Process, D.M. Blei, T.L. Griffiths, M.I. Jordan, J.B. Tenenbaum. NIPS-16, 2004.

30 Jan 2004, 2pm---Jelle Kok
Model based Bayesian Exploration, R. Dearden, N. Friedman, D. Andre, UAI'99.

21 Nov 2003, 2pm, F0.09---Taylan Cemgil
Expectation Propagation for approximate Bayesian Inference, T. Minka, UAI'01.

31 Oct 2003, 1.30-3pm, F0.09---Sjaak Verbeek
Multiple-cause vector quantization, D. A. Ross and R. S. Zemel, NIPS'03.

16 Oct 2003, 1.30-3pm, F0.09---Matthijs Spaan
Point-based value iteration: An anytime algorithm for POMDPs, J. Pineau, G. Gordon, and S. Thrun, IJCAI'03.