Machine Learning
and Friends at CMU

The 2003 ML talks:

November 17		Robert Murphy (CMU Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering), Machine Learning Challenges in Location Proteomics, Slides
October 27		Curt Bererton, Auction Mechanism Design for Multi-Robot Coordination
October 20		David Andre, Programmatic Reinforcement Learning
October 13		Conference Review Session. Vincent Conitzer, BL-WoLF: A Framework For Loss-Bounded Learnability In Zero-Sum Games, ICML-2003. Brendan McMahan, Planning in the Presence of Cost Functions Controlled by an Adversary, ICML-2003.
October 6		Ting Liu, New Algorithms for Efficient High-dimensional Nonparametric Classification
September 29		Conference Review Session. Yan Liu, A New Boosting Algorithm Using Input-Dependent Regularizer, ICML-2003. Mugizi Robert Rwebangira, Improving the Graph Mincut Approach to Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Examples, ICML-2003. Maria Florina Balcan, Sample Complexity When Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Data, ICML-2003.
September 22		Conference Review Session. Jian Zhang, Modified Logistic Regression: An Approximation to SVM and Its Applications in Large-Scale Text Categorization, ICML-2003. Yi Zhang, Exploration and Exploitation in Adaptive Filtering Based on Bayesian Active Learning, ICML-2003. Li Fan, A Loss Function Analysis for Classification Methods in Text Categorization, ICML-2003.
September 15		Brigham Anderson, Determining Galactic Morphology via Eigengalaxies
August 28		Zoubin Ghahramani, Bayesian Learning in Undirected Graphical Models, Slides
August 18		Phil Cowans (University of Cambridge), A Language Model Using Products of Experts
May 5		Rob Sim (McGill University), On Visual Maps and their Automatic Construction
May 1		Tucker Balch (Georgia Tech), Social Insects: A Domain for AI Research
April 30		Michael Littman (Rutgers University) and Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin), Automated Bidding Strategies and the Power of Threats
April 21		Ricardo Silva, Learning Measurement Models
March 10		Joelle Pineau, Approximate POMDP Planning: Overcoming the Curse of History
March 3		Nicholas Roy, POMDPs for Fun and Profit
February 24		Avrim Blum, Synopsis of the ALADDIN Workshop on Graph Partitioning in Vision and Machine Learning
February 17		Postponed because of snow.
February 10		Curt Bererton, Repairable Robot Teams: Modeling, Planning, and Construction
February 3		Woncheol Jang, Nonparametric Density Estimation and Clustering with Application to Cosmology
January 27		NIPS Review Session, Maxim Likhachev, Drew Bagnell, and Guy Lebanon will present