CLASS READINGS: PAPERS FOR REVIEW AND PRESENTATIONS 1. Friday, January 21, 2000 Integrating Inductive Neural Network Learning and Explanation-Based Learning 7 pages Thrun and Mitchell URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~thrun/papers/thrun.EBNN_ijcai93.ps.gz Scheduled presenter: William H. Hsu (on Monday, January 24, 2000) 2. Wednesday, January 26, 2000 [This paper is worth 20% (30 points) extra credit.] Iterated Phantom Induction: a Little Knowledge Can Go a Long Way Brodie and Dejong 6 pages URL: http://www.ai.uiuc.edu/~m-brodie/Papers/aaai.ps Scheduled presenter: Steven M. Gustafson (on Friday, January 28, 2000) 3. Monday, January 31, 2000 [This paper is worth 10% (15 points) extra credit.] A Divide-and-Conquer Approach to Learning from Prior Knowledge Chown and Dietterich 12 pages URL: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/tgd/papers/tr-calibration.ps.gz Scheduled presenter: Aiming Wu 4. Friday, February 4, 2000 [This paper is worth 6.7% (10 points) extra credit.] Refinement of Approximate Domain Theories by Knowledge-Based Neural Networks Towell, Shavlik, and Noordewier 6 pages URL: ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/machine-learning/shavlik-group/towell.aaai90.ps Scheduled presenter: Li-Jun Wang 5. Friday, February 11, 2000 Incorporating Advice into Agents that Learn from Reinforcements Maclin and Shavlik 6 pages URL: ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/machine-learning/shavlik-group/maclin.aaai94.ps Scheduled presenter: Kiranmai Nandivada 6. Wednesday, February 16, 2000 TD Models: Modeling the World at a Mixture of Time Scales Sutton 9 pages URL: ftp://ftp.cs.umass.edu/pub/anw/pub/sutton/sutton-95.ps.gz Scheduled presenter: Vrushali V. Koranne 7. Monday, February 21, 2000 [This paper is worth 3.3% (5 points) extra credit.] The Wake-Sleep Algorithm for Unsupervised Neural Networks Hinton, Dayan, Frey, and Neal 12 pages URL: ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/dayan/wake-sleep.ps.Z Scheduled presenter: Prasanna Jayaraman 8. Friday, February 25, 2000 [This paper is worth 6.7% (10 points) extra credit.] Modular and Hierarchical Learning Systems Jordan and Jacobs 12 pages URL: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/papers/handbook.ps.Z Scheduled presenter: Afrand Agah 9. Friday, March 3, 2000 [This paper is worth 6.7% (10 points) extra credit.] In Defense of Probability Cheeseman 8 pages URL: [none; a hard copy will be distributed in class] Scheduled presenter: Pallavi S. Paranjape 10. Wednesday, March 8, 2000 [This paper is worth 6.7% (10 points) extra credit.] Learning Bayesian Network Structure from Massive Datasets Friedman, Pe'er, Nachman 10 pages URL: http://robotics.stanford.edu/people/nir/Papers/FPN1.ps Scheduled presenter: Jin-Cheng Gao 11. Monday, March 13, 2000 [This paper is worth 3.3% (5 points) extra credit.] The Lumiere Project: Bayesian User Modeling for Inferring the Goals and Needs of Software Users Horvitz, Breese, Heckerman, Hovel, Rommelse 10 pages URL: ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/ejh/lum.zip Scheduled presenter: Yuhui (Cathy) Liu 12. Friday, March 17, 2000 Symbolic Causal Networks for Reasoning about Actions and Plans Darwiche and Pearl 7 pages URL: ftp://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/R206.pdf Scheduled presenter: Yue Jiao 13. Wednesday, March 29, 2000 KDD for Science Data Analysis: Issues and Examples Fayyad, Haussler, and Stolorz 9 pages URL: ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/dtg/fayyad/kdd96/fayyad-science.ps Scheduled presenter: Arulkumar Elumalai 13b. Friday, March 31, 2000 (review and presentation postponed to Thursday, April 6, 2000) Pruning Decision Trees with Misclassification Costs Bradford, Kunz, Kohavi, Brunk, and Brodley 6 pages URL: http://robotics.stanford.edu/~ronnyk/prune.ps.gz From: http://robotics.Stanford.EDU/~ronnyk/ronnyk-bib.html Scheduled presenter: Chung-Hang Dai 14. Monday, April 3, 2000 Irrelevant Features and the Subset Selection Problem John, Kohavi, and Pfleger 9 pages URL: ftp://robotics.stanford.edu/pub/gjohn/papers/relevance.ps Scheduled presenter: Dingbing Yang 14b. Wednesday, April 5, 2000 (presentation date postponed to Tuesday, May 2, 2000 to collocate with CIS726) Learning to Classify Text from Labeled and Unlabeled Documents Nigam, McCallum, Thrun, and Mitchell 8 pages URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mccallum/papers/emcat-aaai98.ps.gz From: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mccallum/ Scheduled presenter: Yibin Zhan 15. Friday, April 7, 2000 Hierarchically Classifying Documents using Very Few Words Koller and Sahami 9 pages URL: http://robotics.Stanford.EDU/~koller/papers/ml97.ps Scheduled presenter: Yan Song 15b. Monday, April 10, 2000 (presentation date postponed to Tuesday, May 2, 2000 to collocate with CIS726) A Comparison of Event Models for Naive Bayes Text Classification McCallum and Nigam 8 pages URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mccallum/papers/multinomial-aaai98w.ps From: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mccallum/ Scheduled presenter: Haipeng Guo 16. Wednesday, April 12, 2000 Learning to Extract Symbolic Knowledge from the World Wide Web Craven, DiPasquo, Freitag, McCallum, Mitchell, Nigam, and Slattery URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/theo-20/www/mitchell-pubs/aaai98.ps 8 pages Scheduled presenter: Ping Zou 16b. Friday, April 14, 2000 Improving Text Classification by Shrinkage in a Hierarchy of Classes McCallum, Rosenfeld, Mitchell, and Ng 9 pages URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/theo-20/www/mitchell-pubs/hier-icml98.ps From: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/publications.html Scheduled presenter: Thomas Lin 17. Wednesday, April 19, 2000 [This paper is worth 3.3% (5 points) extra credit.] Generalization in the XCS Classifier System Wilson 10 pages URL: http://world.std.com/~sw/ps/gxcscs.ps.gz Scheduled presenter: Elizabeth Loza-Garay 17b. Friday, April 21, 2000 A Parameter-Less Genetic Algorithm Harik, Lobo, and Goldberg Scheduled presenter: Haijun Wei 18. Monday, April 24, 2000 [This paper is worth 3.3% (5 points) extra credit.] Genetic Programming and Deductive-Inductive Learning: A Multistrategy Approach Aler, Borrajo, and Isasi 9 pages URL: http://grial.uc3m.es/~grial/aler/ML98-42.ps Scheduled presenter: Yuhong Cheng 18b. Wednesday, April 26, 2000 Growing Simpler Decision Trees to Facilitate Knowledge Discovery Cherkauer and Shavlik 4 pages URL: ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/machine-learning/shavlik-group/cherkauer.kdd96.ps From: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~shavlik/mlrg/publications.html Scheduled presenter: Philip Lin 19. Friday, April 28, 2000 Simultaneous Feature Extraction and Selection Using a Masking Genetic Algorithm Raymer, Punch, Goodman, Sanschagrin, Kuhn 8 pages URL: http://garage.cps.msu.edu/papers/GARAGe97-02-05.ps Scheduled presenter: Karthik K. Krishnakumar 20. Wednesday, May 3, 2000 [This paper is worth 3.3% (5 points) extra credit.] A Niched Pareto Optimal Genetic Algorithm for Multiobjective Optimization Horn, Nafpliotis, and Goldberg 7 pages URL: ftp://ftp-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/pub/papers/Publications/Horn/ParetoGA.WCCI.94.ps.Z Scheduled presenter: Li Lian ============================================================================== EXTERNAL REFERENCES Learning at the Knowledge Level 30 pages Dietterich URL: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/tgd/papers/mlj-kll.ps.gz A Study of Explanation-Based Methods for Inductive Learning 40 pages Flann and Dietterich URL: ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/pub/tgd/papers/mlj-ebrl.ps.gz Forward Models: Supervised Learning with a Distal Teacher 48 pages Jordan and Rumelhart http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/papers/distal.ps.Z Adaptive Mixtures of Local Experts Jacobs, Jordan, Nowlan, and Hinton 8 pages From Massive Data Sets to Science Catalogs: Applications and Challenges Fayyad and Smyth 13 pages ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/dtg/fayyad/massive-datasets/fayyad-massive96.ps Reasoning With Cause and Effect Pearl 13 pages http://singapore.cs.ucla.edu/R265.pdf The New Challenge: From a Century of Statistics to the Age of Causation Pearl 9 pages ftp://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/R249.ps Improving Simple Bayes Kohavi, Becker, and Sommerfield 10 pages