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 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