The UNH AI group meets weekly to discuss on-going work and interesting papers from the literature.  (This is in addition to any graduate AI seminar that might be occurring, although those in the seminar are excused from reading the papers for the research group meetings.)  Please bring your own printed copy of any paper or handout. If you are new to this kind of thing, you might want to read How to Read a Paper.  We'll probably be in Kingsbury N233 unless otherwise noted.  As always, watch the AI group mailing list and calendar for details.

 

Some ideas for future readings are on the Suggested Reading page.

Fall, 2023

our meetings are folded into Thursday afternoon meetings of the planning for robots seminar 

 

Summer, 2023

We meet on Wednesdays at 11am in N233 and on zoom (email Wheeler for link).  As always, watch the mailing list or teams for any late-breaking announcements!

 

[ Aug 16 Wheeler away ]

Aug 9: optimal beam search (EMNLP, 2013) 

Aug 2: DP as a PL (ICAPS, 2023) 

July 26: planning for manipulation (ICAPS, 2023)

July 19: MCTS + proof-number search (CoG, 2022)

[ July 12 is ICAPS ]

July 5: practice talks!

June 28: K* for top-k planning (SoCS, 2023) 

June 21: learning local heuristics (ICAPS, 2023)  

June 14: bounded-suboptimal bidirectional search (ICAPS, 2023)

June 7: parallel GBFS (SoCS, 2023)

May 31: Heusner's dissertation (Basel, 2019)

May 24: suboptimality bounds (arXiv, 2019)

 

Spring, 2023

We met Wednesdays at 10:30am in N233 and on zoom.

 

May 19?: end of year shindig

May 10: special guest talk: Bryan presents his thesis

May 3: present your research in 12 min (+3 min discussion)

Apr 26: planning to avoid side effects (AAAI, 2022) 

Apr 19: learning traps (IJCAI, 2017) 

Apr 12: learning to select heuristic (ICAPS, 2021) 

Apr 5: recursive MCTS (CIG 2013) 

Mar 29: neural A* (ICML, 2021)

Mar 22: Stratified Strategy Selection for Unit Control in Real-Time Strategy Games (IJCAI, 2017) 

Mar 15: Bayesian cookies (NeurIPS workshop, 2017)

Mar 8: when not to look ahead (AIJ, 2010)

Mar 1: policies and search (NeurIPS, 2022)

Feb 22: BOMCP (AAAI-21) 

Feb 15: powerlifted (ICAPS, 2021) 

[ Feb 8: no meeting, AAAI ]

Feb 1: explaining oversubscription plans (AAAI, 2020)

Jan 25: everyone gives a 10 minute presentations on their research 

 

Fall, 2022

we met Thursdays at 2pm in N233

 

Dec 8: POMCP (NIPS, 2010)

Dec 1: diversity and decision-making (PNAS, 2021)

[ Nov 24: no meeting, Happy Thanksgiving! ]

Nov 17: DAS (SoCS-11)

Nov 10: location filtering (Pervasive Computing, 2003)

Nov 3: clairvoyant restarts (AAAI-19)

Oct 27: PEA* (AAAI, 2000)

Oct 20: anytime heuristic search for imperfect information games (CoG, 2021) 

Oct 13:  selecting planning horizon (RA-L, 2021) 

Oct 6: BGSe (IJCAI, 20220

Sep 29: learning skills for bilevel planning (CoRL, 2022).  if you want something longer, you can then read this.

Sep 22: extended beam search (JLAP, 2012)  

Sep 15: death in paper form (AAAI, 2017) 

Sep 8:  time-dependent shortest paths (UAI-21)

Sep 1: 10 minute presentations on your research (in preparation for the CS seminars on Sept 9 and 16)

 

Summer, 2022

We met Thursdays at 9am in N233 and on zoom. 

 

Aug 18: counterfactual regret (NeurIPS, 2007)

Aug 11:  best-first beam search (SoCS, 2022) 

Aug 4: JPST (ICAPS, 2021)

Jul 28: DP for POSGs (AAAI, 2040

[ Jul 21: SoCS ]

Jul 14: shortest optimal plans (SoCS, 2022)

Jul 7: IDUCS (SoCS, 2022)

Jun 30: nn heuristics with confidence (SoCS, 2022)

[ Jun 23: ICAPS ]

[ Jun 16: ICAPS ] 

Jun 9: satisficing heuristics (ICAPS, 2022) 

Jun 2: nn heuristics (ICAPS, 2022)

May 26: metareasoning + DRL (ICAPS, 2022) 

 

Spring, 2022

We met Tuesdays 2-3pm in Kingsbury N242 (the "project room").

 

May 19 12:30pm: annual end-of-year outdoor potluck shindig

May 3: fast Dijsktra (KI, 2017) 

Apr 26: estimating search progress (ICAPS 2022) 

Apr 19: softmin type-h (ICAPS 2022) 

Apr 12: multi-goal pathfinding (ICAPS, 2021)

Apr 5: motion planning with reverse search as heuristic (IEEE Trans Int Veh, 2022)

Mar 29 at 3:10: NOTE SPECIAL TIME! deep RL for planning (IJCAI-20) (optional investigation (arXiv, 2022)) 

Mar 22: geometric mean for benchmarking (CACM, 1986) 

Mar 15: optimal anyangle pathfinding (ICAPS, 2021).  (NOT anyangle SIPP (ICAPS, 2017))

Mar 8: EIT* (arXiv, 2021)

[ Mar 1: AAAI still happening ]

Feb 22: hybrid A* (AAAI STAIR workshop, 2008)

Feb 15: heuristics for oversubscription (ICAPS HSDIP workshop, 2019)

Feb 8: A*+BFHS (AAAI, 2022)   

Feb 1: GSIPP (ICRA, 2012)

Jan 25: status updates

 

Fall, 2021

our meetings were folded into the planning for robots seminar

 

Summer, 2021

we met Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8:30am via zoom.

 

[ Aug 24 and 26: IJCAI ]

[ Aug 17 and 19: W away ]

[ Aug 3, 5, 10, and 12: ICAPS ]

[ July 27 and 29: SoCS ]

July 22: heuristic quality for IDA* (SoCS-21)

July 20: the closed list as an obstacle (SoCS-21) (see Slack#group_meeting for PDF) 

July 15: graph diameter (SoCS-21) (see Slack#group_meeting for PDF) 

July 13: search online, learn offline (SoCS-21)

July 8: randomized weighted A* (SoCS-21)

July 6: tuning anytime algs (HSDIP-21) 

July 2 (note special day, still 8:30am): restarting beam search, appendix (CPAIOR, 2021)

June 29:  probability-informed trees (RAL, 2021) 

June 24: reward Is enough (AIJ, 2021)

June 22: more discussion of the June 17 paper! 

June 17: information gathering in trees (UAI-17)

June 15:  A*+BFHS (HSDIP-21)

[ June 8 and 10: bunch of people away on vacation ]

June 3: street-level algorithms (CHI, 2019) 

June 1: Learning Expansion Delay (ICAPS,2021) 

May 27: discrepancy focal search (SoCS, 2021) 

May 25: sampling for anytime motion planning (arXiv, 2021) 

 

Previous meetings

Previous meetings are archived here.