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.
Summer, 2022
We will meet Thursdays at 9am in N233 and on zoom (email Wheeler for link). As always, watch the mailing list or slack for any late-breaking announcements!
Aug 18: TBD
Aug 11: counterfactual regret?
Aug 4: learning progress states (IJCAI, 2022)
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)
Spring, 2021
May 16 12:30pm: end-of-year outdoor potluck shindig
May 7: what I did this year (8-10 minute reports (+ 5-7 min Q&A) by everyone)
April 30: DWA (IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 1997)
April 23: learning search policies (ICAPS-20)
April 16: negative side effects (IJCAI-20)
Apr 9: dominance pruning (AAAI-21)
Apr 2: CMAX++ (version with appendices) (AAAI-21)
Mar 26 metareasoning for motion planning (arXiv, 2021)
Mar 19: betweenness (J Math Soc, 2001)
Mar 12: DRL for Rubik's, sliding tile, etc (NatureMI, 2019). also available here
Mar 5: Lifelong Learning for Navigation (RA-L, 2021)
Feb 26: INSAT (RA-L, 2021)
Feb 19: STS (AAMAS, 2013)
Feb 12: deterministic sampling (arxiv, 2019)
Feb 1 (note special day): when to stop MCTS (AAAI-21)
Winter, 2021
Jan 25: synthesis of heuristics (link on slack) (AAAI-21)
Jan 18: policy-guided heuristic search (link on slack) (AAAI-21)
Jan 11: reopening in suboptimal search (AAAI-21)
Jan 4: MuZero (arxiv, 2020)
Fall, 2020
Dec 14: parallel greedy (ICAPS-20)
Dec 7: wA* (AIJ, 2009)
Nov 30: LevinTS (NIPS, 2018)
Nov 23: bidirectional motion planning (IROS-19)
Nov 16: using inadmissible estimates in planning (ICAPS-20)
Nov 9: learning heuristic beliefs (ICAPS-20)
Nov 2: present the 3 ICAPS talks that you liked the most
Oct 26: WRP (ICAPS-20)
Oct 19: C-SSP (ICAPS-20)
Oct 12: revisiting SIPP (ICAPS-20)
Oct 5: rayscan (ICAPS-20)
Sep 28: CWAVE (Robotica, 2020)
Sep 21: motion planning networks (TOR, 2020). videos and other stuff here
Sep 14: computational rationality (Science, 2015)
Sep 7: when does bidirectional search work (ICAPS-20)
Aug 31: folks who have current research will each talk for a few minutes on what they're up to
Summer, 2020
Aug 18: complete real-time motion planning (ICRA, 2019)
Aug 11: max-sum search (WAFR-20)
Aug 4: sequence submodularity (ICAPS-20) and PTSP team presentation
July 28: BERT (NAACL, 2019). fyi, there some talk slides here.
July 21: task and motion planning (WAFR-20)
July 14: hierarchical operational models (ICAPS-20)
July 9: navigation with colregs (AutonRob, 2016)
July 7: DRL for colregs navigation (OE, 2019)
July 2: LRTDP vs UCT (AAAI-12)
June 30: AIT* (ICRA-20)
June 25: longest paths (ICAPS-20)
June 23: sequential plan recognition (AIJ-18)
June 18: bi-objective search (ICAPS-20)
June 16: ABIT* (ICRA-20) sup video, talk video
June 11: active GRD (AAAI-20)
June 9: learning lazy search (RSS, 2019)
June 4: multi-directional search (IJCAI-20)
June 2: multiple-goal search (JAIR, 2006)
May 25: path smoothing (SoCS-20) and pre-SoCS planning
Spring, 2020
May 1: presentations!
Apr 24: distributional RL (ICML 2017)
Apr 17: planning using inaccurate models with guarantees (arxiv, 2020)
Apr 10: control of anytime algs (ICRA, 2020)
Apr 3: MAPF in a sortation center (AAAI-20)
Mar 27: finding intuitive plans (SoCS-19)
[ Mar 20: spring break ]
Mar 13: LatPlan (AAAI, 2018)
Mar 6: planning to plan (AAAI-20)
Feb 28: bounds in bidirectional search (AAAI, 2020)
Feb 21: DVCBS (AAAI-19)
Feb 14: real-time kinodynamic planning (RAS, 2019)
[ Feb 7: AAAI ]
Jan 31: please read either IES (AAAI-20) or DDNancy (AAAI-20). Tianyi and Kevin will give practice talks.
Jan 24: everyone talks for a few (8?) minutes about their current work
Fall, 2019
special optional meeting Dec 20 8am: Anytime Focal Search (IJCAI, 2018)
Dec 6: RRT2.0 (arXiv, 2019)
Nov 22: global and local planning (ICRA, 2012)
Nov 15: contingent execution (ICAPS-19 ws)
Nov 8: IP diversification (ICAPS, 2017)
Nov 1: model-lite planning (AIJ, 2017)
Oct 25: A* for scheduling (AIJ 2019)
Oct 18: physicalVRPTW (KI 2019)
Oct 11: exponential binary search (arXiv, 2019)
Oct 4: goal recognition design (JAIR, 2019)
Sep 27: value compression (AAAI, 2017)
Sep 20: A*+IDA* (IJCAI, 2019)
Sep 13: RT-RRT* (MIG, 2015)
Sep 5: AAAI post-mortems
Aug 30: what I did last summer (everyone presents for ~5-10 minutes on their recent research)
Summer, 2019
Aug 22: RMPD (ICAPS, 2018)
[ no meeting Aug 13, 15, or 20 ]
Aug 8: bottleneck motion planning (IROS, 2017) (not centroids)
Aug 6: MM (AAAI, 2016)
Aug 1: plan monitoring in continuous domains (ACS, 2017)
Jul 30: using multiple heuristics (IJCAI, 2015)
Jul 25: bound propagation (SoCS, 2019)
Jul 23: iOS (SoCS, 2019)
[ Jul 18: meeting canceled ]
[ no meeting Jul 9 or 11 or 16 ]
Jul 4: lazy search (ICAPS, 2019)
Jul 2: dynamic environments (ICAPS, 2019)
Jun 27: Roamer (IPC 2011) and RW-BFS (IDEAL, 2016)
Jun 25: IDA* (IJCAI, 2019 - see email for link)
Jun 20: torchlight (ICAPS, 2011)
Jun 18: DPSU (SoCS, 2017)
Jun 13: learning graph algorithms (NIPS, 2017)
Jun 11: GCS (RSS, 2007).
Jun 6: RW-LS (ICAPS, 2012)
Jun 4: abstraction (JAIR, 2007)
May 30: interpretable plans (ICAPS, 2019)
May 28: dynamic lookahead (JAIR, 2008)
May 23 8:20am (note early start time!): causality (CACM, 2019) (used to be beyond worst-case)
May 21: lookahead pathology (AIJ, 2010). bonus (AAAI, 2006)
Spring, 2019
May 18 (12:15-2:30): end-of-year party!
May 3: conflict-directed A* (DAM, 2007)
Apr 26: re-opening (see email)
Apr 19: STRIPStream (axiv, 2019) - note this was changed from FFrob on Mon Apr 15 at 4pm
Apr 12: task and motion planning (IJRR, 2018)
Apr 5: search and tracking (ICAPS-16)
Mar 29: SoCS submission preview
Mar 22: GBFHS (SoCS, 2018)
Mar 15: RRT-X (IJRR)
Mar 8: generalized A* (JAIR)
Mar 1: BRUE intro (SoCS, 2013)
Feb 22: anytime planning with wind (ICRA, 2016)
Feb 15: speedy vs greedy (SoCS, 2014)
Feb 8: cost-based search considered harmful (arXiv, 2011)
Fall, 2018
Dec 7: parameterized complexity of planning (AAAI, 2012)
Nov 30: complexity of planning (AIJ, 1994)
[ Nov 16: no meeting ]
Nov 9: THTS (SoCS, 2014)
[ Nov 2: no meeting ]
Oct 26: torchlight (ICAPS, 2011)
Oct 19: GBFS (SoCS, 2017)
Oct 12: mystery paper (see email)
Oct 5: TBwA* (JAIR, 2016)
Sept 28: NeuroSAT (arxiv, 2018)
Sept 21: network alignment (SoCS, 2018)
Sept 14: factored A* (ICAPS, 2018)
Sept 7: randomized GBFS (IJCAI, 2018)
Aug 31: everyone gets ~8 minutes to present any research they did over the summer
Summer, 2018
Aug 9: tie breaking in A* (page 8, HSDIP, 2018)
Aug 6: bitcoin (2008). if you're interested, here's some history (CACM, 2017) and an online book with videos.
Aug 2: AFS (IJCAI, 2018)
July 30: soft goals (JAIR, 2009)
July 26: daRTS (JAIR, 2012)
July 23: procrastination (CACM, 2018) and commentary
July 19: top-k planning (ICAPS, 2018)
July 17 (note TUESDAY!): longest paths (SoCS, 2014)
[ July 12: no meeting ]
July 9: options (AIJ, 1999)
July 5: heuristics for CBS (ICAPS, 2018)
July 2: self-driving safety (arxiv, 2018)
June 28: AlphaZero (arxiv, 2017)
June 25: selecting computations (UAI, 2012)
June 21: fair division (CACM, 2018) and commentary
June 18: 2^k neighborhoods (SoCS, 2017)
June 14: NELL (CACM, 2018) and commentary
June 11: scaling algorithms (J Comp Sys Sci, 1985)
June 6: violin plots (The American Statistician, 1998). for those who get excited, there are also beanplots (J Stat Soft, 2008).
June 4: Abeta+ (see email for link)
May 31: DPSU (SoCS, 2017)
Spring, 2018
We met Wednesdays 3-4pm
May 11 (note special day!) 11-2 End of Semester Shindig!
May 2: AD*-cut (ICAPS, 2018) - see email for link to paper
Apr 25: methodology (J Heuristics, 1995) if you've already read this and don't want to read it again, you can try reproducibility (AAAI, 2018)
Apr 18: symbols (AAAI, 2014)
Apr 11: SMIRI (arXiv, 2015)
Apr 4: motion plan recognition (AAAI, 2018)
Mar 28: LRTDP vs UCT (AAAI, 2012)
[ Mar 21: no meeting, W away ]
Mar 14: stackelberg planning (AAAI, 2018)
Mar 7: k-best (IJCAI, 1995)
Feb 28: LatPlan (AAAI, 2018)
Feb 21: pythagorean triples (SAT, 2016)
Feb 14: MCTS (AAAI, 2018)
[ Feb 7: no meeting, AAAI ]
Jan 31: multi-agent motion planning (ICAPS, 2017)
Jan 24: SATFC and commentary (CACM, 2018)
January, 2018
We had joint meetings with Marek's group on Wednesdays at noon (for roughly an hour) in N233. Ideas for later: PARSS (JAIR, 2017) or information relaxation (OR, 2010).
Jan 17: TDTS (JAIR, 2017).
Jan 10: robust MDPs (OR, 2005)
Jan 3: Despot (JAIR, 2017)
Fall, 2017
We met on Fridays at 2pm (for roughly an hour) in N233.
Dec 8: end-of-semester presentations (10-15 minutes each)
Dec 1: MCMP (JAIR, 2016)
[ Nov 24: no meeting ]
Nov 17: poker and commentary (CACM, 2017)
[ Nov 10: Veteran's Day ]
Nov 3: VOI for selection (JAIR, 2017)
Oct 27: AlphaGo Zero (Nature, 2017)
Oct 20: Despot (JAIR, 2017)
Oct 13: ProbLP (SSRR, 2017)
Oct 6: the off-switch game (IJCAI, 2017)
[ Sept 29: IROS, no meeting ]
Sept 22: BVPI (UAI, 2017)
Sept 15: LazySP (ICAPS, 2016)
Sept 8: search in belief space (AIPS, 2000)
Sept 1: each student will present for 10 minutes on their research over the past summer.
Summer, 2017
Meetings were Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am
Aug 10: LAWS (CACM, 2017). If you are interested, this (CACM, 2015) is short and relevant.
Aug 8: LBT-RRT (TRO, 2016)
Aug 3: phase transitions (SoCS, 2017)
Aug 1: bidirectional heuristic search (ICRA, 2016)
July 27: deep learning (Nature, 2015)
July 25: allocation of search effort (AAAI, 1986)
July 20: tabulation hashing (CACM, 2017) with commentary
July 18: BEAST (IROS, 2017)
July 13: POMP (IROS, 2016)
July 11: IDA* on GPU (SoCS, 2017)
July 4 and again on July 6: search with expensive edge evaluation (ICAPS, 2017)
June 29: learning to avoid minima (ICAPS, 2017)
June 27: any-angle sampling bias (ICRA, 2016)
June 22: DPS (SoCS, 2016)
June 20: testing heuristics (J Heuristics, 1995)
June 15: best-first width planning (AAAI, 2017)
June 13: GBFS (SoCS, 2017)
June 8: multi-model planning (ICAPS, 2017) - see email for link to paper
June 6: planning without optimal substructure (ICAPS, 2017)
June 1: anytime e-graphs (ICRA, 2013)
May 30: online planning (ICAPS, 2017)
May 25: action costs (ICAPS, 2017)
May 23: planning languages (AAAI, 2016)
Spring, 2017
Mondays 1:30-2:30pm in Kingsbury N233, but as always, watch the AI group mailing list for details!
May 16 3:20pm: end-of-semester get-together
May 8: progress reports
May 1: CL-RRT (IEEE Trans CST, 2009)
Apr 24: belief tracking (ICAPS, 2011)
Apr 17: short-sighted SSPs (AIJ, 2014)
Fall, 2016
Our meetings were Mondays 10-11am in N233, but as always, watch the AI group mailing list for details!
Dec 5: deliberation scheduling in MDPs (UAI-93). or try the longer journal version (AIJ 1995)
Nov 30 2-3pm (super-group!): RAAM (NIPS 2014)
Nov 28: RTDP (AIJ 1995)
Nov 21: EDA* (AAAI-14)
Nov 14: FOND (ICAPS-12). totally optional: background, more
Nov 7: functional STRIPS (ICAPS-15)
Oct 31: hierarchical planning (ICAPS-07)
Oct 24: stochastic motion planning (ICRA-14)
Oct 19 2-3pm (super-group!): Mo'RTS (PlanRob-15)
Oct 17: external search (IJCAI-16)
Oct 10: anytime motion planning (ICRA-13)
Oct 3: FLARES (IJCAI-16 workshop)
Sept 26: FVI (AAAI-16)
Sept 19 (super-group!): everyone presents for 10 minutes on what they worked on during the summer
Sept 12: no reading!
[ Sept 5: no meeting due to Labor Day ]
Aug 29: curling (IJCAI-16)
Previous meetings
Previous meetings are archived here.
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