teaching

See also the lecture notes.

RLSS 09 - Inference & Planning

Lectures given at the Robot Learning Summer School (Lisbon, July 20-24 2009).
Slides: part 1, part 2

Part 1: Introduction to probabilistic inference \& learning

-- probabilities, joint distributions, graphical models -- inference, message passing -- learning, Expectation Maximization

Part 2: Planning by Inference

-- general idea of inference by planning -- Markov Decision Processes revisited -- Stochastic Optimal Control revisited

Summary & further reading

-- brief summary -- further reading -- food for thought

SS 09 - Introduction to Graphical Models

Summer term course at TU Berlin. See the course web page.

ICML 08 tutorial - Stochastic Optimal Control

Tutorial, held together with Bert Kappen on Saturday July 5 2008 in Helsinki, Finland as part of the 25th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2008). See the tutorial web page.