{"51735":{"#nid":"51735","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ph.D. Student Wins Award at ICML 2006","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EATLANTA (July 5, 2006)--\u003C\/strong\u003ECollege of Computing Ph.D. student Michael Holmes was awarded the \u0022Distinguished Student Paper\u0022 Award at the 23rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). ICML is one of the premiere machine learning conferences, and is the largest international conference on machine learning research and applications. Holmes received the award for the paper he wrote with Assistant Professor and Advisor Charles Isbell titled: \u003Cem\u003ELooping Suffix Tree-Based Inference of Partially Observable Hidden State.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper provides an algorithm for inferring hidden state from sensorimotor experience when the environment takes the form of a POMDP with deterministic transition and observation functions. Such environments can appear to be arbitrarily complex and non-deterministic on the surface, but are actually deterministic with respect to the unobserved underly- ing state. The paper shows that there always exists a finite history-based representation that fully captures the unobserved world state, allowing for perfect prediction of action effects.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHolmes is in his fourth year as a Ph.D. student within the College\u0027s Interactive and Intelligent Computing (IIC) division. He received his BS degrees in Physics and Computer Science, with a minor in Math. The 2006 ICML was held June 25-29 in Pittsburgh, PA.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETo view Holmes\u0027 and Isbell\u0027s award-winning paper, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www-static.cc.gatech.edu\/grads\/h\/Michael.Holmes\/holmes-isbell-ICML06.pdf\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing Ph.D. student Michael Holmes and Assistant Professor Charles Isbell wrote a \u0022distinguished\u0022 paper honored recently at the 2006 International Conference on Machine Learning.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:46:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:12","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2006-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}