Inspired by Adrian Colyer and Denny Britz.

This contains my notes for research papers that I've read. Papers are arranged according to three broad categories and then further numbered on a (1) to (5) scale where a (1) means I have only barely skimmed it, while a (5) means I feel confident that I understand almost everything about the paper. Within a single year, these papers should be organized according to publication date. The links here go to my paper summaries if I have them, otherwise those papers are on my TODO list.

2017

• Improved Training of Wasserstein GANs, arXiv 2017 (1)
• Wasserstein GAN, arXiv 2017 (1)
• FractalNet: Ultra-Deep Neural Networks Without Residuals, ICLR 2017 (1)
• Making Neural Programming Architectures Generalize via Recursion, ICLR 2017 (1)
• The Concrete Distribution: A Continuous Relaxation of Discrete Random Variables, ICLR 2017 (1)
• Categorical Reparameterization with Gumbel-Softmax, ICLR 2017 (1)
• Towards Principled Methods for Training Generative Adversarial Networks, ICLR 2017 (1)
• Unrolled Generative Adversarial Networks, ICLR 2017 (3)
• Understanding Deep Learning Requires Rethinking Generalization, ICLR 2017 (5)
• Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer, ICLR 2017 (2)

2016

• NIPS 2016 Tutorial: Generative Adversarial Networks, arXiv (4)
• Using Fast Weights to Attend to the Recent Past, NIPS 2016 (2)
• Improved Techniques for Training GANs, NIPS 2016 (3)
• InfoGAN: Interpretable Representation Learning by Information Maximizing Generative Adversarial Nets, NIPS 2016 (2)
• Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition, CVPR 2016 (1)
• Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks, ICLR 2016 (2)
• A Note on the Evaluation of Generative Models, ICLR 2016 (1)
• Visualizing and Understanding Recurrent Networks, ICLR Workshop 2016 (1)
• Attention and Augmented Recurrent Neural Networks, Distill (3)

2015

• Delving Deep into Rectifiers: Surpassing Human-Level Performance on ImageNet Classification, ICCV 2015 (2)
• Training Very Deep Networks, NIPS 2015 (2)
• Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift, ICML 2015 (4)
• DRAW: A Recurrent Neural Network For Image Generation, ICML 2015 (2)
• Going Deeper with Convolutions, CVPR 2015 (1)
• The Loss Surfaces of Multilayer Networks, AISTATS 2015 (3)
• Very Deep Convolutional Networks for Large-Scale Image Recognition, ICLR 2015 (1)
• ADAM: A Method for Stochastic Optimization, ICLR 2015 (2)
• Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples, ICLR 2015 (2)

2014

• Recurrent Neural Network Regularization, arXiv 2014 (1)
• Generative Adversarial Nets, NIPS 2014 (4)
• Recurrent Models of Visual Attention, NIPS 2014 (4)
• Deep Learning in Neural Networks: An Overview, arXiv (1)
• Visualizing and Understanding Convolutional Networks, ECCV 2014 (3)
• Revisiting Natural Gradient for Deep Networks, ICLR 2014 (1)
• Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes, ICLR 2014 (2)

2013

• On the Difficulty of Training Recurrent Neural Networks, ICML 2013 (1)
• On the Importance of Initialization and Momentum in Deep Learning, ICML 2013 (2)

2012

• ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, NIPS 2012 (5)
• Large Scale Distributed Deep Networks, NIPS 2012 (1)
• Training Deep and Recurrent Networks With Hessian-Free Optimization, Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade, 2012 (1)

2011 and Earlier

• Deep Learning via Hessian-Free Optimization, ICML 2010 (2)

Reinforcement Learning

(Also includes imitation learning)

2017

• Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms, arXiv (4)
• UCB and InfoGain Exploration via Q-Ensembles, arXiv (1)
• Equivalence Between Policy Gradients and Soft Q-Learning, arXiv (1)
• Automatic Goal Generation for Reinforcement Learning Agents, arXiv (2)
• Bridging the Gap Between Value and Policy Based Reinforcement Learning, arXiv (2)
• Loss is its own Reward: Self-Supervision for Reinforcement Learning, arXiv (2)
• Evolution Strategies as a Scalable Alternative to Reinforcement Learning, arXiv (5)
• One-Shot Imitation Learning, arXiv (3)
• Domain Randomization for Transferring Deep Neural Networks from Simulation to the Real World, IROS 2017 (4)
• The Off-Switch Game, IJCAI 2017 (1)
• Reinforcement Learning with Deep Energy-Based Policies, ICML 2017 (1)
• Modular Multitask Reinforcement Learning with Policy Sketches, ICML 2017 (1)
• Constrained Policy Optimization, ICML 2017 (2)
• Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Fast Adaptation of Deep Networks, ICML 2017 (4)
• Curiosity-Driven Exploration by Self-Supervised Prediction, ICML 2017 (3)
• #Exploration: A Study of Count-Based Exploration for Deep Reinforcement Learning, arXiv (4)
• RL^2: Fast Reinforcement Learning via Slow Reinforcement Learning, arXiv (3)
• Learning to Predict Where to Look in Interactive Environments Using Deep Recurrent Q-Learning, arXiv (3)
• Imitating Driver Behavior with Generative Adversarial Networks, Intelligent Vehicles (IV), 2017 (4)
• Semi-supervised Knowledge Transfer for Deep Learning from Private Training Data, ICLR 2017 (1)
• Learning to Play in a Day: Faster Deep Reinforcement Learning by Optimality Tightening, ICLR 2017 (1)
• Learning Visual Servoing with Deep Features and Fitted Q-Iteration, ICLR 2017 (2)
• Q-Prop: Sample-Efficient Policy Gradient with an Off-Policy Critic, ICLR 2017 (2)
• Stochastic Neural Networks for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning, ICLR 2017 (4)
• Third-Person Imitation Learning, ICLR 2017 (3)
• Deep Visual Foresight for Planning Robot Motion, ICRA 2017 (3)
• Multilateral Surgical Pattern Cutting in 2D Orthotropic Gauze with Deep Reinforcement Learning Policies for Tensioning, ICRA 2017 (5)
• Comparing Human-Centric and Robot-Centric Sampling for Robot Deep Learning from Demonstrations, ICRA 2017 (4)

2016

• Value Iteration Networks, NIPS 2016 (4)
• Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning, NIPS 2016 (3)
• VIME: Variational Information Maximizing Exploration, NIPS 2016 (3)
• Deep Exploration via Bootstrapped DQN, NIPS 2016 (1)
• Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning, NIPS 2016 (1)
• Unifying Count-Based Exploration and Intrinsic Motivation, NIPS 2016 (1)
• A Connection Between Generative Adversarial Networks, Inverse Reinforcement Learning, and Energy-Based Models, NIPS Workshop 2016 (1)
• Principled Option Learning in Markov Decision Processes, EWRL 2016 (4)
• Robot Grasping in Clutter: Using a Hierarchy of Supervisors for Learning from Demonstrations, CASE 2016 (4)
• Taming the Noise in Reinforcement Learning via Soft Updates, UAI 2016 (4)
• Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning, ICML 2016 (4)
• Benchmarking Deep Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Control, ICML 2016 (4)
• Model-Free Imitation Learning with Policy Optimization, ICML 2016 (4)
• Graying the Black Box: Understanding DQNs, ICML 2016 (4)
• Control of Memory, Active Perception, and Action in Minecraft, ICML 2016 (2)
• Dueling Network Architectures for Deep Reinforcement Learning, ICML 2016 (4)
• Guided Cost Learning: Deep Inverse Optimal Control via Policy Optimization, ICML 2016 (2)
• Learning Deep Neural Network Policies with Continuous Memory States, ICRA 2016 (2)
• Prioritized Experience Replay, ICLR 2016 (4)
• High-Dimensional Continuous Control Using Generalized Advantage Estimation, ICLR 2016 (4)
• Continuous Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning, ICLR 2016 (4)
• End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies, JMLR 2016 (2)
• Deep Reinforcement Learning with Double Q-learning, AAAI 2016 (3)
• Mastering the Game of Go with Deep Neural Networks and Tree Search, Nature 2016 (1)

2015

• Learning Continuous Control Policies by Stochastic Value Gradients, NIPS 2015 (1)
• Deep Attention Recurrent Q-Network, NIPS Workshop 2015 (3)
• Deep Recurrent Q-Learning for Partially Observable MDPs, AAAI-SDMIA 2015 (5)
• Trust Region Policy Optimization, ICML 2015 (4)
• Probabilistic Inference for Determining Options in Reinforcement Learning, ICML Workshop 2015 (3)
• Massively Parallel Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning, ICML Workshop 2015 (2)
• Human-Level Control Through Deep Reinforcement Learning, Nature 2015 (5)

2014

• Deep Learning for Real-Time Atari Game Play Using Offline Monte-Carlo Tree Search Planning, NIPS 2014 (3)
• Learning Neural Network Policies with Guided Policy Search Under Unknown Dynamics, NIPS 2014 (1)
• Deterministic Policy Gradient Algorithms, ICML 2014 (2)

2013 and Earlier

• Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning, NIPS Workshop 2013 (5)
• A Tutorial on Linear Function Approximators for Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning, Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning 2013 (4)
• A Reduction of Imitation Learning and Structured Prediction to No-Regret Online Learning, AISTATS 2011 (3)
• On a Connection Between Importance Sampling and the Likelihood Ratio Policy Gradient, NIPS 2010 (1)
• Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning, AAAI 2008 (4)
• Simple Statistical Gradient-Following Algorithms for Connectionist Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning 1992 (1)
• Active Perception and Reinforcement Learning, Neural Computation 1990 (3)

MCMC, Machine Learning, Robotics, and Miscellaneous Papers

2017

• Using dVRK Teleoperation to Facilitate Deep Learning of Automation Tasks for an Industrial Robot, CASE 2017 (4)
• Dex-Net 2.0: Deep Learning to Plan Robust Grasps with Synthetic Point Clouds and Analytic Grasp Metrics, RSS 2017 (3)
• A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, arXiv (1)

2016

• Minimum-Information LQG Control Part I: Memoryless Controllers, CDC 2016 (2)
• Minimum-Information LQG Control Part II: Retentive Controllers, CDC 2016 (1)
• Gradient Descent Converges to Minimizers, COLT 2016 (3)
• Scalable Discrete Sampling as a Multi-Armed Bandit Problem, ICML 2016 (1)
• Dex-Net 1.0: A Cloud-Based Network of 3D Objects for Robust Grasp Planning Using a Multi-Armed Bandit Model with Correlated Rewards, ICRA 2016 (5)
• TSC-DL: Unsupervised Trajectory Segmentation of Multi-Modal Surgical Demonstrations with Deep Learning, ICRA 2016 (3)
• Automating Multi-Throw Multilateral Surgical Suturing with a Mechanical Needle Guide and Sequential Convex Optimization, ICRA 2016 (4)
• On Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Tall Data, JMLR 2016 (I think?) (3)
• Revisiting Active Perception, arXiv (1)

2015

• A Complete Recipe for Stochastic Gradient MCMC, NIPS 2015 (2)
• Large-Scale Distributed Bayesian Matrix Factorization using Stochastic Gradient MCMC, KDD 2015 (1)
• Learning by Observation for Surgical Subtasks: Multilateral Cutting of 3D Viscoelastic and 2D Orthotropic Tissue Phantoms, ICRA 2015 (4)

2014

• Motion Planning with Sequential Convex Optimization and Convex Collision Checking, IJRR 2014 (1)
• Learning Accurate Kinematic Control of Cable-Driven Surgical Robots Using Data Cleaning and Gaussian Process Regression, CASE 2014 (2)
• Firefly Monte Carlo: Exact MCMC with Subsets of Data, UAI 2014 (2)
• Austerity in MCMC Land: Cutting the Metropolis-Hastings Budget, ICML 2014 (4)
• Stochastic Gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, ICML 2014 (3)
• Towards Scaling up Markov Chain Monte Carlo: An Adaptive Subsampling Approach, ICML 2014 (4)
• Planning Locally Optimal, Curvature-Constrained Trajectories in 3D Using Sequential Convex Optimization , ICRA 2014 (1)
• Autonomous Multilateral Debridement with the Raven Surgical Robot, ICRA 2014 (3)
• RRE: A Game-Theoretic Intrusion Response and Recovery Engine, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 2014 (4)

2013 and Earlier

• Generalization in Robotic Manipulation Through the Use of Non-Rigid Registration, ISRR 2013 (1)
• A Case Study of Trajectory Transfer Through Non-Rigid Registration for a Simplified Suturing Scenario, IROS 2013 (2)
• Finding Locally Optimal, Collision-Free Trajectories with Sequential Convex Optimization, RSS 2013 (3)
• Bayesian Learning via Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynaimcs, ICML 2011 (4)
• MCMC Using Hamiltonian Dynamics, Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo 2010 (2)
• Active Perception: Interactive Manipulation for Improving Object Detection, Technical Report 2010 (3)
• An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without the Agonizing Pain, Technical Report, 1994 (3)
• Active Perception, Proceedings of the IEEE 1988 (2)