Selected Talks

2023

AND/OR Search Spaces: for Anytime Probabilistic Reasoning (PDF) | (Video)
Invited Talk at the Simons Institute for Theory and Computing: Workshop on Probabilistic Circuits and Logic , October 17, 2023.

2020

The Role of Graphs in Search and Inference for Probabilisitic Reasoning (PDF) | (Video) | (Abstract)
Invited Talk at the
SoCS 2020: The 13th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search , May 27, 2020.

2019

Anytime Probabilistic Reasoning (PDF) | (Abstract) | (Video)
Invited Talk at the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence at UAI 2019 , July 23, 2019.

Tractable Islands Revisited (PDF) | (Abstract) | (Video)
Invited Talk at the 3rd Workshop on Tractable Probabilisitic Modeling co-located with ICML 2019 , June 14, 2019.

Anytime Probabilistic Reasoning (PDF)
Talk at University of Maryland , May 3, 2019.

Probabilistic Reasoning Meets Heuristic Search (PDF) | (Video)
Talk at George Mason University , Feb 15, 2019.

2018

Probabilistic Reasoning Meets Heuristic Search (PDF)
Keynote Talk at the The International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference of 2018 (FLAIRS-31) , May 23, 2018.

Probabilistic Reasoning Meets Heuristic Search (PDF)
Video Recording
Invited Talk at the Information Sciences Institute at USC Viterbi Schoold of Engineering , April 13, 2018.

2017

Algorithms for Reasoning with Probabilistic Graphical Models (PDF)
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Course at the International Summer School on Deep Learning 2017, Bilbao, Spain, July 17-18, 2017.

2016

Probabilistic Reasoning Meets Heuristic Search (PDF)
Keynote Speech at the The 10th Multi-Disciplinary International Workshop on Aritificial Intelligence , Chiang Mai, Thailand, December 8, 2016.

From Constraint Programming to Probabilisitic Programming to Approximate Programming: Observations and Thoughts (PDF)
Invited Talk at the CP 2016 Workshop on Constraint Programming and Artificial Intelligence , Toulouse, France, September 5, 2016.

New Advances in Combinatorial Optimization for Graphical Models (PDF)
Part 1 Part 2
Tutorial at the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New York, New York, USA, July 10, 2016.

Modern Exact and Approximate Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms: Max-Product and Max-Sum-product In the pursuit of universal solver (PDF)
Invited Talk at the CMU AI Seminar, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, April 26, 2016.

Modern Exact and Approximate Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms: Max-Product and Max-Sum-product In the pursuit of universal solver (PDF)
Invited Talk at the 14th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, Jan 6, 2016.

2015

Advances in Combinatorial Optimization for Graphical Models (PDF)
Tutorial at the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 27, 2015.

Advances in Combinatorial Optimization for Graphical Models (PDF) | Video
Tutorial at the 25th International Conference for Automated Planning and Scheduling, Jerusalem, Israel, June 8, 2015.

2014

Modern Exact and Approximate MAP Algorithms for Graphical Models (PDF)
Invited Talk at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), Chicago, Illinois, May 22, 2014

Inference and Search for Discrete Graphical Models: A Tutorial and Recent Work (PDF)
Grant Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 2014

2013

From AND/OR Search to AND/OR Sampling (PDF)
Invited Talk at Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, November 11, 2013

Inference and Search for Graphical Models (PDF)
Invited Talk at Center for Nonlinear Studeies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, September 25, 2013

Constraint Processing and Probabilistic Reasoning from a Graphical Models Perspective (PDF)
Tutorial at IJCAI 2013, Beijing, China, August 4, 2013

Weighted AND/OR Multivalued Decision Diagrams (AOMDD) and the Semantic-Width (PDF)
Invited Talk, in the First Symposium on Structure in Hard Combinatorial Problems, Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms, Vienna, Austria, May 18, 2013

Weighted AND/OR Graphs/Diagrams for Probabilistic and Constraints Databases (PDF) Abstract
Invited Talk, IBM Research Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv, Israel, January 2, 2013

2012

Modern Exact and Approximate MAP Algorithms for Graphical Models (PDF) Abstract
In AIRG (Artificial Intelligence Research Group), SEAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2, 2012

Judea Pearl: Turing Award, 2011 (PDF) Video
In the Symposium on Nobel Prizes and Turing Award, 2011 Open University of Israel, Ra'anana, Israel, June 13, 2012

Finding Most Likely Haplotypes in General Pedigrees through Parallel Branch and Bound Search (PDF) Abstract
In the Clinical Genomic Analysis Workshop 2012 IBM, Haifa, Israel, May 13, 2012

Principles of Reasoning with Graphical Models (PDF)
In the IAAI 2012 Symposium Ashkelon, Israel, February 22, 2012

Bayesian Networks and Belief Propagation: From Rumelhart to Pearl to Today (PDF) Abstract
In the ELSC-ICNC Retreat 2012 Ein Gedi, Israel, February 6, 2012

Inference and Search for Probabilistic and Determinisitic Graphical Models (PDF)
Colloquium, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, January 28, 2012

2011

Graph-guided Sampling (PDF) Abstract
Part of Learning Club, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, December 2011

Advances in Combinatorial Optimization Tasks over Graphical Models (PDF) Abstract
Colloquium, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel, November 22, 2011

Problem Solving with Graphical Models (PDF) Abstract
Part of Computer Science & Problem Solving: New Foundations, Dagsthul, Germany, August 30, 2011

Constraint Processing from the Graphical Model Perspective (PDF)
Tutorial at IJCAI 2011, Barcelona, Spain, July 18, 2011

Anytime AND/OR Depth First Search for Combinatorial Optimization (PDF)
Symposium on Combinatoial Search 2011, Barcelona, Spain, July 15, 2011

Reasoning with Graphical Models (PDF)
Part of Bioinformatics Summer School 2011 Computational Methods for RN, 2011

2010

On the Power of Belief Propagation: A Constraint Propagation Perspective (PDF) PPTX | Video
Part of Judea Pearl Festschrift, 2010

Tutorial: Advances in Search and Inference for Graphical Models (PDF) Abstract
Lisbon, Portugal, August 16-20, 2010

Sampling Techniques for Probabilistic and Deterministic Graphical models (PDF)
Tutorial, AAAI 2010, Atlanta, GA, July 12, 2010.

SampleSearch: Importance Sampling in the presence of Determinism (PDF) Abstract
IBM, Israel, August 3rd, 2010

On the Power of Belief Propagation:A Constraint Propagation Perspective (pdf)
The symposium in honor of Judea Pearl, March, 2010.

AND/OR Search for Probabilistic and Deterministic Graphical Models (pdf)
University of Washington, Seattle, January 27, 2010.

2009

Combinatorial Optimization for Graphical Models (pdf)
Tutorial, IJCAI 2009. Rina Dechter, Simon de Givry, Radu Marinescu, and Thomas Schiex. Pasadena, CA, July 2009.

2008

How I Entered Constraints (pdf)
Dedicated to Ugo Montanari on the occasion of his 65th Birthday, June 2008

2007

ACP 2007 Award talk (pdf)
Acceptance talk for the ACP Research Excellence Award, Providence, Rhode Island, September 2007.

From Constraint Programming to Graphical Models (pdf)
DoD Workshop on Satisfiability, March 2008

Advances in Search and Inference for Combinatorial Optimization (ppt)
Tutorial, ICAPS 2007. Rina Dechter, Radu Marinescu and Robert Mateescu. Providence, RI, September 2007

2006

From AND/OR Search to AND/OR BDDs (ppt)
Workshop on Constraints and Verificiaction in the Newton Institute, Cambridge, England, May 2006

Representation and Reasoning with Graphical Models (ppt)
Talk given to Radcliffe fellows, February 2006

2005

Principles of AI Problem Solving (pdf)
Tutorial, IJCAI 2005. Adnan Darwiche, Rina Dechter and Hector Geffner

2004

Exploiting Tree-Decomposition in Search: The AND/OR Paradigm (pdf)
Workshop on Graph and Hypergraph Decompositions, Vienna, Austria, December 2004.

Advanced algorithms for Graphical Models (pdf)
University of Maryland, September 2004.

Constraint Processing; The Graphical Models Perspective (pdf)
Invited Tutorial, UAI 2004.

2003

Systematic vs non-systematic algorithms for constraint optimization (pdf)
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, July 2003.

On The Feasibility Of Distributed Constraint Satisfaction (pdf)
Workshop on distributed CSP" in IJCAI-2003, August 2003.

2002

Constraints and Probabilistic networks: a look at the interface (pdf)
Invited talk at CP 2002, September 2002.

2000

Approximation Techniques for Automated Reasoning (pdf)
Invited Tutorial, AAAI 2000.

1998

Principles and Methods for Automated Inference (pdf)
Invited Tutorial, AAAI 1998.