Efficient Structure Learning of Markov Networks using L1-Regularization, Su-In Lee, Varun Ganapathi and Daphne Koller To appear in NIPS 2006. [pdf]
Learning vehicular dynamics, with application to modeling helicopters, Pieter Abbeel, Varun Ganapathi and Andrew Y. Ng. To appear in NIPS 2005. [pdf]
Inverted autonomous helicopter flight via reinforcement learning, Andrew Y. Ng, Adam Coates, Mark Diel, Varun Ganapathi, Jamie Schulte, Ben Tse, Eric Berger and Eric Liang. In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics, 2004. [pdf]
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat"- Theodore Roosevelt