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General Information
Coordinator: Guy Lebanon
We meet and discuss published papers and other research in machine
learning and related fields. We try to emphasize active discussion as
opposed to regular talks containing a lot of technical details. The
participants are strongly encouraged to read the relevant paper or
papers before the meeting. If you would like to give a talk, please
email the group coordinator. Any topic which is related to machine
learning is suitable.
Spring 2007
| Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
Reading |
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4/26/07 |
The information bottleneck |
Paul Kidwell |
1,2 |
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4/19/07 |
Generalization of PCA to the exponential family |
Yi Mao |
1 |
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4/12/07 |
Variable and Feature Selection |
Shivan Tripathi |
1 |
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4/6/07 |
Generalized additive models |
Jian Zhang |
1,
2, |
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3/30/07 |
Functional variation and registration |
Guy Lebanon |
1,
2 |
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3/23/07 |
Functional PCA |
Balaji
Raghavan |
1 |
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3/8/07 |
Handwriting recognition |
Balaji
Raghavan |
1,2 |
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3/1/07 |
Local Regression |
Guy Lebanon |
book chapter |
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2/22/07 |
Dynamic time warping |
Guy Lebanon |
1,
2 |
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2/15/07 |
Relational Markov networks |
Joshua Dillon |
book chapter (hardcopy). See also
2 |
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2/8/07 |
SVM discussion (pay special attention to comments) |
Guy Lebanon |
1 |
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2/1/07 |
concept drift |
Yang Zhao |
1,
2 |
Fall 2006
| Date |
Topic |
Presenter |
Reading |
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12/4/06 |
seminar cancelled |
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11/27/06 |
Classification and Regression using Gaussian
processes |
Jian Zhang |
1,
2 |
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11/20/06 |
Semi-definite programming |
Guy Lebanon |
1 |
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11/13/06 |
Monte Carlo Methods 2 |
Guy Lebanon |
1 |
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11/6/06 |
Monte Carlo Methods 1 |
Guy Lebanon |
1 |
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10/30/06 |
Max margin matrix factorization |
Jian Zhang |
1,
2 |
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10/23/06 |
Independent component analysis |
Joshua Dillon |
1 |
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10/16/06 |
Canonical correlation analysis |
Jian Zhang |
1,
2 |
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10/9/06 |
October break |
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10/2/06 |
Max margin networks |
Yi Mao |
1,
2 |
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9/25/06 |
Kernel PCA |
Guy Lebanon |
1,
2 |
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9/18/06 |
Sequential document representations and
simplicial curves |
Guy Lebanon |
uai |
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9/11/06 |
Least angle regression |
Jian Zhang |
first 39 pages of lars
or
techRep |
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8/28/06 |
Particle filters in robotics |
Jianying Zhang |
pFilt |
Spring 2006
| Date |
Topic
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Presenter |
Reading
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4/20/06 |
Spectral clustering |
Guy Lebanon |
ncut,
spec |
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4/13/06 |
A statistical view of boosting |
Guy Lebanon |
boost |
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4/6/06 |
Lasso regression |
John Daye |
lasso |
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3/30/06 |
An impossibility theorem for clustering |
Guy Lebanon |
clust |
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3/23/06 |
Error correcting output codes |
Guy Lebanon |
ecoc |
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3/9/06 |
Locally linear embedding |
Guy Lebanon |
lle |
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3/2/06 |
Hubs and authorities |
Lin Zhu |
jk |
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2/23/06 |
Google and page-rank |
Guy Lebanon |
pr1,
ant |
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2/16/06 |
The MEMM and CRF models for sequence prediction |
Yi Mao |
memm,
crf |
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2/9/06 |
Latent Dirichlet allocation |
Josh Dillon |
lda |
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2/2/06 |
Local regression and model selection |
Ben Tyner |
lr1,
lr2 |
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1/26/06 |
The IBM models for statistical machine translation |
Guy Lebanon |
smt |
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1/19/06 |
Markov random fields and the
Hammersley-Clifford theorem |
Guy Lebanon |
mrf1,
mrf2 |
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