Past Seminars 2009
Dec 17, 2009, 11am-noon: Lachlan Henderson (External) Topic Classification in the DMOZ Hierarchy
Dec 3, 2009, 11am-noon: Julian McAuley, Shengbo Guo, and James Petterson NIPS Practice Talks
Nov 26, 2009, 11am-noon: Leif Hanlen NICTA Internal Only: Machine Learning in Human Performance Improvement
Nov 19, 2009, 11am-noon: Nitin Indurkhya (UNSW, Sydney) Sentiment Analysis
Nov 12, 2009, 11am-noon: Scott Sanner Topics, Trends, and Advances at CIKM-09
Nov 5, 2009, 11am-noon: James Petterson Context and Multilingual Synchronization for Topic Models
Oct 29, 2009, 11am-noon: Tim Van Erven (CWI, Netherlands) The Catch-up Phenomenon in Bayesian and MDL model selection
Oct 22, 2009, 12:30pm-1:30pm: Mitchell Whitelaw (Univ. of Canberra) The Visible Archive (blog link)
Oct 15, 2009, 11am-noon: Marcus Hutter MDL vs. Bayes, Part II (MDL Strikes Back)
Oct 8, 2009, 11am-noon: Wray Buntine Report on ECML-PKDD and CLASS Review
Oct 1, 2009, 11am-noon: Alistair Rendell (ANU) The Potential and Problems with Modern Multicore Hardware Systems
Sept 24, 2009, 11am-noon: Junbin Gao Beta Process and Its Application in Sparse Regression
Sept 17, 2009, 11am-noon: Marcus Hutter Predictive MDL and Bayes
Sept 10, 2009, 11am-noon: Scott Sanner Bayesian real-time dynamic programming
Sept 3, 2009, 11am-noon: Alex Davies Topic modelling photos with meta-data
Aug 27, 2009, 11am-noon: Andrew Over (Google) Google Wave followed by a discussion
Aug 20, 2009, 11am-noon: Ian Wood A Review of Model Selection and Assessment II
Aug 17, 2009, 11am-noon: Frank Wood (Gatsby, UCL) A Stochastic Memoizer for Sequence Data
Aug 13, 2009, 11am-noon: Ian Wood A Review of Model Selection and Assessment I
Aug 4, 2009, 11am-noon: Stephen Gould (Stanford) A Region-based Approach to Scene Understanding
July 30, 2009, 11am-noon: Mark Reid Discussing three papers: (1) A Stochastic View of Optimal Regret through Minimax Duality, (2) Stochastic Convex Optimization, and (3) Learnability and Stability in the General Learning Setting. (Slides)
July 23, 2009, 11am-noon: Julian McAuleyGet more from your cores: shared memory multiprocessing made easy with OpenMP
July 21, 2009, 11am-noon: Shane Legg (UCL) Is there an Elegant Universal Theory of Prediction?
July 16, 2009, 11am-noon: Guo Shengbo TrueSkill: A Bayesian Skill Rating System
July 2, 2009, 11am-noon: Novi Quadrianto Discussing: Linli Xu and Martha White and Dale Schuurmans, "Optimal Reverse Prediction"
June 25, 2009, 11am-noon: Wray Buntine A Bayesian's View of MDL
June 18, 2009, 11am-noon: Matt Robards Semi-Markov K-Means Clustering
June 11, 2009, 11am-noon: Jin Yu The Entire Quantile Path of a Risk-Agnostic SVM Classifier
June 4, 2009, 12:30pm-1:30pm: Hanna Suominen (Univ. of Turku, Finland) Critical Points in Assessing Learning Performance: Cross-validation with sparse RLS
May 27, 2009, 11am-noon: Karina Valdivia Delgado (Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil) Real-time Dynamic Programming for Factored MDPs
May 22, 2009, 11am-noon: Ingo Steinwart (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Statistical learning: from theory to applications
May 14, 2009, 11am-noon: Marconi Barbosa Non-commutative harmonic analysis tools for inference on permutations
May 7, 2009, 11am-noon: Hassan Mahmud Universal Transfer Learning
Apr 30, 2009, 11am-noon: Tiberio Caetano Compressed Sensing
Apr 23, 2009, 11am-noon: Hanna Suominen (Univ. of Turku, Finland) Current Research Topics in Text Mining
Apr 16, 2009, 11am-noon: Novi Quadrianto My Great Time at HIIT
Apr 9, 2009, 11am-noon: Marcus Hutter General Discounting versus Average Reward
Apr 2, 2009, 11am-noon: Hayato Takahashi Consistency theorems for algorithmically random sequences
Mar 26, 2009, 11am-noon: Tomi Silander Locally Minimax Optimal Predictive Modeling with Bayesian Networks
Mar 19, 2009, 11am-noon: Karina Valdivia Delgado Solving Factored MDPs with Imprecise Transition Probabilities
Mar 12, 2009, 11am-noon: Choon Hui Teo Training Robust Spam Filters
Mar 2, 2009, 11am-noon: David NewmanSpeeding up Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Feb 24, 2009, 11am-noon: Adam Kowalczyk Selection of significant peaks for next generation sequencing
Feb 19, 2009, 11am-noon: Dale Schuurmans Monte Carlo inference via greedy importance sampling
Feb 13, 2009, 11:30am-12:30pm Marcello Pelillo From cliques to equilibria: the dominant-set framework for pairwise data clustering
Feb 5, 2009, 9am-12:30pm: Dale Schuurmans Recent results in unsupervised learning
January 29, 2009, 11am-noon: Scott Sanner Review of selected NIPS-2008 papers
January 15, 2009, 11am-noon: Tiberio Caetano Review of selected NIPS-2008 papers
January 8, 2009, 11am-noon: Xinhua Zhang Bayesian Online Multi-label Classification for Text Categorization