Past Seminars 2010
November 25th, 2010, 11am-noon: Alex Smola, What Users Want
November 18th, 2010, 11am-noon: Mayank Daswani, An empirical evaluation of PhiMDP Agents
November 11th, 2010, 11am-noon: Christfried Webers, Some learning algorithms on the Stiefel manifold
November 04th, 2010, 11am-noon: Marco Feris, Improving the Quality of Planning of Software Development Projects
October 28, 2010, 11am-noon: Antonio Robles-Kelly, Imaging Spectroscopy: Is there anything to gain from more bands?
October 21, 2010, 11am-noon: James Petterson, Reverse Multi-Label Learning
October 14, 2010, 11am-noon: Edwin Bonilla, Highlights from ECML 2010
September 23, 2010, 11am-noon: Peter Sunehag, Optimal Gradient Methods for various function classes
September 16, 2010, 11am-noon: Daniel Visentin, Reductions in Machine Learning
September 09, 2010, 11am-noon: Mark Reid, A PAC-Bayesian Theory of Transfer and Multitask Learning
September 02, 2010, 11am-noon: Edwin Bonilla, A Survey on Transfer Learning
August 26, 2010, 11am-noon: Wray Buntine, Bayesian Modeling of Dirichlets based on the Pitman-Yor Process
August 19, 2010, 11am-noon: Peter Sunehag, Context Tree Weighting (CTW)
August 12, 2010, 11am-noon: Phuong Nguyen, Feature Reinforcement Learning
July 29, 2010, 11am-noon: Shengbo Guo, Highlights of AISTATS, SIGIR, and Lab visits
July 15, 2010, 11am-noon: Marcus Hutter, Exact Non-Parametric Bayesian Inference on Infinite Trees
July 08, 2010, 11am-noon: Scott Sanner, Highlights of ICML 2010
July 01, 2010, 11am-noon: Hanna Suominen, Highlights of NAACL-HLT 2010
June 24, 2010, 11am-noon: Qinfeng Shi, Rapid Face Recognition Using Hashing
June 17, 2010, 11am-noon: Andre Carvalho, Quantum Information Science: what is out there?
June 09, 2010, 2pm-3pm: Daniel Visentin, An Expectation-Maximisation Toolbox for Elefant and Fast Approximate Inference by Exploiting Within-Clique Factorizations in Max-Product Message-Passing Algorithms.
May 27, 2010, 11am-noon: Lan Du, Structural Topic Models
May 20, 2010, 11am-noon: Tat-Jun Chin, Robust Fitting and Model Selection: The Statistical Learning Approach
May 13, 2010, 11am-noon: Tiberio Caetano, Why graphical models have been successful
Apr 29, 2010, 11am-noon: Hanna Suominen, Building a predictor by learning from multiple experts in the presence of uncertainty
Apr 23, 2010, 11am-noon: ANU students meet SML group Presentations by SML Researchers
Apr 8, 2010, 11am-noon: Novi Quadrianto, Ideas after Visiting Alberta
Apr 1, 2010, 11am-noon: Matthew Robards, Kernel Reinforcement Learning
Mar 25, 2010, 11am-noon: Roslyn Lau, Data Association by loopy belief propagation
Mar 18, 2010, 11am-noon: Peter Sunehag, SGD, A survey talk
Mar 11, 2010, 11am-noon: Babak Ahmadi, Lifted Belief Propagation
Mar 04, 2010, 11am-noon: Remco Bouckaert, DensiTree: Making Sense of Bayesian Hierarchical Clustering
Feb 25, 2010, 11am-noon: Mark Reid, NIPS Review (continued)
Feb 18, 2010, 11am-noon: Shengbo Guo, NIPS Review (continued)
Feb 5, 2010, 11am-noon: Marcus Hutter, Theories of Something, Everything & Nothing
Jan 28, 2010, 11am-noon: Javen Shi and Julian McAuley, NIPS Review (continued)
Jan 21, 2010, 11am-noon: Christfried Webers and Julian McAuley, NIPS Review