Machine Learning Meetings and Events

Group Meetings: Group meetings are held Mondays from 11am to Noon (talk starts 11:10am) in D.L. Pratt 290C unless otherwise noted. Meetings are coordinated by Hugo Larochelle.

Tea Talks: Tea talks are held every Wednesday at 4:00pm in D.L. Pratt 290C. Talks should be simple, accessible, and not exceed 15 minutes. Speakers bring snacks, make tea, and provide a copy of the presented paper.

Meeting Schedule:

Meeting Type: Dates:

Dec 9, 2009 Tea Talk TBA:
Dec 2, 2009 Tea Talk Tijmen Tieleman:
Nov 30, 2009 Group Meeting Vangelis Kalogerakis: Data-driven part recognition of 3D meshes
Nov 25, 2009 Tea Talk Arnold Binas:
Nov 23, 2009 Group Meeting Amit Gruber: Latent Topic Models for Hypertext
Nov 18, 2009 Tea Talk Tanya Schmah: Dense Image Registration through MRFs and Efficient Linear Programming B. Glocker, N. Komodakis, G. Tziritas, N. Navab, N. Paragios Medical Image Analysis, Volume 12, Issue 6, December 2008, pp. 731-741
Nov 16, 2009 Group Meeting Yoshua Bengio (Montreal): Experimental Investigations into Deep Architectures. in PT266
Nov 11, 2009 Tea Talk Josh Susskind: B. Theobald, Iain Matthews, Jeffrey Cohn, and S. Boker, "Real-time expression cloning using active appearance models," Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'07), 2007, pp. 134 - 139.
Nov 9, 2009 Group Meeting Inmar Givoni: Hierarchical Affinity Propagation
Nov 4, 2009 Tea Talk Martin Renqiang Min: large margins in deep learning and my previous experience on learning large-margin classifiers for gene expression data analysis in a deep learning framework. R. Min, D. A. Stanley, Z. Yuan, A. Bonner, and Z. Zhang. A Deep Non-Linear Feature Mapping for Large-Margin kNN Classification. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2009).
Nov 2, 2009 Group Meeting Pascal Poupart (Waterloo): Reinforcement Learning: A Model-Based Bayesian Approach. in PT266
Oct 28, 2009 Tea Talk Danny Tarlow: Joint optimization of segmentation and appearance models Sara Vicente, Vladimir Komogorov, Carsten Rother
Oct 26, 2009 Group Meeting Nevena Lazic: Solving the Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem Using Message Passing Algorithms
Oct 21, 2009 Tea Talk Ben Marlin: Max Margin Restricted Boltzmann Machines.
Oct 19, 2009 Group Meeting Iain Murray: Elliptical Slice Sampling
Oct 14, 2009 Tea Talk Clement Chung: Markov clustering versus affinity propagation for the partitioning of protein interaction graphs by James Vlasblom and Shoshana J Wodak
Oct 8, 2009 Group Meeting Yee Whye Teh: Nonparametric Bayesian models tutorial (2).
Oct 7, 2009 Group Meeting Yee Whye Teh: Nonparametric Bayesian models tutorial (1).
Oct 5, 2009 Group Meeting Kevin Regan: Regret Based Reward Elicitation for Markov Decision Problems
Sep 28, 2009 Group Meeting Danny Tarlow: Max Product in High Order Factor Graphs
Sep 23, 2009 Tea Talk George Dahl: Nearest Neighbors in High-Dimensional Data: The Emergence and Influence of Hubs, by Milos Radovanovic, Alexandros Nanopoulos and Mirjana Ivanovic
Sep 21, 2009 Group Meeting Ryan Prescott Adams: Infinite Belief Networks
Sep 16, 2009 Tea Talk Jasper Snoek: Healing the Relevance Vector Machine through Augmentation, by Carl Rasmussen and Joaquin Quinonero-Candela
Sep 14, 2009 Group Meeting Ilya Sutskever: Modelling Relational Data using Bayesian Clustered Tensor Factorization. in PT266
Sep 9, 2009 Tea Talk Vlad Mnih: Integrating CUDA into python, by Vlad Mnih
Sep 2, 2009 Tea Talk David Warde-Farley: Herding Dynamic Weights to Learn, by Max Welling
Aug 26, 2009 Tea Talk Alex Krizhevsky: Recent results on training autoencoders for image retrieval, by Alex Krizhevsky
Aug 19, 2009 Tea Talk Maksims Volkovs: Bayesian inference for Plackett-Luce ranking models, by Guiver and Esnelson
Aug 12, 2009 Tea Talk Hugo Larochelle: Emergence of complex cell properties by learning to generalize in natural scenes, by Yan Karklin & Michael S. Lewicki
Jul 29, 2009 Tea Talk Ilya Sutskever: Spectral Hashing, by Weiss, Torralba, and Fergus,
Jul 22, 2009 Tea Talk Iain Murray: Split variational inference, by by Bouchard, G. and Zoeter, O.
Jul 15, 2009 Tea Talk James Martens: Curriculum Learning
Jul 8, 2009 Tea Talk Marc'Aurelio Ranzato: Learning features by contrasting natural images with noise. Proc. Int. Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks, by Limassol, Cyprus, 2009.
Jun 10, 2009 Tea Talk Sonya Allin: Neural control of computer cursor velocity by decoding motor cortical spiking activity in humans with tetraplegia,
May 20, 2009 Tea Talk Vincent Cheung: Epitomic location recognition
May 13, 2009 Tea Talk Jim Huang: Factorial mixture of Gaussians and the marginal independence model. Silva, R. and Ghahramani, Z
May 6, 2009 Group Meeting Aapo Hyvärinen: Separating sources and analyzing causality in brain waves. Wed 4pm in PT266
May 4, 2009 Group Meeting Tom Mitchell: Read the Web: Toward Never-Ending Language Learning. in PT266
Apr 29, 2009 Tea Talk Ilya Sutskever: Linear spatial pyramid matching using sparse coding for image classification by Yang, Yu, Gong, and Huang
Apr 27, 2009 Group Meeting Jim Huang: Cumulative distribution networks: Graphical models for cumulative distribution functions
Apr 22, 2009 Tea Talk Maks Volkvos: COFIRANK - Maximum Margin Matrix Factorization for Collaborative Ranking
Apr 20, 2009 Group Meeting Seunghak Lee: Non-metric Neighbor Embedding
Apr 15, 2009 Tea Talk Ilya Sutskever: Backpropagation can train sigmoid belief networks.
Apr 8, 2009 Tea Talk Arnold Binas: "Fast Solvers and Efficient Implementations for Distance Metric Learning"
Apr 6, 2009 Group Meeting Laurens van der Maaten (TiCC/Tilburg): On Non-Metric and Parametric Variants of t-SNE
Apr 1, 2009 Tea Talk Laurent Charlin: A Joint Model of Text and Aspect Ratings for Sentiment Summarization
Mar 25, 2009 Tea Talk Vlad Mnih: "Topmoumoute online natural gradient algorithm" by Le Roux, Manzagol, Bengio.
Mar 18, 2009 Tea Talk Geoff Hinton: Robust Object Recognition with Cortex-Like Mechanisms, by Thomas Serre, Lior Wolf, Stanley Bileschi, Maximilian Riesenhuber, and Tomaso Poggio
Mar 11, 2009 Tea Talk George Dahl : Efficient auditory coding by Smith and Lewicki
Mar 4, 2009 Tea Talk Ilya Sutskever: Representing structured knowledge using hierarchical Bayesian models.
Mar 2, 2009 Group Meeting James Bergstra (Montreal): Machine Learning for Music Genre Classification
Feb 25, 2009 Tea Talk Eddie Ng: Most Likely Heteroscedastic Gaussian Process Regression By Kersting, Plagemann, Pfaff, and Burgard.
Feb 23, 2009 Group Meeting Timothy P. Lillicrap (Queen's) and Stephen H. Scott: How do the properties of the musculoskeletal system shape neural activity in primary motor cortex?. in PT266
Feb 11, 2009 Tea Talk Andriy Mnih: Topic Models Conditioned on Arbitrary Features with Dirichlet-multinomial Regression., by David Mimno and Andrew McCallum
Feb 9, 2009 Group Meeting Hugo Larochelle: To recognize shapes, first learn to generate reconstruct images. in PT266
Feb 4, 2009 Tea Talk Ruslan Salakhutdinov: Fixing max-product: Convergent message passing algorithms for MAP LP-relaxations, by Amir Globerson , Tommi Jaakkola
Feb 2, 2009 Group Meeting Marc'Aurelio Ranzato (NYU): Unsupervised Learning of Feature Hierarchies
Jan 28, 2009 Group Meeting Yann LeCun: Learning Hierarchies of Invariant Visual Features.
Jan 28, 2009 Group Meeting Yann LeCun (NYU): Learning Hierarchies of Invariant Visual Features.. Wed 4pm
Jan 21, 2009 Tea Talk David Warde-Farley: Efficient Inference in Phylogenetic InDel Trees by Bouchard-Cote, Jordan, and Klein.
Jan 19, 2009 Group Meeting Ilya Sutskever: Using matrices to model symbolic relationship
Jan 14, 2009 Tea Talk Jasper Snoek: Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection by Dalal and Triggs.
Jan 12, 2009 Group Meeting William Ryu: Dimensionality and Dynamics in the Behavior of C. elegans
Dec 3, 2008 Tea Talk Alex Krizhevsky: An efficient parallel algorithm for Contrastive Divergence.
Dec 1, 2008 Group Meeting Yoseph Barash: Inferring RNA Regulatory Codes that Predict Tissue-Dependent Alternative Splicing
Nov 26, 2008 Tea Talk Graham Taylor: Chapter 6 of Probabilistic Models for Music, Jean-Francois Paiement, PhD thesis
Nov 24, 2008 Group Meeting Yoseph Barash: TBA
Nov 24, 2008 Group Meeting Vinod Nair: Deep Belief Nets for Visual Object Recognition: Part II
Nov 17, 2008 Group Meeting Dustin Lang: Measuring the undetectable
Nov 10, 2008 Group Meeting Katherine Heller (Cambridge): Bayesian Hierarchical Clustering
Nov 3, 2008 Group Meeting Graham Taylor: Deep componential models for human motion
Oct 27, 2008 Group Meeting Andriy Mnih: A Scalable Hierarchical Distributed Language Model
Oct 20, 2008 Group Meeting Eric Hsu: Solving Satisfiability (SAT) Problems Using Loopy Belief Propagation, and Deriving a Convergent Variant Based on EM
Oct 6, 2008 Group Meeting Laurent Charlin: Hierarchical POMDP Controller Optimization by Likelihood Maximization
Oct 1, 2008 Group Meeting Vinod Nair: Deep Belief Nets for Visual Object Recognition. Wednesday 4pm
Sep 22, 2008 Group Meeting Geoffrey Hinton: Visualizing high-dimensional data using t-SNE
Sep 15, 2008 Group Meeting Ruslan Salakhutdinov: Learning Multilayer Boltzmann Machines
Sep 1, 2008 Group Meeting Past Group Meetings
Sep 1, 2008 Tea Talk Past Tea Talks
Aug 1, 2008 Special Event CIFAR NCAP Summer School 2008