| Jun 13, 2013 | Group Meeting | Alex Graves: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep: Generating Sequences with Recurrent Neural Networks |
| Jun 10, 2013 | Group Meeting | Abdel-rahman Mohamed: Deep convolutional neural networks for acoustic modeling |
| Apr 11, 2013 | Group Meeting | Yujia Li: Exploring Compositional High Order Pattern Potentials for Structured Output Learning |
| Mar 14, 2013 | Group Meeting | Roger Grosse (MIT): Model Selection in Large Compositional Spaces |
| Mar 7, 2013 | Group Meeting | Jimmy Ba: Standout: Adaptive Dropout on Feature Learning |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Group Meeting | Alexander G. Schwing (ETHZ): Efficient Inference and Learning for Structured Models |
| Feb 21, 2013 | Group Meeting | Kevin Swersky: Stochastic k-Neighborhood Selection for Supervised and Unsupervised Learning |
| Feb 7, 2013 | Group Meeting | Jimmy Ba: Standout: Adaptive Dropout on Feature Learning |
| Jan 24, 2013 | Group Meeting | Charlie Tang: Tensor Analyzers |
| Dec 12, 2012 | Group Meeting | Pierre Baldi (UCI): Deep Architectures and Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications |
| Nov 29, 2012 | Group Meeting | Anna Goldenberg: Using Machine Learning to Address Heterogeneity in Complex Human Diseases |
| Nov 22, 2012 | Group Meeting | Yisong Yue (CMU): Optimizing Recommender Systems as a Submodular Bandits Problem |
| Nov 15, 2012 | Group Meeting | Nitish Srivastava: Multimodal Learning with Deep Boltzmann Machines |
| Nov 8, 2012 | Group Meeting | George Dahl: How we won the Merck Molecular Activity Challenge |
| Nov 1, 2012 | Group Meeting | Lloyd Elliott (Gatsby): Dynamic clustering of genetic data with fragmentation-coagulation processes |
| Oct 25, 2012 | Group Meeting | Alex Krizhevsky: ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks |
| Oct 10, 2012 | Group Meeting | Yoshua Bengio (Montreal): Regularized Auto-Encoders and MCMC |
| Oct 4, 2012 | Group Meeting | Roman Garnett (CMU): Bayesian Optimal Search and Surveying |
| Sep 27, 2012 | Group Meeting | Ilya Sutskever: The importance of initialization and momentum in deep learning. |
| May 31, 2012 | Group Meeting | Tapani Raiko ((Aalto University)): Deep Learning Made Easier by Linear Transformations in Perceptrons |
| May 28, 2012 | Group Meeting | Avrim Blum (CMU): Active (and Passive) Property Testing |
| May 24, 2012 | Group Meeting | Tyler Lu: Optimal Social Choice Functions: A Utilitarian View |
| May 7, 2012 | Group Meeting | Hal Daume III (Maryland): Complex Predictions need not be Slow |
| May 3, 2012 | Group Meeting | Laurent Charlin: Active Learning for Matching Problems |
| Apr 26, 2012 | Group Meeting | Volodymyr Mnih: Learning to Label Aerial Images from Noisy Data |
| Apr 20, 2012 | Group Meeting | Michael Jordan (Berkeley): Three short talks by Mike Jordan |
| Apr 16, 2012 | Group Meeting | Tamir Hazan (TTI-C): The Partition Function, Random Maximum A-Posteriori Perturbations, and Approximate Inference |
| Apr 9, 2012 | Group Meeting | Chris Williams (Edinburgh): Modelling of visual textures and object parts |
| Apr 5, 2012 | Group Meeting | Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby): TBD |
| Mar 29, 2012 | Group Meeting | Brendan Frey: Synaptic plasticity and alternative splicing |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Group Meeting | Nitish Srivastava: Multimodal Learning with Deep Belief Nets |
| Mar 8, 2012 | Group Meeting | Maksims Volkovs: Loss-sensitive Training of Probabilistic Conditional Random Fields |
| Mar 1, 2012 | Group Meeting | Charlie Tang: Robust Boltzmann Machines for Recognition and Denoising |
| Feb 16, 2012 | Group Meeting | Hannes Bretschneider: Visualizing Neural Networks with t-SNE |
| Feb 9, 2012 | Group Meeting | Alex Graves: Sequence Transduction with Recurrent Neural Networks |
| Feb 2, 2012 | Group Meeting | Jasper Snoek: Opportunity Cost in Bayesian Optimization |
| Jan 26, 2012 | Group Meeting | Sanja Fidler: Learning a Hierarchical Compositional Shape Vocabulary for Multi-class Object Representation |
| Jan 19, 2012 | Group Meeting | Danny Tarlow: Learning Probabilistic High-Order Message Passing Machines |
| Dec 8, 2011 | Group Meeting | Tijmen Tieleman: Autoencoders with hard-coded domain-specific decoders |
| Dec 1, 2011 | Group Meeting | Boyko Kakaradov: CANCELLED |
| Nov 24, 2011 | Group Meeting | Tomáš Mikolov (Brno Univ. of Tech.): Language modeling with recurrent neural networks |
| Nov 16, 2011 | Group Meeting | Yutian Chen (UCI): Efficient Sampling with Kernel Herding |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Group Meeting | George Dahl: Training Restricted Boltzmann Machines on Word Observations |
| Nov 9, 2011 | Group Meeting | Michael Wu (Lithium): Metrics -> Features -> Models -> Insights -> ROI |
| Nov 3, 2011 | Group Meeting | Graham Taylor (NYU): Learning Invariance through Imitation |
| Oct 27, 2011 | Group Meeting | Kevin Swersky: On Autoencoders and Score Matching for Latent Energy-Based Models |
| Oct 20, 2011 | Group Meeting | Jeroen Chua: Factorizing Color and Shape Using Hierarchical Palettes |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Group Meeting | Ilya Sutskever: Small minibatch Hessian-Free optimization and the Extended Gauss-Newton matrix. |
| Sep 26, 2011 | Group Meeting | Andrew Delong (UWO): Minimizing Energies with Hierarchical Costs |
| Sep 19, 2011 | Group Meeting | Alexandros Panagopoulos (Stony Brook): Illumination Estimation Using Graphical Models |
| Aug 1, 2011 | Group Meeting | Vladimir Kolmogorov (UCL): Two topics in MAP-MRF inference |
| Jun 27, 2011 | Group Meeting | Babak Alipanahi (Waterloo): Multiclass modelling of asthmatic genotype-phenotype interactions |
| Jun 13, 2011 | Group Meeting | Danny Tarlow: Two Short Talks on Dynamic Message Passing Schedules for MAP Inference |
| Jun 6, 2011 | Group Meeting | Nikola Karamanov: HOP-Depth-MAP: Joint inference of labels and depth using high order potentials. |
| May 25, 2011 | Group Meeting | Brian Potetz (Kansas): Applications of Efficient Statistical Inference over Continuous Higher-Order Distributions |
| May 16, 2011 | Group Meeting | Quaid Morris: Helping to cure cancer using topic models. |
| May 9, 2011 | Group Meeting | Yoshua Bengio (Montreal): Progress in Deep Learning at U. Montreal |
| May 2, 2011 | Group Meeting | Mohammad Norouzi: Minimum Loss Hashing for Learning Compact Binary Codes |
| Apr 18, 2011 | Group Meeting | Tyler Lu: Learning Mallows Models with Pairwise Preferences |
| Apr 11, 2011 | Group Meeting | Tara Sainath (IBM): Exemplar-Based Sparse Representations for Speech Recognition |
| Apr 4, 2011 | Group Meeting | Douglas Tweed (Dept. of Physiology): Algorithms for near-optimal control |
| Mar 28, 2011 | Group Meeting | Hugo Larochelle: The Neural Autoregressive Distribution Estimator |
| Mar 21, 2011 | Group Meeting | Kari Hoffman (York): Active exploration and the brain: how eye movements influence the neural code for faces and objects. |
| Mar 14, 2011 | Group Meeting | Volodymyr Mnih: Conditional Restricted Boltzmann Machines for Structured Prediction |
| Mar 7, 2011 | Group Meeting | Navdeep Jaitly: Learning alternative representations of speech signals |
| Feb 28, 2011 | Group Meeting | Laurent Charlin: Learning to improve matching |
| Feb 14, 2011 | Group Meeting | Jasper Snoek: Semiparametric Latent Variable Models for Guided Representation |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Group Meeting | Geoffrey Hinton: How to force unsupervised learning to discover the right representation of images |
| Nov 29, 2010 | Group Meeting | Hugo Larochelle: Learning to combine foveal glimpses with a third-order Boltzmann machine |
| Nov 22, 2010 | Group Meeting | Inmar Givoni: Learning Better Image Representations Using ‘Flobject Analysis’ |
| Nov 15, 2010 | Group Meeting | Radford Neal: MCMC Using Ensembles of States with Application to Gaussian Process Regression |
| Nov 8, 2010 | Group Meeting | Maksims Volkovs: Learning to Rank with Multiple Objectives |
| Nov 1, 2010 | Group Meeting | Paolo Viappiani: Optimal Bayesian Recommendation Sets and Myopically Optimal Choice Query Sets |
| Oct 25, 2010 | Group Meeting | Danny Tarlow: Learning with High Order Models and High Order Loss Functions |
| Oct 18, 2010 | Group Meeting | Peter O'Donovan: Learning Color Compatibility |
| Oct 4, 2010 | Group Meeting | Renqiang Min: Deep supervised non-linear embedding for classification and data visualization |
| Sep 27, 2010 | Group Meeting | Ilya Sutskever: A Recurrent Neural Network Language Model. |
| Sep 20, 2010 | Group Meeting | Ryan Prescott Adams: Tree-Structured Stick Breaking for Hierarchical Data |
| Sep 13, 2010 | Group Meeting | Marc'Aurelio Ranzato: How to make MRF's generate realistic samples of large resolution natural images |
| Jun 7, 2010 | Group Meeting | Quaid Morris: *CANCELLED* Using topic models to help cure cancer |
| May 17, 2010 | Group Meeting | Roland Memisevic: How to train a mixture of 1.000.000.000.000.000.000 classifiers. in PT266 |
| May 3, 2010 | Group Meeting | Wayne Hayes (UCI): Dynamical Grammars for Galaxy Image Recognition. in PT266 |
| Apr 26, 2010 | Group Meeting | Hui Xiong: Bayesian learning reveals the splicing code |
| Apr 19, 2010 | Group Meeting | George Dahl: Phone Recognition with mcRBM feature extraction and DBNs |
| Apr 12, 2010 | Group Meeting | Ryan Prescott Adams: Dependent Probabilistic Matrix Factorization |
| Apr 5, 2010 | Group Meeting | Tyler Lu: Consensus decision making, and its interplay with preference learning and collaborative filtering |
| Mar 22, 2010 | Group Meeting | Alex Krizhevsky: Image Retrieval using Short Binary Codes found by Deep Learning |
| Mar 15, 2010 | Group Meeting | Marc'Aurelio Ranzato: Modeling natural images with higher-order Boltzmann Machines |
| Mar 8, 2010 | Group Meeting | Ilya Sutskever: On the convergence properties of Contrastive Divergence |
| Mar 1, 2010 | Group Meeting | Richard Zemel: Learning to label images with latent topic random fields |
| Feb 22, 2010 | Group Meeting | Maksims Volkovs: Learning to Maximize Expected Ranking Gain |
| Feb 8, 2010 | Group Meeting | Charlie Tang: Sparsely Connected Deep Networks for More Robust Visual Recognition |
| Jan 25, 2010 | Group Meeting | Brendan Frey: Learning the genetic code governing neural-specific messages |
| Jan 18, 2010 | Group Meeting | Volodymyr Mnih: Learning to Detect Roads in High-Resolution Aerial Images |
| Jan 11, 2010 | Group Meeting | James Martens: Deep Learning via Hessian-free Optimization |
| Jan 6, 2010 | Group Meeting | Ilya Sutskever: Unsupervised Semantic Parsing, by Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos |
| Jan 4, 2010 | Group Meeting | Michael Black: An Additive Latent Feature Model for Transparent Object Recognition |
| Nov 30, 2009 | Group Meeting | Vangelis Kalogerakis: Data-driven part recognition of 3D meshes |
| Nov 23, 2009 | Group Meeting | Amit Gruber: Latent Topic Models for Hypertext |
| Nov 16, 2009 | Group Meeting | Yoshua Bengio (Montreal): Experimental Investigations into Deep Architectures. in PT266 |
| Nov 9, 2009 | Group Meeting | Inmar Givoni: Hierarchical Affinity Propagation |
| Nov 2, 2009 | Group Meeting | Pascal Poupart (Waterloo): Reinforcement Learning: A Model-Based Bayesian Approach. in PT266 |
| Oct 26, 2009 | Group Meeting | Nevena Lazic: Solving the Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem Using Message Passing Algorithms |
| Oct 19, 2009 | Group Meeting | Iain Murray: Elliptical Slice Sampling |
| 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 21, 2009 | Group Meeting | Ryan Prescott Adams: Infinite Belief Networks |
| Sep 14, 2009 | Group Meeting | Ilya Sutskever: Modelling Relational Data using Bayesian Clustered Tensor Factorization. in PT266 |
| 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 27, 2009 | Group Meeting | Jim Huang: Cumulative distribution networks: Graphical models for cumulative distribution functions |
| Apr 20, 2009 | Group Meeting | Seunghak Lee: Non-metric Neighbor Embedding |
| Apr 6, 2009 | Group Meeting | Laurens van der Maaten (TiCC/Tilburg): On Non-Metric and Parametric Variants of t-SNE |
| Mar 2, 2009 | Group Meeting | James Bergstra (Montreal): Machine Learning for Music Genre Classification |
| 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 9, 2009 | Group Meeting | Hugo Larochelle: To recognize shapes, first learn to generate reconstruct images. in PT266 |
| 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 19, 2009 | Group Meeting | Ilya Sutskever: Using matrices to model symbolic relationship |
| Jan 12, 2009 | Group Meeting | William Ryu: Dimensionality and Dynamics in the Behavior of C. elegans |
| Dec 1, 2008 | Group Meeting | Yoseph Barash: Inferring RNA Regulatory Codes that Predict Tissue-Dependent Alternative Splicing |
| 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 |
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