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:

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