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

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

Meeting Schedule:

Meeting Type: Dates:

Apr 25, 2012 Tea Talk Hannes Bretschneider:
Apr 18, 2012 Tea Talk Maksims Volkovs:
Apr 11, 2012 Tea Talk Nitish Srivastava:
Apr 4, 2012 Tea Talk Jasper Snoek:
Mar 28, 2012 Tea Talk George Dahl:
Mar 21, 2012 Tea Talk Alex Krizhevsky:
Mar 14, 2012 Tea Talk Kevin Swersky:
Mar 7, 2012 Tea Talk Abdel-rahman Mohamed:
Feb 29, 2012 Tea Talk Tijmen Tieleman:
Feb 15, 2012 Tea Talk Nikola Karamanov:
Feb 8, 2012 Tea Talk Clement Chung:
Feb 1, 2012 Tea Talk Michael Leung: Online AUC Maximization
Jan 25, 2012 Tea Talk Lei Jimmy Ba: The Hierarchical Beta Process for Convolutional Factor Analysis and Deep Learning
Jan 18, 2012 Tea Talk Alex Graves, George Dahl, Jeroen Chua, Kevin Swersky: NIPS highlights
Jan 10, 2012 Tea Talk Hui Yuan Xiong: Accelerated Adaptive Markov Chain for Partition Function Computation
Dec 6, 2011 Tea Talk James Martens: Quasi-Newton Markov chain Monte Carlo
Nov 29, 2011 Tea Talk Yujia Li: Learning Multiple Tasks using Manifold Regularization
Nov 22, 2011 Tea Talk Boyko Kakaradov: Parallel Gibbs Sampling: From Colored Fields to Thin Junction Trees
Nov 15, 2011 Tea Talk Laurent Charlin: Active Learning with Feedback on Both Features and Instances
Nov 8, 2011 Tea Talk Volodymyr Mnih: Efficient Learning of Sparse, Distributed, Convolutional Feature Representations for Object Recognition
Nov 1, 2011 Tea Talk Cecilia Chen Liu: Cascade Object Detection with Deformable Part Models
Oct 25, 2011 Tea Talk Navdeep Jaitly: Using DBNs for speech recognition at Google
Oct 12, 2011 Tea Talk Jeoren Chua: Object recognition with hierarchical stel models
Oct 5, 2011 Tea Talk Charlie Tang: Learning hierarchical invariant spatio-temporal features for action recognition with independent subspace analysis
Sep 26, 2011 Tea Talk Ilya Sutskever: Bayesian Learning via Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics
Sep 19, 2011 Tea Talk Danny Tarlow: Perturb-and-MAP Random Fields: Using Discrete Optimization to Learn and Sample from Energy Models,
Jun 22, 2011 Tea Talk James Martens: ICML practice talk: Training Recurrent Neural Networks with Hessian-Free Optimization
Jun 15, 2011 Tea Talk Mohamad Norouzi and Ilya Sutskever: ICML Practice talks: Minimal Loss Hashing for Compact Binary Codes, and Generating Text with Recurrent Neural Networks
Jun 8, 2011 Tea Talk Alex Shestopaloff: A quasi-Monte Carlo Metropolis algorithm
May 25, 2011 Tea Talk Charlie Tang: The Importance of Encoding Versus Training with Sparse Coding and Vector Quantization
May 18, 2011 Tea Talk Patrick Li: One-class SVM for Learning in Image Retrieval
May 4, 2011 Tea Talk Marc'Aurelio Ranzato: Non-local sparse models for image restoration
Apr 27, 2011 Tea Talk No Cookies Talk:
Apr 20, 2011 Tea Talk Tijmen Tieleman: Learning to Parse Images
Apr 13, 2011 Tea Talk Jeroen Chua: Object recognition with hierarchical stel models
Apr 6, 2011 Tea Talk Hugo Larochelle: SampleRank: Learning Preferences from Atomic Gradients
Mar 30, 2011 Tea Talk Leo Lee: Analysis and design of RNA sequencing experiments for identifying isoform regulation
Mar 23, 2011 Tea Talk Inmar Givoni: How Kinect works
Mar 16, 2011 Tea Talk No cookies talk:
Mar 9, 2011 Tea Talk Danny Tarlow: Learning programs: a hierarchical Bayesian approach.Learning programs: a hierarchical Bayesian approach.
Mar 2, 2011 Tea Talk Maksims Volkovs: Fast approximation of the permanent for very dense problems
Feb 23, 2011 Tea Talk Volodymyr Mnih: An Analysis of Single-Layer Networks in Unsupervised Feature Learning
Feb 16, 2011 Tea Talk James Martens: Direct Loss Minimization for Structured Prediction
Feb 9, 2011 Tea Talk Alex Krizhevsky: Tiered Scene Labeling with Dynamic Programming
Feb 2, 2011 Tea Talk No cookies talk this week:
Jan 26, 2011 Tea Talk Nevena Lazic: Multiple Patterns of Sensitization in Relation to Asthma in a Birth Cohort Study
Jan 19, 2011 Tea Talk Nikola Karamanov: Layered Image Motion with Explicit Occlusions, Temporal Consistency, and Depth Ordering
Jan 12, 2011 Tea Talk Ilya Sutskever: Learning Continuous Phrase Representations and Syntactic Parsing with Recursive Neural Networks
Dec 1, 2010 Tea Talk Hui Yuan Xiong: Integrative Modeling Defines the Nova Splicing-Regulatory Network and Its Combinatorial Controls Zhang et al.
Nov 24, 2010 Tea Talk Boyko Kakaradov: Robust Principal Component Analysis?
Nov 17, 2010 Tea Talk Ilya Sutskever: Maximin affinity learning of image segmentation
Nov 3, 2010 Tea Talk George Dahl: "Word representations: A simple and general method for semi-supervised learning"
Oct 27, 2010 Tea Talk Inmar Givoni: Norm-Product Belief Propagation : Primal-Dual Message Passing for Approximate Inference http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.3127
Oct 20, 2010 Tea Talk Ulrik Beierholm: Bayes-Optimal Human Decisions in a Reinforcement Learning Task
Oct 13, 2010 Tea Talk Danny Tarlow: A Linear Programming Approach to Max-sum Problem: A Review.
Oct 6, 2010 Tea Talk Marc'Aurelio Ranzato: Non-local sparse models for image restoration
Sep 29, 2010 Tea Talk Makims Volkovs: LambdaMART
Sep 22, 2010 Tea Talk Laurent Charlin: A fast natural Newton method
Sep 15, 2010 Tea Talk Patrick Li: Convex Clustering
Sep 8, 2010 Tea Talk Alex Krizhevsky: Context-Aware Saliency Detection
Sep 1, 2010 Tea Talk Clement Chung: Proteome Coverage Prediction with Infinite Markov Models
Aug 25, 2010 Tea Talk Amit Gruber: Mixed Membership Matrix Factorization
Aug 18, 2010 Tea Talk Nikola Karamanov: Layered Object Detection for Multi-Class Segmentation
Aug 4, 2010 Tea Talk Ilya Sutskever: Deconvolutional Networks
Jul 28, 2010 Tea Talk Leo Lee: A dynamic Bayesian network for identifying protein-binding footprints from single molecule-based sequencing data
Jul 21, 2010 Tea Talk Abdel-rahman Mohamed: A spectral algorithm for learning hidden markov models
Jul 14, 2010 Tea Talk Vlad Mnih: Nonlinear Learning using Local Coordinate Coding
Jul 7, 2010 Tea Talk Tijmen Tieleman: Parametric Herding
Jun 30, 2010 Tea Talk Ryan Prescott Adams: Collective dynamics in human and monkey sensorimotor cortex: predicting single neuron spikes
Jun 23, 2010 Tea Talk Josh Susskind: Matching expression variant faces
Jun 16, 2010 Tea Talk Navdeep Jaitly : Tempered Markov Chain Monte Carlo for training of Restricted Boltzmann Machines
Jun 9, 2010 Tea Talk Ilya Sutskever: Learning Efficiently with Approximate Inference via Dual Losses.
Jun 2, 2010 Tea Talk Yoseph Barash: Genovo: De Novo Assembly For Metagenomics
May 26, 2010 Tea Talk Tyler Lu: Cluster Analysis of Heterogeneous Rank Data
May 19, 2010 Tea Talk James Martens: Learning with Blocks: Composite Likelihood and Contrastive Divergence
May 12, 2010 Tea Talk Amit Gruber: Nonparametric Latent Feature Models for Link Prediction
May 5, 2010 Tea Talk Patrick Li: Finding Scientific Topics
Apr 28, 2010 Tea Talk Inmar Givoni: Image Segmentation with A Bounding Box Prior
Apr 21, 2010 Tea Talk Vinod Nair: Attribute and Simile Classifiers for Face Verification
Apr 14, 2010 Tea Talk Marc'Aurelio Ranzato: The Role of Features, Algorithms and Data in Visual Recognition
Apr 7, 2010 Tea Talk Maks Volkovs: Expected Reciprocal Rank for Graded Relevance
Mar 31, 2010 Tea Talk Laurent Charlin: Learning CRFs using Graph Cuts
Mar 24, 2010 Tea Talk Iain Murray: Robust Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for spatial generalized linear mixed models
Mar 17, 2010 Tea Talk George Dahl: Rank-Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: Retaining Meaning and Speed in High Dimensions
Mar 10, 2010 Tea Talk Clement Chung: Clustering Sequence Sets for Motif Discovery
Feb 24, 2010 Tea Talk Nikola Karamanov: "Statistical correlations between two-dimensional images and three-dimensional structures in natural scenes"
Feb 17, 2010 Tea Talk Eddie Ng: "The Wapred Gaussian Processes" by Ed Snelson, Carl Rasmussen, and Zoubin Ghahramani
Feb 10, 2010 Tea Talk Ilya Sutskever: Auto-association by multilayer perceptrons and singular value decomposition H Bourlard, Y Kamp
Jan 27, 2010 Tea Talk Hugo Larochelle: A High-Throughput Screening Approach to Discovering Good Forms of Biologically-Inspired Visual Representation. by Nicolas Pinto, David Doukhan, James J. DiCarlo, David D. Cox
Jan 20, 2010 Tea Talk Leo Lee: "Statistical inferences for isoform expression in RNA-Seq" by Jiang and Wong, Bioinformatics 2009 25(8):1026-1032.
Dec 2, 2009 Tea Talk Tijmen Tieleman: Convolutional deep belief networks for scalable unsupervised learning of hierarchical representations by Honglak Lee, Roger Grosse, Rajesh Ranganath and Andrew Y. Ng.
Nov 25, 2009 Tea Talk Arnold Binas: "Fast Solvers and Efficient Implementations for Distance Metric Learning" by Kilian Q. Weinberger and Lawrence K. Saul
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 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 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).
Oct 28, 2009 Tea Talk Danny Tarlow: Joint optimization of segmentation and appearance models Sara Vicente, Vladimir Komogorov, Carsten Rother
Oct 21, 2009 Tea Talk Ben Marlin: Max Margin Restricted Boltzmann Machines.
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
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 16, 2009 Tea Talk Jasper Snoek: Healing the Relevance Vector Machine through Augmentation, by Carl Rasmussen and Joaquin Quinonero-Candela
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
Apr 29, 2009 Tea Talk Ilya Sutskever: Linear spatial pyramid matching using sparse coding for image classification by Yang, Yu, Gong, and Huang
Apr 22, 2009 Tea Talk Maks Volkvos: COFIRANK - Maximum Margin Matrix Factorization for Collaborative Ranking
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 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.
Feb 25, 2009 Tea Talk Eddie Ng: Most Likely Heteroscedastic Gaussian Process Regression By Kersting, Plagemann, Pfaff, and Burgard.
Feb 11, 2009 Tea Talk Andriy Mnih: Topic Models Conditioned on Arbitrary Features with Dirichlet-multinomial Regression., by David Mimno and Andrew McCallum
Feb 4, 2009 Tea Talk Ruslan Salakhutdinov: Fixing max-product: Convergent message passing algorithms for MAP LP-relaxations, by Amir Globerson , Tommi Jaakkola
Jan 21, 2009 Tea Talk David Warde-Farley: Efficient Inference in Phylogenetic InDel Trees by Bouchard-Cote, Jordan, and Klein.
Jan 14, 2009 Tea Talk Jasper Snoek: Histograms of Oriented Gradients for Human Detection by Dalal and Triggs.
Dec 3, 2008 Tea Talk Alex Krizhevsky: An efficient parallel algorithm for Contrastive Divergence.
Nov 26, 2008 Tea Talk Graham Taylor: Chapter 6 of Probabilistic Models for Music, Jean-Francois Paiement, PhD thesis
Sep 1, 2008 Tea Talk Past Tea Talks