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 25, 2009 Tea Talk Arnold Binas:
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