Machine Learning Reading Group Papers

Schedule for Winter 2014

Meetings on Tuesdays 1-2 pm in KEC 2057

Date Presenter Paper Authors
1/14/2014 Weng-Keen Wong The Indian Buffet Process: An Introduction and Review (up to Section 2.4) T. L. Griffiths and Z. Ghahramani
1/21/2014 Weng-Keen Wong The Indian Buffet Process: An Introduction and Review (Section 2.4 to the end) T. L. Griffiths and Z. Ghahramani
1/28/2014 Shubhomoy Das Nonparametric Latent Feature Models for Link Prediction K. T. Miller, T. L. Griffiths and M. I. Jordan
2/4/2014 Behrooz Mahasseni Nonparametric Variational Inference S. J. Gershman, M. D. Hoffman and D. M. Blei
2/11/2014 Travis Moore Stochastic Variational Inference (Part 1) M. D. Hoffman, D. M. Blei, C. Wang and J. Paisley
2/18/2014 Travis Moore Stochastic Variational Inference (Part 2) M. D. Hoffman, D. M. Blei, C. Wang and J. Paisley
3/4/2014 Weng-Keen Wong Expectation Propagation for Approximate Bayesian Inference
Video Lecture
Thomas P. Minka
3/4/2014 Andrew Emmott Copula Bayesian Networks Gal Elidan
3/11/2014 Behrooz Mahasseni Perturb-and-MAP Random Fields: Using Discrete Optimization to Learn and Sample from Energy Models (Appendix) G. Papandreou and A. L. Yuille

Papers we might read for Spring 2014

TBD TBD Multiple Instance Learning on Structured Data D. Zhang, Y. Liu, L. Si, J. Zhang and R. D. Lawrence
TBD TBD A Method of Moments for Mixture Models and Hidden Markov Models A. Anandkumar, D. Hsu and S. M. Kakade