Machine Learning Reading Group
Admins: Nikos, Ainur, Ruben

What is the MLDG?

It is an informal group for discussing the latest work in the field of Machine Learning. We usually discuss a paper from a recent conference(NIPS,ICML..) each meeting.

When and where do we meet?

This Fall we will meet every Wednesday@4:30pm in 5126 Upson.

Who attends the MLDG?

The group is mainly attended by graduate students. The senior organizers are Nikos, Ainur and Ruben Sipos. Suggestions for topics or papers to discuss are always welcome.

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Latest News

Anshumali, Hema and Abhishek all had papers accepted at NIPS.

Papers Read

- Fall 2011

Date	Topic	Paper	Discussion Leader
9/7	Deep-Learning, Graphical Models	Sum-Product Networks: A New Deep Architecture	TBD

- Spring 2011

Date	Topic	Paper	Discussion Leader
4/29, 5/6, 5/13	Variational Methods	Tutorial on Variational Approximation Methods	Nikos
4/22	Deep Learning	Deep Boltzman Machines	Ainur
4/15	Deep Learning	Multimodal Deep Learning	Akram
4/8	Deep Learning	Fast Learning Alg. for Deep Belief Nets	Akram
4/1	Semi-Supervised Learning	Optimal Reverse Prediction	Nikos
3/11	Game Theory and Learning	Game-Theoretic Approach to Apprenticeship Learning	Ruben
3/4	Game Theory and Learning	Game Theory, On-line Prediction and Boosting	Karthik
2/25	Multi-Task Learning	Tree-Guided Group Lasso for Multi-Task Regression with Structured Sparsity	Bishan

- Fall 2010

Date	Topic	Paper	Discussion Leader
11/12	Vision	A Neuromorphic Approach to Computer Vision	Jason
11/5	Metric Learning	Metric Learning to Rank	Karthik
10/29	Clustering	Mining Clustering Dimensions	Ruben

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