Fall 2010: CS591: Advanced Machine Learning

Fall, 2010
T/Th 3:30-4:45
Mitchell 105
Instructor: Terran Lane

Reading List/Schedule

Thurs, Aug 26
Kashima, H., Tsuda, K., and Inokuchi, A., Marginalized Kernels Between Labeled Graphs. ICML 2003.

Presenter: Terran Lane

Tues, Aug 31
Bligic, M., Mihalkova, L., and Getoor, L., Active Learning for Networked Data. ICML 2010.

Presenter: Diane Oyen

Thurs, Sep 2
Liang, P., Jordan, M., and Klein, D., Learning Programs: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach. ICML 2010.

Presenter: Ben Yackley

Tues, Sep 7
Zass, R. and Shashua, A., Probabilistic Graph and Hypergraph Matching. CVPR 2008.

Presenter: Yamel Torres

Thurs, Sep 9
Lecture/discussion
Tues, Sep 14
Distance Metric Learning for Large Margin Nearest Neighbor Classification Kilian Q. Weinberger, Lawrence K. Saul; Journal of Machine Learning Research, 10(Feb):207-244, 2009.

Presenter: Lucas Chavez

Thurs, Sep 16
Tom Mitchell's work on "never ending learning":
Tues, Sep 21
Learning in the presence of concept drift and hidden contexts. Gerhard Widmer and Miroslav Kubat; Machine Learning 23(1), pp 69--101, 1996. DOI: 10.1007/BF00116900

Presenter: Stephen McCracken

Thurs, Sep 23
Lifelong Robotic Learning. Thrun, S. and Mitchell, T. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 15:25-46, 1995. (This is Thrun's personal preprint and it is missing a number of figures. I haven't found a good online copy available through UNM yet; if somebody finds one, please let the rest of the class know.)

Presenter: Nick Malone

Tues, Sep 28
Last, M., Online Classification of Nonstationary Data Streams. Intelligent Data Analysis 6 (2002) pp 129-147.

Presenter: Armida Jaurequi Carbajal

Thurs, Sep 30
Griffiths, T. L. and Ghahramani, Z., Infinite Latent Feature Models and the Indian Buffet Process.

Presenter: George Stelle

Tues, Oct 5
Kunegis, J. and Lommatzsch, A., Learning spectral graph transformations. ICML 2009. DOI: 10.1145/1553374.1553447

Presenter: Blake Anderson

Thurs, Oct 7
Discussion
Tues, Oct 12
Palatucci, M., Hinton, G., Pomerleau, D., and Mitchell, T. M. Zero-shot learning with semantic output codes. NIPS 2009.

Presenter: Diane Oyen

Thurs, Oct 14
Fall break! Go spend some time playing!
Tues, Oct 19
Blei, D., Ng, A., and Jordan, M. I., Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Journal of Machine Learning Research 3(Jan):993-1022, 2003.

Presenter: Sheng Zha

Thurs, Oct 21
Schulz, D., Burgard, W., Fox, D., and Cremers, A.B.Tracking multiple moving objects with a mobile robot. Proc. IEEE Conf on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2001. (CVPR 2001). doi: 10.1109/CVPR.2001.990499

Presenter: Nate Gauntt

Tues, Oct 26
Bach, S.H., & Maloof, M.A. (2008). Paired learners for concept drift. Proc. Eighth IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-2008), 23–32. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Press. doi: 10.1109/ICDM.2008.119

Presenter: John Donahue

Thurs, Oct 28
Lihong Li, Wei Chu, John Langford, Robert Schapire, A Contextual Bandit Approach to Personalized News Article Recommendation. Proc. 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010).

Presenter: TBA

Tues, Nov 2
Open Discussion

Presenter: Terran Lane

Thurs, Nov 4
Siddhartha Chib and Edward Greenberg, Understanding the Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm. The American Statistician, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Nov., 1995), pp. 327-335.

Presenter: Lucas Chavez

Tues, Nov 9
Tomassini, Lorenzo, Peter Reichert, Reto Knutti, Thomas F. Stocker,and Mark E. Borsuk, Robust Bayesian Uncertainty Analysis of Climate System Properties Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods. J. Climate, 20, 1239–1254. 2007. doi: 10.1175/JCLI4064.1

Presenter: Ben Yackley

Thurs, Nov 11
Yunus Saatci, Ryan Turner, Carl Rasmussen, Gaussian Process Change Point Models. ICML 2010.

Presenter: Blake Anderson

Tues, Nov 16
Costa, F. and De Brave, K., Fast Neighborhood Subgraph Pairwise Distance Kernel. ICML 2010.

Presenter: Stephen McCracken

Thurs, Nov 18
Xuan, X. and Murphy, K., Modeling changing dependency structure in multivariate time series. ICML 2007.

Presenter: Andrew Yan

Tues, Nov 23
Open Discussion

Presenter: Terran Lane

Thurs, Nov 25
Turkey day! No class.
Tues, Nov 30
In-class project presentations

Presenters:

  • Diane Oyen
  • Andrew Yan
  • Armida Carbajal
Thurs, Dec 2
In-class project presentations

Presenters:

  • Yamel Torres
  • George Stelle
  • Ben Yackley
Tues, Dec 7
In-class project presentations

Presenters:

  • Nick Malone
  • Lucas Chavez
  • John Donahue
Thurs, Dec 9
In-class project presentations

Presenters:

  • Sheng Zha
  • Blake Anderson
  • Stephen McCracken

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