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Sun Dec 2nd 04:00 - 08:00 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
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Mon Dec 3rd 08:00 - 09:30 AM @ Top of the Wheel (12th Floor Harveys) and Harveys Convention Center Floor Garden Room
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Mon Dec 3rd 08:00 AM - 06:00 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
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Mon Dec 3rd 09:30 - 11:30 AM @ Emerald Bay A, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Exact Approximate Learning
Paul Fearnhead
Tutorial
Mon Dec 3rd 09:30 - 11:30 AM @ Emerald Bay B, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Representation, Inference and Learning in Structured Statistical Models
Lise Getoor
Tutorial
Mon Dec 3rd 10:00 - 10:30 AM @ None
Coffee break
Tutorial
Mon Dec 3rd 01:00 - 03:00 PM @ Emerald Bay B, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Machine Learning for Student Learning
Emma Brunskill · Geoffrey J Gordon
Tutorial
Mon Dec 3rd 01:00 - 03:00 PM @ Emerald Bay A, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
User-Friendly Tools for Studying Random Matrices
Joel A Tropp
Tutorial
Mon Dec 3rd 03:00 - 03:30 PM @ None
Coffee break
Tutorial
Mon Dec 3rd 03:30 - 05:30 PM @ Emerald Bay A, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Stochastic Search and Optimization
James Spall
Tutorial
Mon Dec 3rd 03:30 - 05:30 PM @ Emerald Bay B, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Consciousness and Information Theory
Giulio Tononi
Talk
Mon Dec 3rd 06:30 - 06:55 PM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Opening Remarks and Awards
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Feature Clustering for Accelerating Parallel Coordinate Descent
Chad Scherrer · Ambuj Tewari · Mahantesh Halappanavar · David Haglin
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning Halfspaces with the Zero-One Loss: Time-Accuracy Tradeoffs
Aharon Birnbaum · Shai Shalev-Shwartz
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Why MCA? Nonlinear Spike-and-slab Sparse Coding for Neurally Plausible Image Encoding
Jacquelyn A Shelton · Philip Sterne · Jörg Bornschein · Abdul Saboor Sheikh · Jörg Lücke
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Towards a learning-theoretic analysis of spike-timing dependent plasticity
David Balduzzi · Michel Besserve
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Controlled Recognition Bounds for Visual Learning and Exploration
Vasiliy Karasev · Alessandro Chiuso · Stefano Soatto
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Synchronization can Control Regularization in Neural Systems via Correlated Noise Processes
Jake Bouvrie · Jean-Jacques Slotine
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Multiresolution analysis on the symmetric group
Risi Kondor · Walter H Dempsey
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Wavelet based multi-scale shape features on arbitrary surfaces for cortical thickness discrimination
Won Hwa Kim · Deepti Pachauri · Charles R Hatt · Moo. K Chung · Sterling C Johnson · Vikas Singh
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Density-Difference Estimation
Masashi Sugiyama · Takafumi Kanamori · Taiji Suzuki · Marthinus C du Plessis · Song Liu · Ichiro Takeuchi
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Scalable CUR Matrix Decomposition Algorithm: Lower Time Complexity and Tighter Bound
Shusen Wang · Zhihua Zhang
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Nonconvex Penalization, Levy Processes and Concave Conjugates
Zhihua Zhang · Bojun Tu
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Ensemble weighted kernel estimators for multivariate entropy estimation
Kumar Sricharan · Alfred Hero
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Scalable nonconvex inexact proximal splitting
Suvrit Sra
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Assessing Blinding in Clinical Trials
Ognjen Arandjelovic
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Spiking and saturating dendrites differentially expand single neuron computation capacity.
Romain Cazé · Mark Humphries · Boris S Gutkin
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
How They Vote: Issue-Adjusted Models of Legislative Behavior
Sean Gerrish · David Blei
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
On the connections between saliency and tracking
Vijay Mahadevan · Nuno Vasconcelos
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Optimal kernel choice for large-scale two-sample tests
Arthur Gretton · Bharath Sriperumbudur · Dino Sejdinovic · Heiko Strathmann · Sivaraman Balakrishnan · Massimiliano Pontil · Kenji Fukumizu
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
The representer theorem for Hilbert spaces: a necessary and sufficient condition
Francesco Dinuzzo · Bernhard Schölkopf
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Coding efficiency and detectability of rate fluctuations with non-Poisson neuronal firing
Shinsuke Koyama
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
The Bethe Partition Function of Log-supermodular Graphical Models
Nicholas Ruozzi
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning the Dependency Structure of Latent Factors
Yunlong He · Yanjun Qi · koray kavukcuoglu · Haesun Park
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Multi-scale Hyper-time Hardware Emulation of Human Motor Nervous System Based on Spiking Neurons using FPGA
Chuanxin Niu · Sirish Nandyala · Won Joon Sohn · Terence Sanger
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Convergence and Energy Landscape for Cheeger Cut Clustering
Xavier Bresson · Thomas Laurent · David Uminsky · James von Brecht
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Tight Bounds on Redundancy and Distinguishability of Label-Invariant Distributions
Jayadev Acharya · Hirakendu Das · Alon Orlitsky
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Near-optimal Differentially Private Principal Components
Kamalika Chaudhuri · Anand D Sarwate · Kaushik Sinha
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
One Permutation Hashing
Ping Li · Art B Owen · Cun-Hui Zhang
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Projection Retrieval for Classification
Madalina Fiterau · Artur Dubrawski
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Nonparametric Conjugate Prior Distribution for the Maximizing Argument of a Noisy Function
Pedro A Ortega · Tim Genewein · Jordi Grau-Moya · David Balduzzi · Daniel A Braun
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Recognizing Activities by Attribute Dynamics
Weixin Li · Nuno Vasconcelos
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
The Time-Marginalized Coalescent Prior for Hierarchical Clustering
Levi Boyles · Max Welling
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Practical Bayesian Optimization of Machine Learning Algorithms
Jasper Snoek · Hugo Larochelle · Ryan P Adams
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Submodular Bregman Divergences with Applications
Rishabh K Iyer · Jeff A Bilmes
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Sparse Approximate Manifolds for Differential Geometric MCMC
Ben Calderhead · Matyas A Sustik
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Scalable imputation of genetic data with a discrete fragmentation-coagulation process
Lloyd T Elliott · Yee Whye Teh
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Deep Neural Networks Segment Neuronal Membranes in Electron Microscopy Images
Dan Ciresan · Alessandro Giusti · luca Maria Gambardella · Jürgen Schmidhuber
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning visual motion in recurrent neural networks
Marius Pachitariu · Maneesh Sahani
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Efficient Reinforcement Learning for High Dimensional Linear Quadratic Systems
Morteza Ibrahimi · Adel Javanmard · Benjamin Van Roy
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Exponential Concentration for Mutual Information Estimation with Application to Forests
Han Liu · John Lafferty · Larry Wasserman
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Polynomial-time Form of Robust Regression
Yao-Liang Yu · Özlem Aslan · Dale Schuurmans
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A P300 BCI for the Masses: Prior Information Enables Instant Unsupervised Spelling
Pieter-Jan Kindermans · Hannes Verschore · David Verstraeten · Benjamin Schrauwen
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Approximate Message Passing with Consistent Parameter Estimation and Applications to Sparse Learning
Ulugbek S Kamilov · Sundeep Rangan · Alyson K Fletcher · MIchael Unser
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Supervised Learning with Similarity Functions
Puru Kar · Prateek Jain
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
On the Sample Complexity of Robust PCA
Matthew Coudron · Gilad Lerman
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Simple and Practical Algorithm for Differentially Private Data Release
Moritz Hardt · Katrina Ligett · Frank McSherry
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Divide-and-Conquer Method for Sparse Inverse Covariance Estimation
Cho-Jui Hsieh · Inderjit S Dhillon · Pradeep K Ravikumar · Arindam Banerjee
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Action-Model Based Multi-agent Plan Recognition
Hankz Hankui Zhuo · Qiang Yang · Subbarao Kambhampati
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Rational inference of relative preferences
Nisheeth Srivastava · Paul R Schrater
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Online L1-Dictionary Learning with Application to Novel Document Detection
Shiva P Kasiviswanathan · Huahua Wang · Arindam Banerjee · Prem Melville
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Slice sampling normalized kernel-weighted completely random measure mixture models
Nicholas Foti · Sinead A Williamson
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Algorithms for Learning Markov Field Policies
Abdeslam Boularias · Oliver B Kroemer · Jan R Peters
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning the Architecture of Sum-Product Networks Using Clustering on Variables
Aaron Dennis · Dan Ventura
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Bayesian estimation of discrete entropy with mixtures of stick-breaking priors
Evan W Archer · Jonathan W Pillow · Il Memming Park
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Perceptron Learning of SAT
Alex Flint · Matthew B Blaschko
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
The Coloured Noise Expansion and Parameter Estimation of Diffusion Processes
Simon Lyons · Amos J Storkey · Simo Sarkka
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Cardinality Restricted Boltzmann Machines
Kevin Swersky · Daniel Tarlow · Ilya Sutskever · Richard Zemel · Russ R Salakhutdinov · Ryan P Adams
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Tractable Objectives for Robust Policy Optimization
Katherine Chen · Michael Bowling
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
High-dimensional Nonparanormal Graph Estimation via Smooth-projected Neighborhood Pursuit
Tuo Zhao · Kathryn Roeder · Han Liu
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Efficient Monte Carlo Counterfactual Regret Minimization in Games with Many Player Actions
Richard G Gibson · Marc Lanctot · Neil Burch · Duane Szafron
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Homeostatic plasticity in Bayesian spiking networks as Expectation Maximization with posterior constraints
Stefan Habenschuss · Johannes Bill · Bernhard Nessler
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
MAP Inference in Chains using Column Generation
David Belanger · Alexandre T Passos · Sebastian Riedel · Andrew McCallum
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Persistent Homology for Learning Densities with Bounded Support
Florian T Pokorny · Carl Henrik Ek · Hedvig Kjellström · Danica Kragic
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Mixing Properties of Conditional Markov Chains with Unbounded Feature Functions
Mathieu Sinn · Bei Chen
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Meta-Gaussian Information Bottleneck
Melanie Rey · Volker Roth
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning curves for multi-task Gaussian process regression
Peter Sollich · Simon R Ashton
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Generalization Bounds for Domain Adaptation
Chao Zhang · Jieping Ye · Lei Zhang
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A System for Predicting Action Content On-Line and in Real Time before Action Onset in Humans – an Intracranial Study
Uri M Maoz · Shengxuan Ye · Ian Ross · Adam Mamelak · Christof Koch
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Waveform Driven Plasticity in BiFeO3 Memristive Devices: Model and Implementation
Christian Mayr · Paul Stärke · Johannes Partzsch · Love Cederstroem · Rene Schüffny · Yao Shuai · Nan Du · Heidemarie Schmidt
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Burn-in, bias, and the rationality of anchoring
Falk Lieder · Thomas Griffiths · Noah Goodman
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Isotropic Hashing
Weihao Kong · Wu-Jun Li
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Iterative Thresholding Algorithm for Sparse Inverse Covariance Estimation
Ben Rolfs · Bala Rajaratnam · Dominique Guillot · Arian Maleki · Ian Wong
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Bayesian Nonparametric Maximum Margin Matrix Factorization for Collaborative Prediction
Minjie Xu · Jun Zhu · Bo Zhang
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A lattice filter model of the visual pathway
Karol Gregor · Dmitri B Chklovskii
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Bayesian Probabilistic Co-Subspace Addition
Lei Shi
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Symbolic Dynamic Programming for Continuous State and Observation POMDPs
Zahra Zamani · Scott P Sanner · Pascal Poupart · Kristian Kersting
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Dip-means: an incremental clustering method for estimating the number of clusters
Argyris Kalogeratos · Aristidis Likas
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learned Prioritization for Trading Off Accuracy and Speed
Jiarong Jiang · Adam Teichert · Hal Daume III · Jason M Eisner
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Fusion with Diffusion for Robust Visual Tracking
Yu Zhou · Xiang Bai · Wenyu Liu · Longin Jan J Latecki
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Efficient Sampling for Bipartite Matching Problems
Maksims Volkovs · Richard Zemel
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Efficient coding connects prior and likelihood function in perceptual Bayesian inference
Xue-Xin Wei · Alan A Stocker
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Q-MKL: Matrix-induced Regularization in Multi-Kernel Learning with Applications to Neuroimaging
Chris Hinrichs · Vikas Singh · Jiming Peng · Sterling C Johnson
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning Multiple Tasks using Shared Hypotheses
Koby Crammer · Yishay Mansour
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Clustering by Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Using Graph Random Walk
Zhirong Yang · Tele Hao · Onur Dikmen · Xi Chen · Erkki Oja
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
The Lovasz $\theta$ function, SVMs and finding large dense subgraphs
Vinay Jethava · Anders Martinsson · Chiranjib Bhattacharyya · Devdatt Dubhashi
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
3D Gaze Concurrences from Head-mounted Cameras
Hyun Soo Park · eakta Jain · Yaser Sheikh
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Compressive Sensing MRI with Wavelet Tree Sparsity
Chen Chen · Junzhou Huang
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Clustering Aggregation as Maximum-Weight Independent Set
Nan Li · Longin Jan J Latecki
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Neurally Plausible Reinforcement Learning of Working Memory Tasks
Jaldert Rombouts · Sander M Bohte · Pieter Roelfsema
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Angular Quantization based Binary Codes for Fast Similarity Search
Yunchao Gong · Sanjiv Kumar · Vishal Verma · Svetlana Lazebnik
Poster
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Analog readout for optical reservoir computers
Anteo Smerieri · François Duport · Yvan Paquot · Marc Haelterman · Serge Massar
Session
Mon Dec 3rd 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Poster Session and Reception
Break
Tue Dec 4th 07:30 - 09:30 AM @ Top of the Wheel (12th Floor Harveys) and Harveys Convention Center Floor Garden Room
Breakfast Sponsored By Winton Capital
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Tue Dec 4th 08:00 AM - 06:00 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Registration Desk
Invited Talk
Tue Dec 4th 09:00 - 09:50 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Quantum information and the Brain
Scott Aaronson
Session
Tue Dec 4th 09:00 - 10:10 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 1
Raquel Urtasun
Oral
Tue Dec 4th 09:50 - 10:10 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
TCA: High Dimensional Principal Component Analysis for non-Gaussian Data
Fang Han · Han Liu
Session
Tue Dec 4th 10:10 - 10:30 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
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Tue Dec 4th 10:10 - 10:14 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Putting Bayes to sleep
Wouter M Koolen · Dmitri Adamskiy · Manfred K Warmuth
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 10:14 - 10:18 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Confusion-Based Online Learning and a Passive-Aggressive Scheme
Liva Ralaivola
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 10:18 - 10:22 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Volume Regularization for Binary Classification
Koby Crammer · Tal Wagner
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 10:22 - 10:26 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Fast Resampling Weighted v-Statistics
Chunxiao Zhou · jiseong Park · Yun Fu
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 10:26 - 10:30 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Pointwise Tracking the Optimal Regression Function
Yair Wiener · Ran El-Yaniv
Break
Tue Dec 4th 10:30 - 11:00 AM @ Harvey's
Coffee Break
Oral
Tue Dec 4th 11:00 - 11:20 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Spectral Learning of General Weighted Automata via Constrained Matrix Completion
Borja Balle · Mehryar Mohri
Session
Tue Dec 4th 11:00 - 11:40 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 2
Sebastien Bubeck
Oral
Tue Dec 4th 11:20 - 11:40 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Relax and Randomize : From Value to Algorithms
Sasha Rakhlin · Ohad Shamir · Karthik Sridharan
Session
Tue Dec 4th 11:40 AM - 12:05 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 2
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Tue Dec 4th 11:40 - 11:44 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
A Convex Formulation for Learning Scale-Free Networks via Submodular Relaxation
Aaron Defazio · Tiberio Caetano
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 11:44 - 11:48 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Active Comparison of Prediction Models
Christoph Sawade · Niels Landwehr · Tobias Scheffer
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 11:48 - 11:52 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Entangled Monte Carlo
Seong-Hwan Jun · Liangliang Wang · Alexandre Bouchard-Côté
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 11:52 AM - 11:59 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Modelling Reciprocating Relationships with Hawkes processes
Charles Blundell · Katherine A Heller · Jeff Beck
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 11:56 AM - 12:00 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Continuous Relaxations for Discrete Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
Zoubin Ghahramani · Yichuan Zhang · Charles Sutton · Amos J Storkey
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 12:00 - 12:04 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Efficient high dimensional maximum entropy modeling via symmetric partition functions
Paul Vernaza · Drew Bagnell
Break
Tue Dec 4th 12:05 - 02:00 PM @ None
Lunch Break
Invited Talk
Tue Dec 4th 02:00 - 02:50 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Classification with Deep Invariant Scattering Networks
Stephane Mallat
Session
Tue Dec 4th 02:00 - 03:30 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 3
Lin Xiao
Oral
Tue Dec 4th 02:50 - 03:10 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
A Stochastic Gradient Method with an Exponential Convergence 
Rate for Finite Training Sets
Nicolas Le Roux · Mark Schmidt · Francis Bach
Oral
Tue Dec 4th 03:10 - 03:30 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Approximating Concavely Parameterized Optimization Problems
Joachim Giesen · Jens K Mueller · Soeren Laue · Sascha Swiercy
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Tue Dec 4th 03:30 - 03:50 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 3
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Tue Dec 4th 03:30 - 03:34 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
A quasi-Newton proximal splitting method
Stephen Becker · Jalal Fadili
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 03:34 - 03:38 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Factoring nonnegative matrices with linear programs
Benjamin Recht · Christopher Re · Joel A Tropp · Victor Bittorf
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 03:38 - 03:42 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Scaled Gradients on Grassmann Manifolds for Matrix Completion
Thanh Ngo · Yousef Saad
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 03:42 - 03:46 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Multi-criteria Anomaly Detection using Pareto Depth Analysis
Mark Hsiao · Kevin S Xu · Jeff Calder · Alfred Hero
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 03:46 - 03:50 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation with Non-Parametric Copulas
David Lopez-Paz · José Miguel Hernández-Lobato · Bernhard Schölkopf
Break
Tue Dec 4th 03:50 - 04:20 PM @ Harvey's
Coffee Break
Oral
Tue Dec 4th 04:20 - 04:40 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Spectral learning of linear dynamics from generalised-linear observations with application to neural population data
Lars Buesing · Jakob H Macke · Maneesh Sahani
Session
Tue Dec 4th 04:20 - 05:40 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 4
Gunnar Rätsch
Oral
Tue Dec 4th 04:40 - 05:00 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
High-Order Multi-Task Feature Learning to Identify Longitudinal Phenotypic Markers for Alzheimer Disease Progression Prediction
Hua Wang · Feiping Nie · Heng Huang · Jingwen Yan · Sungeun Kim · Shannon Risacher · Andrew Saykin · Li Shen
Oral
Tue Dec 4th 05:00 - 05:20 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Multimodal Learning with Deep Boltzmann Machines
Nitish Srivastava · Russ R Salakhutdinov
Oral
Tue Dec 4th 05:20 - 05:40 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Discriminative Learning of Sum-Product Networks
Robert Gens · Pedro M Domingos
Session
Tue Dec 4th 05:40 - 06:00 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 4
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 05:40 - 05:44 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Alex Krizhevsky · Ilya Sutskever · Geoffrey E Hinton
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 05:44 - 05:48 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Searching for objects driven by context
Bogdan Alexe · Nicolas Heess · Yee Whye Teh · Vittorio Ferrari
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 05:48 - 05:52 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
3D Object Detection and Viewpoint Estimation with a Deformable 3D Cuboid Model
Sanja Fidler · Sven Dickinson · Raquel Urtasun
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 05:52 - 05:56 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Analyzing 3D Objects in Cluttered Images
Mohsen Hejrati · Deva Ramanan
Spotlight
Tue Dec 4th 05:56 - 06:00 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Discriminatively Trained Sparse Code Gradients for Contour Detection
Xiaofeng Ren · Liefeng Bo
Demonstration
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor -Tahoe A & B
NCS: A Large-Scale Brain Simulator
Laurence C Jayet Bray · Devyani Tanna · Frederick Harris, Jr
Demonstration
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor -Tahoe A & B
A Stochastic Spiking Network Model of Sensorimotor Control
Atiyeh Ghoreyshi · Terence Sanger · John Rocamora
Demonstration
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor -Tahoe A & B
EVA: Engine for Visual Annotation
Jia Deng · Joanathan Krause · Zhiheng Huang · Alexander C Berg · Fei Fei F Li
Demonstration
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor -Tahoe A & B
Ubiquitous Content: How musicians will search for every riff, musical phrase, and idea ever recorded.
Jay LeBoeuf
Demonstration
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor -Tahoe A & B
Gesture recognition with Kinect
Isabelle Guyon
Demonstration
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor -Tahoe C
Gait analysis using the Kinect sensor
Moshe Gabel · Erin Renshaw · Assaf Schuster · Ran Gilad-Bachrach
Demonstration
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor -Tahoe A & B
Real-time Fusion/normalization of Multiple SVM with libMR
Terrance Boult
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning Probability Measures with respect to Optimal Transport Metrics
Guille D Canas · Lorenzo Rosasco
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning with Target Prior
Zuoguan Wang · Siwei Lyu · Gerwin Schalk · Qiang Ji
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Modeling the Forgetting Process using Image Regions
Aditya Khosla · Jianxiong Xiao · Antonio Torralba · Aude Oliva
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Fast Bayesian Inference for Non-Conjugate Gaussian Process Regression
Emtiyaz E Khan · Shakir Mohamed · Kevin P Murphy
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Provable ICA with Unknown Gaussian Noise, with Implications for Gaussian Mixtures and Autoencoders
Sanjeev Arora · Rong Ge · Ankur Moitra · Sushant Sachdeva
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Fast Resampling Weighted v-Statistics
Chunxiao Zhou · jiseong Park · Yun Fu
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Max-Margin Structured Output Regression for Spatio-Temporal Action Localization
Du Tran · Junsong Yuan
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A systematic approach to extracting semantic information from functional MRI data
Francisco Pereira · Matthew Botvinick
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Bayesian active learning with localized priors for fast receptive field characterization
Mijung Park · Jonathan W Pillow
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Online Sum-Product Computation
Mark J Herbster · Fabio Vitale · Stephen Pasteris
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Stochastic Gradient Descent with Only One Projection
Mehrdad Mahdavi · Tianbao Yang · Rong Jin · Shenghuo Zhu
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Multimodal Learning with Deep Boltzmann Machines
Nitish Srivastava · Russ R Salakhutdinov
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Volume Regularization for Binary Classification
Koby Crammer · Tal Wagner
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Accelerated Training for Matrix-norm Regularization: A Boosting Approach
Xinhua Zhang · Yao-Liang Yu · Dale Schuurmans
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Geometric take on Metric Learning
Søren Hauberg · Oren Freifeld · Michael J Black
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Multi-Task Averaging
Sergey Feldman · Maya R Gupta · Bela A Frigyik
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Active Learning of Model Evidence Using Bayesian Quadrature
Michael A Osborne · David K Duvenaud · Roman Garnett · Carl Rasmussen · Stephen J Roberts · Zoubin Ghahramani
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
From Deformations to Parts: Motion-based Segmentation of 3D Objects
Soumya Ghosh · Erik B Sudderth · Matthew Loper · Michael J Black
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Stochastic optimization and sparse statistical recovery: Optimal algorithms for high dimensions
Alekh Agarwal · Sahand N Negahban · Martin J Wainwright
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Risk-Aversion in Multi-armed Bandits
Amir Sani · Alessandro Lazaric · Remi Munos
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
The Perturbed Variation
Maayan Harel · Shie Mannor
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Diffusion Decision Making for Adaptive k-Nearest Neighbor Classification
Yung-Kyun Noh · Frank Park · Daniel D Lee
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Discriminatively Trained Sparse Code Gradients for Contour Detection
Xiaofeng Ren · Liefeng Bo
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Slice Normalized Dynamic Markov Logic Networks
Tivadar Papai · Henry Kautz · Daniel Stefankovic
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Analyzing 3D Objects in Cluttered Images
Mohsen Hejrati · Deva Ramanan
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
3D Object Detection and Viewpoint Estimation with a Deformable 3D Cuboid Model
Sanja Fidler · Sven Dickinson · Raquel Urtasun
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Fully Bayesian inference for neural models with negative-binomial spiking
Jonathan W Pillow · James Scott
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Convex Multi-view Subspace Learning
Martha White · Yao-Liang Yu · Xinhua Zhang · Dale Schuurmans
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Repulsive Mixtures
FRANCESCA PETRALIA · Vinayak A Rao · David B Dunson
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Better Way to Pre-Train Deep Boltzmann Machines
Russ R Salakhutdinov · Geoffrey E Hinton
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
LUCID: Locally Uniform Comparison Image Descriptor
Andrew M Ziegler · Eric Christiansen · David Kriegman · Serge Belongie
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Approximating Concavely Parameterized Optimization Problems
Joachim Giesen · Jens K Mueller · Soeren Laue · Sascha Swiercy
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Forward-Backward Activation Algorithm for Hierarchical Hidden Markov Models
Kei Wakabayashi · Takao Miura
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Hierarchical Optimistic Region Selection driven by Curiosity
Odalric-Ambrym Maillard
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Approximating Equilibria in Sequential Auctions with Incomplete Information and Multi-Unit Demand
Amy Greenwald · Jiacui Li · Eric Sodomka
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Bayesian Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Feng Cao · Soumya Ray
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Continuous Relaxations for Discrete Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
Zoubin Ghahramani · Yichuan Zhang · Charles Sutton · Amos J Storkey
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Small-Variance Asymptotics for Exponential Family Dirichlet Process Mixture Models
Ke Jiang · Brian Kulis · Michael I Jordan
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Entangled Monte Carlo
Seong-Hwan Jun · Liangliang Wang · Alexandre Bouchard-Côté
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Unsupervised template learning for fine-grained object recognition
Shulin Yang · Liefeng Bo · Jue Wang · Linda Shapiro
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Generative Model for Parts-based Object Segmentation
Ali Eslami · Chris Williams
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning with Partially Absorbing Random Walks
Xiao-Ming Wu · Zhenguo Li · Shih-Fu Chang · John Wright · Anthony Man-Cho So
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Convergence Rate Analysis of MAP Coordinate Minimization Algorithms
Ofer P Meshi · Tommi Jaakkola · Amir Globerson
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Minimizing Uncertainty in Pipelines
Nilesh Dalvi · Aditya Parameswaran · Vibhor Rastogi
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Minimizing Sparse High-Order Energies by Submodular Vertex-Cover
Andrew Delong · Olga Veksler · Anton Osokin · Yuri Boykov
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Adaptive Stratified Sampling for Monte-Carlo integration of Differentiable functions
Alexandra Carpentier · Remi Munos
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Globally Convergent Dual MAP LP Relaxation Solvers using Fenchel-Young Margins
Alex Schwing · Tamir Hazan · Marc Pollefeys · Raquel Urtasun
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Putting Bayes to sleep
Wouter M Koolen · Dmitri Adamskiy · Manfred K Warmuth
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Deep Representations and Codes for Image Auto-Annotation
Ryan Kiros · Csaba Szepesvari
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Density Propagation and Improved Bounds on the Partition Function
Stefano Ermon · Carla P Gomes · Ashish Sabharwal · Bart Selman
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Multiplicative Forests for Continuous-Time Processes
Jeremy C Weiss · Sriraam Natarajan · David Page
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Optimal Regularized Dual Averaging Methods for Stochastic Optimization
Xi Chen · Qihang Lin · Javier Pena
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Scaling MPE Inference for Constrained Continuous Markov Random Fields with Consensus Optimization
Stephen H Bach · Matthias Broecheler · Lise Getoor · Dianne P O'Leary
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Perfect Dimensionality Recovery by Variational Bayesian PCA
Shinichi Nakajima · Ryota Tomioka · Masashi Sugiyama · S. Derin Babacan
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Fast Variational Inference in the Conjugate Exponential Family
James J Hensman · Magnus Rattray · Neil D Lawrence
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Semi-supervised Eigenvectors for Locally-biased Learning
Toke Jansen Hansen · Michael W Mahoney
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Tensor Decomposition for Fast Parsing with Latent-Variable PCFGs
Shay Cohen · Michael Collins
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Online allocation and homogeneous partitioning for piecewise constant mean-approximation
Alexandra Carpentier · Odalric-Ambrym Maillard
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Spectral Learning of General Weighted Automata via Constrained Matrix Completion
Borja Balle · Mehryar Mohri
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
High Dimensional Semiparametric Scale-invariant Principal Component Analysis
Fang Han · Han Liu
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
TCA: High Dimensional Principal Component Analysis for non-Gaussian Data
Fang Han · Han Liu
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning about Canonical Views from Internet Image Collections
Elad Mezuman · Yair Weiss
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning High-Density Regions for a Generalized Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test in High-Dimensional Data
Assaf Glazer · Michael Lindenbaum · Shaul Markovitch
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Localizing 3D cuboids in single-view images
Jianxiong Xiao · Bryan C Russell · Antonio Torralba
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning to Align from Scratch
Gary B Huang · Marwan A Mattar · Honglak Lee · Erik G Learned-Miller
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
On Lifting the Gibbs Sampling Algorithm
Deepak Venugopal · Vibhav G Gogate
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
High Dimensional Transelliptical Graphical Models
Han Liu · Fang Han
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Causal discovery with scale-mixture model for spatiotemporal variance dependencies
Zhitang Chen · Kun Zhang · Laiwan CHAN
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Kernel Latent SVM for Visual Recognition
Weilong Yang · Yang Wang · Arash Vahdat · Greg Mori
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning Partially Observable Models Using Temporally Abstract Decision Trees
Erik Talvitie
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Semantic Kernel Forests from Multiple Taxonomies
Sung Ju Hwang · Kristen Grauman · Fei Sha
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Multi-criteria Anomaly Detection using Pareto Depth Analysis
Mark Hsiao · Kevin S Xu · Jeff Calder · Alfred Hero
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Calibrated Elastic Regularization in Matrix Completion
Cun-Hui Zhang · Tingni Sun
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Timely Object Recognition
Sergey K Karayev · Tobias Baumgartner · Mario Fritz · Trevor Darrell
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Phoneme Classification using Constrained Variational Gaussian Process Dynamical System
Hyunsin Park · Jongmin Kim · Sanghyuk Park · Sungrack Yun · Chang D. D Yoo
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Emergence of Object-Selective Features in Unsupervised Feature Learning
Adam Coates · Andrej Karpathy · Andrew Y Ng
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Matrix reconstruction with the local max norm
Rina Foygel · Nati Srebro · Russ R Salakhutdinov
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Spectral learning of linear dynamics from generalised-linear observations with application to neural population data
Lars Buesing · Jakob H Macke · Maneesh Sahani
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Scaled Gradients on Grassmann Manifolds for Matrix Completion
Thanh Ngo · Yousef Saad
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Minimization of Continuous Bethe Approximations: A Positive Variation
Jason Pacheco · Erik B Sudderth
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Finding Exemplars from Pairwise Dissimilarities via Simultaneous Sparse Recovery
Ehsan Elhamifar · Guillermo Sapiro · Rene Vidal
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Expectation Propagation in Gaussian Process Dynamical Systems
Marc P Deisenroth · Shakir Mohamed
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Stochastic Gradient Method with an Exponential Convergence 
Rate for Finite Training Sets
Nicolas Le Roux · Mark Schmidt · Francis Bach
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Latent Graphical Model Selection: Efficient Methods for Locally Tree-like Graphs
Anima Anandkumar · Ragupathyraj Valluvan
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Graphical Gaussian Vector for Image Categorization
Tatsuya Harada
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Polylog Pivot Steps Simplex Algorithm for Classification
Elad Hazan · Zohar S Karnin
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Training sparse natural image models with a fast Gibbs sampler of an extended state space
Lucas Theis · Jascha Sohl-Dickstein · Matthias Bethge
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Random function priors for exchangeable graphs and arrays
James R Lloyd · Dan M Roy · Peter Orbanz · Zoubin Ghahramani
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
On-line Reinforcement Learning Using Incremental Kernel-Based Stochastic Factorization
Andre S Barreto · Doina Precup · Joelle Pineau
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Active Comparison of Prediction Models
Christoph Sawade · Niels Landwehr · Tobias Scheffer
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Interpreting prediction markets: a stochastic approach
Nicolas Della Penna · Mark D Reid · Rafael M Frongillo
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Active Learning of Multi-Index Function Models
Hemant Tyagi · Volkan Cevher
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation with Non-Parametric Copulas
David Lopez-Paz · José Miguel Hernández-Lobato · Bernhard Schölkopf
Poster
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Finite Sample Convergence Rates of Zero-Order Stochastic Optimization Methods
John Duchi · Michael I Jordan · Martin J Wainwright · Andre Wibisono
Session
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Poster Session
Session
Tue Dec 4th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Demonstrations
Break
Wed Dec 5th 07:30 - 09:30 AM @ Top of the Wheel (12th Floor Harveys) and Harveys Convention Center Floor Garden Room
Breakfast
Placeholder
Wed Dec 5th 08:00 AM - 06:00 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Registration Desk
Posner Lecture
Wed Dec 5th 09:00 - 09:50 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Challenges for Machine Learning in Computational Sustainability
Thomas Dietterich
Session
Wed Dec 5th 09:00 - 10:10 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 5
Fei Sha
Oral
Wed Dec 5th 09:50 - 10:10 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Augmented-SVM: Automatic space partitioning for combining multiple non-linear dynamics
Ashwini Shukla · Aude Billard
Session
Wed Dec 5th 10:10 - 10:30 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 5
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 10:10 - 10:14 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Majorization for CRFs and Latent Likelihoods
Tony Jebara · Anna Choromanska
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 10:14 - 10:18 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Kernel Hyperalignment
Alexander Lorbert · Peter J Ramadge
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 10:18 - 10:22 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Learning Networks of Heterogeneous Influence
Nan Du · Le Song · Alex J Smola · Ming Yuan
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 10:22 - 10:26 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Learning from Distributions via Support Measure Machines
Krikamol Muandet · Kenji Fukumizu · Francesco Dinuzzo · Bernhard Schölkopf
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 10:26 - 10:30 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Multiclass Learning Approaches: A Theoretical Comparison with Implications
Amit Daniely · Sivan Sabato · Shai Shalev-Shwartz
Break
Wed Dec 5th 10:30 - 11:00 AM @ Harvey's
Coffee Break
Oral
Wed Dec 5th 11:00 - 11:20 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
On the Use of Non-Stationary Policies for Stationary Infinite-Horizon Markov Decision Processes
Bruno Scherrer · Boris Lesner
Session
Wed Dec 5th 11:00 - 11:40 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 6
Csaba Szepesvari
Oral
Wed Dec 5th 11:20 - 11:40 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
A Unifying Perspective of Parametric Policy Search Methods for Markov Decision Processes
Thomas Furmston · David Barber
Session
Wed Dec 5th 11:40 AM - 12:05 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 6
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 11:40 - 11:44 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Near Optimal Chernoff Bounds for Markov Decision Processes
Teodor Mihai Moldovan · Pieter Abbeel
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 11:44 - 11:48 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Regularized Off-Policy TD-Learning
Bo Liu · Sridhar Mahadevan · Ji Liu
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 11:48 - 11:52 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Human memory search as a random walk in a semantic network
Joshua T Abbott · Joseph L Austerweil · Thomas Griffiths
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 11:52 - 11:56 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Locating Changes in Highly Dependent Data with Unknown Number of Change Points
Azadeh Khaleghi · Daniil Ryabko
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 11:56 AM - 12:00 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Classification Calibration Dimension for General Multiclass Losses
Harish G Ramaswamy · Shivani Agarwal
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 12:00 - 12:04 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Multi-Stage Multi-Task Feature Learning
Pinghua Gong · Jieping Ye · Changshui Zhang
Break
Wed Dec 5th 12:05 - 02:00 PM @ None
Lunch Break
Invited Talk
Wed Dec 5th 02:00 - 02:50 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Signatures of Conscious Processing in the Human Brain
Stanislas Dehaene
Session
Wed Dec 5th 02:00 - 03:30 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 7
Katherine A Heller
Oral
Wed Dec 5th 02:50 - 03:10 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Privacy Aware Learning
John Duchi · Michael I Jordan · Martin J Wainwright
Oral
Wed Dec 5th 03:10 - 03:30 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
On the (Non-)existence of Convex, Calibrated Surrogate Losses for Ranking
Clément Calauzènes · Nicolas Usunier · Patrick Gallinari
Session
Wed Dec 5th 03:30 - 03:50 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 7
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 03:30 - 03:34 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Statistical Consistency of Ranking Methods in A Rank-Differentiable Probability Space
Yanyan Lan · Jiafeng Guo · Xueqi Cheng · Tie-Yan Liu
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 03:34 - 03:38 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Iterative ranking from pair-wise comparisons
Sahand N Negahban · Sewoong Oh · Devavrat Shah
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 03:38 - 03:42 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Hierarchical spike coding of sound
yan karklin · chaitu Ekanadham · Eero P Simoncelli
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 03:42 - 03:46 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Patient Risk Stratification for Hospital-Associated C. Diff as a Time-Series Classification Task
Jenna Wiens · John Guttag · Eric J Horvitz
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 03:46 - 03:50 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
On Multilabel Classification and Ranking with Partial Feedback
Claudio Gentile · Francesco Orabona
Break
Wed Dec 5th 03:50 - 04:20 PM @ None
Coffee Break
Oral
Wed Dec 5th 04:20 - 04:40 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Graphical Models via Generalized Linear Models
Eunho Yang · Pradeep K Ravikumar · Genevera I Allen · zhandong Liu
Session
Wed Dec 5th 04:20 - 05:40 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 8
Tiberio Caetano
Oral
Wed Dec 5th 04:40 - 05:00 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
No voodoo here! Learning discrete graphical models via inverse covariance estimation
Po-Ling Loh · Martin J Wainwright
Oral
Wed Dec 5th 05:00 - 05:20 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Near-Optimal MAP Inference for Determinantal Point Processes
Alex Kulesza · Jennifer A Gillenwater · Ben Taskar
Oral
Wed Dec 5th 05:20 - 05:40 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Bayesian nonparametric models for bipartite graphs
Francois Caron
Session
Wed Dec 5th 05:40 - 06:00 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 8
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 05:40 - 05:44 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Scalable Inference of Overlapping Communities
Prem K Gopalan · David Mimno · Sean Gerrish · Michael Freedman · David Blei
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 05:44 - 05:48 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling of Suicide Attempts
Francisco J. R. R Ruiz · Isabel Valera · Carlos Blanco · Fernando Perez-Cruz
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 05:48 - 05:52 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Augment-and-Conquer Negative Binomial Processes
Mingyuan Zhou · Lawrence Carin
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 05:52 - 05:56 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Symmetric Correspondence Topic Models for Multilingual Text Analysis
Kosuke Fukumasu · Koji Eguchi · Eric P Xing
Spotlight
Wed Dec 5th 05:56 - 06:00 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
A Spectral Algorithm for Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Anima Anandkumar · Dean P Foster · Daniel J Hsu · Sham M Kakade · Yi-Kai Liu
Demonstration
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor -Tahoe A & B
Cynomix: A Machine Learning Aided Workbench for Rapid Comprehension of Large Malware Corpora
Joshua D Saxe · David Mentis · Chris Greamo
Demonstration
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor -Tahoe C
The BUDS POMDP Spoken Dialogue System
Martin Szummer · Matthew Henderson · Catherine Breslin · Milica Gasic · Dongho Kim · Blaise Thomson · Pirros Tsiakoulis · Steve Young
Demonstration
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor -Tahoe A & B
GraphLab: A Framework For Machine Learning in the Cloud
Yucheng Low · Haijie Gu · Carlos Guestrin
Demonstration
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor -Tahoe A & B
Protocols and Structures for Inference: A RESTful API for Machine Learning Services
James Montgomery · Mark D Reid
Demonstration
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor -Tahoe A & B
Hardware Accelerated Belief Propagation
Shawn Hershey · Ben Vigoda
Demonstration
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor -Tahoe A & B
DIRTBIS - Distributed Real-Time Bayesian Inference Service
Ralf Herbrich
Demonstration
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor -Tahoe A & B
A Fast Accurate Training-less P300 Speller: Unsupervised Learning Uncovers new Possibilities
Pieter-Jan Kindermans · Hannes Verschore · David Verstraeten · Benjamin Schrauwen
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Label Ranking with Partial Abstention based on Thresholded Probabilistic Models
Weiwei Cheng · Eyke Huellermeier · Willem Waegeman · Volkmar Welker
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Adaptive Learning of Smoothing Functions: Application to Electricity Load Forecasting
Amadou Ba · Mathieu Sinn · Yannig Goude · Pascal Pompey
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Fiedler Random Fields: A Large-Scale Spectral Approach to Statistical Network Modeling
Antonino Freno · Mikaela Keller · Marc Tommasi
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Augment-and-Conquer Negative Binomial Processes
Mingyuan Zhou · Lawrence Carin
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Regularized Off-Policy TD-Learning
Bo Liu · Sridhar Mahadevan · Ji Liu
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Co-Regularized Hashing for Multimodal Data
Yi Zhen · Dit-Yan Yeung
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Visual Recognition using Embedded Feature Selection for Curvature Self-Similarity
Angela Eigenstetter · Bjorn Ommer
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Ancestor Sampling for Particle Gibbs
Fredrik Lindsten · Michael I Jordan · Thomas B Schön
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Modelling Reciprocating Relationships with Hawkes processes
Charles Blundell · Katherine A Heller · Jeff Beck
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Structured learning of Gaussian graphical models
Karthik Mohan · Michael J Chung · Seungyeop Han · Daniela Witten · Su-In Lee · Maryam Fazel
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Multi-task Vector Field Learning
Binbin Lin · Sen Yang · Chiyuan Zhang · Jieping Ye · Xiaofei He
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Confusion-Based Online Learning and a Passive-Aggressive Scheme
Liva Ralaivola
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
The variational hierarchical EM algorithm for clustering hidden Markov models.
Emanuele Coviello · Antoni B Chan · Gert Lanckriet
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Effective Split-Merge Monte Carlo Methods for Nonparametric Models of Sequential Data
Mike C Hughes · Emily Fox · Erik B Sudderth
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
High-Order Multi-Task Feature Learning to Identify Longitudinal Phenotypic Markers for Alzheimer Disease Progression Prediction
Hua Wang · Feiping Nie · Heng Huang · Jingwen Yan · Sungeun Kim · Shannon Risacher · Andrew Saykin · Li Shen
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Relax and Randomize : From Value to Algorithms
Sasha Rakhlin · Ohad Shamir · Karthik Sridharan
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Unsupervised Structure Discovery for Semantic Analysis of Audio
Sourish Chaudhuri · Bhiksha Raj
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Locating Changes in Highly Dependent Data with Unknown Number of Change Points
Azadeh Khaleghi · Daniil Ryabko
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Kernel Hyperalignment
Alexander Lorbert · Peter J Ramadge
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Human memory search as a random walk in a semantic network
Joshua T Abbott · Joseph L Austerweil · Thomas Griffiths
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Statistical Consistency of Ranking Methods in A Rank-Differentiable Probability Space
Yanyan Lan · Jiafeng Guo · Xueqi Cheng · Tie-Yan Liu
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Multiclass Learning with Simplex Coding
Youssef Mroueh · Tomaso A Poggio · Lorenzo Rosasco · Jean-Jacques Slotine
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
On Triangular versus Edge Representations --- Towards Scalable Modeling of Networks
Qirong Ho · Junming Yin · Eric P Xing
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Mirror Descent Meets Fixed Share (and feels no regret)
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi · Pierre Gaillard · Gabor Lugosi · Gilles Stoltz
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Minimax Multi-Task Learning and a Generalized Loss-Compositional Paradigm for MTL
Nishant A Mehta · Dongryeol Lee · Alexander Gray
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Truncation-free Online Variational Inference for Bayesian Nonparametric Models
Chong Wang · David Blei
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Optimal Neural Tuning Curves for Arbitrary Stimulus Distributions: Discrimax, Infomax and Minimum $L_p$ Loss
Jimmy Wang · Alan A Stocker · Daniel D Lee
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Affine Independent Variational Inference
Edward Challis · David Barber
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning Mixtures of Tree Graphical Models
Anima Anandkumar · Daniel J Hsu · Furong Huang · Sham M Kakade
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Symmetric Correspondence Topic Models for Multilingual Text Analysis
Kosuke Fukumasu · Koji Eguchi · Eric P Xing
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Sketch-Based Linear Value Function Approximation
Marc Bellemare · Joel Veness · Michael Bowling
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
FastEx: Fast Clustering with Exponential Families
Amr Ahmed · Sujith Ravi · Shravan M Narayanamurthy · Alex J Smola
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Graphical Models via Generalized Linear Models
Eunho Yang · Pradeep K Ravikumar · Genevera I Allen · zhandong Liu
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Context-Sensitive Decision Forests for Object Detection
Peter Kontschieder · Samuel Rota Bulò · Antonio Criminisi · Pushmeet Kohli · Marcello Pelillo · Horst Bischof
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Scalable Inference of Overlapping Communities
Prem K Gopalan · David Mimno · Sean Gerrish · Michael Freedman · David Blei
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
MCMC for continuous-time discrete-state systems
Vinayak A Rao · Yee Whye Teh
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Majorization for CRFs and Latent Likelihoods
Tony Jebara · Anna Choromanska
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Marginalized Particle Gaussian Process Regression
Yali Wang · Brahim Chaib-draa
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Proper losses for learning from partial labels
Jesus Cid-Sueiro
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Variational Inference for Crowdsourcing
Qiang Liu · Jian Peng · Alex T Ihler
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A mechanistic model of early sensory processing based on subtracting sparse representations
Shaul Druckmann · Tao Hu · Dmitri B Chklovskii
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Automatic Feature Induction for Stagewise Collaborative Filtering
Joonseok Lee · Mingxuan Sun · Seungyeon Kim · Guy Lebanon
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Nonparametric Bayesian Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Multiple Reward Functions
Jaedeug Choi · Kee-Eung Kim
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Multilabel Classification using Bayesian Compressed Sensing
Ashish Kapoor · Raajay Viswanathan · Prateek Jain
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Bayesian nonparametric models for ranked data
Francois Caron · Yee Whye Teh
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Efficient high dimensional maximum entropy modeling via symmetric partition functions
Paul Vernaza · Drew Bagnell
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Truly Nonparametric Online Variational Inference for Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes
Michael Bryant · Erik B Sudderth
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Neural Autoregressive Topic Model
Hugo Larochelle · Stanislas Lauly
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Unifying Perspective of Parametric Policy Search Methods for Markov Decision Processes
Thomas Furmston · David Barber
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Classification Calibration Dimension for General Multiclass Losses
Harish G Ramaswamy · Shivani Agarwal
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Near-Optimal MAP Inference for Determinantal Point Processes
Alex Kulesza · Jennifer A Gillenwater · Ben Taskar
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Privacy Aware Learning
John Duchi · Michael I Jordan · Martin J Wainwright
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Identifiability and Unmixing of Latent Parse Trees
Percy S Liang · Sham M Kakade · Daniel J Hsu
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Multiclass Learning Approaches: A Theoretical Comparison with Implications
Amit Daniely · Sivan Sabato · Shai Shalev-Shwartz
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Clustering Sparse Graphs
Yudong Chen · Sujay Sanghavi · Huan Xu
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Probabilistic Topic Coding for Superset Label Learning
Liping Liu · Thomas Dietterich
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Factorial LDA: Sparse Multi-Dimensional Text Models
Michael J Paul · Mark Dredze
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Augmented-SVM: Automatic space partitioning for combining multiple non-linear dynamics
Ashwini Shukla · Aude Billard
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Mandatory Leaf Node Prediction in Hierarchical Multilabel Classification
Wei Bi · James Kwok
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning Networks of Heterogeneous Influence
Nan Du · Le Song · Alex J Smola · Ming Yuan
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Bayesian Pedigree Analysis using Measure Factorization
Bonnie Kirkpatrick · Alexandre Bouchard-Côté
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Random Utility Theory for Social Choice: Theory and Algorithms
Hossein Azari Soufiani · David C Parkes · Lirong Xia
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Distributed Probabilistic Learning for Camera Networks with Missing Data
Sejong Yoon · Vladimir Pavlovic
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Best Arm Identification: A Unified Approach to Fixed Budget and Fixed Confidence
Victor Gabillon · Mohammad Ghavamzadeh · Alessandro Lazaric
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Dimensionality Dependent PAC-Bayes Margin Bound
Chi Jin · Liwei Wang
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A nonparametric variable clustering model
David A Knowles · Konstantina Palla · Zoubin Ghahramani
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Priors for Diversity in Generative Latent Variable Models
James Y Zou · Ryan P Adams
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Discriminative Learning of Sum-Product Networks
Robert Gens · Pedro M Domingos
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Mixability in Statistical Learning
Tim van Erven · Peter Grünwald · Mark D Reid · Robert C Williamson
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Hierarchical spike coding of sound
yan karklin · chaitu Ekanadham · Eero P Simoncelli
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Transferring Expectations in Model-based Reinforcement Learning
Trung T Nguyen · Tomi Silander · Tze Yun Leong
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A new metric on the manifold of kernel matrices with application to matrix geometric means
Suvrit Sra
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Communication-Efficient Algorithms for Statistical Optimization
Yuchen Zhang · John Duchi · Martin J Wainwright
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Super-Bit Locality-Sensitive Hashing
Jianqiu Ji · Jianmin Li · shuicheng yan · Bo Zhang · Qi Tian
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
On the (Non-)existence of Convex, Calibrated Surrogate Losses for Ranking
Clément Calauzènes · Nicolas Usunier · Patrick Gallinari
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Probabilistic Event Cascades for Alzheimer's disease
Jonathan Huang · Daniel C Alexander
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
No-Regret Algorithms for Unconstrained Online Convex Optimization
Matt Streeter · Brendan McMahan
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Dynamic Pruning of Factor Graphs for Maximum Marginal Prediction
Christoph H Lampert
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Local Supervised Learning through Space Partitioning
Joseph Wang · Venkatesh Saligrama
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Near Optimal Chernoff Bounds for Markov Decision Processes
Teodor Mihai Moldovan · Pieter Abbeel
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Distributed Non-Stochastic Experts
Varun Kanade · Zhenming Liu · Bozidar Radunovic
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A latent factor model for highly multi-relational data
Rodolphe Jenatton · Nicolas Le Roux · Antoine Bordes · Guillaume R Obozinski
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning as MAP Inference in Discrete Graphical Models
Tiberio Caetano · Xianghang Liu · James Petterson
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Simultaneously Leveraging Output and Task Structures for Multiple-Output Regression
Piyush Rai · Abhishek Kumar · Hal Daume III
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Convex Formulation for Learning Scale-Free Networks via Submodular Relaxation
Aaron Defazio · Tiberio Caetano
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Weighted Likelihood Policy Search with Model Selection
Tsuyoshi Ueno · Yoshinobu Kawahara · Kohei Hayashi · Takashi Washio
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Feature-aware Label Space Dimension Reduction for Multi-label Classification
Yao-Nan Chen · Hsuan-Tien Lin
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning Invariant Representations of Molecules for Atomization Energy Prediction
Grégoire Montavon · Katja Hansen · Siamac Fazli · Matthias Rupp · Franziska Biegler · Andreas Ziehe · Alexandre Tkatchenko · Anatole von Lilienfeld · Klaus-Robert Müller
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Spectral Algorithm for Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Anima Anandkumar · Dean P Foster · Daniel J Hsu · Sham M Kakade · Yi-Kai Liu
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Large Scale Distributed Deep Networks
Jeff Dean · Greg S Corrado · Rajat Monga · Kai Chen · Matthieu Devin · Quoc V Le · Mark Mao · Marc'Aurelio Ranzato · Andrew W Senior · Paul Tucker · Ke Yang · Andrew Y Ng
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Linear Time Active Learning Algorithm for Link Classification
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi · Claudio Gentile · Fabio Vitale · Giovanni Zappella
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
No voodoo here! Learning discrete graphical models via inverse covariance estimation
Po-Ling Loh · Martin J Wainwright
Poster
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Topology Constraints in Graphical Models
Marcelo Fiori · Pablo Muse · Guillermo Sapiro
Session
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Poster Session
Session
Wed Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Demonstrations
Break
Thu Dec 6th 07:30 - 09:30 AM @ Top of the Wheel (12th Floor Harveys) and Harveys Convention Center Floor Garden Room
Breakfast
Placeholder
Thu Dec 6th 08:00 AM - 06:00 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Registration Desk
Posner Lecture
Thu Dec 6th 09:00 - 09:50 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Suspicious Coincidences in the Brain
Terrence J Sejnowski
Session
Thu Dec 6th 09:00 - 10:10 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 9
Jean-Philippe Vert
Oral
Thu Dec 6th 09:50 - 10:10 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Strategic Impatience in Go/NoGo versus Forced-Choice Decision-Making
Pradeep Shenoy · Angela J Yu
Session
Thu Dec 6th 10:10 - 10:30 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 9
Spotlight
Thu Dec 6th 10:10 - 10:14 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Complex Inference in Neural Circuits with Probabilistic Population Codes and Topic Models
Jeff Beck · Katherine A Heller · Alexandre Pouget
Spotlight
Thu Dec 6th 10:14 - 10:18 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Identification of Recurrent Patterns in the Activation of Brain Networks
firdaus janoos · Weichang Li · Niranjan Subrahmanya · Istvan Morocz · William Wells
Spotlight
Thu Dec 6th 10:18 - 10:22 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Delay Compensation with Dynamical Synapses
C. C. Alan Fung · K. Y. Michael Wong · Si Wu
Spotlight
Thu Dec 6th 10:22 - 10:26 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Efficient Spike-Coding with Multiplicative Adaptation in a Spike Response Model
Sander M Bohte
Spotlight
Thu Dec 6th 10:26 - 10:30 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Deep Spatio-Temporal Architectures and Learning for Protein Structure Prediction
Pietro Di Lena · Pierre Baldi · Ken Nagata
Placeholder
Thu Dec 6th 10:30 - 10:50 AM @ Harvey's
Coffee Break
Invited Talk
Thu Dec 6th 10:50 - 11:40 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Dropout: A simple and effective way to improve neural networks
Geoffrey E Hinton · George E Dahl
Session
Thu Dec 6th 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 10
Alex J Smola
Oral
Thu Dec 6th 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Gradient Weights help Nonparametric Regressors
Samory Kpotufe · Abdeslam Boularias
Session
Thu Dec 6th 12:00 - 12:20 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 10
Spotlight
Thu Dec 6th 12:00 - 12:04 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Sparse Prediction with the $k$-Support Norm
Andreas Argyriou · Rina Foygel · Nati Srebro
Spotlight
Thu Dec 6th 12:04 - 12:08 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Compressive neural representation of sparse, high-dimensional probabilities
Xaq S Pitkow
Spotlight
Thu Dec 6th 12:08 - 12:12 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Exact and Stable Recovery of Sequences of Signals with Sparse Increments via Differential ℓ1-Minimization
Demba Ba · Behtash Babadi · Patrick Purdon · Emery Brown
Spotlight
Thu Dec 6th 12:16 - 12:20 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Selecting Diverse Features via Spectral Regularization
Abhimanyu Das · Anirban Dasgupta · Ravi Kumar
Talk
Thu Dec 6th 12:20 - 12:30 PM @ Harvey's
Closing Remarks
Break
Thu Dec 6th 12:30 - 02:00 PM @ None
Lunch Break
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
On the Use of Non-Stationary Policies for Stationary Infinite-Horizon Markov Decision Processes
Bruno Scherrer · Boris Lesner
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Value Pursuit Iteration
Amir-massoud Farahmand · Doina Precup
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Shifting Weights: Adapting Object Detectors from Image to Video
Kevin Tang · Vignesh Ramanathan · Fei Fei F Li · Daphne Koller
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Joint Modeling of a Matrix with Associated Text via Latent Binary Features
XianXing Zhang · Lawrence Carin
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Efficient Spike-Coding with Multiplicative Adaptation in a Spike Response Model
Sander M Bohte
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Fused sparsity and robust estimation for linear models with unknown variance
Arnak Dalalyan · Yin Chen
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Proximal Newton-type Methods for Minimizing Convex Objective Functions in Composite Form
Jason D Lee · Yuekai Sun · Michael Saunders
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Sparse Prediction with the $k$-Support Norm
Andreas Argyriou · Rina Foygel · Nati Srebro
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Bayesian models for Large-scale Hierarchical Classification
Siddharth Gopal · Yiming Yang · Bing Bai · Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
On Multilabel Classification and Ranking with Partial Feedback
Claudio Gentile · Francesco Orabona
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
GenDeR: A Generic Diversified Ranking Algorithm
Jingrui He · Hanghang Tong · Qiaozhu Mei · Bolek K Szymanski
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Bayesian Approach for Policy Learning from Trajectory Preference Queries
Aaron Wilson · Alan Fern · Prasad Tadepalli
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Neuronal spike generation mechanism as an oversampling, noise-shaping A-to-D converter
Dmitri B Chklovskii
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Hamming Distance Metric Learning
Mohammad Norouzi · Russ R Salakhutdinov · David J Fleet
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Probabilistic Low-Rank Subspace Clustering
S. Derin Babacan · Shinichi Nakajima · Minh Do
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Selecting Diverse Features via Spectral Regularization
Abhimanyu Das · Anirban Dasgupta · Ravi Kumar
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Monte Carlo Methods for Maximum Margin Supervised Topic Models
Qixia Jiang · Jun Zhu · Maosong Sun · Eric P Xing
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Parametric Local Metric Learning for Nearest Neighbor Classification
Jun Wang · Alexandros Kalousis · Adam Woznica
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Collaborative Gaussian Processes for Preference Learning
Neil Houlsby · José Miguel Hernández-Lobato · Ferenc Huszar · Zoubin Ghahramani
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Nonparametric Reduced Rank Regression
Rina Foygel · Michael Horrell · Mathias Drton · John Lafferty
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Efficient Bayes-Adaptive Reinforcement Learning using Sample-Based Search
Arthur Guez · David Silver · Peter Dayan
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Inverse Reinforcement Learning through Structured Classification
Edouard Klein · Matthieu Geist · BILAL PIOT · Olivier Pietquin
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Accuracy at the Top
Stephen Boyd · Corinna Cortes · Mehryar Mohri · Ana Radovanovic
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Searching for objects driven by context
Bogdan Alexe · Nicolas Heess · Yee Whye Teh · Vittorio Ferrari
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Communication/Computation Tradeoffs in Consensus-Based Distributed Optimization
Konstantinos Tsianos · Sean Lawlor · Michael Rabbat
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Natural Images, Gaussian Mixtures and Dead Leaves
Daniel Zoran · Yair Weiss
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Dual-Space Analysis of the Sparse Linear Model
David P Wipf
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A quasi-Newton proximal splitting method
Stephen Becker · Jalal Fadili
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Online Regret Bounds for Undiscounted Continuous Reinforcement Learning
Ronald Ortner · Daniil Ryabko
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Bayesian Warped Gaussian Processes
Miguel Lazaro-Gredilla
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Semi-Crowdsourced Clustering: Generalizing Crowd Labeling by Robust Distance Metric Learning
Jinfeng Yi · Rong Jin · Anil K Jain · Shaili Jain
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Multiple Choice Learning: Learning to Produce Multiple Structured Outputs
Abner Guzmán-Rivera · Dhruv Batra · Pushmeet Kohli
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Efficient and direct estimation of a neural subunit model for sensory coding
Brett Vintch · Andrew Zaharia · J Movshon · Eero P Simoncelli
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
The topographic unsupervised learning of natural sounds in the auditory cortex
Hiroki Terashima · Masato Okada
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Recursive Deep Learning on 3D Point Clouds
Richard Socher · Bharath Bath · Brody Huval · Christopher D Manning · Andrew Y Ng
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Bayesian nonparametric models for bipartite graphs
Francois Caron
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Dynamical And-Or Graph Learning for Object Shape Modeling and Detection
Xiaolong Wang · Liang Lin
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Multi-Stage Multi-Task Feature Learning
Pinghua Gong · Jieping Ye · Changshui Zhang
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Recovery of Sparse Probability Measures via Convex Programming
Mert Pilanci · Laurent El Ghaoui · Venkat Chandrasekaran
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning with Recursive Perceptual Representations
Oriol Vinyals · Yangqing Jia · Li Deng · Trevor Darrell
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Exact and Stable Recovery of Sequences of Signals with Sparse Increments via Differential ℓ1-Minimization
Demba Ba · Behtash Babadi · Patrick Purdon · Emery Brown
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning to Discover Social Circles in Ego Networks
Julian J McAuley · Jure Leskovec
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Identification of Recurrent Patterns in the Activation of Brain Networks
firdaus janoos · Weichang Li · Niranjan Subrahmanya · Istvan Morocz · William Wells
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Factoring nonnegative matrices with linear programs
Benjamin Recht · Christopher Re · Joel A Tropp · Victor Bittorf
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Deep Spatio-Temporal Architectures and Learning for Protein Structure Prediction
Pietro Di Lena · Pierre Baldi · Ken Nagata
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Nystr{ö}m Method vs Random Fourier Features: A Theoretical and Empirical Comparison
Tianbao Yang · Yu-Feng Li · Mehrdad Mahdavi · Rong Jin · Zhi-Hua Zhou
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Patient Risk Stratification for Hospital-Associated C. Diff as a Time-Series Classification Task
Jenna Wiens · John Guttag · Eric J Horvitz
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Bandit Algorithms boost Brain Computer Interfaces for motor-task selection of a brain-controlled button
Joan Fruitet · Alexandra Carpentier · Remi Munos · Maureen Clerc
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Pointwise Tracking the Optimal Regression Function
Yair Wiener · Ran El-Yaniv
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Coupling Nonparametric Mixtures via Latent Dirichlet Processes
Dahua Lin · John W Fisher III
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Reducing statistical time-series problems to binary classification
Daniil Ryabko · Jeremie Mary
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Nonparanormal Belief Propagation (NPBP)
Gal Elidan · Cobi Cario
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Gradient-based kernel method for feature extraction and variable selection
Kenji Fukumizu · Chenlei Leng
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Delay Compensation with Dynamical Synapses
C. C. Alan Fung · K. Y. Michael Wong · Si Wu
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning from the Wisdom of Crowds by Minimax Entropy
Dengyong Zhou · John C Platt · Sumit Basu · Yi Mao
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Non-parametric Approximate Dynamic Programming via the Kernel Method
Nikhil Bhat · Ciamac C Moallemi · Vivek Farias
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Image Denoising and Inpainting with Deep Neural Networks
Junyuan Xie · Linli Xu · Enhong Chen
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning optimal spike-based representations
Ralph Bourdoukan · David Barrett · Christian K Machens · Sophie Denève
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Collaborative Ranking With 17 Parameters
Maksims Volkovs · Richard Zemel
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Strategic Impatience in Go/NoGo versus Forced-Choice Decision-Making
Pradeep Shenoy · Angela J Yu
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Selective Labeling via Error Bound Minimization
Quanquan Gu · Tong Zhang · Chris Ding · Jiawei Han
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Multiple Operator-valued Kernel Learning
Hachem Kadri · Alain Rakotomamonjy · Francis Bach · philippe preux
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Newton-Like Methods for Sparse Inverse Covariance Estimation
Peder A Olsen · Figen Oztoprak · Jorge Nocedal · Steven J Rennie
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning Image Descriptors with the Boosting-Trick
Tomasz Trzcinski · Christos M Christoudias · Vincent Lepetit · Pascal Fua
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning Manifolds with K-Means and K-Flats
Guille D Canas · Tomaso A Poggio · Lorenzo Rosasco
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Iterative ranking from pair-wise comparisons
Sahand N Negahban · Sewoong Oh · Devavrat Shah
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Robustness and risk-sensitivity in Markov decision processes
Takayuki Osogami
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Cocktail Party Processing via Structured Prediction
Yuxuan Wang · DeLiang Wang
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Non-linear Metric Learning
Dor Kedem · Stephen Tyree · Kilian Q Weinberger · Fei Sha · Gert Lanckriet
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Query Complexity of Derivative-Free Optimization
Kevin G Jamieson · Rob Nowak · Benjamin Recht
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Compressive neural representation of sparse, high-dimensional probabilities
Xaq S Pitkow
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Exploration in Model-based Reinforcement Learning by Empirically Estimating Learning Progress
Manuel Lopes · Tobias Lang · Marc Toussaint · Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
CPRL -- An Extension of Compressive Sensing to the Phase Retrieval Problem
Henrik Ohlsson · Allen Yang · Roy Dong · Shankar Sastry
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Bayesian n-Choose-k Models for Classification and Ranking
Kevin Swersky · Daniel Tarlow · Richard Zemel · Ryan P Adams · Brendan J Frey
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Topic-Partitioned Multinetwork Embeddings
Peter Krafft · Juston S Moore · Hanna Wallach · Bruce Desmarais
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning Label Trees for Probabilistic Modelling of Implicit Feedback
Andriy Mnih · Yee Whye Teh
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Link Prediction in Graphs with Autoregressive Features
Emile Richard · Stephane Gaiffas · Nicolas Vayatis
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Gradient Weights help Nonparametric Regressors
Samory Kpotufe · Abdeslam Boularias
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Forging The Graphs: A Low Rank and Positive Semidefinite Graph Learning Approach
Dijun Luo · Chris Ding · Heng Huang
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling of Suicide Attempts
Francisco J. R. R Ruiz · Isabel Valera · Carlos Blanco · Fernando Perez-Cruz
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Cost-Sensitive Exploration in Bayesian Reinforcement Learning
Dongho Kim · Kee-Eung Kim · Pascal Poupart
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
How Prior Probability Influences Decision Making: A Unifying Probabilistic Model
Yanping Huang · Abe L Friesen · Timothy Hanks · Michael N Shadlen · Rajesh P Rao
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Imitation Learning by Coaching
He He · Hal Daume III · Jason M Eisner
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Entropy Estimations Using Correlated Symmetric Stable Random Projections
Ping Li · Cun-Hui Zhang
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Deep Learning of invariant features via tracked video sequences
Will Y Zou · Andrew Y Ng · Shenghuo Zhu · Kai Yu
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Latent Coincidence Analysis: A Hidden Variable Model for Distance Metric Learning
Matt F Der · Lawrence Saul
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Trajectory-Based Short-Sighted Probabilistic Planning
Felipe Trevizan · Manuela Veloso
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Multiresolution Gaussian Processes
Emily Fox · David B Dunson
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Learning from Distributions via Support Measure Machines
Krikamol Muandet · Kenji Fukumizu · Francesco Dinuzzo · Bernhard Schölkopf
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 PM - 12:00 AM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Complex Inference in Neural Circuits with Probabilistic Population Codes and Topic Models
Jeff Beck · Katherine A Heller · Alexandre Pouget
Poster
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ None
ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Alex Krizhevsky · Ilya Sutskever · Geoffrey E Hinton
Session
Thu Dec 6th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Poster Session
Break
Fri Dec 7th 06:30 - 08:00 AM @ Top of the Wheel (12th Floor Harveys) and Harveys Convention Center Floor Garden Room
Breakfast
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Fri Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:00 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Registration Desk
Workshop
Fri Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Sand Harbor 1, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Big Data Meets Computer Vision: First International Workshop on Large Scale Visual Recognition and Retrieval
Jia Deng · Samy Bengio · Yuanqing Lin · Fei Fei F Li
Workshop
Fri Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Emerald Bay 3, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Information in Perception and Action
Naftali Tishby · Daniel Polani · Tobias Jung
Workshop
Fri Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Tahoe C, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Multi-Trade-offs in Machine Learning
Yevgeny Seldin · Guy Lever · John S Shawe-Taylor · Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi · Koby Crammer · Francois Laviolette · Gabor Lugosi · Peter L Bartlett
Workshop
Fri Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Emerald Bay 6, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Connectomics: Opportunities and Challenges for Machine Learning
Viren Jain · Moritz Helmstaedter
Workshop
Fri Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Glenbrook + Emerald Bay, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Social network and social media analysis: Methods, models and applications
Edo M Airoldi · David S Choi · Khalid El-Arini · Jure Leskovec
Workshop
Fri Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Sand Harbor 2, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Machine Learning in Computational Biology
Jean-Philippe Vert · Anna Goldenberg · Christina S Leslie
Workshop
Fri Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Emerald Bay 5, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
MLINI - 2nd NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging (2 day)
Georg Langs · Irina Rish · Guillermo Cecchi · Brian Murphy · Bjoern Menze · Kai-min K Chang · Moritz Grosse-Wentrup
Workshop
Fri Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Sand Harbor 3, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Modern Nonparametric Methods in Machine Learning
Sivaraman Balakrishnan · Arthur Gretton · Mladen Kolar · John Lafferty · Han Liu · Tong Zhang
Workshop
Fri Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Tahoe A, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Probabilistic Programming: Foundations and Applications (2 day)
Vikash K Mansinghka · Dan M Roy · Noah Goodman
Workshop
Fri Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Emerald Bay B, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Discrete Optimization in Machine Learning (DISCML): Structure and Scalability
Stefanie Jegelka · Andreas Krause · Jeff A Bilmes · Pradeep K Ravikumar
Workshop
Fri Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Fallen Leaf + Marla Bay, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Algorithmic and Statistical Approaches for Large Social Network Data Sets
Michael Goodrich · Pavel N Krivitsky · David M Mount · Christopher DuBois · Padhraic Smyth
Workshop
Fri Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Emerald Bay A, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Analysis Operator Learning vs. Dictionary Learning: Fraternal Twins in Sparse Modeling
Martin Kleinsteuber · Francis Bach · Remi Gribonval · John Wright · Simon Hawe
Workshop
Fri Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Emerald Bay 4, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Human Computation for Science and Computational Sustainability
Theo Damoulas · Thomas Dietterich · Edith Law · Serge Belongie
Workshop
Fri Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Tahoe D, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
xLiTe: Cross-Lingual Technologies
Achim Rettinger · Marko Grobelnik · Blaz Fortuna · Xavier Carreras · Juanzi Li
Workshop
Fri Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Tahoe B, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Spectral Algorithms for Latent Variable Models
Ankur P Parikh · Le Song · Eric P Xing
Workshop
Fri Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Emerald Bay 1 +2, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Bayesian Optimization and Decision Making
Javad Azimi · Roman Garnett · Frank R Hutter · Shakir Mohamed
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Fri Dec 7th 03:30 - 06:30 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Registration Desk
Break
Sat Dec 8th 06:30 - 08:00 AM @ Top of the Wheel (12th Floor Harveys) and Harveys Convention Center Floor Garden Room
Breakfast
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Sat Dec 8th 07:00 - 11:00 AM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Registration Desk
Workshop
Sat Dec 8th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Glenbrook + Emerald Bay, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Perturbations, Optimization, and Statistics
Tamir Hazan · George Papandreou · Daniel Tarlow
Workshop
Sat Dec 8th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Tahoe C, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Log-Linear Models
Dimitri Kanevsky · Tony Jebara · Li Deng · Stephen Wright · Georg Heigold · Avishy Carmi
Workshop
Sat Dec 8th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Emerald Bay A, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Big Learning : Algorithms, Systems, and Tools
Sameer Singh · John Duchi · Yucheng Low · Joseph E Gonzalez
Workshop
Sat Dec 8th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Fallen Leaf + Marla Bay, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Optimization for Machine Learning
Suvrit Sra · Alekh Agarwal
Workshop
Sat Dec 8th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Emerald Bay 6, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Algebraic Topology and Machine Learning
Sivaraman Balakrishnan · Alessandro Rinaldo · Donald Sheehy · Aarti Singh · Larry Wasserman
Workshop
Sat Dec 8th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Emerald Bay 2, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Confluence between Kernel Methods and Graphical Models
Le Song · Arthur Gretton · Alex J Smola
Workshop
Sat Dec 8th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Emerald Bay B, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Deep Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning
Yoshua Bengio · James S Bergstra · Quoc V. Le
Workshop
Sat Dec 8th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Tahoe A, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Probabilistic Programming: Foundations and Applications (2 day)
Vikash K Mansinghka · Dan M Roy · Noah Goodman
Workshop
Sat Dec 8th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Tahoe B, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Bayesian Nonparametric Models For Reliable Planning And Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Jonathan P How · Lawrence Carin · John W Fisher III · Michael I Jordan · Alborz Geramifard
Workshop
Sat Dec 8th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Emerald Bay 5, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
MLINI - 2nd NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging (2 day)
Georg Langs · Irina Rish · Guillermo Cecchi · Brian Murphy · Bjoern Menze · Kai-min K Chang · Moritz Grosse-Wentrup
Workshop
Sat Dec 8th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Emerald Bay 1, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Personalizing education with machine learning
Michael C Mozer · javier r movellan · Robert V Lindsey · Jacob Whitehill
Workshop
Sat Dec 8th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Emerald Bay 4, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Social Choice: Theory and Practice
Behrouz Touri · Olgica Milenkovic · Faramarz Fekri
Workshop
Sat Dec 8th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Tahoe D, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Probabilistic Numerics
Philipp Hennig · John P Cunningham · Michael A Osborne
Workshop
Sat Dec 8th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Emerald Bay 3, Harveys Convention Center Floor (CC)
Machine Learning Approaches to Mobile Context Awareness
Kat M Ellis · Gert Lanckriet · Tommi Jaakkola · Lenny Grokop
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Sat Dec 8th 07:00 - 10:00 PM @ Sand Harbor, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Reception