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