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Wed Dec 4th 04:00 - 08:00 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
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Thu Dec 5th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
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Thu Dec 5th 08:00 - 09:30 AM @ Harvey's: Garden Buffet, Promenade 1+2, Top of the Wheel, 12th Floor
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Thu Dec 5th 09:30 - 11:30 AM @ Emerald Bay B
Tutorial Session B
Joaquin Quiñonero Candela
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Thu Dec 5th 09:30 - 11:30 AM @ Emerald Bay A
Tutorial Session A
Christopher M Bishop
Tutorial
Thu Dec 5th 09:30 - 11:30 AM @ Emerald Bay A
Deep Learning for Computer Vision
Rob Fergus
Tutorial
Thu Dec 5th 09:30 - 11:30 AM @ Emerald Bay B
Causes and Counterfactuals: Concepts, Principles and Tools.
Judea Pearl · Elias Bareinboim
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Thu Dec 5th 10:45 - 11:15 AM @ Harvey's: Garden Buffet, Promenade 1+2
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Thu Dec 5th 01:00 - 03:00 PM @ Emerald Bay B
Tutorial Session B
Dan M Roy
Session
Thu Dec 5th 01:00 - 03:00 PM @ Emerald Bay A
Tutorial Session A
James J Hensman
Tutorial
Thu Dec 5th 01:00 - 03:00 PM @ Emerald Bay B
Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC)
Richard Wilkinson
Tutorial
Thu Dec 5th 01:00 - 03:00 PM @ Emerald Bay A
Deep Mathematical Properties of Submodularity with Applications to Machine Learning
Jeff A Bilmes
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Thu Dec 5th 03:00 - 03:30 PM @ Harvey's: Garden Buffet, Promenade 1+2
Coffee Break
Session
Thu Dec 5th 03:30 - 05:30 PM @ Emerald Bay B
Tutorial Session B
Francis Bach
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Thu Dec 5th 03:30 - 05:30 PM @ Emerald Bay A
Tutorial Session A
Tutorial
Thu Dec 5th 03:30 - 05:30 PM @ Emerald Bay B
Learning to Interact
John Langford
Tutorial
Thu Dec 5th 03:30 - 05:30 PM @ Emerald Bay A
Mechanisms Underlying Visual Object Recognition: Humans vs. Neurons vs. Machines
James J DiCarlo
Talk
Thu Dec 5th 06:30 - 06:55 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Opening Remarks
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Sparse nonnegative deconvolution for compressive calcium imaging: algorithms and phase transitions
Eftychios A Pnevmatikakis · Liam Paninski
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Bayesian Estimation of Latently-grouped Parameters in Undirected Graphical Models
Jie Liu · David Page
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning Prices for Repeated Auctions with Strategic Buyers
Kareem Amin · Afshin Rostamizadeh · Umar Syed
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing for High-Dimensional Statistical Models
Adel Javanmard · Andrea Montanari
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Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning to Prune in Metric and Non-Metric Spaces
Leonid Boytsov · Bilegsaikhan Naidan
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Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Manifold-based Similarity Adaptation for Label Propagation
Masayuki Karasuyama · Hiroshi Mamitsuka
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Supervised Sparse Analysis and Synthesis Operators
Pablo Sprechmann · Roy Litman · Tal B Ben Yakar · Alexander M Bronstein · Guillermo Sapiro
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Linear Convergence with Condition Number Independent Access of Full Gradients
Lijun Zhang · Mehrdad Mahdavi · Rong Jin
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
When in Doubt, SWAP: High-Dimensional Sparse Recovery from Correlated Measurements
Divyanshu Vats · Richard Baraniuk
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Local Privacy and Minimax Bounds: Sharp Rates for Probability Estimation
John Duchi · Martin J Wainwright · Michael I Jordan
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Convex Relaxations for Permutation Problems
Fajwel Fogel · Rodolphe Jenatton · Francis Bach · Alexandre d'Aspremont
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Similarity Component Analysis
Soravit Changpinyo · Kuan Liu · Fei Sha
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Marginals-to-Models Reducibility
Tim Roughgarden · Michael Kearns
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
EDML for Learning Parameters in Directed and Undirected Graphical Models
Khaled S Refaat · Arthur Choi · Adnan Darwiche
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Active Learning for Probabilistic Hypotheses Using the Maximum Gibbs Error Criterion
Nguyen Viet Cuong · Wee Sun Lee · Nan Ye · Kian Ming A Chai · Hai Leong Chieu
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Computing the Stationary Distribution Locally
Christina E Lee · Asuman Ozdaglar · Devavrat Shah
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning Chordal Markov Networks by Constraint Satisfaction
Jukka Corander · Tomi Janhunen · Jussi Rintanen · Henrik Nyman · Johan Pensar
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Convex Tensor Decomposition via Structured Schatten Norm Regularization
Ryota Tomioka · Taiji Suzuki
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Reflection methods for user-friendly submodular optimization
Stefanie Jegelka · Francis Bach · Suvrit Sra
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Stochastic Convex Optimization with Multiple Objectives
Mehrdad Mahdavi · Tianbao Yang · Rong Jin
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
On Sampling from the Gibbs Distribution with Random Maximum A-Posteriori Perturbations
Tamir Hazan · Subhransu Maji · Tommi Jaakkola
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Memoized Online Variational Inference for Dirichlet Process Mixture Models
Mike C Hughes · Erik B Sudderth
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
An Approximate, Efficient LP Solver for LP Rounding
Srikrishna Sridhar · Stephen Wright · Christopher Re · Ji Liu · Victor Bittorf · Ce Zhang
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Modeling Overlapping Communities with Node Popularities
Prem K Gopalan · Chong Wang · David Blei
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Estimation, Optimization, and Parallelism when Data is Sparse
John Duchi · Michael I Jordan · Brendan McMahan
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
The Power of Asymmetry in Binary Hashing
Behnam Neyshabur · Nati Srebro · Russ R Salakhutdinov · Yury Makarychev · Payman Yadollahpour
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Σ-Optimality for Active Learning on Gaussian Random Fields
Yifei Ma · Roman Garnett · Jeff Schneider
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Optimal Neural Population Codes for High-dimensional Stimulus Variables
Jimmy Wang · Alan A Stocker · Daniel D Lee
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Curvature and Optimal Algorithms for Learning and Minimizing Submodular Functions
Rishabh K Iyer · Stefanie Jegelka · Jeff A Bilmes
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Accelerating Stochastic Gradient Descent using Predictive Variance Reduction
Rie Johnson · Tong Zhang
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
(Nearly) Optimal Algorithms for Private Online Learning in Full-information and Bandit Settings
Abhradeep Guha Thakurta · Adam Smith
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Generalized Method-of-Moments for Rank Aggregation
Hossein Azari Soufiani · William Z Chen · David C Parkes · Lirong Xia
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Adaptive Submodular Maximization in Bandit Setting
Victor Gabillon · Branislav Kveton · Zheng Wen · Brian Eriksson · S. Muthukrishnan
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Bayesian inference for low rank spatiotemporal neural receptive fields
Mijung Park · Jonathan W Pillow
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Cluster Trees on Manifolds
Sivaraman Balakrishnan · Srivatsan Narayanan · Alessandro Rinaldo · Aarti Singh · Larry Wasserman
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Accelerated Mini-Batch Stochastic Dual Coordinate Ascent
Shai Shalev-Shwartz · Tong Zhang
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Improved and Generalized Upper Bounds on the Complexity of Policy Iteration
Bruno Scherrer
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Online Learning of Nonparametric Mixture Models via Sequential Variational Approximation
Dahua Lin
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
A Stability-based Validation Procedure for Differentially Private Machine Learning
Kamalika Chaudhuri · Staal A Vinterbo
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Least Informative Dimensions
Fabian H Sinz · Anna Stockl · Jan Grewe · Jan Benda
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
A Scalable Approach to Probabilistic Latent Space Inference of Large-Scale Networks
Junming Yin · Qirong Ho · Eric P Xing
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Deep content-based music recommendation
Aaron van den Oord · Sander Dieleman · Benjamin Schrauwen
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Correlated random features for fast semi-supervised learning
Brian McWilliams · David Balduzzi · Joachim M Buhmann
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Better Approximation and Faster Algorithm Using the Proximal Average
Yao-Liang Yu
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Online Learning in Markov Decision Processes with Adversarially Chosen Transition Probability Distributions
Yasin Abbasi · Peter L Bartlett · Varun Kanade · Yevgeny Seldin · Csaba Szepesvari
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Spectral methods for neural characterization using generalized quadratic models
Il Memming Park · Evan W Archer · Nicholas Priebe · Jonathan W Pillow
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Scalable Inference for Logistic-Normal Topic Models
Jianfei Chen · Jun Zhu · Zi Wang · Xun Zheng · Bo Zhang
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Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Relevance Topic Model for Unstructured Social Group Activity Recognition
Fang Zhao · Yongzhen Huang · Liang Wang · Tieniu Tan
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Auditing: Active Learning with Outcome-Dependent Query Costs
Sivan Sabato · Anand D Sarwate · Nati Srebro
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
A message-passing algorithm for multi-agent trajectory planning
Jose Bento · Nate Derbinsky · Javier Alonso-Mora · Jonathan S Yedidia
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Robust learning of low-dimensional dynamics from large neural ensembles
David Pfau · Eftychios A Pnevmatikakis · Liam Paninski
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Aggregating Optimistic Planning Trees for Solving Markov Decision Processes
Gunnar Kedenburg · Raphael Fonteneau · Remi Munos
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Blind Calibration in Compressed Sensing using Message Passing Algorithms
Christophe Schulke · Francesco Caltagirone · Florent Krzakala · Lenka Zdeborova
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Fast Determinantal Point Process Sampling with Application to Clustering
Byungkon Kang
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Speedup Matrix Completion with Side Information: Application to Multi-Label Learning
Miao Xu · Rong Jin · Zhi-Hua Zhou
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Contrastive Learning Using Spectral Methods
James Y Zou · Daniel J Hsu · David C Parkes · Ryan P Adams
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Buy-in-Bulk Active Learning
Liu Yang · Jaime Carbonell
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Sensor Selection in High-Dimensional Gaussian Trees with Nuisances
Daniel S Levine · Jonathan P How
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Minimax Theory for High-dimensional Gaussian Mixtures with Sparse Mean Separation
Martin Azizyan · Aarti Singh · Larry Wasserman
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Projecting Ising Model Parameters for Fast Mixing
Justin Domke · Xianghang Liu
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Mixed Optimization for Smooth Functions
Mehrdad Mahdavi · Lijun Zhang · Rong Jin
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Embed and Project: Discrete Sampling with Universal Hashing
Stefano Ermon · Carla P Gomes · Ashish Sabharwal · Bart Selman
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
On the Sample Complexity of Subspace Learning
Alessandro Rudi · Guille D Canas · Lorenzo Rosasco
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Approximate Gaussian process inference for the drift function in stochastic differential equations
Andreas Ruttor · Philipp Batz · Manfred Opper
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
On the Linear Convergence of the Proximal Gradient Method for Trace Norm Regularization
Ke Hou · Zirui Zhou · Anthony Man-Cho So · Zhi-Quan Luo
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Latent Structured Active Learning
Wenjie Luo · Alex Schwing · Raquel Urtasun
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
A Gang of Bandits
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi · Claudio Gentile · Giovanni Zappella
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
A Graphical Transformation for Belief Propagation: Maximum Weight Matchings and Odd-Sized Cycles
Jinwoo Shin · Andrew E Gelfand · Misha Chertkov
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Online Learning of Dynamic Parameters in Social Networks
Shahin Shahrampour · Sasha Rakhlin · Ali Jadbabaie
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
When are Overcomplete Topic Models Identifiable? Uniqueness of Tensor Tucker Decompositions with Structured Sparsity
Anima Anandkumar · Daniel J Hsu · Majid Janzamin · Sham M Kakade
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Solving the multi-way matching problem by permutation synchronization
Deepti Pachauri · Risi Kondor · Vikas Singh
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Efficient Algorithm for Privately Releasing Smooth Queries
Ziteng Wang · Kai Fan · Jiaqi Zhang · Liwei Wang
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Multiscale Dictionary Learning for Estimating Conditional Distributions
Francesca Petralia · jovo T Vogelstein · David B Dunson
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Streaming Variational Bayes
Tamara Broderick · Nicholas Boyd · Andre Wibisono · Ashia C Wilson · Michael I Jordan
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Low-Rank Matrix and Tensor Completion via Adaptive Sampling
Akshay Krishnamurthy · Aarti Singh
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Probabilistic Low-Rank Matrix Completion with Adaptive Spectral Regularization Algorithms
Adrien Todeschini · Francois Caron · Marie Chavent
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Pass-efficient unsupervised feature selection
Crystal Maung · Haim Schweitzer
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Online learning in episodic Markovian decision processes by relative entropy policy search
Alexander Zimin · Gergo Neu
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Estimating LASSO Risk and Noise Level
Mohsen Bayati · Murat A. Erdogdu · Andrea Montanari
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Generalized Random Utility Models with Multiple Types
Hossein Azari Soufiani · Hansheng Diao · Zhenyu Lai · David C Parkes
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Data-driven Distributionally Robust Polynomial Optimization
Martin Mevissen · Emanuele Ragnoli · Jia Yuan Yu
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Bayesian optimization explains human active search
Ali Borji · Laurent Itti
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Polar Operators for Structured Sparse Estimation
Xinhua Zhang · Yao-Liang Yu · Dale Schuurmans
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Hierarchical Modular Optimization of Convolutional Networks Achieves Representations Similar to Macaque IT and Human Ventral Stream
Daniel L Yamins · Ha Hong · Charles Cadieu · James J DiCarlo
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning Stochastic Inverses
Andreas Stuhlmüller · Jacob Taylor · Noah Goodman
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning and using language via recursive pragmatic reasoning about other agents
Nathaniel J Smith · Noah Goodman · Michael C Frank
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Efficient Exploration and Value Function Generalization in Deterministic Systems
Zheng Wen · Benjamin Van Roy
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Model Selection for High-Dimensional Regression under the Generalized Irrepresentability Condition
Adel Javanmard · Andrea Montanari
Poster
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Compressive Feature Learning
Hristo S Paskov · Bob West · John C Mitchell · Trevor Hastie
Session
Thu Dec 5th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Poster Session
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Fri Dec 6th 07:30 AM - 05:30 PM @ Harveys Convention Center Floor, CC
Registration Desk
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Fri Dec 6th 07:30 - 09:00 AM @ Harvey's: Garden Buffet, Promenade 1+2, Top of the Wheel, 12th Floor
Breakfast
Invited Talk
Fri Dec 6th 09:00 - 09:45 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Small, n=me, Data
Deborah Estrin
Session
Fri Dec 6th 09:00 - 10:10 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 1
Neil D Lawrence
Oral
Fri Dec 6th 09:50 - 10:10 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Scalable Influence Estimation in Continuous-Time Diffusion Networks
Nan Du · Le Song · Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez · Hongyuan Zha
Session
Fri Dec 6th 10:10 - 10:30 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 1
Hugo Larochelle
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 10:10 - 10:14 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Adaptive Anonymity via $b$-Matching
Krzysztof M Choromanski · Tony Jebara · Kui Tang
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 10:14 - 10:18 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Exact and Stable Recovery of Pairwise Interaction Tensors
Shouyuan Chen · Michael R Lyu · Irwin King · Zenglin Xu
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 10:18 - 10:22 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Matrix factorization with binary components
Martin Slawski · Matthias Hein · Pavlo Lutsik
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 10:22 - 10:26 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
On the Complexity and Approximation of Binary Evidence in Lifted Inference
Guy Van den Broeck · Adnan Darwiche
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 10:26 - 10:30 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Unsupervised Spectral Learning of Finite State Transducers
Raphael Bailly · Xavier Carreras · Ariadna Quattoni
Break
Fri Dec 6th 10:30 - 10:55 AM @ Harvey's: Garden Buffet, Promenade 1+2
Coffee Break
Session
Fri Dec 6th 10:55 - 11:40 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 2
Francis Bach
Session
Fri Dec 6th 10:55 - 11:00 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
NIPS Award Session
Oral
Fri Dec 6th 11:00 - 11:20 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
On Decomposing the Proximal Map
Yao-Liang Yu
Oral
Fri Dec 6th 11:20 - 11:40 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Non-Uniform Camera Shake Removal Using a Spatially-Adaptive Sparse Penalty
Haichao Zhang · David Wipf
Session
Fri Dec 6th 11:40 AM - 12:05 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 2
Hugo Larochelle
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 11:40 - 11:44 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Provable Subspace Clustering: When LRR meets SSC
Yu-Xiang Wang · Huan Xu · Chenlei Leng
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 11:44 - 11:48 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Matrix Completion From any Given Set of Observations
Troy Lee · Adi Shraibman
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 11:48 - 11:52 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Convex Two-Layer Modeling
Özlem Aslan · Hao Cheng · Xinhua Zhang · Dale Schuurmans
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 11:52 - 11:56 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Reconciling "priors'' & "priors" without prejudice?
Remi Gribonval · Pierre Machart
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 11:56 AM - 12:00 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Robust Sparse Principal Component Regression under the High Dimensional Elliptical Model
Fang Han · Han Liu
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 12:00 - 12:04 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Structured Learning via Logistic Regression
Justin Domke
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 12:04 - 12:08 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Graphical Models for Inference with Missing Data
Karthika Mohan · Judea Pearl · Jin Tian
Break
Fri Dec 6th 12:05 - 02:00 PM @ None
Lunch Break
Invited Talk
Fri Dec 6th 02:00 - 02:45 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Memory Reactivation in Awake and Sleep States
Matthew Wilson
Session
Fri Dec 6th 02:00 - 03:30 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 3
Terrence J Sejnowski
Oral
Fri Dec 6th 02:50 - 03:10 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Correlations strike back (again): the case of associative memory retrieval
Cristina Savin · Peter Dayan · Mate Lengyel
Oral
Fri Dec 6th 03:10 - 03:30 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
A memory frontier for complex synapses
Subhaneil Lahiri · Surya Ganguli
Session
Fri Dec 6th 03:30 - 03:50 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 3
Hugo Larochelle
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 03:30 - 03:34 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Bayesian entropy estimation for binary spike train data using parametric prior knowledge
Evan W Archer · Il Memming Park · Jonathan W Pillow
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 03:34 - 03:38 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Inferring neural population dynamics from multiple partial recordings of the same neural circuit
Srini C Turaga · Lars Buesing · Adam M Packer · Henry Dalgleish · Noah Pettit · Michael Hausser · Jakob H Macke
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 03:38 - 03:42 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Noise-Enhanced Associative Memories
Amin Karbasi · Amir Hesam Salavati · Amin Shokrollahi · Lav R Varshney
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 03:42 - 03:46 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Demixing odors - fast inference in olfaction
Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska · Jeff Beck · Alexandre Pouget · Peter E Latham
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 03:46 - 03:50 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Recurrent linear models of simultaneously-recorded neural populations
Marius Pachitariu · Biljana Petreska · Maneesh Sahani
Break
Fri Dec 6th 03:50 - 04:15 PM @ Harvey's: Garden Buffet, Promenade 1+2
Coffee Break
Session
Fri Dec 6th 04:15 - 05:40 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 4
Emily Fox
Session
Fri Dec 6th 04:15 - 04:20 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
NIPS Award Session
Oral
Fri Dec 6th 04:20 - 04:40 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Understanding Dropout
Pierre Baldi · Peter J Sadowski
Oral
Fri Dec 6th 04:40 - 05:00 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Annealing between distributions by averaging moments
Roger B Grosse · Chris J J Maddison · Russ R Salakhutdinov
Oral
Fri Dec 6th 05:00 - 05:20 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
A simple example of Dirichlet process mixture inconsistency for the number of components
Jeff W Miller · Matthew T Harrison
Oral
Fri Dec 6th 05:20 - 05:40 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Approximate Bayesian Image Interpretation using Generative Probabilistic Graphics Programs
Vikash K Mansinghka · Tejas D Kulkarni · Yura N Perov · Josh Tenenbaum
Session
Fri Dec 6th 05:40 - 06:00 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 4
Hugo Larochelle
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 05:40 - 05:44 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Dropout Training as Adaptive Regularization
Stefan Wager · Sida Wang · Percy S Liang
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 05:44 - 05:48 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Stochastic Gradient Riemannian Langevin Dynamics on the Probability Simplex
Sam Patterson · Yee Whye Teh
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 05:48 - 05:52 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Restricting exchangeable nonparametric distributions
Sinead A Williamson · Steve N MacEachern · Eric P Xing
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 05:52 - 05:56 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Approximate inference in latent Gaussian-Markov models from continuous time observations
Botond Cseke · Manfred Opper · Guido Sanguinetti
Spotlight
Fri Dec 6th 05:56 - 06:00 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Bayesian inference as iterated random functions with applications to sequential inference in graphical models
Arash A Amini · Long Nguyen
Demonstration
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Tahoe A+B, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Controlling Robot Dynamics With Spiking Neurons
Samir Menon · Sam Fok · Kwabena A Boahen
Demonstration
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Tahoe A, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Codewebs: a Pedagogical Search Engine for Code Submissions to a MOOC
Jonathan Huang · Chris Piech · Andy Nguyen · Leonidas J Guibas
Demonstration
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Tahoe A+B, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Accelerating Deep Neural Networks on Mobile Processor with Embedded Programmable Logic
Eugenio Culurciello · Aysegul Dundar · Jonghoon Jin · Vinayak Gokhale · Berin Martini
Demonstration
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Tahoe B, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
The Three-Weight Algorithm: Enhancing ADMM for Large-Scale Distributed Optimization
Nate Derbinsky · Jose Bento · Jonathan S Yedidia
Demonstration
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Tahoe A, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
A Mobile Development Platform for Adaptive Machine Learning and Neuromorphic Computing in Robotics
Jonathan J Hunt · Peter O'Connor
Demonstration
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Tahoe C, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Di-BOSS™: Digital Building Operating System Solution
Jessica Forde · Vivek Rathod · Hooshmand Shookri · Vaibhav Bandari · Ashwath Rajan · John Min · Ariel Fan · Leon Wu · Ashish Gagneja · Doug Riecken · David Solomon · Lauren Hannah · Albert Boulanger · Roger Anderson
Demonstration
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Tahoe B, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
NCS: A Novel CPU/GPU Simulation Environment for Large-Scale Biologically-Realistic Neural Modeling
Roger Hoang · Devyani Tanna · Laurence C Jayet Bray · Sergiu Dascalu · Frederick Harris, Jr
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Stochastic blockmodel approximation of a graphon: Theory and consistent estimation
Edo M Airoldi · Thiago B Costa · Stanley H Chan
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Reciprocally Coupled Local Estimators Implement Bayesian Information Integration Distributively
Wenhao Zhang · Si Wu
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Provable Subspace Clustering: When LRR meets SSC
Yu-Xiang Wang · Huan Xu · Chenlei Leng
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
On Decomposing the Proximal Map
Yao-Liang Yu
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Transportability from Multiple Environments with Limited Experiments
Elias Bareinboim · Sanghack Lee · Vasant Honavar · Judea Pearl
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Causal Inference on Time Series using Restricted Structural Equation Models
Jonas Peters · Dominik Janzing · Bernhard Schölkopf
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Variance Reduction for Stochastic Gradient Optimization
Chong Wang · Xi Chen · Alex J Smola · Eric P Xing
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
A simple example of Dirichlet process mixture inconsistency for the number of components
Jeff W Miller · Matthew T Harrison
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Correlations strike back (again): the case of associative memory retrieval
Cristina Savin · Peter Dayan · Mate Lengyel
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning Hidden Markov Models from Non-sequence Data via Tensor Decomposition
T.-K. Huang · Jeff Schneider
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Dropout Training as Adaptive Regularization
Stefan Wager · Sida Wang · Percy S Liang
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning Stochastic Feedforward Neural Networks
Yichuan Tang · Russ R Salakhutdinov
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Inferring neural population dynamics from multiple partial recordings of the same neural circuit
Srini C Turaga · Lars Buesing · Adam M Packer · Henry Dalgleish · Noah Pettit · Michael Hausser · Jakob H Macke
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Multi-Prediction Deep Boltzmann Machines
Ian Goodfellow · Mehdi Mirza · Aaron Courville · Yoshua Bengio
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Large Scale Distributed Sparse Precision Estimation
Huahua Wang · Arindam Banerjee · Cho-Jui Hsieh · Pradeep K Ravikumar · Inderjit S Dhillon
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Neural representation of action sequences: how far can a simple snippet-matching model take us?
Cheston Tan · Jedediah M Singer · Thomas Serre · David Sheinberg · Tomaso A Poggio
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Structured Learning via Logistic Regression
Justin Domke
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Recurrent networks of coupled Winner-Take-All oscillators for solving constraint satisfaction problems
Hesham Mostafa · Lorenz K Muller · Giacomo Indiveri
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Unsupervised Spectral Learning of Finite State Transducers
Raphael Bailly · Xavier Carreras · Ariadna Quattoni
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning Multi-level Sparse Representations
Ferran Diego Andilla · Fred A Hamprecht
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Regret based Robust Solutions for Uncertain Markov Decision Processes
Asrar Ahmed · Pradeep Varakantham · Yossiri Adulyasak · Patrick Jaillet
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Generalized Denoising Auto-Encoders as Generative Models
Yoshua Bengio · Li Yao · Guillaume Alain · Pascal Vincent
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Low-rank matrix reconstruction and clustering via approximate message passing
Ryosuke Matsushita · Toshiyuki Tanaka
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Reasoning With Neural Tensor Networks for Knowledge Base Completion
Richard Socher · Danqi Chen · Christopher D Manning · Andrew Y Ng
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Zero-Shot Learning Through Cross-Modal Transfer
Richard Socher · Milind Ganjoo · Christopher D Manning · Andrew Y Ng
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Efficient Online Inference for Bayesian Nonparametric Relational Models
Dae Il Kim · Prem K Gopalan · David Blei · Erik B Sudderth
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Approximate inference in latent Gaussian-Markov models from continuous time observations
Botond Cseke · Manfred Opper · Guido Sanguinetti
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Wavelets on Graphs via Deep Learning
Raif Rustamov · Leonidas J Guibas
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
A memory frontier for complex synapses
Subhaneil Lahiri · Surya Ganguli
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning with Noisy Labels
Nagarajan Natarajan · Inderjit S Dhillon · Pradeep K Ravikumar · Ambuj Tewari
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Graphical Models for Inference with Missing Data
Karthika Mohan · Judea Pearl · Jin Tian
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Stochastic Ratio Matching of RBMs for Sparse High-Dimensional Inputs
Yann Dauphin · Yoshua Bengio
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
A Deep Architecture for Matching Short Texts
Zhengdong Lu · Hang Li
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Nonparametric Multi-group Membership Model for Dynamic Networks
Myunghwan Kim · Jure Leskovec
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Optimistic Concurrency Control for Distributed Unsupervised Learning
Xinghao Pan · Joseph E Gonzalez · Stefanie Jegelka · Tamara Broderick · Michael I Jordan
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Global Solver and Its Efficient Approximation for Variational Bayesian Low-rank Subspace Clustering
Shinichi Nakajima · Akiko Takeda · S. Derin Babacan · Masashi Sugiyama · Ichiro Takeuchi
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Robust Image Denoising with Multi-Column Deep Neural Networks
Forest Agostinelli · Michael R Anderson · Honglak Lee
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Approximate Bayesian Image Interpretation using Generative Probabilistic Graphics Programs
Vikash K Mansinghka · Tejas D Kulkarni · Yura N Perov · Josh Tenenbaum
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Firing rate predictions in optimal balanced networks
David G Barrett · Sophie Denève · Christian K Machens
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Non-Uniform Camera Shake Removal Using a Spatially-Adaptive Sparse Penalty
Haichao Zhang · David Wipf
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Bayesian Hierarchical Community Discovery
Charles Blundell · Yee Whye Teh
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Near-Optimal Entrywise Sampling for Data Matrices
Dimitris Achlioptas · Zohar S Karnin · Edo Liberty
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Simultaneous Rectification and Alignment via Robust Recovery of Low-rank Tensors
Xiaoqin Zhang · Di Wang · Zhengyuan Zhou · Yi Ma
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Noise-Enhanced Associative Memories
Amin Karbasi · Amir Hesam Salavati · Amin Shokrollahi · Lav R Varshney
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Exact and Stable Recovery of Pairwise Interaction Tensors
Shouyuan Chen · Michael R Lyu · Irwin King · Zenglin Xu
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Bayesian entropy estimation for binary spike train data using parametric prior knowledge
Evan W Archer · Il Memming Park · Jonathan W Pillow
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Perfect Associative Learning with Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity
Christian Albers · Maren Westkott · Klaus R Pawelzik
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Matrix Completion From any Given Set of Observations
Troy Lee · Adi Shraibman
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Stochastic Optimization of PCA with Capped MSG
Raman Arora · Andy Cotter · Nati Srebro
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Top-Down Regularization of Deep Belief Networks
Hanlin Goh · Nicolas Thome · Matthieu Cord · Joo-Hwee Lim
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning Efficient Random Maximum A-Posteriori Predictors with Non-Decomposable Loss Functions
Tamir Hazan · Subhransu Maji · Joseph Keshet · Tommi Jaakkola
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Machine Teaching for Bayesian Learners in the Exponential Family
Xiaojin Zhu
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
A Determinantal Point Process Latent Variable Model for Inhibition in Neural Spiking Data
Jasper Snoek · Richard Zemel · Ryan P Adams
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Robust Sparse Principal Component Regression under the High Dimensional Elliptical Model
Fang Han · Han Liu
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Demixing odors - fast inference in olfaction
Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska · Jeff Beck · Alexandre Pouget · Peter E Latham
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Distributed Submodular Maximization: Identifying Representative Elements in Massive Data
Baharan Mirzasoleiman · Amin Karbasi · Rik Sarkar · Andreas Krause
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Discriminative Transfer Learning with Tree-based Priors
Nitish Srivastava · Russ R Salakhutdinov
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Predicting Parameters in Deep Learning
Misha Denil · Babak Shakibi · Laurent Dinh · Marc'Aurelio Ranzato · Nando de Freitas
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
RNADE: The real-valued neural autoregressive density-estimator
Benigno Uria · Iain Murray · Hugo Larochelle
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Reconciling "priors'' & "priors" without prejudice?
Remi Gribonval · Pierre Machart
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Compete to Compute
Rupesh K Srivastava · Jonathan Masci · Sohrob Kazerounian · Faustino Gomez · Jürgen Schmidhuber
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Discovering Hidden Variables in Noisy-Or Networks using Quartet Tests
Yacine Jernite · Yonatan Halpern · David Sontag
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Universal models for binary spike patterns using centered Dirichlet processes
Il Memming Park · Evan W Archer · Kenneth W Latimer · Jonathan W Pillow
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Integrated Non-Factorized Variational Inference
Shaobo Han · Xuejun Liao · Lawrence Carin
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Auxiliary-variable Exact Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Samplers for Binary Distributions
Ari Pakman · Liam Paninski
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Flexible sampling of discrete data correlations without the marginal distributions
Freddie Kalaitzis · Ricardo Silva
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Restricting exchangeable nonparametric distributions
Sinead A Williamson · Steve N MacEachern · Eric P Xing
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Capacity of strong attractor patterns to model behavioural and cognitive prototypes
Abbas Edalat
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Annealing between distributions by averaging moments
Roger B Grosse · Chris J J Maddison · Russ R Salakhutdinov
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Analyzing Hogwild Parallel Gaussian Gibbs Sampling
Matthew Johnson · James Saunderson · Alan S Willsky
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Translating Embeddings for Modeling Multi-relational Data
Antoine Bordes · Nicolas Usunier · Alberto Garcia-Duran · Jason Weston · Oksana Yakhnenko
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Phase Retrieval using Alternating Minimization
Praneeth Netrapalli · Prateek Jain · Sujay Sanghavi
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Real-Time Inference for a Gamma Process Model of Neural Spiking
David E Carlson · Vinayak Rao · jovo T Vogelstein · Lawrence Carin
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Understanding Dropout
Pierre Baldi · Peter J Sadowski
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
On the Complexity and Approximation of Binary Evidence in Lifted Inference
Guy Van den Broeck · Adnan Darwiche
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
On the Expressive Power of Restricted Boltzmann Machines
James Martens · Arkadev Chattopadhya · Toni Pitassi · Richard Zemel
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Memory Limited, Streaming PCA
Ioannis Mitliagkas · Constantine Caramanis · Prateek Jain
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Bayesian inference as iterated random functions with applications to sequential inference in graphical models
Arash A Amini · Long Nguyen
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
A New Convex Relaxation for Tensor Completion
Bernardino Romera-Paredes · Massimiliano Pontil
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Variational Planning for Graph-based MDPs
Qiang Cheng · Qiang Liu · Feng Chen · Alex T Ihler
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Convex Two-Layer Modeling
Özlem Aslan · Hao Cheng · Xinhua Zhang · Dale Schuurmans
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Adaptive dropout for training deep neural networks
Jimmy Ba · Brendan Frey
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Stochastic Gradient Riemannian Langevin Dynamics on the Probability Simplex
Sam Patterson · Yee Whye Teh
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality
Tomas Mikolov · Ilya Sutskever · Kai Chen · Greg S Corrado · Jeff Dean
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Recurrent linear models of simultaneously-recorded neural populations
Marius Pachitariu · Biljana Petreska · Maneesh Sahani
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Scalable Influence Estimation in Continuous-Time Diffusion Networks
Nan Du · Le Song · Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez · Hongyuan Zha
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Multisensory Encoding, Decoding, and Identification
Aurel A Lazar · Yevgeniy B Slutskiy
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Adaptive Anonymity via $b$-Matching
Krzysztof M Choromanski · Tony Jebara · Kui Tang
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Matrix factorization with binary components
Martin Slawski · Matthias Hein · Pavlo Lutsik
Poster
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning to Pass Expectation Propagation Messages
Nicolas Heess · Daniel Tarlow · John Winn
Session
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Poster Session
Session
Fri Dec 6th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Demonstrations
Placeholder
Sat Dec 7th 07:30 AM - 05:30 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Registration Desk
Placeholder
Sat Dec 7th 07:30 - 09:00 AM @ Harvey's: Garden Buffet, Promenade 1+2, Top of the Wheel, 12th Floor
Breakfast
Posner Lecture
Sat Dec 7th 09:00 - 09:45 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
The Online Revolution: Learning without Limits
Daphne Koller
Session
Sat Dec 7th 09:00 - 10:10 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 5
Zoubin Ghahramani
Oral
Sat Dec 7th 09:50 - 10:10 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Optimizing Instructional Policies
Robert V Lindsey · Michael C Mozer · William J Huggins · Harold Pashler
Session
Sat Dec 7th 10:10 - 10:30 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 5
Hugo Larochelle
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 10:10 - 10:14 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Linear decision rule as aspiration for simple decision heuristics
Özgür Şimşek
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 10:14 - 10:18 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Scoring Workers in Crowdsourcing: How Many Control Questions are Enough?
Qiang Liu · Alex T Ihler · Mark Steyvers
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 10:18 - 10:22 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Bayesian Inference and Online Experimental Design for Mapping Neural Microcircuits
Ben Shababo · Brooks Paige · Ari Pakman · Liam Paninski
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 10:22 - 10:26 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Sparse Overlapping Sets Lasso for Multitask Learning and its Application to fMRI Analysis
Nikhil Rao · Chris R Cox · Rob Nowak · Timothy T Rogers
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 10:26 - 10:30 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Lasso Screening Rules via Dual Polytope Projection
Jie Wang · Jiayu Zhou · Peter Wonka · Jieping Ye
Break
Sat Dec 7th 10:30 - 11:00 AM @ Harvey's: Garden Buffet, Promenade 1+2
Coffee Break
Oral
Sat Dec 7th 11:00 - 11:20 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
A Kernel Test for Three-Variable Interactions
Dino Sejdinovic · Arthur Gretton · Wicher Bergsma
Session
Sat Dec 7th 11:00 - 11:40 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 6
Corinna Cortes
Oral
Sat Dec 7th 11:20 - 11:40 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
More Effective Distributed ML via a Stale Synchronous Parallel Parameter Server
Qirong Ho · James Cipar · Henggang Cui · Seunghak Lee · Jin Kyu Kim · Phil Gibbons · Garth A Gibson · Greg Ganger · Eric P Xing
Session
Sat Dec 7th 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 6
Hugo Larochelle
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 11:40 - 11:44 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Learning with Invariance via Linear Functionals on Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space
Xinhua Zhang · Wee Sun Lee · Yee Whye Teh
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 11:44 - 11:48 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Learning Kernels Using Local Rademacher Complexity
Corinna Cortes · Marius Kloft · Mehryar Mohri
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 11:48 - 11:52 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Inverse Density as an Inverse Problem: the Fredholm Equation Approach
Qichao Que · Mikhail Belkin
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 11:52 - 11:56 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Regression-tree Tuning in a Streaming Setting
Samory Kpotufe · Francesco Orabona
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 11:56 AM - 12:00 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Non-strongly-convex smooth stochastic approximation with convergence rate O(1/n)
Francis Bach · Eric Moulines
Break
Sat Dec 7th 12:00 - 02:00 PM @ None
Lunch Break
Invited Talk
Sat Dec 7th 02:00 - 02:45 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Belief Propagation Algorithms: From Matching Problems to Network Discovery in Cancer Genomics
Jennifer Chayes
Session
Sat Dec 7th 02:00 - 03:30 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 7
Chris J Burges
Oral
Sat Dec 7th 02:50 - 03:10 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Message Passing Inference with Chemical Reaction Networks
Nils E Napp · Ryan P Adams
Oral
Sat Dec 7th 03:10 - 03:30 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Information-theoretic lower bounds for distributed statistical estimation with communication constraints
Yuchen Zhang · John Duchi · Michael I Jordan · Martin J Wainwright
Session
Sat Dec 7th 03:30 - 03:50 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 7
Hugo Larochelle
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 03:30 - 03:34 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
PAC-Bayes-Empirical-Bernstein Inequality
Ilya O Tolstikhin · Yevgeny Seldin
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 03:34 - 03:38 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Regularized M-estimators with nonconvexity: Statistical and algorithmic theory for local optima
Po-Ling Loh · Martin J Wainwright
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 03:38 - 03:42 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
More data speeds up training time in learning halfspaces over sparse vectors
Amit Daniely · Nati Linial · Shai Shalev-Shwartz
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 03:42 - 03:46 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Convex Calibrated Surrogates for Low-Rank Loss Matrices with Applications to Subset Ranking Losses
Harish G Ramaswamy · Shivani Agarwal · Ambuj Tewari
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 03:46 - 03:50 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
On the Relationship Between Binary Classification, Bipartite Ranking, and Binary Class Probability Estimation
Harikrishna Narasimhan · Shivani Agarwal
Break
Sat Dec 7th 03:50 - 04:20 PM @ Harvey's: Garden Buffet, Promenade 1+2
Coffee Break
Oral
Sat Dec 7th 04:20 - 04:40 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
From Bandits to Experts: A Tale of Domination and Independence
Noga Alon · Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi · Claudio Gentile · Yishay Mansour
Session
Sat Dec 7th 04:20 - 05:40 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 8
Ofer Dekel
Oral
Sat Dec 7th 04:40 - 05:00 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Eluder Dimension and the Sample Complexity of Optimistic Exploration
Dan Russo · Benjamin Van Roy
Oral
Sat Dec 7th 05:00 - 05:20 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Adaptive Market Making via Online Learning
Jacob D Abernethy · Satyen Kale
Oral
Sat Dec 7th 05:20 - 05:40 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Submodular Optimization with Submodular Cover and Submodular Knapsack Constraints
Rishabh K Iyer · Jeff A Bilmes
Session
Sat Dec 7th 05:40 - 06:00 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 8
Hugo Larochelle
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 05:40 - 05:44 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
How to Hedge an Option Against an Adversary: Black-Scholes Pricing is Minimax Optimal
Jacob D Abernethy · Peter L Bartlett · Rafael M Frongillo · Andre Wibisono
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 05:44 - 05:48 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Small-Variance Asymptotics for Hidden Markov Models
Anirban Roychowdhury · Ke Jiang · Brian Kulis
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 05:48 - 05:52 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
The Total Variation on Hypergraphs - Learning on Hypergraphs Revisited
Matthias Hein · Simon Setzer · Leonardo Jost · Syama Sundar Rangapuram
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 05:52 - 05:56 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Using multiple samples to learn mixture models
Jason D Lee · Ran Gilad-Bachrach · Rich Caruana
Spotlight
Sat Dec 7th 05:56 - 06:00 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Approximate Inference in Continuous Determinantal Processes
Raja Hafiz Affandi · Emily Fox · Ben Taskar
Demonstration
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Tahoe A, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Deep Content-Based Music Recommendation
Aaron van den Oord · Sander Dieleman · Benjamin Schrauwen
Demonstration
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Tahoe A+B, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Distributed Representations of Words and Phrases and their Compositionality
Tomas Mikolov · Kai Chen · Greg S Corrado
Demonstration
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Tahoe A, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Topic Modeling for Robots
Yogesh A Girdhar · Gregory Dudek
Demonstration
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Tahoe B, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Easy Text Classification with Machine Learning
Richard Socher · Romain Paulus · Bryan McCann · Andrew Y Ng
Demonstration
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Tahoe C
Demos of Deep Learning Technologies at Baidu IDL
Yi Yang · Kai Yu
Demonstration
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Tahoe A+B, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Making Smooth Topical Connections on Touch Devices
Nebojsa Jojic · Alessandro Perina · Andrzej Truski
Demonstration
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Tahoe B, Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
Cross-Lingual Technologies: Text to Logic Mapping, Search and Classification over 100 Languages
Jan Rupnik · Andrej Muhic · Blaz Fortuna · Janez Starc · Marko Grobelnik · Michael J Witbrock
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Error-Minimizing Estimates and Universal Entry-Wise Error Bounds for Low-Rank Matrix Completion
Franz J Kiraly · Louis Theran
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Gaussian Process Conditional Copulas with Applications to Financial Time Series
José Miguel Hernández-Lobato · James R Lloyd · Daniel Hernández-lobato
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
On Flat versus Hierarchical Classification in Large-Scale Taxonomies
Rohit Babbar · Ioannis Partalas · Eric Gaussier · Massih-Reza Amini
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Robust Bloom Filters for Large MultiLabel Classification Tasks
Moustapha M Cisse · Nicolas Usunier · Thierry Artières · Patrick Gallinari
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Non-strongly-convex smooth stochastic approximation with convergence rate O(1/n)
Francis Bach · Eric Moulines
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Scoring Workers in Crowdsourcing: How Many Control Questions are Enough?
Qiang Liu · Alex T Ihler · Mark Steyvers
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning Multiple Models via Regularized Weighting
Daniel Vainsencher · Shie Mannor · Huan Xu
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Online PCA for Contaminated Data
Jiashi Feng · Huan Xu · Shie Mannor · Shuicheng Yan
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Distributed k-means and k-median clustering on general communication topologies
Maria-Florina F Balcan · Steven Ehrlich · Yingyu Liang
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Multi-Task Bayesian Optimization
Kevin Swersky · Jasper Snoek · Ryan P Adams
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
B-test: A Non-parametric, Low Variance Kernel Two-sample Test
Wojciech Zaremba · Arthur Gretton · Matthew B Blaschko
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Robust Transfer Principal Component Analysis with Rank Constraints
Yuhong Guo
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning with Invariance via Linear Functionals on Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space
Xinhua Zhang · Wee Sun Lee · Yee Whye Teh
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Adaptive Market Making via Online Learning
Jacob D Abernethy · Satyen Kale
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Spike train entropy-rate estimation using hierarchical Dirichlet process priors
Karin C Knudson · Jonathan W Pillow
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Small-Variance Asymptotics for Hidden Markov Models
Anirban Roychowdhury · Ke Jiang · Brian Kulis
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Which Space Partitioning Tree to Use for Search?
Pari Ram · Alexander Gray
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
What do row and column marginals reveal about your dataset?
Behzad Golshan · John Byers · Evimaria Terzi
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Two-Target Algorithms for Infinite-Armed Bandits with Bernoulli Rewards
Thomas Bonald · Alexandre Proutiere
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Sparse Overlapping Sets Lasso for Multitask Learning and its Application to fMRI Analysis
Nikhil Rao · Chris R Cox · Rob Nowak · Timothy T Rogers
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Prior-free and prior-dependent regret bounds for Thompson Sampling
Sebastien Bubeck · Che-Yu Liu
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Sequential Transfer in Multi-armed Bandit with Finite Set of Models
Mohammad Gheshlaghi azar · Alessandro Lazaric · Emma Brunskill
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Trading Computation for Communication: Distributed Stochastic Dual Coordinate Ascent
Tianbao Yang
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Message Passing Inference with Chemical Reaction Networks
Nils E Napp · Ryan P Adams
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Eluder Dimension and the Sample Complexity of Optimistic Exploration
Dan Russo · Benjamin Van Roy
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Stochastic Majorization-Minimization Algorithms for Large-Scale Optimization
Julien Mairal
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Dirty Statistical Models
Eunho Yang · Pradeep K Ravikumar
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Information-theoretic lower bounds for distributed statistical estimation with communication constraints
Yuchen Zhang · John Duchi · Michael I Jordan · Martin J Wainwright
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
How to Hedge an Option Against an Adversary: Black-Scholes Pricing is Minimax Optimal
Jacob D Abernethy · Peter L Bartlett · Rafael M Frongillo · Andre Wibisono
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Adaptivity to Local Smoothness and Dimension in Kernel Regression
Samory Kpotufe · Vikas K Garg
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
q-OCSVM: A q-Quantile Estimator for High-Dimensional Distributions
Assaf Glazer · Michael Lindenbaum · Shaul Markovitch
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
The Total Variation on Hypergraphs - Learning on Hypergraphs Revisited
Matthias Hein · Simon Setzer · Leonardo Jost · Syama Sundar Rangapuram
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Submodular Optimization with Submodular Cover and Submodular Knapsack Constraints
Rishabh K Iyer · Jeff A Bilmes
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Regularized M-estimators with nonconvexity: Statistical and algorithmic theory for local optima
Po-Ling Loh · Martin J Wainwright
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Synthesizing Robust Plans under Incomplete Domain Models
Tuan A Nguyen · Subbarao Kambhampati · Minh Do
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Rapid Distance-Based Outlier Detection via Sampling
Mahito Sugiyama · Karsten Borgwardt
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
One-shot learning by inverting a compositional causal process
Brenden M Lake · Russ R Salakhutdinov · Josh Tenenbaum
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Statistical analysis of coupled time series with Kernel Cross-Spectral Density operators.
Michel Besserve · Nikos K Logothetis · Bernhard Schölkopf
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Dynamic Clustering via Asymptotics of the Dependent Dirichlet Process Mixture
Trevor Campbell · Miao Liu · Brian Kulis · Jonathan P How · Lawrence Carin
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Fast Algorithms for Gaussian Noise Invariant Independent Component Analysis
James R Voss · Luis Rademacher · Mikhail Belkin
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Sign Cauchy Projections and Chi-Square Kernel
Ping Li · Gennady Samorodnitsk · John Hopcroft
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
k-Prototype Learning for 3D Rigid Structures
Hu Ding · Ronald Berezney · Jinhui Xu
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Regularized Spectral Clustering under the Degree-Corrected Stochastic Blockmodel
Tai Qin · Karl Rohe
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Multilinear Dynamical Systems for Tensor Time Series
Mark Rogers · Lei Li · Stuart J Russell
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Online Robust PCA via Stochastic Optimization
Jiashi Feng · Huan Xu · Shuicheng Yan
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Fantope Projection and Selection: A near-optimal convex relaxation of sparse PCA
Vince Q Vu · Juhee Cho · Jing Lei · Karl Rohe
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Faster Ridge Regression via the Subsampled Randomized Hadamard Transform
Yichao Lu · Paramveer Dhillon · Dean P Foster · Lyle Ungar
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
New Subsampling Algorithms for Fast Least Squares Regression
Paramveer Dhillon · Yichao Lu · Dean P Foster · Lyle Ungar
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Regression-tree Tuning in a Streaming Setting
Samory Kpotufe · Francesco Orabona
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Using multiple samples to learn mixture models
Jason D Lee · Ran Gilad-Bachrach · Rich Caruana
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Online Variational Approximations to non-Exponential Family Change Point Models: With Application to Radar Tracking
Ryan D Turner · Steven Bottone · Clay J Stanek
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Variational Inference for Mahalanobis Distance Metrics in Gaussian Process Regression
Michalis Titsias · Miguel Lazaro-Gredilla
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning Kernels Using Local Rademacher Complexity
Corinna Cortes · Marius Kloft · Mehryar Mohri
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Optimizing Instructional Policies
Robert V Lindsey · Michael C Mozer · William J Huggins · Harold Pashler
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
One-shot learning and big data with n=2
Lee H Dicker · Dean P Foster
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Summary Statistics for Partitionings and Feature Allocations
Isik B Fidaner · A. Taylan Cemgil
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Density estimation from unweighted k-nearest neighbor graphs: a roadmap
Ulrike Von Luxburg · Morteza Alamgir
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Linear decision rule as aspiration for simple decision heuristics
Özgür Şimşek
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
On the Relationship Between Binary Classification, Bipartite Ranking, and Binary Class Probability Estimation
Harikrishna Narasimhan · Shivani Agarwal
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Moment-based Uniform Deviation Bounds for $k$-means and Friends
Matus J Telgarsky · Sanjoy Dasgupta
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Sketching Structured Matrices for Faster Nonlinear Regression
Haim Avron · Vikas Sindhwani · David Woodruff
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
More data speeds up training time in learning halfspaces over sparse vectors
Amit Daniely · Nati Linial · Shai Shalev-Shwartz
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Bayesian Inference and Learning in Gaussian Process State-Space Models with Particle MCMC
Roger Frigola · Fredrik Lindsten · Thomas B Schön · Carl Rasmussen
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
The Fast Convergence of Incremental PCA
Akshay Balsubramani · Sanjoy Dasgupta · Yoav Freund
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Robust Low Rank Kernel Embeddings of Multivariate Distributions
Le Song · Bo Dai
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
PAC-Bayes-Empirical-Bernstein Inequality
Ilya O Tolstikhin · Yevgeny Seldin
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Latent Maximum Margin Clustering
Guang-Tong Zhou · Tian Lan · Arash Vahdat · Greg Mori
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
The Randomized Dependence Coefficient
David Lopez-Paz · Philipp Hennig · Bernhard Schölkopf
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Robust Data-Driven Dynamic Programming
Grani Adiwena Hanasusanto · Daniel Kuhn
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Probabilistic Principal Geodesic Analysis
Miaomiao Zhang · Tom Fletcher
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
More Effective Distributed ML via a Stale Synchronous Parallel Parameter Server
Qirong Ho · James Cipar · Henggang Cui · Seunghak Lee · Jin Kyu Kim · Phil Gibbons · Garth A Gibson · Greg Ganger · Eric P Xing
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Designed Measurements for Vector Count Data
Liming Wang · David E Carlson · Miguel Rodrigues · David Wilcox · Robert Calderbank · Lawrence Carin
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
A Kernel Test for Three-Variable Interactions
Dino Sejdinovic · Arthur Gretton · Wicher Bergsma
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Statistical Active Learning Algorithms
Maria-Florina F Balcan · Vitaly Feldman
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Bayesian Inference and Online Experimental Design for Mapping Neural Microcircuits
Ben Shababo · Brooks Paige · Ari Pakman · Liam Paninski
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Unsupervised Structure Learning of Stochastic And-Or Grammars
Kewei Tu · Maria Pavlovskaia · Song-Chun Zhu
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Efficient Optimization for Sparse Gaussian Process Regression
Yanshuai Cao · Marcus A Brubaker · David J Fleet · Aaron Hertzmann
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
A Latent Source Model for Nonparametric Time Series Classification
George H Chen · Stan Nikolov · Devavrat Shah
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Lasso Screening Rules via Dual Polytope Projection
Jie Wang · Jiayu Zhou · Peter Wonka · Jieping Ye
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Multiclass Total Variation Clustering
Xavier Bresson · Thomas Laurent · David Uminsky · James von Brecht
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Approximate Inference in Continuous Determinantal Processes
Raja Hafiz Affandi · Emily Fox · Ben Taskar
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Thompson Sampling for 1-Dimensional Exponential Family Bandits
Nathaniel Korda · Emilie Kaufmann · Remi Munos
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
A Comparative Framework for Preconditioned Lasso Algorithms
Fabian L Wauthier · Nebojsa Jojic · Michael I Jordan
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
It is all in the noise: Efficient multi-task Gaussian process inference with structured residuals
Barbara Rakitsch · Christoph Lippert · Karsten Borgwardt · Oliver Stegle
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Convex Calibrated Surrogates for Low-Rank Loss Matrices with Applications to Subset Ranking Losses
Harish G Ramaswamy · Shivani Agarwal · Ambuj Tewari
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Inverse Density as an Inverse Problem: the Fredholm Equation Approach
Qichao Que · Mikhail Belkin
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
From Bandits to Experts: A Tale of Domination and Independence
Noga Alon · Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi · Claudio Gentile · Yishay Mansour
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Predictive PAC Learning and Process Decompositions
Cosma Shalizi · Aryeh Kontorovich
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Bayesian Mixture Modelling and Inference based Thompson Sampling in Monte-Carlo Tree Search
Aijun Bai · Feng Wu · Xiaoping Chen
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Solving inverse problem of Markov chain with partial observations
Tetsuro Morimura · Takayuki Osogami · Tsuyoshi Ide
Poster
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Locally Adaptive Bayesian Multivariate Time Series
Daniele Durante · Bruno Scarpa · David B Dunson
Session
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Demonstrations
Session
Sat Dec 7th 07:00 - 11:59 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Poster Session
Placeholder
Sun Dec 8th 07:30 AM - 03:00 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Registration Desk
Placeholder
Sun Dec 8th 07:30 - 09:00 AM @ None
Breakfast
Posner Lecture
Sun Dec 8th 09:00 - 09:45 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Neural Reinforcement Learning
Peter Dayan
Session
Sun Dec 8th 09:00 - 10:10 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 9
Satinder Singh
Oral
Sun Dec 8th 09:50 - 10:10 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Actor-Critic Algorithms for Risk-Sensitive MDPs
Prashanth L.A. · Mohammad Ghavamzadeh
Session
Sun Dec 8th 10:10 - 10:30 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 9
Hugo Larochelle
Spotlight
Sun Dec 8th 10:10 - 10:14 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Learning from Limited Demonstrations
Beomjoon Kim · Amir-massoud Farahmand · Joelle Pineau · Doina Precup
Spotlight
Sun Dec 8th 10:14 - 10:18 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Distributed Exploration in Multi-Armed Bandits
Eshcar Hillel · Zohar S Karnin · Tomer Koren · Ronny Lempel · Oren Somekh
Spotlight
Sun Dec 8th 10:18 - 10:22 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Dimension-Free Exponentiated Gradient
Francesco Orabona
Spotlight
Sun Dec 8th 10:22 - 10:26 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Generalizing Analytic Shrinkage for Arbitrary Covariance Structures
Daniel Bartz · Klaus-Robert Müller
Spotlight
Sun Dec 8th 10:26 - 10:30 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Robust Spatial Filtering with Beta Divergence
Wojciech Samek · Duncan Blythe · Klaus-Robert Müller · Motoaki Kawanabe
Break
Sun Dec 8th 10:30 - 10:50 AM @ Harvey's: Garden Buffet, Promenade 1+2
Coffee Break
Invited Talk
Sun Dec 8th 10:50 - 11:30 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
New Methods for the Analysis of Genome Variation Data
Richard Durbin
Session
Sun Dec 8th 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Oral Session 10
Michael I Jordan
Oral
Sun Dec 8th 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
BIG & QUIC: Sparse Inverse Covariance Estimation for a Million Variables
Cho-Jui Hsieh · Matyas A Sustik · Inderjit S Dhillon · Pradeep K Ravikumar · Russell Poldrack
Session
Sun Dec 8th 12:00 - 12:20 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Spotlight Session 10
Hugo Larochelle
Spotlight
Sun Dec 8th 12:00 - 12:04 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Speeding up Permutation Testing in Neuroimaging
Chris Hinrichs · Vamsi K Ithapu · Qinyuan Sun · Sterling C Johnson · Vikas Singh
Spotlight
Sun Dec 8th 12:04 - 12:08 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Robust Multimodal Graph Matching: Sparse Coding Meets Graph Matching
Marcelo Fiori · Pablo Sprechmann · jovo T Vogelstein · Pablo Muse · Guillermo Sapiro
Spotlight
Sun Dec 8th 12:08 - 12:12 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Deep Fisher Networks for Large-Scale Image Classification
Karen Simonyan · Andrea Vedaldi · Andrew Zisserman
Spotlight
Sun Dec 8th 12:12 - 12:16 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Sinkhorn Distances: Lightspeed Computation of Optimal Transport
Marco Cuturi
Spotlight
Sun Dec 8th 12:16 - 12:20 PM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Understanding variable importances in forests of randomized trees
Gilles Louppe · Louis Wehenkel · Antonio Sutera · Pierre Geurts
Talk
Sun Dec 8th 12:20 - 12:30 PM @ None
Closing Remarks
Break
Sun Dec 8th 12:30 - 02:00 PM @ None
Lunch Break
Session
Sun Dec 8th 12:40 - 01:40 PM @ Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel (SS Stanford & SS Blaisdel rooms)
Ben Taskar Memorial Session
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Documents as multiple overlapping windows into grids of counts
Alessandro Perina · Nebojsa Jojic · Manuele Bicego · Andrzej Truski
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
On Algorithms for Sparse Multi-factor NMF
Siwei Lyu · Xin Wang
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
High-Dimensional Gaussian Process Bandits
Josip Djolonga · Andreas Krause · Volkan Cevher
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Sinkhorn Distances: Lightspeed Computation of Optimal Transport
Marco Cuturi
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Sparse Inverse Covariance Estimation with Calibration
Tuo Zhao · Han Liu
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning word embeddings efficiently with noise-contrastive estimation
Andriy Mnih · koray kavukcuoglu
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Analyzing the Harmonic Structure in Graph-Based Learning
Xiao-Ming Wu · Zhenguo Li · Shih-Fu Chang
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
The Pareto Regret Frontier
Wouter M Koolen
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Fast Template Evaluation with Vector Quantization
Mohammad Amin Sadeghi · David Forsyth
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
(More) Efficient Reinforcement Learning via Posterior Sampling
Ian Osband · Dan Russo · Benjamin Van Roy
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Variational Policy Search via Trajectory Optimization
Sergey Levine · Vladlen Koltun
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Training and Analysing Deep Recurrent Neural Networks
Michiel Hermans · Benjamin Schrauwen
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Bellman Error Based Feature Generation using Random Projections on Sparse Spaces
Mahdi Milani Fard · Yuri Grinberg · Amir-massoud Farahmand · Joelle Pineau · Doina Precup
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Sparse Additive Text Models with Low Rank Background
Lei Shi
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Deep Fisher Networks for Large-Scale Image Classification
Karen Simonyan · Andrea Vedaldi · Andrew Zisserman
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning invariant representations and applications to face verification
Qianli Liao · Joel Z Leibo · Tomaso A Poggio
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Optimization, Learning, and Games with Predictable Sequences
Sasha Rakhlin · Karthik Sridharan
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
On Poisson Graphical Models
Eunho Yang · Pradeep K Ravikumar · Genevera I Allen · Zhandong Liu
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Higher Order Priors for Joint Intrinsic Image, Objects, and Attributes Estimation
Vibhav Vineet · Carsten Rother · Philip Torr
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Scalable kernels for graphs with continuous attributes
Aasa Feragen · Niklas Kasenburg · Jens Petersen · Marleen de Bruijne · Karsten Borgwardt
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Distributed Exploration in Multi-Armed Bandits
Eshcar Hillel · Zohar S Karnin · Tomer Koren · Ronny Lempel · Oren Somekh
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Robust Multimodal Graph Matching: Sparse Coding Meets Graph Matching
Marcelo Fiori · Pablo Sprechmann · jovo T Vogelstein · Pablo Muse · Guillermo Sapiro
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
BIG & QUIC: Sparse Inverse Covariance Estimation for a Million Variables
Cho-Jui Hsieh · Matyas A Sustik · Inderjit S Dhillon · Pradeep K Ravikumar · Russell Poldrack
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Modeling Clutter Perception using Parametric Proto-object Partitioning
Chen-Ping Yu · Wen-Yu Hua · Dimitris Samaras · Greg Zelinsky
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Optimal integration of visual speed across different spatiotemporal frequency channels
Matjaz Jogan · Alan A Stocker
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Approximate Dynamic Programming Finally Performs Well in the Game of Tetris
Victor Gabillon · Mohammad Ghavamzadeh · Bruno Scherrer
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Point Based Value Iteration with Optimal Belief Compression for Dec-POMDPs
Liam C MacDermed · Charles L Isbell
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning the Local Statistics of Optical Flow
Dan Rosenbaum · Daniel Zoran · Yair Weiss
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning Trajectory Preferences for Manipulators via Iterative Improvement
Ashesh Jain · Brian Wojcik · Thorsten Joachims · Ashutosh Saxena
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Transfer Learning in a Transductive Setting
Marcus Rohrbach · Sandra Ebert · Bernt Schiele
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Projected Natural Actor-Critic
Philip S Thomas · William C Dabney · Stephen Giguere · Sridhar Mahadevan
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
First-order Decomposition Trees
Nima Taghipour · Jesse Davis · Hendrik Blockeel
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
What Are the Invariant Occlusive Components of Image Patches? A Probabilistic Generative Approach
Zhenwen Dai · Georgios Exarchakis · Jörg Lücke
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Decision Jungles: Compact and Rich Models for Classification
Jamie Shotton · Toby Sharp · Pushmeet Kohli · Sebastian Nowozin · John Winn · Antonio Criminisi
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Reinforcement Learning in Robust Markov Decision Processes
Shiau-Hong Lim · Huan Xu · Shie Mannor
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning Feature Selection Dependencies in Multi-task Learning
Daniel Hernández-lobato · José Miguel Hernández-Lobato
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Near-optimal Anomaly Detection in Graphs using Lovasz Extended Scan Statistic
James L Sharpnack · Akshay Krishnamurthy · Aarti Singh
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Global MAP-Optimality by Shrinking the Combinatorial Search Area with Convex Relaxation
Bogdan Savchynskyy · Jörg Hendrik H Kappes · Paul Swoboda · Christoph Schnörr
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Action from Still Image Dataset and Inverse Optimal Control to Learn Task Specific Visual Scanpaths
Stefan Mathe · Cristian Sminchisescu
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Heterogeneous-Neighborhood-based Multi-Task Local Learning Algorithms
Yu Zhang
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Generalizing Analytic Shrinkage for Arbitrary Covariance Structures
Daniel Bartz · Klaus-Robert Müller
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Visual Concept Learning: Combining Machine Vision and Bayesian Generalization on Concept Hierarchies
Yangqing Jia · Joshua T Abbott · Joseph L Austerweil · Thomas Griffiths · Trevor Darrell
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning Gaussian Graphical Models with Observed or Latent FVSs
Ying Liu · Alan S Willsky
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Dimension-Free Exponentiated Gradient
Francesco Orabona
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Beyond Pairwise: Provably Fast Algorithms for Approximate $k$-Way Similarity Search
Anshumali Shrivastava · Ping Li
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Robust Spatial Filtering with Beta Divergence
Wojciech Samek · Duncan Blythe · Klaus-Robert Müller · Motoaki Kawanabe
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Mid-level Visual Element Discovery as Discriminative Mode Seeking
Carl Doersch · Abhinav Gupta · Alexei A Efros
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Non-Linear Domain Adaptation with Boosting
Carlos J Becker · Christos M Christoudias · Pascal Fua
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Tracking Time-varying Graphical Structure
Erich Kummerfeld · David Danks
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Factorized Asymptotic Bayesian Inference for Latent Feature Models
Kohei Hayashi · Ryohei Fujimaki
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
A* Lasso for Learning a Sparse Bayesian Network Structure for Continuous Variables
Jing Xiang · Seyoung Kim
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Symbolic Opportunistic Policy Iteration for Factored-Action MDPs
Aswin Raghavan · Roni Khardon · Alan Fern · Prasad Tadepalli
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Online Learning with Switching Costs and Other Adaptive Adversaries
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi · Ofer Dekel · Ohad Shamir
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Online Learning with Costly Features and Labels
Navid Zolghadr · Gábor Bartók · Russell Greiner · András György · Csaba Szepesvari
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
A Novel Two-Step Method for Cross Language Representation Learning
Min Xiao · Yuhong Guo
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Deep Neural Networks for Object Detection
Christian Szegedy · Alexander Toshev · Dumitru Erhan
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Geometric optimisation on positive definite matrices for elliptically contoured distributions
Suvrit Sra · Reshad Hosseini
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Forgetful Bayes and myopic planning: Human learning and decision-making in a bandit setting
Shunan Zhang · Angela J Yu
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Probabilistic Movement Primitives
Alexandros Paraschos · Christian Daniel · Jan R Peters · Gerhard Neumann
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Reshaping Visual Datasets for Domain Adaptation
Boqing Gong · Kristen Grauman · Fei Sha
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Policy Shaping: Integrating Human Feedback with Reinforcement Learning
Shane Griffith · Kaushik Subramanian · Jonathan Scholz · Charles L Isbell · Andrea L Thomaz
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning a Deep Compact Image Representation for Visual Tracking
Naiyan Wang · Dit-Yan Yeung
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Understanding variable importances in forests of randomized trees
Gilles Louppe · Louis Wehenkel · Antonio Sutera · Pierre Geurts
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Lexical and Hierarchical Topic Regression
Viet-An Nguyen · Jordan L Boyd-Graber · Philip Resnik
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Speeding up Permutation Testing in Neuroimaging
Chris Hinrichs · Vamsi K Ithapu · Qinyuan Sun · Sterling C Johnson · Vikas Singh
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Direct 0-1 Loss Minimization and Margin Maximization with Boosting
Shaodan Zhai · Tian Xia · Ming Tan · Shaojun Wang
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
On model selection consistency of penalized M-estimators: a geometric theory
Jason D Lee · Yuekai Sun · Jonathan E Taylor
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Minimax Optimal Algorithms for Unconstrained Linear Optimization
Brendan McMahan · Jacob D Abernethy
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Optimistic policy iteration and natural actor-critic: A unifying view and a non-optimality result
Paul Wagner
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Parametric Task Learning
Ichiro Takeuchi · Tatsuya Hongo · Masashi Sugiyama · Shinichi Nakajima
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Mapping paradigm ontologies to and from the brain
Yannick Schwartz · Bertrand Thirion · Gael Varoquaux
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Binary to Bushy: Bayesian Hierarchical Clustering with the Beta Coalescent
Yuening Hu · Jordan L Boyd-Graber · Hal Daume III · Z. Irene Ying
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Action is in the Eye of the Beholder: Eye-gaze Driven Model for Spatio-Temporal Action Localization
Nataliya Shapovalova · Michalis Raptis · Leonid Sigal · Greg Mori
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Adaptive Step-Size for Policy Gradient Methods
Matteo Pirotta · Marcello Restelli · Luca Bascetta
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
DESPOT: Online POMDP Planning with Regularization
Adhiraj Somani · Nan Ye · David Hsu · Wee Sun Lee
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
A multi-agent control framework for co-adaptation in brain-computer interfaces
Josh S Merel · Roy Fox · Tony Jebara · Liam Paninski
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Context-sensitive active sensing in humans
Sheeraz Ahmad · He Huang · Angela J Yu
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Actor-Critic Algorithms for Risk-Sensitive MDPs
Prashanth L.A. · Mohammad Ghavamzadeh
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning from Limited Demonstrations
Beomjoon Kim · Amir-massoud Farahmand · Joelle Pineau · Doina Precup
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Third-Order Edge Statistics: Contour Continuation, Curvature, and Cortical Connections
Matthew Lawlor · Steven W Zucker
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Reservoir Boosting : Between Online and Offline Ensemble Learning
Leonidas Lefakis · François Fleuret
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Estimation Bias in Multi-Armed Bandit Algorithms for Search Advertising
Min Xu · Tao Qin · Tie-Yan Liu
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Parallel Sampling of DP Mixture Models using Sub-Cluster Splits
Jason Chang · John W Fisher III
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Estimating the Unseen: Improved Estimators for Entropy and other Properties
Paul Valiant · Gregory Valiant
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Learning Adaptive Value of Information for Structured Prediction
David J Weiss · Ben Taskar
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Reward Mapping for Transfer in Long-Lived Agents
Xiaoxiao Guo · Satinder Singh · Richard L Lewis
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
DeViSE: A Deep Visual-Semantic Embedding Model
Andrea Frome · Greg S Corrado · Jon Shlens · Samy Bengio · Jeff Dean · Marc'Aurelio Ranzato · Tomas Mikolov
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Convergence of Monte Carlo Tree Search in Simultaneous Move Games
Viliam Lisy · Vojta Kovarik · Marc Lanctot · Branislav Bosansky
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Conditional Random Fields via Univariate Exponential Families
Eunho Yang · Pradeep K Ravikumar · Genevera I Allen · Zhandong Liu
Poster
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Extracting regions of interest from biological images with convolutional sparse block coding
Marius Pachitariu · Adam M Packer · Noah Pettit · Henry Dalgleish · Michael Hausser · Maneesh Sahani
Session
Sun Dec 8th 02:00 - 06:00 PM @ Harrah's Special Events Center, 2nd Floor
Poster Session
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Mon Dec 9th 06:30 - 08:00 AM @ Harvey's: Garden Buffet, Promenade 1+2, Harrahs SEC Foyer
Breakfast
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Mon Dec 9th 06:30 - 11:00 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Registration Desk
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:00 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harrah's Fallen+Marla
Extreme Classification: Multi-Class & Multi-Label Learning with Millions of Categories
Manik Varma · John Langford
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harrah's Glenbrook+Emerald
NIPS 2013 Workshop on Causality: Large-scale Experiment Design and Inference of Causal Mechanisms
Isabelle Guyon · Leon Bottou · Bernhard Schölkopf · Alexander Statnikov · Evelyne Viegas · james m robins
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Sierra
MLINI-13: Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging (Day 1)
Georg Langs · Brian Murphy · Kai-min K Chang · Paolo Avesani · James Haxby · Nikolaus Kriegeskorte · Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli · Irina Rish · Guillermo Cecchi · Raif Rustamov · Marius Kloft · Jonathan Young · Sina Ghiassian · Michael Coen
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Emerald Bay 5
Randomized Methods for Machine Learning
David Lopez-Paz · Quoc V Le · Alex J Smola
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Emerald Bay 6
High-dimensional Statistical Inference in the Brain
Alyson K Fletcher · Dmitri B Chklovskii · Fritz Sommer · Ian H Stevenson
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Emerald Bay A
Probabilistic Models for Big Data
Neil D Lawrence · Joaquin Quiñonero Candela · Tianshi Gao · James J Hensman · Zoubin Ghahramani · Max Welling · David Blei · Ralf Herbrich
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Emerald Bay 4
What Difference Does Personalization Make?
Dilan Gorur · Romer Rosales · Olivier Chapelle · Dorota Glowacka
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Emerald Bay 3
Frontiers of Network Analysis: Methods, Models, and Applications
Edo M Airoldi · David S Choi · Aaron Clauset · Khalid El-Arini · Jure Leskovec
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harrah's Sand Harbor III
Output Representation Learning
Yuhong Guo · Dale Schuurmans · Richard Zemel · Samy Bengio · Yoshua Bengio · Li Deng · Dan Roth · Kilian Q Weinberger · Jason Weston · Kihyuk Sohn · Florent Perronnin · Gabriel Synnaeve · Pablo R Strasser · julien audiffren · Carlo Ciliberto · Dan Goldwasser
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harrah's Sand Harbor II
Deep Learning
Yoshua Bengio · Hugo Larochelle · Russ R Salakhutdinov · Tomas Mikolov · Matthew D Zeiler · David Mcallester · Nando de Freitas · Josh Tenenbaum · Jian Zhou · Volodymyr Mnih
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harrah's Tahoe D
Planning with Information Constraints for Control, Reinforcement Learning, Computational Neuroscience, Robotics and Games.
Hilbert J Kappen · Naftali Tishby · Jan R Peters · Evangelos Theodorou · David H Wolpert · Pedro A Ortega
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Zephyr
Modern Nonparametric Methods in Machine Learning
Arthur Gretton · Mladen Kolar · Samory Kpotufe · John Lafferty · Han Liu · Bernhard Schölkopf · Alex J Smola · Rob Nowak · Mikhail Belkin · Lorenzo Rosasco · peter bickel · Yue Zhao
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harrah's Sand Harbor I
Discrete Optimization in Machine Learning: Connecting Theory and Practice
Stefanie Jegelka · Andreas Krause · Pradeep K Ravikumar · Kazuo Murota · Jeff A Bilmes · Yisong Yue · Michael I Jordan
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harrah's Tahoe C
OPT2013: Optimization for Machine Learning
Suvrit Sra · Alekh Agarwal
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harrah's Tahoe A+B
Crowdsourcing: Theory, Algorithms and Applications
Jennifer Wortman Vaughan · Greg Stoddard · Chien-Ju Ho · Adish Singla · Michael Bernstein · Devavrat Shah · Arpita Ghosh · Evgeniy Gabrilovich · Dengyong Zhou · Nikhil Devanur · Xi Chen · Alex T Ihler · Qiang Liu · Genevieve Patterson · Ashwinkumar Badanidiyuru · Hossein Azari Soufiani · Jacob Whitehill
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Emerald Bay 1
Advances in Machine Learning for Sensorimotor Control
Thomas J Walsh · Alborz Geramifard · Marc P Deisenroth · Jonathan P How · Jan R Peters
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Emerald Bay 2
Perturbations, Optimization, and Statistics
Tamir Hazan · George Papandreou · Sasha Rakhlin · Daniel Tarlow
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Emerald Bay B
Big Learning : Advances in Algorithms and Data Management
Xinghao Pan · Haijie Gu · Joseph E Gonzalez · Sameer Singh · Yucheng Low · Joseph Hellerstein · Derek G Murray · Raghu Ramakrishnan · Michael I Jordan · Chris Ré
Workshop
Mon Dec 9th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Tallac
Large Scale Matrix Analysis and Inference
Reza Bosagh Zadeh · Gunnar Carlsson · Michael Mahoney · Manfred K Warmuth · Wouter M Koolen · Nati Srebro · Satyen Kale · Malik Magdon-Ismail · Ashish Goel · Matei A Zaharia · David Woodruff · Ioannis Koutis · Benjamin Recht
Break
Mon Dec 9th 09:00 - 09:30 AM @ None
Coffee Break
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Mon Dec 9th 10:30 AM - 03:30 PM @ None
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Mon Dec 9th 03:30 - 03:30 PM @ None
Workshops Resume
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Mon Dec 9th 05:00 - 05:30 PM @ None
Coffee Break
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Tue Dec 10th 06:30 - 11:00 AM @ Harvey's Convention Center Floor, CC
Registration Desk
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Tue Dec 10th 06:30 - 08:00 AM @ Harvey's: Garden Buffet, Promenade 1+2, Harrahs SEC Foyer
Breakfast
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harrah's Glenbrook+Emerald
Machine Learning for Sustainability
Edwin V Bonilla · Thomas Dietterich · Theo Damoulas · Andreas Krause · Daniel R Sheldon · Iadine Chades · J. Zico Kolter · Bistra Dilkina · Carla P Gomes · Hugo P Simao
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harrah's Tahoe D
Data Driven Education
Jonathan Huang · Sumit Basu · Kalyan Veeramachaneni
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Zephyr
Machine Learning in Computational Biology
Jean-Philippe Vert · Anna Goldenberg · Sara Mostafavi · Oliver Stegle
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harrah's Tahoe A
Learning Faster From Easy Data
Peter Grünwald · Wouter M Koolen · Sasha Rakhlin · Nati Srebro · Alekh Agarwal · Karthik Sridharan · Tim van Erven · Sebastien Bubeck
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harrah's Tahoe C
Neural Information Processing Scaled for Bioacoustics : NIPS4B
Hervé GLOTIN · Yann LeCun · Thierry Artières · Stephane Mallat · Ofer Tchernichovski · Xanadu Halkias
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Emerald Bay 6
Greedy Algorithms, Frank-Wolfe and Friends - A modern perspective
Martin Jaggi · Zaid Harchaoui · Federico Pierucci
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Emerald Bay 1
Constructive Machine Learning
Thomas Gaertner · Roman Garnett · Andrea Passerini
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Emerald Bay A
Bayesian Optimization in Theory and Practice
Matthew W Hoffman · Jasper Snoek · Nando de Freitas · Michael A Osborne · Ryan P Adams · Sebastien Bubeck · Philipp Hennig · Remi Munos · Andreas Krause
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Emerald Bay B
Topic Models: Computation, Application, and Evaluation
David Mimno · Amr Ahmed · Jordan L Boyd-Graber · Ankur Moitra · Hanna Wallach · Alex J Smola · David Blei · Anima Anandkumar
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harrah's Tahoe B
Workshop on Spectral Learning
Byron Boots · Daniel J Hsu · Borja Balle
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Emerald Bay 5
Machine Learning Open Source Software: Towards Open Workflows
Antti Honkela · Cheng Soon Ong
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Sierra
MLINI-13: Machine Learning and Interpretation in Neuroimaging (Day 2)
Georg Langs · Brian Murphy · Kai-min K Chang · Paolo Avesani · James Haxby · Nikolaus Kriegeskorte · Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli · Irina Rish · Guillermo Cecchi · Raif Rustamov · Marius Kloft · Jonathan Young · Sina Ghiassian · Michael Coen
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Tallac
Machine Learning for Clinical Data Analysis and Healthcare
Jenna Wiens · Finale P Doshi-Velez · Can Ye · Madalina Fiterau · Shipeng Yu · Le Lu · Balaji R Krishnapuram
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Emerald Bay 4
Acquiring and Analyzing the Activity of Large Neural Ensembles
Srini C Turaga · Lars Buesing · Maneesh Sahani · Jakob H Macke
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Emerald Bay 3
Resource-Efficient Machine Learning
Yevgeny Seldin · Yasin Abbasi · Koby Crammer · Ralf Herbrich · Peter L Bartlett
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harvey's Emerald Bay 2
Knowledge Extraction from Text (KET)
Marko Grobelnik · Blaz Fortuna · Estevam Hruschka · Michael J Witbrock
Workshop
Tue Dec 10th 07:30 AM - 06:30 PM @ Harrah's Fallen+Marla
New Directions in Transfer and Multi-Task: Learning Across Domains and Tasks
Urun Dogan · Marius Kloft · Tatiana Tommasi · Francesco Orabona · Massimiliano Pontil · Sinno Jialin Pan · Shai Ben-David · Arthur Gretton · Fei Sha · Marco Signoretto · Rajhans Samdani · Yun-Qian Miao · Mohammad Gheshlaghi azar · Ruth Urner · Christoph H Lampert · Jonathan P How
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Tue Dec 10th 09:00 - 09:30 AM @ None
Coffee Break
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Tue Dec 10th 10:30 AM - 03:30 PM @ None
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Tue Dec 10th 03:30 - 03:30 PM @ None
Workshops Resume
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Tue Dec 10th 05:00 - 05:30 PM @ None
Coffee Break
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Tue Dec 10th 07:00 - 11:00 PM @ Harrah's Sand Harbor
Farewell Reception