Learning Workshop, Clearwater Hilton, April 13-16, 2009

PROGRAM

Monday, April 13
16:00 Registration
18:00 Dinner
19:30 Oral Session 1
19:30 Evaluation Methods for Topic Models
Hanna M. Wallach, Iain Murray, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, David Mimno
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19:50 The graphlet spectrum
Risi Kondor and Nino Shervashidze and Karsten Borgwardt
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20:10 Break
20:30 Terence Sanger
Failure of Motor Learning and How to Succeed Anyway
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21:10 Adjourn
Tuesday, April 14
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Oral Session 2
09:00 A Graphical Model Viewpoint on Queueing Networks
Charles Sutton and Michael I. Jordan
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09:20 Consistent Robust Logarithmic Time Prediction
John Langford (but on joint work with many other coauthors)
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09:40 Non-Linear Matrix Factorization
Neil D. Lawrence and Raquel Urtasun
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10:00 Training, Adaptation, and Semi-Supervised Learning in a Real-World OCR System
Thomas M. Breuel
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10:20 Break
10:40 Max Welling
On Herding Dynamical Weights and Fractal Geometry
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11:20 Cumulative distribution networks: Graphical models for cumulative distribution functions
Jim C. Huang and Brendan J. Frey
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11:40 Emergence of complex like cells in a temporal product network and its smooth generalization
Karol Gregor and Yann LeCun
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12:00 Lunch (on your own)
18:00 Dinner
19:30-22:00 Poster Session A
Wednesday, April 15
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Oral Session 3
09:00 Probabilistic programs, computability, and de Finetti measures
Daniel M. Roy and Cameron E. Freer
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09:20 Kernel Machines Made of DNA Molecules
Yung-Kyun Noh and Daniel D. Lee and Cheongtag Kim and Byoung-Tak Zhang
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09:40 Cost-Sensitive Active Visual Category Learning
Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan and Kristen Grauman
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10:00 Towards coherent modeling of scene segmentation, annotation and classification
Li-Jia Li and Li Fei-Fei
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10:20 Break
10:40 Russ Tedrake
Learning to fly like a bird
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11:20 Towards Understanding Situated Text: Concept Labeling, Story Understanding and Weak Supervision
Antoine Bordes and Nicolas Usunier and Ronan Collobert and Jason Weston
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11:40 Learning Deep Bolztmann Machines
Ruslan Salakhutdinov and Geoffrey Hinton
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12:00 Lunch (on your own)
18:00 Dinner
19:30-22:00 Poster Session B
Thursday, April 16
This is a joint AISTATS 2007 and Learning Workshop day. The oral and poster presentations and the banquet will be together with the Learning Workshop.
08:15 Breakfast
09:00 AI-Stats/Learning Oral Session
09:00 Scalable Methods for Deep Belief Learning in Very Large Datasets
James Philbin and Oliver Williams and Michael Isard
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09:20 Curriculum Learning
Yoshua Bengio and Jerome Louradour and Ronan Collobert and Jason Weston
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09:40 High-Accuracy Object Recognition with a New Convolutional Net Architecture and Learning Algorithm
Kevin Jarrett, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Koray Kavukcuoglu, Yann LeCun
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10:00 Large Scale Online Learning of Image Similarity Through Ranking
Gal Chechik and Varun Sharma and Uri Shalit and Samy Bengio
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10:20 Coffee Break
10:40-12:00 AI-Stats oral session: probability models
12:00 Lunch (on your own)
16:00-17:15 AI-Stats oral session: planning and control
17:15-20:00 AI-Stats Poster Session I
20:00 Learning/Ai-stats Banquet. Speaker: Mark Hanson