Learning Workshop, Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, Utah, April 6-9, 2010

PROGRAM

Tuesday, April 6
16:00 Registration
18:00 Dinner
19:00 Oral Session 1
19:00 FOLS: Factorized Orthogonal Latent Spaces
Mathieu Salzmann and Carl Henrik Ek and Raquel Urtasun and Trevor Darrell
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19:20 Collaborative, Structured, and Hierarchical Sparse Image Models
Guillermo Sapiro (U. Minnesota)
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20:00 Break
20:20 Third-Order Edge Statistics Reveal Curvature Dependency
Matthew Lawlor and Steven W. Zucker
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20:40 Proximal Methods for Sparse Hierarchical Dictionary Learning
Rodolphe Jenatton and Julien Mairal and Guillaume Obozinski and Francis Bach
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21:00 Deep Learning on GPUs with Theano
James Bergstra and Olivier Breuleux and Frédéric Bastien and Pascal Lamblin and Joseph Turian and Guillaume Desjardins and Razvan Pascanu and Dumitru Erhan and Olivier Delalleau and Yoshua Bengio
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21:20 Adjourn
Wednesday, April 7
10:30 Oral Session 2
10:30 Graphical Modeling and Inference with Perfect Graphs
Tony Jebara
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10:50 A Collective Approach to Graph Identification
Galileo Namata and Lise Getoor
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11:10 Can computer vision help us understand biological vision?
Mitya Chkolvskii (HHMI Janelia Farm)
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11:50 Break
12:10 Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Following Instructions
Nicholas Roy and Thomas Kollar and Stefanie Tellex (MIT)
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12:50 Learning low-dimensional Lagrangian models of high-dimensional trajectories via Fermat Components Analysis
Paul Vernaza and Daniel D. Lee
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13:10 Learning Deep Inference Machines
J. Andrew Bagnell and Alex Grubb and Daniel Munoz and Stephane Ross
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13:30 Lunch, Golden Cliff
18:30 Dinner, Golden Cliff
19:30-22:00 Poster Session A
Thursday, April 8
07:00 Breakfast
08:00 Oral Session 2
08:00 Early attention-related mechanisms integrate information about stimulus statistics and reward
P. Kallerhoff and A. Hollaender and J.-D. Haynes and K. Obermayer
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08:20 Efficient Sequence Classification with Spatial Representations
Pavel Kuksa and Vladimir Pavlovic
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08:40 Learning local spatio-temporal features for activity recognition
Graham W. Taylor and Chris Bregler
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09:00 Are categories necessary for recognition?
Alyosha Efros (CMU)
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09:40 Break
10:00 Double Feature!
1. Human versus machine: comparing visual object recognition systems on a level playing field
Nicolas Pinto (MIT) with Najib J. Majaj, Youssef Barhomi, Ethan A. Solomon, David D. Cox & James J. DiCarlo

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2. A High-Throughput Screening Approach to Biologically-Inspired Object Recognition
David Cox (Harvard), with Nicolas Pinto and James J. DiCarlo
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10:40 Web Scale Image Annotation: Learning to Rank with Joint Word-Image Embeddings
Jason Weston and Samy Bengio and Nicolas Usunier
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11:00 Analysis of Feature Learning and Feature Pooling for Image Recognition
Y-Lan Boureau, Francis Bach, Yann LeCun, and Jean Ponce
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11:20 Lunch, Golden Cliff
17:30 Dinner, Golden Cliff
19:00-22:00 Poster Session B
Friday, April 9
07:00 Breakfast
08:00 Oral Session 2
08:00 Markov Logic Networks: A Step Towards a Unified Theory of Learning and Cognition
Pedro Domingos (U. Washington)
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08:40 Learning with Privileged Information: New Optimization Algorithms and Applications
Dmitry Pechyony and Leon Bottou and Vladimir Vapnik
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09:00 A fast natural Newton method
Nicolas Le Roux and Andrew Fitzgibbon
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09:20 Deep Segmentation Networks
Nicolas Le Roux and Nicolas Heess and Jamie Shotton and John Winn
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09:40 Break
10:00 Object Detection Grammars
Pedro Felzenszwalb and David McAllester (U. Chicago, TTI-C)
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10:40 Weak Recovery Conditions using Graph Partitioning Bounds
Alexandre d'Aspremont and Noureddine El Karoui
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11:00 Answering Reading Comprehension Tests using Multi-View Regression
Dean Foster and Daniel Kim and Andrew Pak and Lyle Ungar
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11:20 Tracking Climate Models
Claire Monteleoni and Shailesh Saroha and Gavin Schmidt
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11:40 Lunch, Golden Cliff
17:30 Banquet, Golden Cliff
19:30 An Iterative Path Integral Reinforcement Learning Approach
Evangelos Theodorou, Jonas Buchli, Freek Stulp, and Stefan Schaal (USC)
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20:10 Identifying People based on their Motion Signature
George Williams, Graham W. Taylor, Ian Spiro, Chris Bregler
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