Learning Workshop, Pier 66 Resort, Fort Lauderdale, April 13-16, 2011

PROGRAM

Wednesday, April 13
16:00 Registration
18:00 Dinner
19:00 Oral Session 1
19:00 Overfitting is a Many Splendored Thing
Rich Caruana
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19:20 Linear discrimination beyond class separation
Patrick Haffner
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19:40 Learning Structured Embeddings of Knowledge Bases
Antoine Bordes and Jason weston and Ronan Collobert and Yoshua Bengio
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20:00 Break
20:20 Deep Learning of Hierarchical Structure
Chris Manning (Stanford)
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21:00 Deep Convex Network: Architectures and Parallelizable Learning
Li Deng and Dong Yu
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21:20 Adjourn
Thursday, April 14
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Oral Session 2
09:00 Go With The Flow: A New Manifold Modeling and Learning Framework for Image Ensembles
Richard Baraniuk (Rice)
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09:40 Discriminative Sparse Coding for Classification and Regression
Nishant A. Mehta and Alexander G. Gray
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10:00 Riemannian Metric Estimation and the Problem of Geometric Recovery
Dominiaue Perrault-Joncas and Marina Meila
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10:20 Break
10:40 Convolution Networks with Stable Invariants
Joan Bruna and Stéphane Mallat
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11:20 Non-parametric Bayesian Dictionary Learning with Landmark-Dependent Hierarchical Beta Process
Mingyuan Zhou and Hongxia Yang and Guillermo Sapiro and David Dunson and Lawrence Carin
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11:40 Semiparametric Latent Variable Models for Guided Representation
Jasper Snoek and Ryan Prescott Adams and Hugo Larochelle
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12:00 Lunch (on your own)
18:00 Dinner
19:30-22:00 Poster Session A
Friday, April 15
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Oral Session 2
09:00 Learning Image Representations for Efficient Recognition of Novel Classes
Alessandro Bergamo and Lorenzo Torresani
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09:20 Metric learning by active crowd-sourcing
Graham W. Taylor and Ian Spiro and Chris Bregler and Rob Fergus
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09:40 Learning Matrix Decomposition Structures
Bill Freeman (MIT)
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10:20 Break
10:40 NeuFlow: A Runtime Reconfigurable Dataflow Architecture for Vision
Clement Farabet and Yann LeCun and Eugenio Culurciello
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11:00 A Spike and Slab RBM Approach to Modeling Natural Images
Aaron C. Courville and James Bergstra and Yoshua Bengio
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11:20 Copula Bayesian Networks
Gal Elidan
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11:40 Learning Valuation Distributions from Strategic Buyers
Chris.Dance and Onno.Zoeter
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12:00 Lunch (on your own)
18:00 Dinner
19:30-22:00 Poster Session B
Saturday, April 16
08:00 Breakfast
09:00 Oral Session 2
09:00 Domain adaptation with a nearest neighbor algorithm
Ruth Urner, Shai Ben-David and Shai Shalev-Shwartz
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09:20 Sum-Product Networks for Deep Learning
Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos
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09:40 Aggressive Learning for Contextual Bandits
Alina Beygelzimer and Satyen Kale and Nikos Karampatziakis and John Langford and Lev Reyzin
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10:00 Multi-armed Bandit Problems with History
Pannagadatta Shivaswamy and Thorsten Joachims
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10:20 Break
10:40 Logarithmic-time multiclass prediction via metric embedding of classifiers
Srinivas C. Turaga and H Sebastian Seung
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11:00 Random Search for Hyper-Parameter Optimization
James Bergstra and Yoshua Bengio
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11:20 COMBREX: Breaking the Power Law Curse Using a Computational Bridge to Experiments
Simon Kasif
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11:40 Discovering Latent Structure in Clinical Databases
Jesse Davis and Vitor Santos Costa and David Page and Peggy Peissig and Michael Caldwell
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12:00 Lunch (on your own)
18:00 Banquet
20:00 Decision-Theoretic Models of Perception and Action
Lawrence Maloney (NYU)
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20:40 Learning image models using 'flobject analysis'
Inmar E. Givoni and Patrick Li and Brendan J. Frey
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