Learning Workshop, Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, Utah, April 3-6, 2012

PROGRAM

Tuesday, April 3
16:00 Registration
18:00 Dinner, Atrium Lounge
19:00 Oral Session 1
19:00 Adaptive algorithms for Stratified Sampling Monte Carlo
Alexandra Carpentier and Remi Munos
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19:20 Annotation on the Cheap
Sanjoy Dasgupta
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20:00 Break
20:20 A Binary Classification Framework for Two Stage Kernel Learning
Abhishek Kumar and Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil and Koray Kavukcoglu and Hal Daume
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20:40 Sparse Factor Analysis for Cognitive Tutoring
Andrew E. Waters and Andrew Lan and Christoph Studer and Richard G. Baraniuk
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21:00 Adjourn
Wednesday, April 4
07:00 Breakfast, Magpie
08:00 Oral Session 2
08:00 The Reconfigurable Classifier Model of the Visual System
Thomas M. Breuel
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08:20 A Unified Framework for Unsupervised Learning
Guille D. Canas and Tomaso Poggio and Lorenzo Rosasco
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08:40 Fast Sparse Coding for Spatio-temporal Prediction
Jonathan S. Yedidia
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09:20 Break
09:40 Learning Intermediate-Level Representations of Form and Motion from Natural Movies
Charles F. Cadieu and Bruno A. Olshausen
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10:20 On spatio-temporal feature learning
Roland Memisevic
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10:40 Intrinsic gradient networks: Highly recurrent neural networks with biologically plausible training
Jason Tyler Rolfe and Matthew Cook and Yann LeCun
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11:00 Large-Scale Spike-and-Slab Sparse Coding for Unsupervised Feature Discovery
Ian J. Goodfellow and Aaron Courvile and Yoshua Bengio
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11:20 Lunch, Magpie
17:30 Dinner, Atrium Lounge
19:00-22:00 Poster Session A, Magpie
Thursday, April 5
07:00 Breakfast, Golden Cliff
08:00 Oral Session 2
08:00 Compressive Phase Retrieval via Lifting
Henrik Ohlsson and Allen Y. Yang and Roy Dong and S. Shankar Sastry
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08:20 Marginalized Stacked Denoising Autoencoders
Minmin Chen and Zhixiang (Eddie) Xu and Kilian Q. Weinberger and Fei Sha
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08:40 Perception, Action and the Information Knot that Ties Them
Stefano Soatto
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09:20 Break
09:40 More Break
10:00 Fast approximations to structured sparse coding and applications to object classification
Arthur Szlam and Karol Gregor and Yann LeCun
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10:20 Sparse coding with stel dictionaries
Jeroen Chua and Brendan Frey
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10:40 Evolving Culture vs Local Minima
Yoshua Bengio
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11:00 Lunch, Golden Cliff
17:30 Dinner, Golden Cliff
19:00-22:00 Poster Session B, Magpie
Friday, April 6
07:00 Breakfast, Golden Cliff
08:00 Oral Session 2
08:00 The Greedy Miser: Learning under Test-time Budgets
Zhixiang (Eddie) Xu and Kilian Q. Weinberger and Olivier Chapelle
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08:20 Experiments with SARSA
Eric B Baum and Dennis Horte and Chick Markley
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08:40 Q-Learning with a Multi-state Markov Decision Process
Jiarong Jiang and Hal Daume III
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09:00 The Benefits of Interaction for Learning Sequential Predictions
Stephane Ross and J. Andrew Bagnell
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09:20 Break
09:40 Structure learning and the generalization capacity of algorithms
Joachim M Buhmann
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10:00 Image Retrieval with Multinomial Relevance Feedback
Dorota Glowacka and John Shawe-Taylor
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10:20 Extraction of Key Temporal Segments in Videos
Megha Pandey and A.G.Amitha Perera and Anthony Hoogs
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10:40 Spectral methods for estimating probabilistic language models
Lyle Ungar and Paramaveer Dhillon and Jordan Rodu and Michael Collins and Dean Foster
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11:00 Fighting the Tuberculosis Pandemic using Machine Learning
Kristin P Bennett and the TB-Insight Team
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11:20 Lunch, Golden Cliff
17:30 Banquet, Golden Cliff
19:30 After Dinner Talk
Aaron Hertzman
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