Next Heavy Reading group

Next reading group will take place on:

11 December 2009

Presented by:

Oya Aran

Paper to read:

Gaussian Process Classification for Segmenting and Annotating Sequences
Altun, Hofmann & Smola
http://www.cs.brown.edu/~th/papers/AltHofSmo-ICML2004.pdf

This will be the last reading group of the year. We will continue the reading groups next year, on mid January, when everybody is back from holidays.

Next Heavy Reading Group

Next reading group will take place on:
Thurs. Dec 3rd at 11am

Presented by:
Kate

Paper to read:
Dynamic Topic Model:
www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/papers/BleiLafferty2006a.pdf

Suggestion for heavy reading group themes

In continuation of the CRF topic and also concurrently with the dynamic topic models paper we were reading, I suggest that we find a nice tutorial on gaussian processes,
or maybe even spice up the reading group by doing a 'watching group' for next time:
http://nips.cc/Conferences/2006/Program/event.php?ID=4
There's also a text book online by the presenter here:
http://www.gaussianprocess.org/gpml/chapters/

Following on from this, we can continue Kate's paper on dynamic topic models and after this combine what we've learnt from Gaussian processes with CRFS with this paper:
http://www.cs.brown.edu/~th/papers/AltHofSmo-ICML2004.pdf

I haven't read/seen any of this stuff yet so I have no idea whether it would be any good. However, they are by good people and so my gut reaction is that this would be quite a nice theme to continue.

Let me know what you think!

Next heavy reading group on CRFs

Next Heavy reading group will take place on:

[October 16th 2pm]

Presented by:

Hayley

Paper to read:

www.idiap.ch/~hhung/crf.pdf

Following our last heavy reading group conversation, I think this was the paper that was suggested...

Heavy Reading Group on CRF

Next reading group will take place on:

[21. August 2009]

Presented by:

[Kate]

Paper to read:

[http://www.scai.fraunhofer.de/fileadmin/images/bio/data_mining/paper/crf_klinger_tomanek.pdf]

Machine Learning Reading Group (or Heavy Reading Group) Topics

Please add the topics you're interested in discussing for the 'Heavy' Reading Group then we can make a rough schedule.

The topics I'm interested in discussing are:

1. Conditional Random Fields
2. Sampling Techniques
3. Approximate Inference Techniques

Heavy Reading Group

Chapter 12 - Bishop till Kernel PCA
July 17th 2pm...

next heavy reading group

Next reading group will take place on:

[26 June, 2pm, 309]

We'll continue with Chris Bishop's book chapter 12, reading sections 12.2 and 12.3

proposal for next heavy reading group

We were thinking of reading section 12.1 on principal component analysis from Chris Bishop's book next Tuesday(9th June) at 2pm. I can send out the pdf of the chapter.

Please reply to this post if you are interested in coming.

Hayley

Clustering series: ICA

Hayley proposed to start a series of readings on clustering algorithms.
We'll start reading about ICA in the next reading group.
The paper looks long but it should be easy to read. (If you have any comment
post it below this entry)

Next reading group will take place on:

Friday May 22nd, at 2pm in Room 405

Presented by:

Joan

Paper to read:
Independent Component Analysis: Algorithms and Applications
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ahyvarin/papers/NN00new.pdf