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September 4th, 2007 - Mehryar Mohri
Introduction to Rademacher Complexity (Part I)
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September 11th, 2007 - Mehryar Mohri
Introduction to Rademacher Complexity (Part II)
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| September 18th, 2007 - No seminar
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September 25th, 2007 - Ashish Rastogi
Title: McDiarmid's Inequality and its Applications
Abstract Slides
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October 2nd, 2007 - Eugene Weinstein
Discussion: Search-based
Structured Prediction, by Hal Daume, John Langford,
and Daniel Marcu (submitted to Machine Learning)
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October 9th, 2007 - Afshin Rostamizadeh
Discussion:
Learning
the Kernel Matrix with Semidefinite Programming, Lanckriet
et al. (JMLR 2004)
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October 16th, 2007 - Cyril Allauzen
Discussion: On Optimal Learning Algorithms for Multiplicity
Automata, L. Bisht, N. Bshouty and H. Mazzawi (COLT 2006)
Slides
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| October 23rd, 2007 - No seminar
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October 30th, 2007 - Ameet Talwalkar
Discussion:
On the Nystrom Method for Approximating a Gram Matrix for Improved
Kernel-Based Learning, Petros Drineas and Michael Mahoney (JMLR 2005).
Slides
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November 6th, 2007 - Yishay Mansour
Reinforcement Learning, Part 1
Abstract Slides Class Notes
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November 13th, 2007 - Yishay Mansour
Reinforcement Learning, Part 2
Abstract
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| November 20th, 2007 - No seminar
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November 27th, 2007 - Afshin Rostamizadeh
Stability Bounds for Non-i.i.d. Processes
Paper Link
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| December 4th, 2007 - No seminar
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December 11th, 2007 (NOTE ROOM CHANGE: WWH 1013) - Boulos Harb
Sampling Algorithms for Lp Regression and an Application to Feature
Selection
Paper Links: Sampling
Algorithms and Coresets for Lp Regression (SODA 2008), Feature
Selection Methods for Text Classification (KDD 2007)
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January 22nd, 2008 - Ameet Talwalkar
Title: Large-Scale Manifold Learning
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| January 29th, 2008 - No seminar
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Feburary 5th, 2008 - Afshin Rostamizadeh
Discussion: Learning
Bounds for Domain Adaptation, Blitzer et al. (NIPS 2007)
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February 12th, 2008 - Subhash Khot
Title: Hardness Results for Some Learning Problems
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February 19th, 2008 - Eugene Weinstein
Discussion: Discriminative Log-Linear Grammars with Latent Variables, Petrov and Klein (NIPS 2007)
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February 26th, 2008 - Ashish Rastogi
Discussion: FilterBoost: Regression and Classification on Large Datasets, Bradley and Schapire (NIPS 2007)
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| March 4th, 2008 - no seminar
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March 11th, 2008 - Rob Fergus
Title: Large image databases and small codes for object recognition
Abstract
Slides
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| March 18th, 2008 - Spring Break, no seminar
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March 25th, 2008 - Sanjoy Dasgupta
Title: Random projection trees and low dimensional manifolds
Abstract
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April 1st, 2008 - Afshin Rostamizadeh
Discussion: A
Conditional Random Field for Discriminatively-trained Finite-state
String Edit Distance and An
Introduction to Conditional Random Fields for Relational Learning
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April 8th, 2008 - Ameet Talwalkar
Discussion: Dimension Reduction Using Stable Random Projections
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April 15th, 2008 - Risi Kondor
The skew spectrum of graphs --- a new class of graph invariants
Abstract
Slides
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April 22nd, 2008 - Eugene Weinstein
Discussion: Discriminative Training of Decoding Graphs for Large
Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (Kuo, Kingsbury, Zweig, ICASSP
2007)
Slides
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April 30th, 2008 - Ashish Rastogi
Special session: thesis defense
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