Statistics

• Readings from Christian Robert's seminar on classic statistics papers could be fun!
• Asymptotic statistics --- van der Vaart
• Lasso, ARS, sparsity
• Approximate Bayesian Computation

Nonparametrics (Bayesian and otherwise)

• Bayesian nonparametric --- Nils Hjort edited book
• All of nonparametric statistics
• Gaussian processes
• Something about with kernels

Inference

• Variational Inference in Nonconjugate Models
• Nonparametric Bayes particle filtering

Optimisation

• Nesterov acceleration
• ADMM (e.g., Foundations and Trends book)

Scaling

• Papers on Vowpal Rabbit, Spark
• Several streaming inference papers from this past NIPS

Machine learning

• Taskar stuff with DPPs

-- CharlesSutton - 07 Nov 2013