Probabilistic Inference Group (PIGS) - Archive
Academic Year 2014-2015
Jun 29: Pol
Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Variational Inference: Bridging the Gap Tim Salimans, Diederik. P. Kingma and Max Welling
Jun 15: George
Just-In-Time Learning for Fast and Flexible Inference S. M. Ali Eslami, D. Tarlow, P. Kohli and J. Winn
Jun 8: Rich Caruana (invited speaker)
High-Accuracy Intelligible Models for
HealthCare .
Jun 1: Cancelled (NIPS deadline)
May 18: Cancelled
May 4: Sohan
Scalable methods for nonnegative matrix factorizations of near-separable tall-and-skinny matrices A.R. Benson, J.D. Lee, B. Rajwa, F. Gleich
Apr 20: Matt
Chris J. Maddison, Daniel Tarlow, and Tom Minka.
A* Sampling. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. 2014.
(paper)(NIPS oral session video)
Mar 23: Jinli
Identifying and attacking the saddle point problem in high-dimensional non-convex optimization Yann N. Dauphin et al.
Mar 9: Zhanxing
Bayesian Sampling Using Stochastic Gradient Thermostats Nan Ding et.al
Feb 23: Konstantinos
Modeling Deep Temporal Dependencies with Recurrent Grammar Cells
Vincent Michalski, Roland Memisevic, Kishore Konda
Feb 9: Iain
Stochastic Variational Inference
Matthew D. Hoffman, David M. Blei, Chong Wang, John Paisley
Jan 26: NIPS 2014 review
Krzysztof: Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep? Jimmy Ba, Rich Caruana
Amos: Generative Adversarial Nets Ian J. Goodfellow et al.
Gavin: Spectral Methods Meet EM: A Provably Optimal Algorithm for Crowdsourcing Zhang, Yuchen, et al.
Pol: Learning Generative Models with Visual Attention Yichuan Tang et al.
Jinli: Factoring Variations in Natural Images with Deep Gaussian Mixture Models Aaron van den Oord, Benjamin Schrauwen
Chris: Sequence to sequence learning with neural networks Sutskever, Vinyals, Le
Yichuan: A Multiplicative Model for Learning Distributed Text-Based Attribute Representations Kiros, et al.
Jari: Unsupervised Transcription of Piano Music Berg-Kirkpatrick et al.
Jan 12: Dr Mike Smith (visitor talk, Makerere University), Title: Informatics in a Developing Country (Pollution, Traffic and Malaria)
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