Probabilistic Inference Group (PIGS) - Archive

Meetings in 2013

21 May: Zhanxing Zhu

Structure estimation for discrete graphical models: Generalized covariance matrices and their inverses
P. Loh and M.J. Wainwright

7 May: Konstantinos Georgatzis

A Spectral Algorithm for Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Animashree Anandkumar, Dean P. Foster, Daniel Hsu, Sham M. Kakade, Yi-Kai Liu

23 April: Daniel Trejo Baños

Dual-Space Analysis of the Sparse Linear Model
David Wipf, Yi Wu

9 April: Yichuan Zhang

A Nonparametric Conjugate Prior Distribution for the Maximizing Argument of a Noisy Function
Pedro A. Ortega, Jordi Grau-Moya, Tim Genewein, David Balduzzi, Daniel A. Braun

26 March: Peter Orchard

Structure Discovery in Nonparametric Regression through Compositional Kernel Search
David Duvenaud, James Robert Lloyd, Roger Grosse, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Zoubin Ghahramani

Gaussian Process Covariance Kernels for Pattern Discovery and Extrapolation
Andrew Gordon Wilson, Ryan Prescott Adams

12 March: Iain Murray

Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos
Sum-Product Networks: A New Deep Architecture

26 February: Ioan Stanculescu

James Bergstra, Yoshua Bengio
Random Search for Hyper-Parameter Optimization

Jasper Snoek, Hugo Larochelle, Ryan Adams
Practical Bayesian Optimization of Machine Learning Algorithms

12 February: Jinli Hu

R. Gens, P. Domingos. Discriminative Learning of Sum-Product Networks

29 January: Botond Cseke

S. C. Kou, Benjamin P. Olding, Martin Lysy & Jun S. Liu: A Multiresolution Method for Parameter Estimation of Diffusion Processes
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01621459.2012.720899

15 January: NIPS 2012 review

We will review the proceedings of NIPS 2012. If you would like to discuss a paper, please edit this section to include the title together with your initials.

AJS: Learning from the Wisdom of Crowds by Minimax Entropy. Dengyong Zhou, John Platt, Sumit Basu, Yi Mao. http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips25/NIPS2012_1091.pdf

SL: MCMC for continuous-time discrete-state systems. Vinayak A Rao, Yee Whye Teh. http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips25/NIPS2012_0331.pdf

KG: Spectral learning of linear dynamics from generalised-linear observations with application to neural population data. Lars Buesing, Jakob H. Macke, Maneesh Sahani. http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips25/NIPS2012_0806.pdf

YZ: Modelling Reciprocating Relationships with Hawkes Process. Charles Blundell, Katherine A. Heller. http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips25/NIPS2012_1231.pdf