Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Andy Lin, MLG.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Predicting generalization of ML models.

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders.

Vihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A tutorial on diffusion models

Emile, Sasha from CBL.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Zoom link available upon request..

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benchmarking and evaluation in contemporary machine learning

Austin Tripp and Shoaib Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of reward

Michael Cohen, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Theory and Practice of Infinitely Wide Neural Networks - Guest Talk

Roman Novak, Google Brain.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learning

Greg Yang, Microsoft Research.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 06 July 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The role of meta-learning for few-shot classification

Eleni Triantafillou, Google Brain.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Pre-Train Your Loss: Easy Bayesian Transfer Learning with Informative Priors

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Learning PAC-Bayes Priors for Probabilistic Neural Networks

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Rethinking evaluation for machine learning models

Adrian Goldwaser & Shoaib Siddiqui.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and Generalization

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

How close are these distributions? A brief introduction to statistical distances and divergences.

David Burt, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bests of ICLR

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning with Quantum Computers

Amira Abbas and Maria Schuld.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 20 April 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Autoregressive Diffusion Models

Emiel Hoogeboom.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 30 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of AI Alignment

Neel Alex, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AI

Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Introduction to differential privacy

Talay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Retrieval Augmented NLP

Jiri Hron and Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Circuits and Interpretability

Lauro Langosco, Elre Oldewage and Juyeon Heo(University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 16 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Optimal Transport Metrics

Shreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learned Compression

Gergely Flamich and Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion and Score-based Generative Models

Vincent Dutordoir, Wenlin Chen, Tor Fjelde (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

AI Safety

Neel Alex.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Wednesday 12 January 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

[Cancelled] Best of Neurips

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online-only.

Wednesday 15 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Energy-Based Models

Stratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Kernels

Sebastian Ober and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Mean Field Theory of NN (postponed to March 2022)

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Representation Learning: A Causal Perspective

Yixin Wang.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86187336902?pwd=eUtxZGsvandXQ1dXKzJkWXdlTFpqQT09.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Ethics, Integrity and Good Practice in ML

Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Implicit Regularization in Deep Learning

Jezabel Garcia, Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Planning Meeting + PI Presentations

CBL and Computer Lab PIs.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Towards Neuro-Causality: Relating Graph Neural Networks to Structural Causal Models

Matej Zecevic, TU Darmstadt.

https://cuhk-edu-cn.zoom.us/j/91529611509?pwd=WFBqeFdVc3J1cE9rV2NaMXJtM2RQQT09.

Friday 24 September 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk - Task-specific routing of information in neural circuits via structured noise by Cristina Savin

Cristina Savin, New York University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/85184505624?pwd=WnhWZWR1SjhxUXFDOWtPT2c2cG90Zz09.

Friday 09 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Nonlinear filtering as a unifying principle in neuroscience by Jean-Pascal Pfister

Jean-Pascal Pfister, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84626937837?pwd=RC95RTdybkRlNHhOcThjclQzYUxkdz09.

Friday 02 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Finale Doshi-Velez

Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89542469691?pwd=bVJjdXJGd3BkaDk1SHk3a1dLZzlZUT09.

Friday 11 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Pseudo-Points and State-Space Gaussian Processes

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Latent Stochastic Differential Equations: An Unexplored Model Class.

David Duvenaud, University of Toronto.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84495932262?pwd=MlFJL3Z3c1JmenFOY2xJQTNPSzdsQT09.

Friday 04 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Statistical Finite Element Method

Mark Girolami (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk - Our Power as Technical Designers

Shakir Mohamed, Deepmind.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84960287802?pwd=N1pTZGpKMjhhMTVVV1RNSS9Gc3Jqdz09.

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of ICLR

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Accurate Gaussian Processes and how they can help Deep Learning

Mark van der Wilk, Imperial College London.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

Friday 30 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to PAC-Bayes

Andrew Foong, David Burt and Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 21 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Automated Augmented Conjugate Inference for Gaussian Processes

Théo Galy-Fajou (TU Berlin).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81961210430?pwd=cUZGbzU4NzJickd5THlsYzJ4cmlndz09.

Tuesday 20 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Examining Critiques in Bayesian Deep Learning

Andrew Gordon Wilson.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

Friday 16 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Online Learning and Online Convex Optimisation

Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 14 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine Learning

James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 07 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Secondmind's research activities to make Gaussian Processes industry proof

Nicolas Durrande, Director of Research at Secondmind.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Failure Modes of Variational Autoencoders and Their Effects on Downstream Tasks

Yaniv Yacoby, Harvard University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gaussian Processes I have Known

Anthony O'Hagan, University of Sheffield.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Representation Learning

Chaochao Lu, University of Cambridge.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Long-Range Transformers

Valerii Likhosherstov, University of Cambridge.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Inference in Stochastic Processes

Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge), Matthew Ashman (University of Cambridge), Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Fairness in AI

Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Bayes as Surrogate Regression

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian optimization / Gaussian Process Bandits

Sattar Vakili (MediaTek Research).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Meta-reinforcement learning

Kris Jensen and Calvin Kao (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of NeurIPS

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 16 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Processes

Andrew Foong, Stratis Markou and Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Large-scale sequential experimentation

Wessel Bruinsma and Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning

Robert Pinsler and Adria Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gradient-based Hyperparameter Optimisation

Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 11:05-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best Papers from ICML 2020

Reading group participants.

https://meet.google.com/wdk-qnzb-iet.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

Austin Tripp and Erik Daxberger (University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/xom-namz-rzv.

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Recent advances in the theory and applications of VAEs

Gergely Flamich and Alexandru Cioba.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of ICLR 2020

(University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/eqr-irxn-irx.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differentiable Planning

Will Tebbutt, Robert Pinsler.

https://meet.google.com/zza-agyt-koa.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Recent Developments in Bayesian Deep Learning

Andrew Foong, Siddharth Swaroop.

https://meet.google.com/hhq-zqtq-siq.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Strategic Classification

Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/hmo-aaio-agh.

Wednesday 15 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning on Sets

(University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/qvg-knkr-nrg.

Wednesday 08 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Boltzmann Generators and Stochastic Normalizing Flows

Vincent Stimper, Michael Bromberg.

Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

World Models

Dr Gregor Simm (University of Cambridge).

Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Federated Learning

Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Self-Supervised Representation Learning

Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Mean Embeddings

Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

Adria Garriga Alonso, Sebastian Ober.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Gaussian Processes

David Burt, Andrew Foong.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Programming

Hong Ge and John Bronskill.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Attention

Elre Oldewage, George Hron.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Equivariance and Symmetries in CNNs

James Allingham, Omer Sella.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hyperparameter Optimisation

Ross Clarke, Erik Daxberger, Austin Tripp.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Meta-Learning or "Learning To Learn"

John Bronskill, Marton Havasi.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Hierarchical Models

Vidhi Lalchand.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Particle MCMC

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stochastic Differential Equations

David Burt.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Generalisation in neural networks

Marton Havasi.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of Normalizing Flows

Robert Pinsler.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sampling as Optimization

Eric Nalisnick, University of Cambridge.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 13:45-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Implicit Variational Inference

Andrew Foong (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:45-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Continual Learning: Definitions, Benchmarks, and Approaches

Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:45-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Inference and Causal Reinforcement Learning

Chaochao Lu (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Generative models for few-shot prediction tasks

Marta Garnelo (Google DeepMind).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Logical Uncertainty

Adrià Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stein Discrepancy

Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 28 January 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

Eric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Natural gradient in deep neural networks

Alberto Bernacchia (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Graph Neural Networks

Matej Balog (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Defending Against Adversarial Attacks

Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reinforcement Learning and Control as Probabilistic Inference

Robert Pinsler, Calvin Kao.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing

Matej Balog (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Theory, Codes, and Compression

Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Statistical Learning Theory

Maria Lomeli.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Generative Models

Jonathan Gordon; Alexander Matthews.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Minimum Description Length

Carl E. Rasmussen; Niki Kilbertus.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning for Sounds

Akisato Kimura.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 11 January 2018, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS 2017 Highlights

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 14 December 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hardware Efficient Machine Learning

Robert Peharz; Marton Havasi.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning to Learn

Siddharth Swaroop; Will Tebbutt.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

WGAN and Optimal Transport

Mark Rowland; Wenbo Gong.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Interpretability in Machine Learning

Adrian Weller; Tameem Adel Hesham.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Structured Prediction for Handwriting Recognition

Juan Murillo Fuentes.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cooperative Inverse RL

Robert Pinsler; Adria Garriga Alonso.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Infer.NET

John F. Bronskill.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 9 - Representation Learning

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 11 April 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 8 - Autoencoders

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 04 April 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 7 - Neural Turing Machines & Conditional Random Fields as RNNs

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 21 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Mean Embeddings

Jiri Hron; Adam Scibior.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 6 - Recurrent Neural Networks

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differential Privacy

John Bradshaw; Alex Matthews.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 5 - ResNets and DenseNets

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 4 - Convolutional Networks

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Numerics

Alessandro Davide Ialongo (MLG - University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 3 - Optimization

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 14 February 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 2 - Regularization

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 1 - Deep Feedforward NNs

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 31 January 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS 2016 papers in 5mins

MLG members.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Symmetry in Statistical Models

Mark Rowland; Maria Lomeli.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Optimization

Pawel Budzianowiski; Brian Trippe.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

deep generative models

Dave Janz; James Requeima.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sketching methods

John Bradshaw.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A crash-course on Bayesian Reinforcement Learning

Alexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs)

Rowan McAllister (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 02 June 2016, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning polynomials with Neural Networks

Aldo Pacchiano (Berkeley).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 26 May 2016, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An introduction to Bayesian nonparametrics: some inference schemes for infinite mixture models

Maria Lomeli.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Topics in Expectation Propagation

Yingzhen Li (University of Cambridge), Rich Turner.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Q-Learning and AlphaGo

Shixiang Gu (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

inference failures in probabilistic programming

Tom Minka (Microsoft Research Ltd).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 14 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Methods and Compressed Sensing

Nilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 07 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Fast Fusion of Multi-band Images: A Powerful Tool for Super-resolution

Qi Wei (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 31 March 2016, 14:30-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

It's the Network Dummy: Exhuming the reticular theory while shoveling a little dirt on the neuron doctrine

Tom Dean, Google Research.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE-438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic programming

Hong Ge (University of Cambridge); Matej Balog.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning by learning rich generative models

Thang Bui (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Natural gradient descent and variational inference

Mark van der Wilk; Alex Matthews .

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differentiable Data Structures and (if we have time) POMDPs

NOTE Topic Change

Yarin Gal; Rowan McAllister (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random projection ensemble classification

Timothy Cannings.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep learning for time series

Christof Angermueller(University of Cambridge); David Zoltowski (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stochastic discrete integration

Adrian Weller;Nilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stochastic optimization and adaptive learning rates

Yingzhen Li (University of Cambridge); Mark Rowland.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Logic, Theorem Proving, and Probabilistic Programming

Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Connections between kernels, GPs, and NNs

Matthias Bauer (University of Cambridge); Paul Rubenstein.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Detecting paraphrases using recursive autoencoders

Feynman Liang.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian optimization and its applications

Dr. Matthew Hoffman (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

LP relaxations for MAP inference

Adrian Weller (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Convolutional Neural Networks

Christof Angermueller, Alex Kendall.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hessian-free Optimisation for Neural Networks

Adnan Haider, Andrey Malinin.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable MCMC

Hong Ge, Jes Frellsen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Inference

Mateo Rojas-Carulla, Amar Shah.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gaussian Process Models for Time Series

Roger Frigola, Carl Edward Rasmussen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 16 April 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Informational Geometry

Nilesh Tripuraneni, Shane Gu.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 02 April 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Gaussian Processes

Richard Turner, Alex Navarro, Thang Bui.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 26 March 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Combinatorial Stochastic Processes in Bayesian Nonparametrics

Creighton Heaukulani.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variance Reduction Techniques and Stochastic Optimisation for Monte Carlo

Matt Hoffman; Yutian Chen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Transfer Learning

Yingzhen Li; Eddy Pei-Hao Su.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced HMC

Nilesh Tripuraneni; Adam Scibior.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

Adrian Weller; Mateo Rojas Carulla.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 15 January 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Probabilistic Models (Wake/Sleep)

Yan Wu; David Barrett.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

PAC Bayes

Alex Matthews; Nikola Mrksic.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

LSTM and Recurrent Neural Networks

Shixiang Gu; Andrey Malinin.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Automatic Differentiation with Theano

Yarin Gal; Christof Angermueller.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 13 November 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

State Space Abstraction for Reinforcement Learning

Rowan McAllister; Thang Bui.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Embedding for Distributions

Mark van der Wilk; Felipe Tobar.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Unsupervised Representation Learning

Amar Shah (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

​​Time-varying dynamic Bayesian network reconstruction with information sharing​

Frank Dondelinger .

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced Gaussian Process approximation methods

Dr. Richard Turner, Thang Bui.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Statistical model criticism

James Lloyd (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Functional Programming

Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Bernoulli Factory problem and some connections with Computable Analysis

Dr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Network Language Modelling

Chunyang Wu (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 10 April 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Loopy belief propagation

Alexander Matthews (University of Cambridge), Yingzhen Li.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 03 April 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo

Thang Bui (University of Cambridge), Jes Frellsen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Data Structures and Algorithms

Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge), Alexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 23 January 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Theory and Method of Types: Channels, Quantizers, and Divergences

Antonio Artés-Rodríguez (University of Cambridge), Yingzhen Li.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 16 January 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA)

Sara Wade (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 28 November 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Spectral Learning

Maxim Rabinovich, Aman Sinha.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Projections

David Lopez-Paz, David Duvenaud.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 07 November 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Herding: Driving Deterministic Dynamics To Learn And Sample Probabilistic Models

Yutian Chen (University of California at Irvine).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 31 October 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian and Bandit Optimization

Dr. Matthew Hoffman (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Forests: One tool for all your problems.

Novi Quadrianto (University of Cambridge); Neil Houlsby (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 04 July 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Modelling Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

Yue Wu (University of Cambridge) and Andrew McHutchon (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 06 June 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Adaptive Hamiltonian-based MCMC samplers

Shakir Mohamed .

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 23 May 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Nonparametrics in Real-World Applications: Statistical Machine Translation and Language Modelling on Big Datasets

Yarin Gal (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sparsity: Beyond L1

Amar Shah (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 18 April 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces in Non-parametric Statistics

Bharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 11 April 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Sum Product Networks

José Miguel Hernández Lobato (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 28 March 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Reinforcement Learning

Rowan McAllister & Karolina Dziugaite.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 21 March 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Programming

James Lloyd (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning in Speech Recognition

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Fragmentation Coagulation

Hong Ge (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Conditional Density Estimation

Sara Wade ( Bocconi University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

RCC Planning

Colorado Reed (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discrete Optimization

Colorado Reed (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 31 January 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced Sampling

Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge); Dr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS Recap

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 17 January 2013, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS Recap

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 06 December 2012, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian and Gradient Reinforcement Learning

Yanyue (University of Cambridge); Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge); .

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 29 November 2012, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Spectral Clustering

Mr Roger Grosse (MIT); Alex Matthews.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 22 November 2012, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Modern Neural Networks: the Hinton Camp

Richard Turner, Mark van der Wilk.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Distributional compositional models of semantics

Stephen Clark (Computer Laboratory).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Completely Random Measures in Bayesian Nonparametrics

Dr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge), Creighton Heaukulani.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Model selection in a large compositional space

note: the first 45 mins will be planning and the talk will start at around 3:15pm

Roger Grosse (MIT).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Dependent normalized random measures

Changyou Chen (College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Australian National University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 21 June 2012, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

GP-BUCB for Spinal Cord Injury Therapy: Batch Active Learning with Applications

Thomas Desautels (California Institute of Technology).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 20 June 2012, 11:30-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

On Data (In-)Dependent Hashing

Novi Quadrianto (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Poisson Processes: Applications in Machine Learning

Amar Shah (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A rough guide to the Aldous-Hoover representation theorem for exchangeable arrays

Dr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Gordon Wilson.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Dirichlet Process Mixture Models and Bayesian Nonparametric Density Estimation

Andrew Gordon Wilson ().

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

"Structured sparsity and convex optimization"

Francis Bach.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Financial Problems tractable to Machine Learning Methods

yue wu (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Predictive Study of Bayesian Nonparametric Regression Models

Sara Wade, Bocconi University.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 25 April 2012, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

Rogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 19 April 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Weighted Finite-state Automata

Rogier van Dalen, Engineering Dept, Cambridge University.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 19 April 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

Ferenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 12 April 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Topic Modelling

Dr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 29 March 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Structural Learning of Dynamic Bayesian Networks

Matt Henderson (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 22 March 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Extended ensemble Monte Carlo

Dr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

"Symmetry and sufficiency"

Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information bottleneck

Please note the change in time. This RCC will take place at 15:00-16.30pm.

Dr. Richard Turner, DJ Strouse.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning

Dr José Miguel Hernández Lobato (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Approximate Inference in Gaussian Process Models

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Proper local scoring rules

Prof. Philip Dawid (Statistical Laboratory).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hyper and structural Markov laws for graphical models

Simon Byrne (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Connections between Gaussian Process Regression, Kalman filtering and RTS Smoothing

Simo Särkkä, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science Aalto University, Finland.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 26 May 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

On Over-fitting in Model Selection and Subsequent Selection Bias in Performance Evaluation

DR. Tom Minka (Microsoft Research Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Expectation Propagation for POMDP Spoken Dialogue Models

Blaise Thomson, Dialogue Systems Group, University of Cambridge.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Exchangeability

Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 17 March 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Belief Networks for Phone Recongition

Rory Waite and Matt Seigel (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The effect of normalization -- a case study in speech synthesis

Matt Shannon (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Post-NIPS Highlight session

MLG Members.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Optimal weighted nearest neighbour classifiers

Dr Richard Samworth.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Methods

Yunus Saatchi (University of Cambridge), Ryan Turner (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 10 February 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning techniques in computer vision applications

Peter Chan (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Infinite multiple relational models for complex networks

Mikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 27 January 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Completely Random Measures

Sinead Williamson (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 20 January 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Submodularity for Machine Learning

Ed Snelson and Rich Turner.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS Highlight Session

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Poisson Processes

Andrew Wilson and Yue Wu.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Convex Optimisation

Dave Knowles and David Duvenaud.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Bayesian Statistics

Sonia Petrone (Università Bocconi).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 04 November 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cancelled: No RCC

Cancelled

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Herding or a '3rd way to learn'

Simon Lacoste-Julien and Ferenc Huszar.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced Scientific Programming in Python

Carl Scheffler (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 14 October 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Unsupervised Grammar Induction

Juan Pino (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 07 October 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Structured Learning and Structural SVMs

S-X. Austin Zhang and Juan Pino.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 10 June 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Conditional Random Fields : Theory and Application

Matt Seigel (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 03 June 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Redirected to Rob Nowak, LR12

Redirected

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 27 May 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Topics in Statistical Machine Translation

Matt Shannon and Sebastien Bratieres.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

Yunus Saatchi and Andrew Wilson.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 13 May 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Retrieval

Room changed

Jurgen Van Gael and Ed Snelson.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Thursday 06 May 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Numerical Linear Algebra

Room changed

Peter Orbanz and John Cunningham (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Thursday 29 April 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bundle methods and its application in machine learning

Eric(Yongqiang) Wang and Rory Waite.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sparsification for Gaussian Processes for Regression

Milica Gasic and Anton Ragni.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 18 March 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

Eric Xing.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cancelled

Cancelled

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cancelled

Canceled

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

Pedro Ortega and Dan Braun.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Semi supervised learning

Sinead Williamson and Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational inference in graphical models: The view from the marginal polytope

David Knowles and Richard Turner (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 04 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Fractional Belief Propagation menace

Frederik Eaton.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

(Canceled) A Causal Calculus for Statistical Research

Canceled

Pedro Ortega (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

RCC Planning Meeting

All.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 14 January 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Unbounded-depth hierarchical Pitman-Yor processes

Rogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning rates in Bayesian nonparametrics

Aad van der Vaart (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Agglomerative Clustering with Coalescents

Sinead Williamson (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning RCC - Bayesian Agglomerative Clustering with Coalescents, Teh, Daumé and Roy, NIPS 2007

Sinead Williamson.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Sunday 08 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Filtering of Noisy Time-Series Data

Henrik Ohlsson, Marc Deisenroth, Hugo Vincent.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Speed Reviewing

All Participants.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

High-dimensional variable selection via sure independence screening

Richard Samworth (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning

Alex Ksikes (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Structured prediction using energy-based models

Simon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 08 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Technical Writing II

Ryan Turner (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 01 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hessian-based Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms

Tom Minka (Microsoft Research Ltd).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 02 July 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Message Passing

Note unusual time

Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 18 June 2009, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Slice Sampling

Yue Wu (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 11 June 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Technical Writing

Finale Doshi (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 21 May 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Divergence measures and message passing

David Knowles (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 14 May 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The IBM approach to speech separation

Mikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 07 May 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Parsing Images the UCLA Way

Tom Stepleton (CMU).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 30 April 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hilbert space embedding of probability distributions

Ferenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 23 April 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bregman Divergences and Machine Learning

Shakir Mohamed (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 12 March 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Convex Concave Procedure

Frederik Eaton (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hybrids of Generative and Discriminative Models (Cont)

Simon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Large Margin Training of Hidden Markov Models

Anton Ragni.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hybrid of Generative and Discriminative Models

Simon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Divergence measures and message passing - CANCELLED

Canceled

David Knowles (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 05 February 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Distributed Computing for Machine Learning

Sinead Williamson (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 29 January 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model based on Pitman-Yor Processes

Matt Shannon (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 22 January 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabalistic Inference for solving (PO)MDPs

Finale Doshi (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 15 January 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS Offline Conference

Machine Learning Across Cambridge.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 11 December 2008, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Relational Learning

Ricardo Silva (UCL Statistics).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 04 December 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Reinforcement Learning in Continuous POMDPs

Milica Gasic (University of Cambridge.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 27 November 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cluster Analysis of Heterogeneous Rank Data

Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models

Marc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 13 November 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Point Process Intensity Estimation with GP's

Yunus Saatchi (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 06 November 2008, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Knows What It Knows: A Framework For Self-Aware Learning

Pedro Ortega (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 30 October 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Approximating the Kullback-Leibler Divergence Between GMMs

Rogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 23 October 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

To Naive Bayes or to Logistically Regress: That is the Question

Jurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CANCELLED

CANCELLED

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 09 October 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Condition Monitoring

Ryan Turner (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 02 October 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Levy Processes

Katherine Heller (CUED Machine Learning).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 18 September 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The War on Loops

Frederik Eaton (CUED).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 11 September 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Bayesian Mixtures of Gaussians

Milica Gasic.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 26 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stochastic integration and Ito's lemma

Frederik Eaton (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 29 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Continuous Time Bayesian Networks

Jurgen Van Gael.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 22 May 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

'All of Nonparametric Statistics'

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Information Bottleneck / Dynamic Kernals for speaker verification

Zoi Roupakia and Sandy Klemm.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 28 February 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Matrix Factorization/Deep Belief Nets

Ryan Turner and Phillipp Hennig.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 14 February 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

Tao Li.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 07 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Spectral methods

Ricardo Silva and Arik Azran.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 31 January 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

Andreas Vlachos and Sinead Williamson.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 24 January 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Adaptive Inference and Adaptive Training

Rogier van Dalen and Christian Steinruecken.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 17 January 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 22 November 2007, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Reinforcement Learning

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 15 November 2007, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Transductive and Semi-Supervised Learning

Karsten Borgwardt (University of Cambridge) and Katherine Heller.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 08 November 2007, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational inference and exponential families

Jurgen Van Gael and Frederik Eaton.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 01 November 2007, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sparse Bayesian Linear Models

Marc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge), Miguel Lazaro-Gredilla.

LT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of.

Thursday 25 October 2007, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Autonomous Agents under Operational Closure

Pedro Ortega (University of Cambridge).

LR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

Thursday 11 October 2007, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kingman's coalescent, non-parametric Bayesian agglomerative clustering, and ICML 2007

Yee Whye Teh, Zoubin Ghahramani.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 05 July 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sensible priors from finite linear models

Note unusual time

Ed Snelson and Joaquin Candela.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 28 June 2007, 15:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Statistical Models for Partial Membership

Katherine Heller.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 21 June 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Infinite ICA and Information Retrieval

Will Youzhi Zou and David Knowles.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 14 June 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Overlapping Clusters and 4th-year Projects

Zoubin Ghahramani and Katherine Heller.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 31 May 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

What can Gaussian Processes do for Reinforcement Learning?

Marc Deisenroth, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 24 May 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

System Conditioning vs Explicit Bayes Inference, and Collaborative LDA

Pedro Ortega and Sinead Williamson.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 17 May 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Affinity Propagation and Hierarchical Beta Processes

Room changed, Note unusual time

Arik Azran and Frederik Eaton.

Room 422b, 4th floor, Engineering Department (Zoubin's office).

Friday 11 May 2007, 11:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Optimal Learning

Carl Rasmussen.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 03 May 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gaussian Approximations for Binary Gaussian Process Classification, and Hidden Topic Markov Models

Hannes Nickisch, Katherine Heller.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 26 April 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Function Approximation in MDPs

Blaise Thomson, CUED.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 19 April 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Change Point Problems in Linear Dynamical Systems

Postponed (originally April 5)

Onno Zoeter, Microsoft.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 12 April 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

GP-LVMs

Joaquin Quiñonero Candela.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 29 March 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Topics in Convex Optimisation

Ryota Tomioka, University of Tokyo.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 22 March 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Generalized Ensemble MCMC for Machine Learning

Ulrich Paquet.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 08 March 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Some NIPS papers

Blaise, Katherine, and Zoubin.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 01 March 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Universal Artificial Intelligence, and Probability Monads

Pedro Ortega and Frederik Eaton.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 22 February 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Networks

Pedro Ortega and Will Youzhi Zou.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 15 February 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Dirichlet Diffusion Trees

Frederik Eaton and Sinead Williamson.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 08 February 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Non-parametric mixture models

David Knowles and Blaise Thomson.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 01 February 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning and Experimental Design

Note unusual time

Andreas Vlachos and Bobby Gramacy.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Friday 26 January 2007, 13:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Collaborative Filtering

Will Youzhi Zou and David Knowles.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 18 January 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

On Choosing Priors

Prof Zoubin Ghahramani, CUED.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 30 November 2006, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs)

Blaise Thomson, and Sinead Williamson.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 23 November 2006, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction

Frederik Eaton and Arik Azran.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 16 November 2006, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning Reading Group in Engineering Department

Speaker to be confirmed.

5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

Thursday 09 November 2006, 13:00-15:00