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

Kernel Mean Embeddings

Jiri Hron; Adam Scibior.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Control, inference and learning

Prof. dr. H.J. (Bert) Kappen (Radboud University Nijmegen).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 10 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

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 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 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

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Internal models and the neural control of prey interception

Anthony Leonardo, Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus / HHMI.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 19 August 2016, 11:00-12:00

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

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

A role for circadian rhythms in maintaining neuronal properties

Timothy O'Leary.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 10 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

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

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

From Sensation to Conception: Theoretical Perspectives on Multisensory Perception and Cross-Modal Transfer

Prof Robert Jacobs (University of Rochester) .

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

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

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Perspectives on Designing Optimal User Interfaces

Dr Per Ola Kristensson (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 12 April 2016, 11:00-12:00

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 and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Approximate Message Passing Algorithms

Dr Ramji Venkataramanan (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 22 March 2016, 11:00-12:00

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

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Assembly and function of motor circuits for automatic and goal oriented movements

Dr. Marco Tripodi (MRC-LMB).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 29 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

A talk of two distinct parts: 1) a parametric empirical Bayesian approach to integration of fMRI, EEG and MEG data, 2) prediction error in episodic memory encoding

Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 28 October 2013, 11:00-12:00

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

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Optimal integration of top-down and bottom-up uncertainty in humans, monkeys, and neural networks

Ahmad Qamar (University of Chicago).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 20 June 2012, 15:00-16:00

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

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Optimal encoding and decoding in sensory populations

Eero Simoncelli (New York University, HHMI).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 02 May 2012, 10:00-11:00

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 @ CUED

Bayesian Quadrature for Prediction and Optimisation

Michael Osborne ( Oxford University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 28 November 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficient MCMC for Continuous Time Discrete State Systems

Vinayak Rao (UCL).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A Maximum Entropy Perspective on Spectral Dimensionality Reduction

Prof Neil Lawrence (Sheffield).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 15:00-16:00

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 @ CUED

Variational Inference for Non-Conjugate Models

Dr Guillaume Bouchard (Xerox).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Not so naive Bayesian classification

Prof. Geoff Webb (Monash Univ).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 12 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Nonparametrics: Latent Feature and Prediction Models, and Efficient Inference

Piyush Rai (University of Utah).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 11 October 2011, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Machine Learning Markets

Dr Amos Storkey (Edinburgh).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 07 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Factored Shapes and Appearances for Parts-based Object Understanding AND Transformation Equivariant Boltzmann Machines

Chris Williams, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 27 September 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Gaussian Systems

Philipp Hennig, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Department of Empirical Inference, Tübingen, Germany.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 19 September 2011, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Exclusive Pólya Urns and their applications

Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 16 September 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Approximate Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Inverse Problems: A Computational Viewpoint

Prof. Matthias Seeger (EPFL).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 28 July 2011, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Some Practical Reflections on Graphical Models

Dr Charles Sutton (University of Edinburgh).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 13 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Beyond Keyword Search: Discovering Relevant Scientific Literature

Khalid El-Arini (Carnegie Mellon University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 11 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Graphical Models for Bandit Problems

Kareem Amin (University of Pennsylvania).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 04 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian regression and classification with multivariate sparsifying priors

Prof. Tom Heskes (Radboud University Nijmegen).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 21 June 2011, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learning

(rescheduled from May 24th)

Professor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 07 June 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Censored Exploration in Dark Pools

Prof. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 03 June 2011, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learning

RESCHEDULED FOR JUNE 7th

Professor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 24 May 2011, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Characterization of the Ewens-Pitman family of random partitions by a deletion property and a de Finetti-type theorem for exchangeable hierarchies

Chris Haulk (UC Berkeley).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 11 April 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Nonlinear Dynamics of Learning

Prof. Max Welling (UC Irvine).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 21 March 2011, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Exponential Conditional Volatility Models

Prof Andrew Harvey (Economics, Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 15 March 2011, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Challenges in implementing the Bayesian paradigm

Prof. Steve MacEachern (Ohio State).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Expectation Propagation in Sparse Linear Models with Spike and Slab Priors

Dr José Miguel Hernández Lobato (Univ. Aut. Madrid).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 04 March 2011, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic matrix factorization for reconstruction of missing data

Dr Alexander Ilin (Aalto University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 04 March 2011, 10:30-11:30

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 @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 25 February 2011, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Differential Geometric MCMC Methods

Prof. Mark Girolami (UCL).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Mining viral datasets

Dr Simon Frost (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 25 January 2011, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Universal Bayesian Agents: Theory and Applications

Prof. Marcus Hutter (ANU).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 18 January 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Machine learning in cancer research (a.k.a CRI meets CUED)

(note new date)

Dr Florian Markowetz (CRUK) - lab visit.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 17 January 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Novi Quadrianto

Novi Quadrianto, Australian National University.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 13 January 2011, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Learning item trees for collaborative filtering with implicit feedback

Dr Andriy Mnih (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 30 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Non-Smooth-Norm Image Reconstruction from Noisy Data

Dr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 26 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Crowdsourcing data modelling

Anthony Goldbloom (Kaggle).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

CANCELLED

CANCELLED

Dr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Short talks: Mixed Cumulative Distribution Networks; Nonparametric Bayesian community discovery in social networks; Expectation Propagation for Dirichlet Process Mixture Models

Charles Blundell, Lloyd Elliot and Vinayak Rao, Gatsby Unit, UCL.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 05 November 2010, 13:30-15:00

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 @ CUED

Searching for Knowledge Instead of Web Pages

Gjergji Kasneci (Microsoft Research, Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 30 September 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Inference with Kernels

Dr Arthur Gretton (UCL).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 20 September 2010, 11:00-12:00

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Continuous control of brain computer interfaces based on a covert spatial attention paradigm

Ali Bahramisharif (Radboud University Nijmegen).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 14 September 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

On the Equivalence of Graph Cuts and Max-product Belief Propagation

Danny Tarlow (University of Toronto).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 25 August 2010, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Creating structured and flexible models: some open problems

Prof Andrew Gelman (Columbia University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 28 July 2010, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficient Bayesian analysis of multiple changepoint models

Prof Paul Fearnhead (Lancaster).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 26 July 2010, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning Common Grammar from Multilingual Corpus / Online Multiscale Dynamic Topic Models

Dr. Tomoharu Iwata (NTT).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 21 July 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Scalable Parallel Computing with CUDA

James Balfour (NVIDIA).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 20 July 2010, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian Processes

Dr Miguel Lázaro-Gredilla (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 12 July 2010, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian Process Optimization in the Bandit Setting: No Regret and Experimental Design

Andreas Krause (Caltech).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 07 July 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Natural Conjugate Gradient Learning for Fixed-Form Variational Bayes

Dr Antti Honkela (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 16 June 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Sparse Factor Analysis Applied to Three Biological Problems

Barbara Engelhardt (University of Chicago).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 15 June 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Using topic models to help cure cancer

Prof Quaid Morris (Toronto).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 11 June 2010, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Message Passing In Centralized Database

short talk

Konstantina Palla (Edinburgh).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 11 June 2010, 11:00-11:30

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 @ CUED

Structured Prediction Cascades

Dr. Ben Taskar (University of Pennsylvania).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 10 June 2010, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Parametric Bandits, Query Learning, and the Haystack Dimension

Prof. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 09 June 2010, 14:00-15:00

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

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 @ CUED

Slice sampling with latent Gaussian models

Dr Iain Murray (Toronto / Edinburgh).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 16 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Dynamic Network Tomography: Model, Algorithm, Theory, and Application

Prof. Eric Xing (CMU).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Recursive CRFs for Scalable Vision

short talk

David Duvenaud (UBC).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 12:30-13:00

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

short talk

Owen Lewis (U Colorado @ Boulder).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 12:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Subspace Codes for Adversarial Error-Correction in Network Coding

short talk

Azadeh Khaleghi (University of Toronto).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 11:30-12:00

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Short talk

Alex Davies (ANU).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 11:00-11:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Inference in Networks of Queues

Dr Charles Sutton (Edinburgh).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 09 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Stochastic Outlier Selection

Jeroen Janssens (Tilburg University / University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 08 March 2010, 16:00-16:30

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 @ CUED

Mind Reading by Machine Learning: Optimal Experimental Design

Short talk

Neil Houlsby (CUED).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 02 February 2010, 11:00-11:30

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 @ CUED

CANCELLED: Learning Components for Human Sensing

CANCELLED

Dr Fernando de la Torre (CMU).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 19 January 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Visuospatial Reasoning

Short Talk

Stephanie Chan (MIT).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 18 January 2010, 10:00-10:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

RCC Planning Meeting

All.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Optimal Tag Sets for Automatic Image Annotation

short talk

Sean Moran (Edinburgh).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 04 December 2009, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Indian Buffet Processes with Power-law Behaviour

Yee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 20 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian Processes for Active Data Selection, Faults, Changepoints and Sensor Selection

Prof. Stephen Roberts (Oxford).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

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 @ CUED

KL control theory and decision making under uncertainty

Bert Kappen ( Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 10 November 2009, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Information theoretic model selection in clustering

Joachim M Buhmann, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 28 October 2009, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Motor Skills Learning for Robotics

Jan Peters, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 09 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

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 @ CUED

Coconut: Optimizing computations for machine learning

Andrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 29 September 2009, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

CANCELLED

Cancelled

Prof. Eric Xing (CMU).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 18 September 2009, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Convex Variational Bayesian Inference for Large Scale Generalized Linear Models

Hannes Nickisch.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 27 August 2009, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Computable Probability Theory

Daniel Roy (MIT).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 28 July 2009, 14:00-15:00

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 @ CUED

Using gradient descent for optimization and learning

Nicolas Le Roux (Microsoft Research).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 26 May 2009, 13:00-15:00

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

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Algorithms for Understanding Motor Cortical Processing and Neural Prosthetic Systems

John Cunningham (Stanford University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 31 March 2009, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning from Measurements in Exponential Families

Percy Liang (University of California, Berkeley).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 25 March 2009, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Shrinkage regression for multivariate inference with missing data, with an application to portfolio balancing

Robert B. Gramacy (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 10 March 2009, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Quasi-linear Sensor Management

Marco Huber (University of Karlsruhe).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 06 March 2009, 15:00-16:00

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

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Mind reading by machine learning: an ideal observer based analysis of cognitive scientific experiments

Ferenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics & Collegium Budapest).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 24 February 2009, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Generalization in Learning

Yevgeny Seldin (Hebrew University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 20 February 2009, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Extending the Affinity Propagation Model

Inmar Givoni (University of Toronto).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 30 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

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 @ CUED

The Block Diagonal Infinite Hidden Markov Model

Tom Stepleton (CMU).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic Graph Models for Debugging Software

Laura Dietz (Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 19 January 2009, 14:00-15:00

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 @ CUED

HMMs for Protein Sequencing from Mass Spectrometry Data

Dr Bernd Fischer (EBI).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 13 January 2009, 14:00-15:00

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 @ CUED

Hardness Ratios

Yue Wu.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 14:00-14:30

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 @ CUED

Consensus finding, exponential models and infinite rankings

Dr Marina Meila (University of Washington).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

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 @ CUED

Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part III)

Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 28 October 2008, 11:00-13:00

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 @ CUED

Efficient Sequential Monte Carlo Inference for Kingman's Coalescent

Note unusual time

Dr Dilan Gorur (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 22 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Context in human robot interaction

Thomas Kollar (MIT).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 21 October 2008, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part II)

Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-18:00

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 @ CUED

Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part I)

Peter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 09 October 2008, 16:00-18:00

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 @ CUED

Shared Segmentation of Natural Scenes using Dependent Pitman-Yor Processes

Dr Erik Sudderth (UC Berkeley).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 08 October 2008, 13:30-14:30

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 @ CUED

Spoken Dialogue Management

Sebastien Bratieres.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 29 September 2008, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A Bayesian approach to language learning

Dr Sharon Goldwater (Edinburgh).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 26 September 2008, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning Bigrams from Unigrams

Andrew B. Goldberg (University of Wisconsin, Madison).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 23 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

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 @ CUED

Nonparametric Bayesian Natural Language Model Domain Adaptation: A Hierarchical, Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process Language Model

Dr Frank Wood (UCL).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 17 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian approaches to autonomous Bayesian real-time learning

Jo-Anne Ting (University of Southern California).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 15 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

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 @ CUED

Non-negative matrix factorization with Gaussian process priors

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

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 10 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Matrix Factorization and Relational Learning

Ajit Paul Singh (CMU).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 09 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Double Feature: Optimal Precoding for MIMO and Divergence Estimation for Continuous Distributions

Dr Fernando Perez-Cruz (Princeton).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 16 July 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Nonparametric Bayesian Learning of Switching Dynamical Systems

Emily Fox (MIT).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 15 July 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Message-passing inference on graphical models

Simon Byrne (Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 15 July 2008, 11:30-12:30

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 @ CUED

Bayesian analysis of complex biological systems

Dr Edo Airoldi (Princeton).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 25 June 2008, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational inference for partially observed diffusion processes

Dr. Cedric Archambeau (University College London).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 16 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Seeing Patterns in Randomness: Irrational Superstition or Adaptive Behavior?

Dr Angela Yu (Princeton).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 12 June 2008, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Assessing high-dimensional latent variable models

Dr Iain Murray (Toronto).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 12 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Identification of dynamical subpopulations, optimal experiment design and more

Alberto Giovanni Busetto, ETH Zurich.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 30 May 2008, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

H-Infinity Clustering

Prof. Sam Roweis (Toronto).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 28 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 @ CUED

Modeling Behaviour in Economic Games using Game-Theoretic POMDPs

Debajyoti Ray (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Talking with Robots: A Case Study in Architectures for Cognitive Robotics

Dr Jeremy Wyatt (University of Birmingham).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 13 May 2008, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Beam Sampling for Infinite Hidden Markov Models

Jurgen Van Gael.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 02 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning quantum physics

Dr Gabor Csanyi (Dept of Engineering).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 17 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Convergence analysis of the EM algorithm and joint minimization of free energy

Dr Shin-ichi Maeda (NARA Institute of Science and Technology).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Discriminative Methods with Structure

Simon Lacoste-Julien (Univ of California at Berkeley).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 11 March 2008, 11:30-12:30

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 @ CUED

A Bayesian approach to network modularity: inferring the structure and scale of modular networks

Jake Hofman (Columbia University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 06 March 2008, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Model selection and model order adaptation for clustering

Peter Orbanz (ETH Zurich).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Expectation Propagation, Experimental Design for the Sparse Linear Model

Matthias Seeger (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Biomedical Image Search

Alex Ksikes (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 18 February 2008, 11:30-12:30

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 @ CUED

Stable distribution and data sketching

Ioana Cosma, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 06 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 @ CUED

Sparse Gaussian Process in Disease Mapping

Jarno Vanhatalo, Helsinki University of Technology.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Tuesday 22 January 2008, 11:00-12:00

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 @ CUED

Gene Regulatory Network Inference: A Kernel-Based Learning Approach

Sandy Klemm, University of Cambridge.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 26 November 2007, 15:00-16:00

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 @ CUED

Clinical data based optimal STI strategies for HIV: a reinforcement learning approach

Dr Guy-Bart Stan (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

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 @ CUED

An overview of covariance operators in Hilbert space, and their applications

Arthur Gretton.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Process Models

Marc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 11:30-12:30

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