Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between

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Emile Mathieu, Tor Fjelde and Vincent Dutordoir (Cambridge MLG).

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

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

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Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis, Puria Radmard.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

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Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Speaker to be confirmed.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Speaker to be confirmed.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

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Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

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Prof. Richard Turner and Stratis Markou, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

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Spencer Frei, UC Davis.

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

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia, Edward Young.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Quasi-Monte Carlo: structure in the randomness for better sampling

Isaac Reid, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

A new look at eye design

Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Structured recognition for generative models with explaining away

Changmin Yu, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Monday 02 October 2023, 13:30-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

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Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED.

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

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs

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Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy.

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

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yashar Ahmadian and Puria Radmard.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification

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Prof. Alessandro Abate, Dr. Licio Romao, Dr. Yulong Gao and Dr. Jiarui Gan. University of Oxford.

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

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia and David Lui.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

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Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Will Greedy, University of Bristol.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reward Modelling

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Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Navigating the Future: Upcoming EU AI Regulation and its Potential Impact on the Field

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Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning-based multiscale modeling: computing, data science, and uncertainty quantification

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Burigede Liu.

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

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Alejandro Tabas and Theoklitos Amvrosiadis.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

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Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 19 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning

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Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 12 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis

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Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 05 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Physics-informed machine learning

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Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Marine Schimel (CBL), Guillaume Hennequin (CBL), Alfonso Renart (Champalimaud).

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 28 March 2023, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Machine Learning

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Wenlin Chen, Julien Horwood & Juyeon Heo (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 22 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

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Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

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

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Features for Kernel Approximation

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Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of Differential Privacy, Membership Inference Attacks, and Federated Learning

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Ali Shahin Shamsabadi (Alan Turing Institute) and John Bronskill (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Neural Networks

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James Allingham, Javier Antorán, Vincent Fortuin (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Luke Johnston, Wayne Soo.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Offline Reinforcement Learning

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Max Patacchiola (University of Cambridge), Stephen Chung (University of Cambridge), Adam Jelley (University of Edinburgh).

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

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Puria Radmard and David Liu.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

{PF}^2ES: Parallel Feasible Pareto Frontier Entropy Search for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Under Unknown Constraints

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Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,.

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

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

The unbreakable lightness of single neuron non-linearities in learning

Yasser Roudi, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience.

CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 13:30-14:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Edward Young, Zahara Girones.

CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 06 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Understanding the emergence of neural population dynamics underlying behaviour

Juan Alvaro Gallego.

CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent

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Andy Lin, MLG.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia and Mate Lengyel.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-16:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann and Yashar Ahmadian.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-16:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud and David Liu.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 14:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Random walks, self-reinforcement and neurons

Daniel Han, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE-438 .

Monday 24 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jakub Onysk and Yul Kang.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 15:00-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Jensen and Wayne Soo.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

How a recurrent circuit of Poisson spiking neurons is able to implement sampling-based inference

Wen-Hao Zhang.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

David Liu and Edward Young.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 05 April 2022, 13:30-15:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Flavia Mancini and Finn Ashley.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 13:30-15:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud and Michal Wojcik.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 13:30-15:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Jensen and Marine Schimel.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 13:30-15:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Daniel Turner-Evans and Hannah Haberkern.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Connectivity inference in visual cortex and characterization of contrast-suppressed cells

Simon Renner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Online on Zoom.

Friday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Georgia Turner and Falvia Mancini.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 13:30-15:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yashar Ahmadian and Gido van de Ven.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 14:00-15:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yul Kang and Wayne Soo.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 14:00-15:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin and Kris Jensen.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 14:00-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Marine Schimel and David Liu.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 28 September 2021, 14:00-15:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Jensen and Georgia Turner.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 29 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yashar Ahmadian and Wayne Soo.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 15 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Capacity and errors in classification of object manifolds

Uri Cohen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Online on Zoom.

Thursday 03 June 2021, 10:00-11:15

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Mate Lengyel and Jasmine Stone.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jean-Pascal Pfister and Xizi Li.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Zahara Girones and Ivan Tomic.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yul Kang and Jonathan So.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 06 April 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud and Marine Schimel.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 23 March 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jascha Achterberg and Kris Jensen.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

David Liu and Jeroen Olieslagers.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 15:00-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

A theory for Hebbian Learning in recurrent E-I networks

Samuel Eckmann (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

Online on Zoom (recorded).

Friday 18 December 2020, 09:00-10:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Calvin Kao and Marine Schimel.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 15 December 2020, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

The covariance perceptron: Theory and application to reservoir computing

Matthieu Gilson, Sofia Lawrie (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

Online on Zoom.

Wednesday 09 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Gido van de Jen.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 15:00-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jasmine Stone (University of Cambridge).

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 15:00-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yul Kang and Wayne Soo.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Cognitive switches and functional reprogramming of sensory cortex

Abhishek Banerjee, Newcastle University.

Online on google meets.

Friday 16 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Jensen and David Liu.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 06 October 2020, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yashar Ahmadian.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 30 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Mate Lengyel (Engineering Department).

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 02 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 19 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud (University of Cambridge).

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 05 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Why do neurons spike spontaneously?

Tim Vogels (University of Oxford).

Online on Zoom.

Monday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:30

Computational Neuroscience

Why do neurons spike spontaneously?

Tim Vogels (University of Oxford).

Online on Zoom.

Monday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yul Kang (University of Cambridge).

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 21 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Jensen and Marine Schimel.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 07 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Xizi Li (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Marine Schimel.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Marine Schimel.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Wayne Soo (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Simon Schug (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Simon Schug (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Torp Jensen.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Adriana Perez Rotondo (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yul Kang (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Structure in the randomness of trained recurrent neural networks

Omri Barak (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational neuroscience journal club

Monika Jozsa.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Neural information processing during behavior and sleep

Mayank Mehta (UCLA).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Michael Rule.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Dopamine as prediction error in active inference

Rafal Bogacz (Oxford).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 10 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Neurotransmitter spillover modulates neuronal information transmission

Mehrdad Salmasi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Calvin Kao.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 08 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Wearable non-invasive human neural interface with action potential resolution

Dan Wetmore, PhD, Director of Clinical and Research partnerships, CTRL-labs.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 10 September 2019, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Wearable non-invasive human neural interface with action potential resolution

Patrick Kaifosh, PhD, Chief Science Officer, CTRL-labs.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 10 September 2019, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dhruva Raman (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Thomas Burger (Control Group).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

How perception informs urgent saccadic choices: halting, acceleration, and deceleration

Emilio Salinas (Wake Forest School of Medicine).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Xizi Li (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Gido van de Ven.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 04 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 04 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Ta-Chu (Calvin) Kao -- CBL.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

The K-FAC method for neural network optimization

James Martens, Google Deep Mind.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 14 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Stimulus complexity shapes response correlations in primary visual cortex

Gergő Orbán (HAS Wigner Research Centre for Physics).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Flavia Mancini (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Neural circuit mechanisms of learning and attentional task-switching during visually-guided behaviour in mice

Dr Jasper Poort ( Department of Psychology, Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Friday 15 February 2019, 10:00-11:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Laurence Aitchison (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

High-dimensional dynamics of generalization error in neural networks: implications for experience replay

Dr. Andrew Saxe, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Friday 01 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Daniel Acosta-Kane (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Local and global synaptic credit assignment

Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Bristol).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Friday 18 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Marcelo Mattar (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Adrian Seminar - "Computational model of rapid learning in hippocampus".

Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 26 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

A brain-machine interface for locomotion driven by subspace dynamics

Karen E. Schroeder, Columbia University.

Cambridge University Engineering Dept., CBL Seminar Room (4th floor).

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Neural mechanisms of model-based planning in the rat

Kevin Miller, University College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Michael Rule (Control Group).

Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building).

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Adriana Perez-Rotondo (Control group).

Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building).

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building).

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Alberto Bernacchia (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building).

Tuesday 02 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Reactivation in biological and artificial neural networks

Gido van de Ven, PhD; Baylor College of Medicine.

Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building).

Tuesday 11 September 2018, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 17 July 2018, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yul Kang (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Xizi Li (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Adrianna Loback (Control Group).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Andrey Stoychev (Control Group).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Information Efficacy of a Dynamic Synapse

Mehrdad Salmasi (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 03 May 2018, 15:30-16:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Robert Taylor (Bays Lab).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Interfacing with the brain using organic electronics

George Malliaras (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge,).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 15 February 2018, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Calvin Kao (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Greg Sotiropoulos (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dhruva Raman (Control Group).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 12 December 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Laurence Aitchison (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Mahdieh Sadabadi (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

How much to gain: Controlling space and time via gain modulation in cortical networks

Jake Stroud (Tim Vogels Lab. University of Oxford).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Monday 13 November 2017, 14:30-15:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Alberto Bernacchia (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Somatosensory cortex is essential for adaptive motor control in mice

Mackenzie Mathis, The Rowland Institute, Harvard University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

From the olfactory cocktail party to markerless tracking

Alexander Mathis, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 26 October 2017, 10:00-11:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Mohsen Sadeghi (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Spike timing in motor control

Ilya Nemenman (Emory University).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 03 October 2017, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Timothy O'Leary (Control Group).

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

Tuesday 11 July 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dhruva Raman (Control Group).

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

Tuesday 27 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

motifNet: Deep learning for system identification of regulatory networks

Vincent Fortuin (ETH).

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

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 11:30-12:15

Computational Neuroscience

Neural network models of free recall and spatial navigation

Stefano Recanatesi (Weizmann Institute).

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

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 10:45-11:30

Computational Neuroscience

Inferring decision rules from evidence, choice, and reaction times

Yul Kang (Columbia University).

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

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 10:00-10:45

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Matthew Kerr (CBL).

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

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Greg Sotiropoulos (CBL).

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

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Brian Trippe (CBL).

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

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation

Andreas V.M. Herz, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Munich and Faculty of Biology, LMU Muenchen.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 08 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL).

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

James Heald (CBL).

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

Tuesday 18 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Hannah Sheahan (CBL).

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

Tuesday 04 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Sebastian Schneegans (Bays Lab).

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

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Laurence Aitchison (CBL).

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

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Dynamic reorganization of neuronal activity patterns in parietal cortex

Laura Driscoll (Harvard University).

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

Monday 20 February 2017, 10:00-10:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Alberto Bernacchia (CBL).

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

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Mohsen Sadeghi (CBL).

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

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Matthew Kerr (CBL).

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

Thursday 15 December 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Brian Trippe (CBL).

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

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Neural representations of uncertainty: the right tool for the right job

Cristina Savin (IST Austria).

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

Thursday 17 November 2016, 12:15-13:15

Computational Neuroscience

Prospective coding by spiking neurons

Johanni Brea (EPFL).

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

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 09:00-10:00

Computational Neuroscience

Grid cells get back to the memory game

Alessandro Treves (SISSA).

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

Monday 14 November 2016, 09:00-10:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sketching methods

John Bradshaw.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Greg Sotiropoulos (CBL).

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

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

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 Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL).

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

Tuesday 18 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Hannah Sheahan (CBL).

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

Tuesday 04 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

James Heald (CBL).

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

Tuesday 20 September 2016, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Matthew Kerr (CBL).

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

Tuesday 06 September 2016, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Laurence Aitchison (CBL).

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

Tuesday 23 August 2016, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Alberto Bernacchia (CBL).

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

Tuesday 12 July 2016, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Mohsen Sadeghi (CBL).

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

Tuesday 05 July 2016, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

A decision-theoretic framework for active cognition

Angela J. Yu, UCSD Cognitive Science.

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

Friday 17 June 2016, 10:30-11:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

József Fiser (Central European University).

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

Tuesday 14 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Perceptual decision-making: models of the decision-making process and formulation of uncertainty

David Zoltowski, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 31 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Towards a theory of layered neural circuit architectures

Alireza Alemi (École Normale Supérieure).

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

Tuesday 31 May 2016, 11:30-12:30

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

Craik Club

Perception as a closed-loop convergence process

The host for this talk is Máté Lengyel. Note the unusual time and the unusual location

Ehud Ahissar (Weizmann Institute).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. For directions see http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions.

Friday 20 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Synaptic origins of working memory capacity

Misha Tsodyks, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel .

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

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 10:00-11:00

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

Brain State Control by Closed-Loop Environmental Feedback

Taro Toyoizumi, RIKEN Brain Science Institute.

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

Monday 21 March 2016, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

The stabilized supralinear network: A simple "balanced network" mechanism explaining nonlinear cortical integration

Ken Miller, Columbia University.

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

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 11:00-12:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Probabilistic synapses

Laurence Aitchison.

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

Friday 12 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

The contribution of millisecond spike timing of cortical neurons to sensory coding and perceptual decisions

Stefano Panzeri, Italian Institute of Technology.

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

Friday 11 December 2015, 10:00-11:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

David Zoltowski (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Approximate nonlinear filtering with a neural network

Jean-Pascal Pfister, ETH Zurich.

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

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yan Wu (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Dale’s principle and the neural processing of latent factors

Alberto Bernacchia, Jacobs University, Bremen.

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

Monday 12 October 2015, 11:30-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Decoding of complex stimuli from large retinal populations

Vicente Botella-Soler.

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

Wednesday 07 October 2015, 10:15-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Complementary approaches to Synaptic Plasticity: Objective Functions and Biophysics

Rodrigo Echeveste, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University Frankfurt.

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

Wednesday 07 October 2015, 09:30-10:15

Computational Neuroscience

A normative account of episodic memory in online learning over open model spaces

Gergo Orban, MTA Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest.

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

Monday 24 August 2015, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Contextual modulation of gamma rhythms in inhibition stabilized cortical networks

Yashar Ahmadian, Columbia University.

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

Wednesday 08 July 2015, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

A three-threshold learning rule approaches the maximal capacity of recurrent neural networks

Alireza Alemi, Politecnico di Torino (Italy).

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

Wednesday 24 June 2015, 11:30-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

The statistical structure of noise in large neural populations

Neil Rabinowitz.

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

Wednesday 24 June 2015, 11:00-11:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Daniel McNamee.

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

Tuesday 23 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Rogue states: altered dimensionality of neural circuit activity in Fragile-X mice

Cian O'Donnell, Computational Neurobiology Lab, Salk Institute, La Jolla.

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

Tuesday 26 May 2015, 11:00-12:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yan Wu (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Heuristics of control: Habitization, fragmentation, memoization and pruning

Peter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable MCMC

Hong Ge, Jes Frellsen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Dopamine - beyond reward?

Thomas Fitzgerald, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL.

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

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 12:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Alec Greaves-Tunnell (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Ryutaro Tanno (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Sina Tootoonian ( CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 27 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced HMC

Nilesh Tripuraneni; Adam Scibior.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3)

4G3 course -- repeats every Wed at 12noon, and Fri at 11am during Lent

Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6 (Trumpington Street).

Friday 16 January 2015, 11:00-12:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Johannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.).

Engineering Department, Baker Building (5th floor), MIL meeting room.

Tuesday 02 December 2014, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, Baker Building (5th floor), MIL meeting room.

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Chaos and entropy production in spiking networks

Rainer Engelken.

Engineering Department, Baker Building (5th floor), MIL meeting room.

Monday 10 November 2014, 10:30-11:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 04 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yan Wu (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 21 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Sensory processing in neocortical networks: randomness, specificity and learning

Sadra Sadeh, Imperial College, London, UK.

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

Tuesday 14 October 2014, 09:30-10:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 07 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

A Study of Certain Models of Synaptic Plasticity in the Cerebellum and Neocortex

David Higgins (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris).

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

Tuesday 16 September 2014, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Nervous system variability and robustness from cellular feedback control

Tim O'Leary, Brandeis University.

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

Tuesday 01 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Johannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.).

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

Tuesday 17 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Adaptation, coding and Bayesian computations in single neurons and neural populations

Alessandro Ticchi, Imperial College London.

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

Thursday 22 May 2014, 10:30-11:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yan Wu (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 06 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Sina Tootoonian ( CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 08 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 25 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Ronald van den Berg, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 25 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Johannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.).

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

Tuesday 11 February 2014, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 28 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3)

4G3 course -- repeats every Wed at 12am, and Fri at 11am during Lent

Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12 (Trumpington Street).

Friday 17 January 2014, 11:00-12:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 03 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Ronald van den Berg, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 19 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Spectral Learning

Maxim Rabinovich, Aman Sinha.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Learning sensory and spatial representations from interacting excitatory and inhibitory synaptic plasticity

Henning Sprekeler (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 12 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Neuronal processing of continuous sensory streams

Robert Gütig, Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine, Göttingen, Germany.

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

Friday 08 November 2013, 11:15-12:15

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yan Wu (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 05 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

What the Rat's Whiskers Tell the Rat's Brain

Dr Rasmus Petersen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.

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

Tuesday 22 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 08 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Sina Tootoonian (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 17 September 2013, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Neil Houlsby , CBL.

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

Tuesday 25 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Johannes Friedrich, CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept..

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

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Optimal compensation for neuron death

David Barrett (ENS Paris).

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

Friday 24 May 2013, 09:30-10:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Dendritic computation in pyramidal neurons.

Tiago Branco (MRC Laboratory for Molecular Biology).

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

Thursday 16 May 2013, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Is the brain in a critical state?

Peter Latham ( Gatsby, UCL).

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

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Demixing scents: Sampling-based inference in olfaction.

Agnieszka Grabska Barwinska, The Gatsby Unit, UCL.

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

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 12:00-13:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 16 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

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

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

Tuesday 02 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

University Lectureship in Computational Neuroscience candidate talks

Claudia Clopath (Columbia), Yan Karklin (NYU), Jakob Macke (MPI Tuebingen), Kanaka Rajan (Princeton), Henning Sprekeler (Humboldt).

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

Monday 18 March 2013, 14:30-17:15

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jonathan O'Keeffe .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

Tuesday 19 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Sina Tootoonian, CBL, Engineering, U. Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

Tuesday 05 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yan Wu (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

Tuesday 22 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS Recap

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Course (4G3)

4G3 course -- repeats Wednesdays at 12noon, Thursday at 2pm during Lent 2013

Mate Lengyel (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

Thursday 17 January 2013, 14:00-15:00

Winton Journal Club

Energy Efficiency in Buildings

Milan Vrucinic.

TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

Monday 17 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Luigi Acerbi.

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

Tuesday 11 December 2012, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr. Gergo Orban (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 13 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

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

bbu20's list

Coding with Dendrites

Panayiota Poirazi.

CBL Meeting Room (BE4-38, Dept. of Engineering).

Tuesday 06 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 30 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Space, sleep, brain rhythms and memory

Dr Mayank Mehta. UCLA..

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 16 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Perceiving is Believing: Bayesian inference in unexpected places.

Maneesh Sahani, Gatsby, UCL.

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

Wednesday 05 September 2012, 10:30-11:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Balazs B Ujfalussy (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 26 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 12 June 2012, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

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

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

Tuesday 22 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

DJ Strouse (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 08 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

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 Neuroscience

Visuomotor behavior in naturalistic tasks: from receptive fields to value functions

Constantin Rothkopf, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies.

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

Thursday 03 May 2012, 11:30-12:30

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

Craik Club

"Probing sensory representations with metameric stimuli"

The host for this talk is Máté Lengyel, Engineering Department. Note that the title and topic of the talk have been revised.

Eero Simoncelli, New York University.

Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Tuesday 01 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Near-optimal integration of evidence for decision-making in the rat.

Prof. Carlos Brody. Neuroscience Institute & Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Theatre, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 30 April 2012, 16:30-17:30