Some Practical Reflections on Graphical Models

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• Dr Charles Sutton (University of Edinburgh)
• Wednesday 13 July 2011, 11:00-12:00
• Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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Graphical models provide a powerful framework for reasoning about latent explanations of data, and for integrating different sources of information. But several practical issues result in them being applied less often than they could be. I will discuss a recent application around inferring the location of boxes in a supply chain from RFID data. This application is instructive because it highlights a few of these limitations and presents opportunities for new methodology.

Finally, I will discuss how we are attempting to address another practical barrier to applying graphical models, namely, scalability of inference techniques. I will describe some very recent work on new methods for approximate inference that make use of approximate second-order information, within a quasi-Newton framework.

This talk is part of the Machine Learning @ CUED series.

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