Upcoming Research Talks
SML research talks are in Meeting Room D (NICTA CRL Level 3) on Thursdays from 11am-noon. Visitors are welcome; please contact Scott Sanner or Tiberio Caetano (first.last@nicta.com.au) to arrange access to NICTA for the talk.
Previous Research Talks
- Mar 04, 2010, 11am-noon: Remco BouckaertDensiTree: Making Sense of Bayesian Hierarchical Clustering
- Nov 12, 2009, 11am-noon: Scott SannerTopics, Trends, and Advances at CIKM-09Nov 5, 2009, 11am-noon: James PettersonContext and Multilingual Synchronization for Topic ModelsOct 29, 2009, 11am-noon: Tim Van Erven (CWI, Netherlands)The Catch-up Phenomenon in Bayesian and MDL model selectionOct 22, 2009, 12:30pm-1:30pm: Mitchell Whitelaw (Univ. of Canberra)The Visible Archive (blog link)Oct 15, 2009, 11am-noon: Marcus HutterMDL vs. Bayes, Part II (MDL Strikes Back)Oct 8, 2009, 11am-noon: Wray BuntineReport on ECML-PKDD and CLASS ReviewOct 1, 2009, 11am-noon: Alistair Rendell (ANU)The Potential and Problems with Modern Multicore Hardware SystemsSept 24, 2009, 11am-noon: Junbin GaoBeta Process and Its Application in Sparse RegressionSept 17, 2009, 11am-noon: Marcus HutterPredictive MDL and BayesSept 10, 2009, 11am-noon: Scott SannerBayesian real-time dynamic programmingSept 3, 2009, 11am-noon: Alex DaviesTopic modelling photos with meta-dataAug 27, 2009, 11am-noon: Andrew Over (Google)Google Wave followed by a discussionAug 20, 2009, 11am-noon: Ian WoodA Review of Model Selection and Assessment IIMONDAY Aug 17, 2009, 11am-noon: Frank Wood (Gatsby, UCL)A Stochastic Memoizer for Sequence DataAug 13, 2009, 11am-noon: Ian WoodA Review of Model Selection and Assessment ITUESDAY Aug 4, 2009, 11am-noon: Stephen Gould (Stanford)A Region-based Approach to Scene UnderstandingJuly 30, 2009, 11am-noon: Mark ReidDiscussing three papers:
(1) A Stochastic View of Optimal Regret through Minimax Duality,
(2) Stochastic Convex Optimization, and
(3) Learnability and Stability in the General Learning Setting.
(Slides)July 23, 2009, 11am-noon: Julian McAuleyGet more from your cores: shared memory multiprocessing made easy with OpenMPTUESDAY July 21, 2009, 11am-noon: Shane Legg (UCL)Is there an Elegant Universal Theory of Prediction?July 16, 2009, 11am-noon: Guo ShengboTrueSkill: A Bayesian Skill Rating SystemJuly 2, 2009, 11am-noon: Novi QuadriantoJune 25, 2009, 11am-noon: Wray BuntineA Bayesian's View of MDLJune 18, 2009, 11am-noon: Matt RobardsSemi-Markov K-Means ClusteringJune 11, 2009, 11am-noon: Jin YuJune 4, 2009, 12:30pm-1:30pm: Hanna Suominen (Univ. of Turku, Finland)Critical Points in Assessing Learning Performance: Cross-validation with sparse RLSWEDNESDAY May 27, 2009, 11am-noon: Karina Valdivia Delgado (Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil)Real-time Dynamic Programming for Factored MDPsMay 22, 2009, 11am-noon: Ingo Steinwart (Los Alamos National Laboratory)Statistical learning: from theory to applicationsMay 14, 2009, 11am-noon: Marconi BarbosaNon-commutative harmonic analysis tools for inference on permutationsMay 7, 2009, 11am-noon: Hassan MahmudUniversal Transfer LearningApr 30, 2009, 11am-noon: Tiberio CaetanoCompressed SensingApr 23, 2009, 11am-noon: Hanna Suominen (Univ. of Turku, Finland)Current Research Topics in Text MiningApr 16, 2009, 11am-noon: Novi QuadriantoMy Great Time at HIITApr 9, 2009, 11am-noon: Marcus HutterGeneral Discounting versus Average RewardApr 2, 2009, 11am-noon: Hayato TakahashiConsistency theorems for algorithmically random sequencesMar 26, 2009, 11am-noon: Tomi SilanderMar 19, 2009, 11am-noon: Karina Valdivia DelgadoSolving Factored MDPs with Imprecise Transition ProbabilitiesMar 12, 2009, 11am-noon: Choon Hui TeoTraining Robust Spam FiltersMONDAY Mar 2, 2009, 11am-noon: David NewmanSpeeding up Latent Dirichlet AllocationTUESDAY Feb 24, 2009, 11am-noon: Adam KowalczykSelection of significant peaks for next generation sequencingTHURSDAY Feb 19, 2009, 11am-noon: Dale SchuurmansFRIDAY Feb 13, 2009, 11:30am-12:30pm (NICTA SEMINAR ROOM): Marcello PelilloFeb 5, 2009, 9am-12:30pm: Dale SchuurmansJanuary 29, 2009, 11am-noon: Scott SannerJanuary 15, 2009, 11am-noon: Tiberio CaetanoJanuary 8, 2009, 11am-noon: Xinhua ZhangBayesian Online Multi-label Classification for Text CategorizationTUESDAY, November 25, 2008, 11am-noon: Leif HanlenMachine learning applications and current opportunitiesNovember 13, 2008, 11:45am-noon: Scott SannerHow to spice up your planning under uncertainty research lifeOctober 30, 2008: Will UtherOctober 23, 2008: Tiberio CaetanoCombinatorics and Machine Learning: Part IOctober 16, 2008: Wray BuntineBayesian methods for textOctober 9, 2008, noon-1pm: Scott SannerWEDNESDAY October 1, 2008, noon-1pm: Kee Siong NgProbabilistic Modeling and Inference using Logical Theories
Ng, Lloyd and Uther.FRIDAY September 26, 2008, 10:30am-noon: Kristian KerstingStatistical Relational Learning and Non-Parametric Policy Gradients: A Unified Treatment of Propositional and Relational Domains
Kersting and Driessens.September 18, 2008: Chris WebersDiscussing: The Geometry of Weighted Low-Rank Approximations
Manton, Mahony and Hua.September 11, 2008: Tiberio CaetanoSeptember 04, 2008: Marcus HutterAugust 28, 2008: Mark ReidDiscussing Elicitability.
Lambert, Pennock and Shoham.August 21, 2008: Tiberio CaetanoDiscussing: Generating Random Graphs with Prescribed Degrees.
Joseph Blitzstein and Persi Diaconis.August 14, 2008: Marcus HutterAugust 7, 2008: Wray Buntine and Tiberio CaetanoMore highlights from ICML / UAI / COLT.July 31, 2008: Group PresentationHighlights from ICML / UAI / COLT.July 24, 2008: Alex SmolaDiscussing: Latent Topic Models for Hypertext.
Amit Gruber, Michal Rosen Zvi, and Yair Weiss. UAI 2008.July 17, 2008: Christfried WebersFinding subspaces with dynamical systems.July 10, 2008: Owen ThomasJuly 3, 2008: Marconi BarbosaJune 28, 2008: Julian McAuleyJune 21, 2008: Tinne TuytelaarsJune 14, 2008: Paul MalcolmJune 7, 2008: Sungwoong Kim and Sungrack YunMay 29, 2008: Gideon DrorMay 22, 2008: Mark Reid