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 +== Time & Location ==
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 +Mondays 1:30pm-3pm, Gatsby 3th floor seminar room at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
 +46 Cleveland Street. London. W1T 4JG.
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 +== Calendar ==
 +
 +^ Date ^ Presenter ^ Topic ^ Reading ^ Supplement ^
 +| 26 Sep 2016 | Joana | Bayesian model selection and information criteria |  |  |
 +| 19 Sep 2016 | Aapo | Unsupervised Feature Extraction by Time-Contrastive Learning and Nonlinear ICA | [[https://​arxiv.org/​abs/​1605.06336|Hyvarinen & Morioka, 2016]] |  |
 +| 5 Sep 2016 | Wittawat | Gaussian Process Random Fields | [[http://​papers.nips.cc/​paper/​5874-gaussian-process-random-fields|Moore & Russell, 2015]] |  |
 +| 25 July 2016 | Arthur | Training Input-Output Recurrent Neural Networks through Spectral Methods | [[https://​arxiv.org/​abs/​1603.00954|Sedghi & Anandkumar, 2016]] |  |
 +| 18 July 2016 | Gergo | Geometry of nonlinear least squares with applications to sloppy models and optimization | [[http://​journals.aps.org/​pre/​abstract/​10.1103/​PhysRevE.83.036701|Transtrum et al., 2011]] |  |
 +| 11 July 2016 | Vincent | A Unifying Framework for Sparse Gaussian Process Approximation using Power Expectation Propagation | [[https://​arxiv.org/​abs/​1605.07066|Bui et al., 2016]] |  |
 +| 27 June 2016 | Zoltan | General notions of statistical depth function | [[https://​projecteuclid.org/​euclid.aos/​1016218226|Zuo & Serfling, 2000]] | {{file:​zoltan_szabo_mljc_depth_function_26_06_2016.pdf|slides}} |
 +| 20 June 2016 | Heiko | Noise-Contrastive Estimation of Unnormalized Statistical Models, with Applications to Natural Image Statistics | [[http://​www.jmlr.org/​papers/​v13/​gutmann12a.html|Gutmann & Hyvarinen, 2012]] | 
 +| 13 June 2016 | Alex | A Mathematical Motivation for Complex-Valued Convolutional Networks | [[http://​cognet.mit.edu/​journal/​10.1162/​NECO_a_00824|Tygert et. al., 2016]] | 
 +| 6 June 2016 | Fredrik | Understanding predictive information criteria for Bayesian models, ​ Bayesian leave-one-out cross-validation approximations for Gaussian latent variable models| [[http://​www.stat.columbia.edu/​~gelman/​research/​published/​waic_understand3.pdf|Gelman et. al., 2013]], [[http://​arxiv.org/​pdf/​1412.7461v3.pdf|Vehtari et. al., 2016]] | 
 +| 23 May 2016 | Wittawat | Bayesian Learning of Kernel Embeddings | [[http://​arxiv.org/​abs/​1603.02160|Flaxman et. al., 2016]] | 
 +| 9 May 2016 | Carlos | Estimation theory for stochastic gradient descent | - | 
 +| 25 Apr 2016 | Kevin Li | A Probabilistic Theory of Deep Learning | [[http://​arxiv.org/​abs/​1504.00641|Patel et. al., 2015]] | 
 +| 18 Apr 2016 | Vincent | Generalized Additive Models: An Introduction with R | [[https://​www.crcpress.com/​Generalized-Additive-Models-An-Introduction-with-R/​Wood/​9781584884743|Wood 2006]] | 
 +| 11 Apr 2016 | Maneesh | On Autoencoders and Score Matching for Energy Based Models | [[http://​www.cs.toronto.edu/​~ranzato/​publications/​Swersky_icml2011.pdf|Swersky et. al., 2011]] | 
 +| 4 Apr 2016 | Zoltan | Nonparametric Independence Testing for Small Sample Sizes | [[http://​www.ijcai.org/​Proceedings/​15/​Papers/​531.pdf|Ramdas & Wehbe, 2015]] | [[http://​www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/​~szabo/​talks/​MLJC_talk_Gatsby/​Zoltan_Szabo_MLJC_cov_shrinkage_04_04_2016.pdf|slides]] |
 +| 21 Mar 2016 | Heiko | Learning Structured Densities via Infinite Dimensional Exponential Families | [[http://​papers.nips.cc/​paper/​6006-learning-structured-densities-via-infinite-dimensional-exponential-families|Sun et al., 2015]] | |
 +| 29 Feb 2016 | Wittawat | Bayesian Indirect Inference Using a Parametric Auxiliary Model | [[http://​arxiv.org/​abs/​1505.03372|Drovandi et al., 2015]] | {{file:​abc_indirect_inference.pdf|slides}} |
 +| 15 Feb 2016 | Song Liu | Estimating Density Ratio: Learning Changes of Patterns | [[http://​www.ism.ac.jp/​~liu/​|Song Liu's homepage]] | {{file:​song_liu_density_ratio.pdf|slides}} |
 +| 8 Feb 2016 | Vincent | MCMC for Variationally Sparse Gaussian Processes | [[http://​papers.nips.cc/​paper/​5875-mcmc-for-variationally-sparse-gaussian-processes|Hensman et al., 2015]] |  |
 +| 11 Jan 2016 | Zoltan | Automatic differentiation | [[http://​arxiv.org/​abs/​1502.05767|Baydin et al., 2015]], [[http://​link.springer.com/​content/​pdf/​10.1007%2Fs11075-015-0067-6.pdf|Hoffmann 2015]] | {{file:​autodiff.pdf|slides}} |
 +| 30 Nov 2015 | Vincent | On Sparse variational methods and the Kullback-Leibler divergence between stochastic processes | [[http://​arxiv.org/​abs/​1504.07027|Matthews et al., 2015]] | |
 +| 23 Nov 2015 | Wittawat | On the High-dimensional Power of Linear-time Kernel Two-Sample Testing under Mean-difference Alternatives | [[http://​arxiv.org/​abs/​1411.6314|Ramdas et al., 2014]] |  | 
 +| 16 Nov 2015 | Heiko | NYTRO: When Subsampling Meets Early Stopping | [[http://​arxiv.org/​abs/​1510.05684|Angles et al., 2015]] |  | 
 +| 9 Nov 2015 | Arthur | What Regularized Auto-Encoders Learn from the Data Generating Distribution | [[http://​arxiv.org/​abs/​1211.4246|Alain & Bengio, 2012]] |  | 
 +| 2 Nov 2015 | Zoltan | Kernels Based Tests with Non-asymptotic Bootstrap Approaches for Two-sample Problems | [[http://​jmlr.org/​proceedings/​papers/​v23/​fromont12/​fromont12.pdf|Fromont et al., 2012]] | [[http://​www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/​~szabo/​talks/​MLJC_talk_Gatsby/​Zoltan_Szabo_MLJC_Kernel_Nonasymptotic_Bootstrap.pdf|slides]] | 
 +| 26 Oct 2015 | Mijung | Robust and Private Bayesian Inference | [[http://​www.cse.chalmers.se/​~aikmitr/​papers/​ALT2014.pdf|Dimitrakakis et al., 2014]] | | 
 +| <​del>​19 Oct 2015</​del>​ **(cancelled)** | Maneesh | Bayesian measures of model complexity and fit  | [[http://​onlinelibrary.wiley.com/​doi/​10.1111/​1467-9868.00353/​abstract;​jsessionid=392A09611F04594407902DE4CCDAB9B7.f02t02|Spiegelhalter et al., 2002]] | | 
 +| 12 Oct 2015 | Wittawat | Estimating Mutual Information by Local Gaussian Approximation ​ | [[http://​auai.org/​uai2015/​proceedings/​papers/​224.pdf|Gao et al., 2015]] | | 
 +| 5 Oct 2015 | Kacper | Optimal Detection of Sparse Principal Components in High Dimension | [[http://​arxiv.org/​pdf/​1202.5070.pdf|Berthet and Rigollet, 2015]] | | 
 +| 4 Aug 2015 | Wittawat | Landmarking Manifolds with Gaussian Processes | [[http://​jmlr.org/​proceedings/​papers/​v37/​liang15.html|Liang and Paisley, 2015]] | {{file:​landmarking_manifolds_gp.pdf|slides}} | 
 +| 20 July 2015 |  Tom | Safe Exploration for Optimization with Gaussian Processes| [[http://​jmlr.org/​proceedings/​papers/​v37/​sui15.pdf|Sui et al., 2015]] |   |
 +| 29 June 2015 (1-19 Torrington Place Room 102 Statistics Lecture Room from 1-3pm) |  Anna Choromanska |  The Loss Surfaces of Multilayer Networks | [[http://​www.columbia.edu/​~aec2163/​NonFlash/​|homepage]] |   |
 +| 17 June 2015 (Wed) at 14:30 |  Arthur, Heiko |  Stochastic Gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo | [[http://​jmlr.org/​proceedings/​papers/​v32/​cheni14.html|Chen et al., 2014]] |  |
 +| 8 June 2015 |  Heiko |  Hamiltonian ABC | [[http://​arxiv.org/​abs/​1503.01916|Meeds et al., 2015]] | {{file:​hamiltonian_abc.pdf|slides}} ​ |
 +| 18 May 2015 |  Wittawat | Deep Exponential Families | [[http://​jmlr.org/​proceedings/​papers/​v38/​ranganath15.html|Ranganath et al., 2015]] | {{file:​deep_expfam.pdf|slides}} ​  |
 +| 11 May 2015 |  Maneesh | Section 7:  Convex Relaxations and Upper Bounds| Graphical Models, ExpFam, Variational Inference by  [[https://​www.eecs.berkeley.edu/​~wainwrig/​Papers/​WaiJor08_FTML.pdf|Wainwright & Jordan, 2008]] ​  ​| ​  |
 +| 27 April 2015 |  Kacper | Section 6:  Variational Methods in Parameter Estimation| Graphical Models, ExpFam, Variational Inference by  [[https://​www.eecs.berkeley.edu/​~wainwrig/​Papers/​WaiJor08_FTML.pdf|Wainwright & Jordan, 2008]] ​  ​| ​  |
 +| 20 April 2015 |  Wittawat | Section 5: Mean field methods | Graphical Models, ExpFam, Variational Inference by  [[https://​www.eecs.berkeley.edu/​~wainwrig/​Papers/​WaiJor08_FTML.pdf|Wainwright & Jordan, 2008]] ​  | {{file:​waijor_mean_field.pdf|slides}} |
 +| 23 Mar 2015 |  Vincent | Section 4.3: Expectation propagation | Graphical Models, ExpFam, Variational Inference by  [[https://​www.eecs.berkeley.edu/​~wainwrig/​Papers/​WaiJor08_FTML.pdf|Wainwright & Jordan, 2008]] ​  | {{file:​waijor_4.3_vincent.pdf|slides}} |
 +| 12 Mar 2015 (16:00) | Zoltan | Proof of random Fourier features ​    | [[http://​papers.nips.cc/​paper/​3182-random-features-for-large-scale-kernel-machines.pdf|Random features (Rahimi & Recht)]] | {{file:​zoltan_szabo_mljc_rnd_kitchen_sinks_12_03_2015.pdf|slides}} |
 +| 2 Mar 2015 |  - | No meeting. UAI deadline. Cosyne. | | |
 +| 23 Feb 2015 |  Vincent, Alessandro | Section 4.1, 4.2: Bethe-Kikuchi | Graphical Models, ExpFam, Variational Inference by  [[https://​www.eecs.berkeley.edu/​~wainwrig/​Papers/​WaiJor08_FTML.pdf|Wainwright & Jordan, 2008]] ​  | {{file:​vincent_alex_4.2.pdf|slides}} |
 +| 16 Feb 2015 |  Wittawat, Heiko | Chapter 3, 4.1: Sum-Product,​ Bethe | Graphical Models, ExpFam, Variational Inference by  [[https://​www.eecs.berkeley.edu/​~wainwrig/​Papers/​WaiJor08_FTML.pdf|Wainwright & Jordan, 2008]] ​  | {{file:​waijor_bethe_kikuchi_mljc.pdf|slides}} |
 +| 9 Feb 2015 | Maneesh | Chapter 3: Graphical Models as Exponential Families | Graphical Models, ExpFam, Variational Inference by  [[https://​www.eecs.berkeley.edu/​~wainwrig/​Papers/​WaiJor08_FTML.pdf|Wainwright & Jordan, 2008]] ​  | [[http://​www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/​teaching/​courses/​ml1-2014/​lect11-handout.pdf|Maneesh'​s lecture slides]] |
 +| 26 Jan 2015 | Tom, Maneesh | Chapter 1-3: Background on variational inference | Graphical Models, ExpFam, Variational Inference by  [[https://​www.eecs.berkeley.edu/​~wainwrig/​Papers/​WaiJor08_FTML.pdf|Wainwright & Jordan, 2008]] ​ | {{file:​wainwrightandjordanch2_tom.pdf|Tom'​s slides}} |
 +| 20 Jan 2015 | All | General meeting |  | . |
 +| 24 Nov 2014 | Arthur, Zoltan, Tom | NIPS preview | Arthur on [[http://​arxiv.org/​pdf/​1312.6184v7.pdf|Ba & Caruana, NIPS 2014]], Zoltan on [[http://​machinelearning.wustl.edu/​mlpapers/​papers/​icml2014c2_yangc14|Yang et. al., ICML 2014]], Tom on [[http://​arxiv.org/​pdf/​1406.4905.pdf|Frigola et. al., NIPS 2014]] | {{file:​zoltan_szabo_mljc_elementary_estimators_24_11_2014.pdf|Slides by Zoltan}} | 
 +| 17 Nov 2014 | Mijung | Auto-Encoding Variational Bayes | [[http://​www.ics.uci.edu/​%7Ewelling/​publications/​papers/​AEVB_ICLR14.pdf|Kingma & Welling, 2013]] | | 
 +| 3 Nov 2014 | - | No meeting | CSML Master class by Sham Kakade. [[http://​www.csml.ucl.ac.uk/​events/​series/​20|event page]]. | | 
 +| 27 Oct 2014 | Tom | A Spectral Algorithm for Learning Hidden Markov Models. | [[http://​research.microsoft.com/​en-us/​um/​people/​skakade/​papers/​ml/​LearnHMM.pdf|Hsu et. al., 2009]] ​ | | 
 +| 20 Oct 2014 | Zoltan | Scalable Kernel Methods via Doubly Stochastic Gradients | [[http://​arxiv.org/​abs/​1407.5599|Dai et. al., 2014]] | {{file:​zoltan_szabo_mljc_doublystochgrad_20_10_2014.pdf|Zoltan'​s slides}} | 
 +| 13 Oct 2014 | Maneesh | spectral methods for latent time series models, SSID, spectral HMM | [[http://​www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/​teaching/​courses/​ml1-2013/​lect4-handout.pdf|ML course slides]] | | 
 +| 6 Oct 2014 | Balaji | The Consensus Monte Carlo Algorithm | [[http://​static.googleusercontent.com/​media/​research.google.com/​en//​pubs/​archive/​41849.pdf|Scott et. al., 2013 ]] | | 
 +| 29 Sep 2014 | MLJC members | Meeting |  | | 
 +| 21 Aug 2014 | Vincent | Gaussian Processes for Underdetermined Source Separation | [[http://​ieeexplore.ieee.org/​xpls/​abs_all.jsp?​arnumber=5720325|Liutkus,​ A. et. al., 2011 ]] | | 
 +| 14 Aug 2014 | Dino, Balaji, Heiko | Firefly Monte Carlo: Exact MCMC with Subsets of Data | [[http://​hips.seas.harvard.edu/​files/​maclaurin-firefly-uai-2014.pdf|Maclaurin
 + & Adams, 2014]] | | 
 +| 7 Aug 2014 | Laurence | Bayesian Learning via Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics | [[http://​www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/​~ywteh/​research/​compstats/​WelTeh2011a.pdf|Welling & Teh, 2011 (ICML)]] | |
 +| (2pm) 31 July 2014 | Mijung | Distributed Stochastic Gradient MCMC | [[http://​jmlr.org/​proceedings/​papers/​v32/​ahn14.html|Ahn et al., 2014 (ICML)]] ​ | |
 +| 23,30 May, 6 June 2014 | - | No meeting ​ | (preparation for NIPS) | | 
 +| 16 May 2014 | Zoltan ​ | Fastfood (Fast kernel approximation methods) | [[http://​jmlr.org/​proceedings/​papers/​v28/​le13-supp.pdf|Fastfood (Le et al., 2013)]] | {{file:​zoltan_szabo_mljc_fastfood_16_05_2014.pdf|Slides by Zoltan}} |
 +| 9 May 2014 | Dino, Arthur | Random features & Random kitchen sinks     | [[http://​papers.nips.cc/​paper/​3182-random-features-for-large-scale-kernel-machines.pdf|Random features (Rahimi & Recht)]]. [[http://​www.eecs.berkeley.edu/​~brecht/​papers/​08.rah.rec.nips.pdf|Random kitchen sinks (Rahimi & Recht)]] |{{file:​randomfeaturesrahimirecht.pdf|Random features by Arthur}}, {{file:​kitchen_sinks.pdf|Random kitchen sinks by Dino}} |
 +| 18 Apr 2014 | - | No meeting. UCL Easter closure. | | |
 +| 11 Apr 2014 | - | No meeting. ​ | | | 
 +| 4 Apr 2014 | Balaji | Variational Learning of Inducing Variables in Sparse Gaussian Processes | [[http://​jmlr.org/​proceedings/​papers/​v5/​titsias09a/​titsias09a.pdf|Titsias 2009 (AISTATS)]] | [[http://​www.aueb.gr/​users/​mtitsias/​papers/​BARK08titsias.pdf|slides]] |
 +| 28 Mar 2014 | Heiko | Bayesian Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model  | [[http://​jmlr.org/​proceedings/​papers/​v9/​titsias10a/​titsias10a.pdf|Titsias & Lawrence 2010 (AISTATS)]] ​ | {{file:​bayesian_gaussian_process_latent_variable_model.pdf|slides}} |
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