Statistical Machine Learning Reading Group

Carnegie Mellon University

Room: 8115 Gates-Hillman Center

Time: 1-2 pm Wednesday


SCHEDULE:

July 27 Pruning nearest neighbor cluster trees (pdf)
Authors: Samory Kpotufe and Ulrike von Luxburg
Prototype Selection for Interpretable Classification (pdf)
Authors: Jacob Bien and Robert Tibshirani
Presenter: Larry Wasserman

Aug 3 Oracle inequalities for computationally budgeted model selection (pdf)
Authors: Alekh Agarwal, John C. Duchi, Peter L. Bartlett, Clement Levrard
Presenter: Aarti Singh

Aug 10 The Convex Geometry of Linear Inverse Problems (arXiv)
Authors: Venkat Chandrasekaran, Benjamin Recht, Pablo A. Parrilo, Alan S. Willsky
Presenter: Alessandro Rinaldo

Aug 17 Regularization Techniques for Learning with Matrices (arXiv)
Authors: Sham M. Kakade, Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Ambuj Tewari
Presenter: Daniel McDonald

Aug 24 A More Powerful Two-Sample Test in High Dimensions using Random Projection (arXiv)
Authors: Miles E. Lopes, Laurent J. Jacob, Martin J. Wainwright
Presenter: James Sharpnack



Reading list requests/suggestions:
  • Rademacher Complexities and Bounding the Excess Risk in Active Learning by Vladimir Koltchinskii pdf
  • PAC-Bayesian Analysis of Co-clustering and Beyond by Y. Seldin and N. Tishby pdf


Past reading: Spring 11, Fall 10