Machine Learning and Friends at Carnegie Mellon

November 1 David Blei, Fast and flexible clustering---nonparametric Bayesian methods in machine learning

October 18 Daniel Neill, Rapid Detection of Significant Spatial Clusters

October 4 ICML 2004 Conference Review Session.

September 27 UAI/KDD 2004 Conference Review Session.

September 20 Mark Fuhs, Mixture Modeling and Spatial Representations in the Rat Hippocampus

August 31
(Tuesday) Zoubin Ghahramani & Katherine Heller, Bayesian Hierarchical Clustering
(Venue: NSH 3305, Time: 2:00 pm)

August 23 Matthias Seeger, Sparse Multi Gaussian Process Methods: Multi-way Classification and beyond
(Venue: Wean Hall 4623)

May 10 Jeremy Kubica, Group Detection and Link Analysis

May 3 Sunita Sarawagi, Exploiting Dictionaries in Named Entity Extraction via Semi-Markov Models

April 26 Zoubin Ghahramani, Gaussian Processes and Extensions

April 19 Yuan Qi, Expectation Propagation for Graphical Models

April 12 Hakan L Younes, Decision-Theoretic Planning with Asynchronous Events

March 22 Ziv Bar-Joseph, Computational challenges in the analysis of time series gene expression data

March 15 Russell Greiner, Bayesian Error-Bars for Belief Net Inference

March 1 Anthony Brockwell, Mind-Machine Interfacing: Neural Decoding by Particle Filtering

February 23 John Langford, Reductions in Machine Learning

February 16 Larry Wasserman, Statistics With Balls and Envelopes

February 9 Rahul Sukthankar, Complete Cross-Validation

February 2 NIPS 2003 Conference Review Session.
Dave Ferguson, Robotic Mine Mapping
Mark V. Albert, Geometric Clustering using the Information Bottleneck method
Allison Bruce, Hierarchical Topic Models and the Nested Chinese Restaurant Process

January 26 NIPS 2003 Conference Review Session.
Drew Bagnell, Policy Search by Dynamic Programming
Joelle Pineau & Drew Bagnell, Planning in the Real World
Maxim Likhach, ARA*: Anytime A* with Provable Bounds on Sub-Optimality

The 2004 ML talks were organized by Edoardo Airoldi, Anna Goldenberg, Alexander Gray, Brendan McMahan, Pradeep Ravikumar and Jerry Zhu.