NIPS 2013 Proceedings

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26 (NIPS 2013)

The papers below appear in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 26 edited by C.J.C. Burges and L. Bottou and M. Welling and Z. Ghahramani and K.Q. Weinberger.
They are proceedings from the conference, "Neural Information Processing Systems 2013."

The Randomized Dependence Coefficient David Lopez-Paz, Philipp Hennig, Prof. Bernhard Schölkopf
Documents as multiple overlapping windows into grids of counts Alessandro Perina, Nebojsa Jojic, Manuele Bicego, Andrzej Truski
Reciprocally Coupled Local Estimators Implement Bayesian Information Integration Distributively Wen-Hao Zhang, Si Wu
Latent Maximum Margin Clustering Guang-Tong Zhou, Tian Lan, Arash Vahdat, Greg Mori
Data-driven Distributionally Robust Polynomial Optimization Martin Mevissen, Emanuele Ragnoli, Jia Yuan Yu
Transfer Learning in a Transductive Setting Marcus Rohrbach, Sandra Ebert, Bernt Schiele
Bayesian optimization explains human active search Ali Borji, Laurent Itti
Provable Subspace Clustering: When LRR meets SSC Yu-Xiang Wang, Huan Xu, Chenlei Leng
Generalized Random Utility Models with Multiple Types Hossein Azari Soufiani, Hansheng Diao, Zhenyu Lai, David C. Parkes
Polar Operators for Structured Sparse Estimation Xinhua Zhang, Yao-Liang Yu, Dale Schuurmans
On Decomposing the Proximal Map Yao-Liang Yu
Point Based Value Iteration with Optimal Belief Compression for Dec-POMDPs Liam C. MacDermed, Charles Isbell
PAC-Bayes-Empirical-Bernstein Inequality Ilya O. Tolstikhin, Yevgeny Seldin
Modeling Clutter Perception using Parametric Proto-object Partitioning Chen-Ping Yu, Wen-Yu Hua, Dimitris Samaras, Greg Zelinsky
Robust Multimodal Graph Matching: Sparse Coding Meets Graph Matching Marcelo Fiori, Pablo Sprechmann, Joshua Vogelstein, Pablo Muse, Guillermo Sapiro
Transportability from Multiple Environments with Limited Experiments Elias Bareinboim, Sanghack Lee, Vasant Honavar, Judea Pearl
More data speeds up training time in learning halfspaces over sparse vectors Amit Daniely, Nati Linial, Shai Shalev-Shwartz
Causal Inference on Time Series using Restricted Structural Equation Models Jonas Peters, Dominik Janzing, Prof. Bernhard Schölkopf
Deep Fisher Networks for Large-Scale Image Classification Karen Simonyan, Andrea Vedaldi, Andrew Zisserman
Sparse Additive Text Models with Low Rank Background Lei Shi
Variance Reduction for Stochastic Gradient Optimization Chong Wang, Xi Chen, Alexander J. Smola, Eric P. Xing
Training and Analysing Deep Recurrent Neural Networks Michiel Hermans, Benjamin Schrauwen
A simple example of Dirichlet process mixture inconsistency for the number of components Jeffrey W. Miller, Matthew T. Harrison
Variational Policy Search via Trajectory Optimization Sergey Levine, Vladlen Koltun
Scalable kernels for graphs with continuous attributes Aasa Feragen, Niklas Kasenburg, Jens Petersen, Marleen de Bruijne, Karsten Borgwardt
Density estimation from unweighted k-nearest neighbor graphs: a roadmap Ulrike Von Luxburg, Morteza Alamgir
Decision Jungles: Compact and Rich Models for Classification Jamie Shotton, Toby Sharp, Pushmeet Kohli, Sebastian Nowozin, John Winn, Antonio Criminisi
What Are the Invariant Occlusive Components of Image Patches? A Probabilistic Generative Approach Zhenwen Dai, Georgios Exarchakis, Jörg Lücke
Actor-Critic Algorithms for Risk-Sensitive MDPs Prashanth L.A., Mohammad Ghavamzadeh
Summary Statistics for Partitionings and Feature Allocations Isik B. Fidaner, Taylan Cemgil
One-shot learning and big data with n=2 Lee H. Dicker, Dean P. Foster
Variational Inference for Mahalanobis Distance Metrics in Gaussian Process Regression Michalis Titsias RC AUEB, Miguel Lazaro-Gredilla
Correlations strike back (again): the case of associative memory retrieval Cristina Savin, Peter Dayan, Mate Lengyel
Optimal Neural Population Codes for High-dimensional Stimulus Variables Zhuo Wang, Alan A. Stocker, Daniel D. Lee
Online Variational Approximations to non-Exponential Family Change Point Models: With Application to Radar Tracking Ryan D. Turner, Steven Bottone, Clay J. Stanek
Accelerating Stochastic Gradient Descent using Predictive Variance Reduction Rie Johnson, Tong Zhang
Using multiple samples to learn mixture models Jason D. Lee, Ran Gilad-Bachrach, Rich Caruana
Learning Hidden Markov Models from Non-sequence Data via Tensor Decomposition Tzu-Kuo Huang, Jeff Schneider
On model selection consistency of penalized M-estimators: a geometric theory Jason D. Lee, Yuekai Sun, Jonathan E. Taylor
Dropout Training as Adaptive Regularization Stefan Wager, Sida Wang, Percy S. Liang
New Subsampling Algorithms for Fast Least Squares Regression Paramveer Dhillon, Yichao Lu, Dean P. Foster, Lyle Ungar
Faster Ridge Regression via the Subsampled Randomized Hadamard Transform Yichao Lu, Paramveer Dhillon, Dean P. Foster, Lyle Ungar
Accelerated Mini-Batch Stochastic Dual Coordinate Ascent Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Tong Zhang
Improved and Generalized Upper Bounds on the Complexity of Policy Iteration Bruno Scherrer
Online Learning of Nonparametric Mixture Models via Sequential Variational Approximation Dahua Lin
Online Robust PCA via Stochastic Optimization Jiashi Feng, Huan Xu, Shuicheng Yan
Least Informative Dimensions Fabian Sinz, Anna Stockl, Jan Grewe, Jan Benda
A Scalable Approach to Probabilistic Latent Space Inference of Large-Scale Networks Junming Yin, Qirong Ho, Eric P. Xing
Understanding variable importances in forests of randomized trees Gilles Louppe, Louis Wehenkel, Antonio Sutera, Pierre Geurts
Correlated random features for fast semi-supervised learning Brian McWilliams, David Balduzzi, Joachim M. Buhmann
Dynamic Clustering via Asymptotics of the Dependent Dirichlet Process Mixture Trevor Campbell, Miao Liu, Brian Kulis, Jonathan P. How, Lawrence Carin
Better Approximation and Faster Algorithm Using the Proximal Average Yao-Liang Yu
Rapid Distance-Based Outlier Detection via Sampling Mahito Sugiyama, Karsten Borgwardt
Regularized M-estimators with nonconvexity: Statistical and algorithmic theory for local optima Po-Ling Loh, Martin J. Wainwright
Non-Linear Domain Adaptation with Boosting Carlos J. Becker, Christos M. Christoudias, Pascal Fua
Mid-level Visual Element Discovery as Discriminative Mode Seeking Carl Doersch, Abhinav Gupta, Alexei A. Efros
q-OCSVM: A q-Quantile Estimator for High-Dimensional Distributions Assaf Glazer, Michael Lindenbaum, Shaul Markovitch
Auditing: Active Learning with Outcome-Dependent Query Costs Sivan Sabato, Anand D. Sarwate, Nati Srebro
A message-passing algorithm for multi-agent trajectory planning Jose Bento, Nate Derbinsky, Javier Alonso-Mora, Jonathan S. Yedidia
Learning Stochastic Feedforward Neural Networks Yichuan Tang, Ruslan R. Salakhutdinov
Inferring neural population dynamics from multiple partial recordings of the same neural circuit Srini Turaga, Lars Buesing, Adam M. Packer, Henry Dalgleish, Noah Pettit, Michael Hausser, Jakob Macke
Multi-Prediction Deep Boltzmann Machines Ian Goodfellow, Mehdi Mirza, Aaron Courville, Yoshua Bengio
Higher Order Priors for Joint Intrinsic Image, Objects, and Attributes Estimation Vibhav Vineet, Carsten Rother, Philip Torr
Blind Calibration in Compressed Sensing using Message Passing Algorithms Christophe Schulke, Francesco Caltagirone, Florent Krzakala, Lenka Zdeborová
Learning Trajectory Preferences for Manipulators via Iterative Improvement Ashesh Jain, Brian Wojcik, Thorsten Joachims, Ashutosh Saxena
Large Scale Distributed Sparse Precision Estimation Huahua Wang, Arindam Banerjee, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Pradeep K. Ravikumar, Inderjit S. Dhillon
Neural representation of action sequences: how far can a simple snippet-matching model take us? Cheston Tan, Jedediah M. Singer, Thomas Serre, David Sheinberg, Tomaso Poggio
On Algorithms for Sparse Multi-factor NMF Siwei Lyu, Xin Wang
Dirty Statistical Models Eunho Yang, Pradeep K. Ravikumar
Parallel Sampling of DP Mixture Models using Sub-Cluster Splits Jason Chang, John W. Fisher III
Trading Computation for Communication: Distributed Stochastic Dual Coordinate Ascent Tianbao Yang
Prior-free and prior-dependent regret bounds for Thompson Sampling Sebastien Bubeck, Che-Yu Liu
Structured Learning via Logistic Regression Justin Domke
Which Space Partitioning Tree to Use for Search? Parikshit Ram, Alexander Gray
Projecting Ising Model Parameters for Fast Mixing Justin Domke, Xianghang Liu
Mixed Optimization for Smooth Functions Mehrdad Mahdavi, Lijun Zhang, Rong Jin
Conditional Random Fields via Univariate Exponential Families Eunho Yang, Pradeep K. Ravikumar, Genevera I. Allen, Zhandong Liu
Stochastic blockmodel approximation of a graphon: Theory and consistent estimation Edo M. Airoldi, Thiago B. Costa, Stanley H. Chan
Reinforcement Learning in Robust Markov Decision Processes Shiau Hong Lim, Huan Xu, Shie Mannor
On the Linear Convergence of the Proximal Gradient Method for Trace Norm Regularization Ke Hou, Zirui Zhou, Anthony Man-Cho So, Zhi-Quan Luo
Recurrent networks of coupled Winner-Take-All oscillators for solving constraint satisfaction problems Hesham Mostafa, Lorenz. K. Mueller, Giacomo Indiveri
Latent Structured Active Learning Wenjie Luo, Alex Schwing, Raquel Urtasun
A Gang of Bandits Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Claudio Gentile, Giovanni Zappella
Learning Feature Selection Dependencies in Multi-task Learning Daniel Hernández-Lobato, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato
B-test: A Non-parametric, Low Variance Kernel Two-sample Test Wojciech Zaremba, Arthur Gretton, Matthew Blaschko
Online PCA for Contaminated Data Jiashi Feng, Huan Xu, Shie Mannor, Shuicheng Yan
Non-strongly-convex smooth stochastic approximation with convergence rate O(1/n) Francis Bach, Eric Moulines
Efficient Algorithm for Privately Releasing Smooth Queries Ziteng Wang, Kai Fan, Jiaqi Zhang, Liwei Wang
Beyond Pairwise: Provably Fast Algorithms for Approximate k-Way Similarity Search Anshumali Shrivastava, Ping Li
Unsupervised Spectral Learning of Finite State Transducers Raphael Bailly, Xavier Carreras, Ariadna Quattoni
Learning a Deep Compact Image Representation for Visual Tracking Naiyan Wang, Dit-Yan Yeung
Learning Multi-level Sparse Representations Ferran Diego Andilla, Fred A. Hamprecht
Robust Data-Driven Dynamic Programming Grani Adiwena Hanasusanto, Daniel Kuhn
Low-Rank Matrix and Tensor Completion via Adaptive Sampling Akshay Krishnamurthy, Aarti Singh
Probabilistic Low-Rank Matrix Completion with Adaptive Spectral Regularization Algorithms Adrien Todeschini, François Caron, Marie Chavent
Distributed Exploration in Multi-Armed Bandits Eshcar Hillel, Zohar S. Karnin, Tomer Koren, Ronny Lempel, Oren Somekh
The Pareto Regret Frontier Wouter M. Koolen
Direct 0-1 Loss Minimization and Margin Maximization with Boosting Shaodan Zhai, Tian Xia, Ming Tan, Shaojun Wang
Regret based Robust Solutions for Uncertain Markov Decision Processes Asrar Ahmed, Pradeep Varakantham, Yossiri Adulyasak, Patrick Jaillet
Speeding up Permutation Testing in Neuroimaging Chris Hinrichs, Vamsi K. Ithapu, Qinyuan Sun, Sterling C. Johnson, Vikas Singh
Generalized Denoising Auto-Encoders as Generative Models Yoshua Bengio, Li Yao, Guillaume Alain, Pascal Vincent
Supervised Sparse Analysis and Synthesis Operators Pablo Sprechmann, Roee Litman, Tal Ben Yakar, Alexander M. Bronstein, Guillermo Sapiro
Low-rank matrix reconstruction and clustering via approximate message passing Ryosuke Matsushita, Toshiyuki Tanaka
Reasoning With Neural Tensor Networks for Knowledge Base Completion Richard Socher, Danqi Chen, Christopher D. Manning, Andrew Ng
Zero-Shot Learning Through Cross-Modal Transfer Richard Socher, Milind Ganjoo, Christopher D. Manning, Andrew Ng
Estimating LASSO Risk and Noise Level Mohsen Bayati, Murat A. Erdogdu, Andrea Montanari
Learning Adaptive Value of Information for Structured Prediction David J. Weiss, Ben Taskar
Efficient Online Inference for Bayesian Nonparametric Relational Models Dae Il Kim, Prem K. Gopalan, David Blei, Erik Sudderth
Approximate inference in latent Gaussian-Markov models from continuous time observations Botond Cseke, Manfred Opper, Guido Sanguinetti
Linear Convergence with Condition Number Independent Access of Full Gradients Lijun Zhang, Mehrdad Mahdavi, Rong Jin
When in Doubt, SWAP: High-Dimensional Sparse Recovery from Correlated Measurements Divyanshu Vats, Richard Baraniuk
Wavelets on Graphs via Deep Learning Raif Rustamov, Leonidas J. Guibas
Robust Spatial Filtering with Beta Divergence Wojciech Samek, Duncan Blythe, Klaus-Robert Müller, Motoaki Kawanabe
Convex Relaxations for Permutation Problems Fajwel Fogel, Rodolphe Jenatton, Francis Bach, Alexandre D'Aspremont
High-Dimensional Gaussian Process Bandits Josip Djolonga, Andreas Krause, Volkan Cevher
A memory frontier for complex synapses Subhaneil Lahiri, Surya Ganguli
Marginals-to-Models Reducibility Tim Roughgarden, Michael Kearns
First-order Decomposition Trees Nima Taghipour, Jesse Davis, Hendrik Blockeel
A Comparative Framework for Preconditioned Lasso Algorithms Fabian L. Wauthier, Nebojsa Jojic, Michael I. Jordan
Lasso Screening Rules via Dual Polytope Projection Jie Wang, Jiayu Zhou, Peter Wonka, Jieping Ye
Binary to Bushy: Bayesian Hierarchical Clustering with the Beta Coalescent Yuening Hu, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Hal Daume III, Z. Irene Ying
A Latent Source Model for Nonparametric Time Series Classification George H. Chen, Stanislav Nikolov, Devavrat Shah
Efficient Optimization for Sparse Gaussian Process Regression Yanshuai Cao, Marcus A. Brubaker, David J. Fleet, Aaron Hertzmann
Lexical and Hierarchical Topic Regression Viet-An Nguyen, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Philip Resnik
Stochastic Convex Optimization with Multiple Objectives Mehrdad Mahdavi, Tianbao Yang, Rong Jin
A Kernel Test for Three-Variable Interactions Dino Sejdinovic, Arthur Gretton, Wicher Bergsma
Memoized Online Variational Inference for Dirichlet Process Mixture Models Michael C. Hughes, Erik Sudderth
Designed Measurements for Vector Count Data Liming Wang, David E. Carlson, Miguel Rodrigues, David Wilcox, Robert Calderbank, Lawrence Carin
Robust Transfer Principal Component Analysis with Rank Constraints Yuhong Guo
Online Learning with Switching Costs and Other Adaptive Adversaries Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Ofer Dekel, Ohad Shamir
Learning Prices for Repeated Auctions with Strategic Buyers Kareem Amin, Afshin Rostamizadeh, Umar Syed
Probabilistic Principal Geodesic Analysis Miaomiao Zhang, P.T. Fletcher
Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing for High-Dimensional Statistical Models Adel Javanmard, Andrea Montanari
Learning with Noisy Labels Nagarajan Natarajan, Inderjit S. Dhillon, Pradeep K. Ravikumar, Ambuj Tewari
Tracking Time-varying Graphical Structure Erich Kummerfeld, David Danks
Factorized Asymptotic Bayesian Inference for Latent Feature Models Kohei Hayashi, Ryohei Fujimaki
More Effective Distributed ML via a Stale Synchronous Parallel Parameter Server Qirong Ho, James Cipar, Henggang Cui, Seunghak Lee, Jin Kyu Kim, Phillip B. Gibbons, Garth A. Gibson, Greg Ganger, Eric P. Xing
Bayesian Estimation of Latently-grouped Parameters in Undirected Graphical Models Jie Liu, David Page
Online Learning with Costly Features and Labels Navid Zolghadr, Gabor Bartok, Russell Greiner, András György, Csaba Szepesvari
Sparse nonnegative deconvolution for compressive calcium imaging: algorithms and phase transitions Eftychios A. Pnevmatikakis, Liam Paninski
A Novel Two-Step Method for Cross Language Representation Learning Min Xiao, Yuhong Guo
On Sampling from the Gibbs Distribution with Random Maximum A-Posteriori Perturbations Tamir Hazan, Subhransu Maji, Tommi Jaakkola
Graphical Models for Inference with Missing Data Karthika Mohan, Judea Pearl, Jin Tian
Reshaping Visual Datasets for Domain Adaptation Boqing Gong, Kristen Grauman, Fei Sha
Statistical Active Learning Algorithms Maria-Florina F. Balcan, Vitaly Feldman
Bayesian Inference and Online Experimental Design for Mapping Neural Microcircuits Ben Shababo, Brooks Paige, Ari Pakman, Liam Paninski
Reflection methods for user-friendly submodular optimization Stefanie Jegelka, Francis Bach, Suvrit Sra
Unsupervised Structure Learning of Stochastic And-Or Grammars Kewei Tu, Maria Pavlovskaia, Song-Chun Zhu
Convex Tensor Decomposition via Structured Schatten Norm Regularization Ryota Tomioka, Taiji Suzuki
Stochastic Ratio Matching of RBMs for Sparse High-Dimensional Inputs Yann Dauphin, Yoshua Bengio
Learning Chordal Markov Networks by Constraint Satisfaction Jukka Corander, Tomi Janhunen, Jussi Rintanen, Henrik Nyman, Johan Pensar
Parametric Task Learning Ichiro Takeuchi, Tatsuya Hongo, Masashi Sugiyama, Shinichi Nakajima
A Deep Architecture for Matching Short Texts Zhengdong Lu, Hang Li
Computing the Stationary Distribution Locally Christina E. Lee, Asuman Ozdaglar, Devavrat Shah
Nonparametric Multi-group Membership Model for Dynamic Networks Myunghwan Kim, Jure Leskovec
Adaptive Step-Size for Policy Gradient Methods Matteo Pirotta, Marcello Restelli, Luca Bascetta
Optimistic Concurrency Control for Distributed Unsupervised Learning Xinghao Pan, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Stefanie Jegelka, Tamara Broderick, Michael I. Jordan
Reservoir Boosting : Between Online and Offline Ensemble Learning Leonidas Lefakis, François Fleuret
Multiclass Total Variation Clustering Xavier Bresson, Thomas Laurent, David Uminsky, James von Brecht
Approximate Inference in Continuous Determinantal Processes Raja Hafiz Affandi, Emily Fox, Ben Taskar
Global Solver and Its Efficient Approximation for Variational Bayesian Low-rank Subspace Clustering Shinichi Nakajima, Akiko Takeda, S. Derin Babacan, Masashi Sugiyama, Ichiro Takeuchi
Thompson Sampling for 1-Dimensional Exponential Family Bandits Nathaniel Korda, Emilie Kaufmann, Remi Munos
Active Learning for Probabilistic Hypotheses Using the Maximum Gibbs Error Criterion Nguyen Viet Cuong, Wee Sun Lee, Nan Ye, Kian Ming A. Chai, Hai Leong Chieu
It is all in the noise: Efficient multi-task Gaussian process inference with structured residuals Barbara Rakitsch, Christoph Lippert, Karsten Borgwardt, Oliver Stegle
Convex Calibrated Surrogates for Low-Rank Loss Matrices with Applications to Subset Ranking Losses Harish G. Ramaswamy, Shivani Agarwal, Ambuj Tewari
Inverse Density as an Inverse Problem: the Fredholm Equation Approach Qichao Que, Mikhail Belkin
Adaptive Multi-Column Deep Neural Networks with Application to Robust Image Denoising Forest Agostinelli, Michael R. Anderson, Honglak Lee
EDML for Learning Parameters in Directed and Undirected Graphical Models Khaled S. Refaat, Arthur Choi, Adnan Darwiche
Similarity Component Analysis Soravit Changpinyo, Kuan Liu, Fei Sha
Approximate Bayesian Image Interpretation using Generative Probabilistic Graphics Programs Vikash K. Mansinghka, Tejas D. Kulkarni, Yura N. Perov, Josh Tenenbaum
Local Privacy and Minimax Bounds: Sharp Rates for Probability Estimation John Duchi, Martin J. Wainwright, Michael I. Jordan
Firing rate predictions in optimal balanced networks David G. Barrett, Sophie Denève, Christian K. Machens
Manifold-based Similarity Adaptation for Label Propagation Masayuki Karasuyama, Hiroshi Mamitsuka
Non-Uniform Camera Shake Removal Using a Spatially-Adaptive Sparse Penalty Haichao Zhang, David Wipf
Near-Optimal Entrywise Sampling for Data Matrices Dimitris Achlioptas, Zohar S. Karnin, Edo Liberty
Learning to Prune in Metric and Non-Metric Spaces Leonid Boytsov, Bilegsaikhan Naidan
Online learning in episodic Markovian decision processes by relative entropy policy search Alexander Zimin, Gergely Neu
Optimistic policy iteration and natural actor-critic: A unifying view and a non-optimality result Paul Wagner
Bayesian Hierarchical Community Discovery Charles Blundell, Yee Whye Teh
From Bandits to Experts: A Tale of Domination and Independence Noga Alon, Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Claudio Gentile, Yishay Mansour
Predictive PAC Learning and Process Decompositions Cosma Shalizi, Aryeh Kontorovich
Pass-efficient unsupervised feature selection Crystal Maung, Haim Schweitzer
Simultaneous Rectification and Alignment via Robust Recovery of Low-rank Tensors Xiaoqin Zhang, Di Wang, Zhengyuan Zhou, Yi Ma
Bayesian Mixture Modelling and Inference based Thompson Sampling in Monte-Carlo Tree Search Aijun Bai, Feng Wu, Xiaoping Chen
Solving inverse problem of Markov chain with partial observations Tetsuro Morimura, Takayuki Osogami, Tsuyoshi Ide
Locally Adaptive Bayesian Multivariate Time Series Daniele Durante, Bruno Scarpa, David B. Dunson
Mapping paradigm ontologies to and from the brain Yannick Schwartz, Bertrand Thirion, Gael Varoquaux
Noise-Enhanced Associative Memories Amin Karbasi, Amir Hesam Salavati, Amin Shokrollahi, Lav R. Varshney
Exact and Stable Recovery of Pairwise Interaction Tensors Shouyuan Chen, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King, Zenglin Xu
Bayesian entropy estimation for binary spike train data using parametric prior knowledge Evan W. Archer, Il Memming Park, Jonathan W. Pillow
Perfect Associative Learning with Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity Christian Albers, Maren Westkott, Klaus Pawelzik
On Poisson Graphical Models Eunho Yang, Pradeep K. Ravikumar, Genevera I. Allen, Zhandong Liu
Streaming Variational Bayes Tamara Broderick, Nicholas Boyd, Andre Wibisono, Ashia C. Wilson, Michael I. Jordan
Gaussian Process Conditional Copulas with Applications to Financial Time Series José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, James R. Lloyd, Daniel Hernández-Lobato
Extracting regions of interest from biological images with convolutional sparse block coding Marius Pachitariu, Adam M. Packer, Noah Pettit, Henry Dalgleish, Michael Hausser, Maneesh Sahani
Approximate Dynamic Programming Finally Performs Well in the Game of Tetris Victor Gabillon, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Bruno Scherrer
Third-Order Edge Statistics: Contour Continuation, Curvature, and Cortical Connections Matthew Lawlor, Steven W. Zucker
DESPOT: Online POMDP Planning with Regularization Adhiraj Somani, Nan Ye, David Hsu, Wee Sun Lee
Matrix Completion From any Given Set of Observations Troy Lee, Adi Shraibman
Regression-tree Tuning in a Streaming Setting Samory Kpotufe, Francesco Orabona
Multiscale Dictionary Learning for Estimating Conditional Distributions Francesca Petralia, Joshua T. Vogelstein, David B. Dunson
Dimension-Free Exponentiated Gradient Francesco Orabona
Stochastic Optimization of PCA with Capped MSG Raman Arora, Andy Cotter, Nati Srebro
On Flat versus Hierarchical Classification in Large-Scale Taxonomies Rohit Babbar, Ioannis Partalas, Eric Gaussier, Massih-Reza Amini
Learning Gaussian Graphical Models with Observed or Latent FVSs Ying Liu, Alan Willsky
Visual Concept Learning: Combining Machine Vision and Bayesian Generalization on Concept Hierarchies Yangqing Jia, Joshua T. Abbott, Joseph L. Austerweil, Thomas Griffiths, Trevor Darrell
Robust Bloom Filters for Large MultiLabel Classification Tasks Moustapha M. Cisse, Nicolas Usunier, Thierry Artières, Patrick Gallinari
Solving the multi-way matching problem by permutation synchronization Deepti Pachauri, Risi Kondor, Vikas Singh
Generalizing Analytic Shrinkage for Arbitrary Covariance Structures Daniel Bartz, Klaus-Robert Müller
Top-Down Regularization of Deep Belief Networks Hanlin Goh, Nicolas Thome, Matthieu Cord, Joo-Hwee Lim
Learning Efficient Random Maximum A-Posteriori Predictors with Non-Decomposable Loss Functions Tamir Hazan, Subhransu Maji, Joseph Keshet, Tommi Jaakkola
Heterogeneous-Neighborhood-based Multi-Task Local Learning Algorithms Yu Zhang
Machine Teaching for Bayesian Learners in the Exponential Family Xiaojin Zhu
Scoring Workers in Crowdsourcing: How Many Control Questions are Enough? Qiang Liu, Alexander T. Ihler, Mark Steyvers
Action from Still Image Dataset and Inverse Optimal Control to Learn Task Specific Visual Scanpaths Stefan Mathe, Cristian Sminchisescu
A Determinantal Point Process Latent Variable Model for Inhibition in Neural Spiking Data Jasper Snoek, Richard Zemel, Ryan P. Adams
Robust Sparse Principal Component Regression under the High Dimensional Elliptical Model Fang Han, Han Liu
Global MAP-Optimality by Shrinking the Combinatorial Search Area with Convex Relaxation Bogdan Savchynskyy, Jörg Hendrik Kappes, Paul Swoboda, Christoph Schnörr
Near-optimal Anomaly Detection in Graphs using Lovasz Extended Scan Statistic James L. Sharpnack, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Aarti Singh
Demixing odors - fast inference in olfaction Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska, Jeff Beck, Alexandre Pouget, Peter Latham
Learning Multiple Models via Regularized Weighting Daniel Vainsencher, Shie Mannor, Huan Xu
When are Overcomplete Topic Models Identifiable? Uniqueness of Tensor Tucker Decompositions with Structured Sparsity Anima Anandkumar, Daniel J. Hsu, Majid Janzamin, Sham M. Kakade
Distributed k-means and k-median Clustering on General Topologies Maria-Florina F. Balcan, Steven Ehrlich, Yingyu Liang
Multi-Task Bayesian Optimization Kevin Swersky, Jasper Snoek, Ryan P. Adams
Online Learning of Dynamic Parameters in Social Networks Shahin Shahrampour, Sasha Rakhlin, Ali Jadbabaie
A Graphical Transformation for Belief Propagation: Maximum Weight Matchings and Odd-Sized Cycles Jinwoo Shin, Andrew E. Gelfand, Misha Chertkov
Learning with Invariance via Linear Functionals on Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Xinhua Zhang, Wee Sun Lee, Yee Whye Teh
Approximate Gaussian process inference for the drift function in stochastic differential equations Andreas Ruttor, Philipp Batz, Manfred Opper
Distributed Submodular Maximization: Identifying Representative Elements in Massive Data Baharan Mirzasoleiman, Amin Karbasi, Rik Sarkar, Andreas Krause
Adaptive Market Making via Online Learning Jacob Abernethy, Satyen Kale
On the Sample Complexity of Subspace Learning Alessandro Rudi, Guillermo D. Canas, Lorenzo Rosasco
Spike train entropy-rate estimation using hierarchical Dirichlet process priors Karin C. Knudson, Jonathan W. Pillow
Embed and Project: Discrete Sampling with Universal Hashing Stefano Ermon, Carla P. Gomes, Ashish Sabharwal, Bart Selman
Discriminative Transfer Learning with Tree-based Priors Nitish Srivastava, Ruslan R. Salakhutdinov
Small-Variance Asymptotics for Hidden Markov Models Anirban Roychowdhury, Ke Jiang, Brian Kulis
Convergence of Monte Carlo Tree Search in Simultaneous Move Games Viliam Lisy, Vojta Kovarik, Marc Lanctot, Branislav Bosansky
DeViSE: A Deep Visual-Semantic Embedding Model Andrea Frome, Greg S. Corrado, Jon Shlens, Samy Bengio, Jeff Dean, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Tomas Mikolov
Reward Mapping for Transfer in Long-Lived Agents Xiaoxiao Guo, Satinder Singh, Richard L. Lewis
Minimax Theory for High-dimensional Gaussian Mixtures with Sparse Mean Separation Martin Azizyan, Aarti Singh, Larry Wasserman
Predicting Parameters in Deep Learning Misha Denil, Babak Shakibi, Laurent Dinh, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Nando de Freitas
Estimating the Unseen: Improved Estimators for Entropy and other Properties Paul Valiant, Gregory Valiant
What do row and column marginals reveal about your dataset? Behzad Golshan, John Byers, Evimaria Terzi
RNADE: The real-valued neural autoregressive density-estimator Benigno Uria, Iain Murray, Hugo Larochelle
Two-Target Algorithms for Infinite-Armed Bandits with Bernoulli Rewards Thomas Bonald, Alexandre Proutiere
Reconciling "priors" & "priors" without prejudice? Remi Gribonval, Pierre Machart
Sparse Overlapping Sets Lasso for Multitask Learning and its Application to fMRI Analysis Nikhil Rao, Christopher Cox, Rob Nowak, Timothy T. Rogers
Sensor Selection in High-Dimensional Gaussian Trees with Nuisances Daniel S. Levine, Jonathan P. How
Sequential Transfer in Multi-armed Bandit with Finite Set of Models Mohammad Gheshlaghi azar, Alessandro Lazaric, Emma Brunskill
Buy-in-Bulk Active Learning Liu Yang, Jaime Carbonell
Contrastive Learning Using Spectral Methods James Y. Zou, Daniel J. Hsu, David C. Parkes, Ryan P. Adams
Message Passing Inference with Chemical Reaction Networks Nils E. Napp, Ryan P. Adams
Eluder Dimension and the Sample Complexity of Optimistic Exploration Dan Russo, Benjamin Van Roy
Learning word embeddings efficiently with noise-contrastive estimation Andriy Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu
Sparse Inverse Covariance Estimation with Calibration Tuo Zhao, Han Liu
Stochastic Majorization-Minimization Algorithms for Large-Scale Optimization Julien Mairal
Sinkhorn Distances: Lightspeed Computation of Optimal Transport Marco Cuturi
Speedup Matrix Completion with Side Information: Application to Multi-Label Learning Miao Xu, Rong Jin, Zhi-Hua Zhou
Compete to Compute Rupesh K. Srivastava, Jonathan Masci, Sohrob Kazerounian, Faustino Gomez, Juergen Schmidhuber
Fast Determinantal Point Process Sampling with Application to Clustering Byungkon Kang
Information-theoretic lower bounds for distributed statistical estimation with communication constraints Yuchen Zhang, John Duchi, Michael I. Jordan, Martin J. Wainwright
Projected Natural Actor-Critic Philip S. Thomas, William C. Dabney, Stephen Giguere, Sridhar Mahadevan
How to Hedge an Option Against an Adversary: Black-Scholes Pricing is Minimax Optimal Jacob Abernethy, Peter L. Bartlett, Rafael Frongillo, Andre Wibisono
Discovering Hidden Variables in Noisy-Or Networks using Quartet Tests Yacine Jernite, Yonatan Halpern, David Sontag
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k-Prototype Learning for 3D Rigid Structures Hu Ding, Ronald Berezney, Jinhui Xu
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Multilinear Dynamical Systems for Tensor Time Series Mark Rogers, Lei Li, Stuart J. Russell
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A Stability-based Validation Procedure for Differentially Private Machine Learning Kamalika Chaudhuri, Staal A. Vinterbo
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Fantope Projection and Selection: A near-optimal convex relaxation of sparse PCA Vincent Q. Vu, Juhee Cho, Jing Lei, Karl Rohe
Cluster Trees on Manifolds Sivaraman Balakrishnan, Srivatsan Narayanan, Alessandro Rinaldo, Aarti Singh, Larry Wasserman
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Adaptive Submodular Maximization in Bandit Setting Victor Gabillon, Branislav Kveton, Zheng Wen, Brian Eriksson, S. Muthukrishnan
Generalized Method-of-Moments for Rank Aggregation Hossein Azari Soufiani, William Chen, David C. Parkes, Lirong Xia
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