http://hunch.net Machine learning and learning theory research Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:03:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One thing which is clear on a little reflection is that there exists a single master learning problem capable of encoding essentially all learning problems. This problem is of course a very general sort of reinforcement learning where the world interacts with an agent as: The world announces an observation ... http://hunch.net/?p=1167 Many conference deadlines are coming soon. DeadlineDouble Blind / Author FeedbackTime/Place ICMLJanuary 18((workshops) / February 1 (Papers) / February 13 (Tutorials)Y/YHaifa, Israel, June 21-25 KDDFebruary 1(Workshops) / February 2&5 (Papers) / February 26 (Tutorials & Panels)) / April 17 (Demos)N/SWashington DC, July 25-28 COLTJanuary 18 (Workshops) / February 19 (Papers)N/SHaifa, Israel, June 25-29 UAIMarch 11 ... http://hunch.net/?p=1182 and I can't help but remember him. I first met Sam as an undergraduate at Caltech where he was TA for Hopfield's class, and again when I visited Gatsby, when he invited me to visit Toronto, and at too many conferences to recount. His personality was a combination of enthusiastic ... http://hunch.net/?p=1172 Several papers at NIPS caught my attention. Elad Hazan and Satyen Kale, Online Submodular Optimization They define an algorithm for online optimization of submodular functions with regret guarantees. This places submodular optimization roughly on par with online convex optimization as tractable settings for online learning. Elad Hazan and Satyen ... http://hunch.net/?p=1152 I would like to point out 3 graduates this season as having my confidence they are capable of doing great things. Daniel Hsu has diverse papers with diverse coauthors on {active learning, mulitlabeling, temporal learning, ...} each covering new algorithms and methods of analysis. He is also a capable ... http://hunch.net/?p=1131 I'd like to point out Inherent Uncertainty, which I've added to the ML blog post scanner on the right. My understanding from Jake is that the intention is to have a multiauthor blog which is more specialized towards learning theory/game theory than this one. Nevertheless, several of ... http://hunch.net/?p=1108 Yesterday, there was a discussion about future publication models at NIPS. Yann and Zoubin have specific detailed proposals which I'll add links to when I get them (Yann's proposal and Zoubin's proposal). What struck me about the discussion is that there are many simultaneous concerns as well as many simultaneous ... http://hunch.net/?p=1086 I'm releasing version 4.0(tarball) of Vowpal Wabbit. The biggest change (by far) in this release is experimental support for cluster parallelism, with notable help from Daniel Hsu. I also took advantage of the major version number to introduce some incompatible changes, including switching to murmurhash 2, and other ... http://hunch.net/?p=1068 Dan Reeves introduced me to Michael Vassar who ran the Singularity Summit and educated me a bit on the subject of AI safety which the Singularity Institute has small grants for. I still believe that interstellar space travel is necessary for long term civilization survival, and the AI is ... http://hunch.net/?p=1053 I'm the workshops chair for ICML this year. As such, I would like to personally encourage people to consider running a workshop. My general view of workshops is that they are excellent as opportunities to discuss and develop research directions---some of my best work has come from collaborations at workshops ... http://hunch.net/?p=1046