{"id":307,"date":"2007-12-19T18:01:39","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T00:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=307"},"modified":"2007-12-19T18:01:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T00:01:39","slug":"cool-and-interesting-things-seen-at-nips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunch.net\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Cool and interesting things seen at NIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I learned a number of things at NIPS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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  1. The financial people were there in greater force than previously. Two Sigma<\/a> sponsored NIPS while DRW Trading<\/a> had a booth.<\/li>\n
  2. The adversarial machine learning workshop<\/a> had a number of talks about interesting applications where an adversary really is out to try and mess up your learning algorithm. This is very different from the situation we often think of where the world is oblivious to our learning. This may present new and convincing applications for the learning-against-an-adversary work common at COLT<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  3. There were several interesing papers.\n
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    1. Sanjoy Dasgupta<\/a>, Daniel Hsu<\/a>, and Claire Monteleoni<\/a> had a paper on General Agnostic Active Learning<\/a>. The basic idea is that active learning can be done via reduction to a form of supervised learning problem. This is great, because we have many supervised learning algorithms from which the benefits of active learning may be derived.<\/li>\n
    2. Joseph Bradley<\/a> and Robert Schapire<\/a> had a Paper on Filterboost<\/a>. Filterboost is an online boosting algorithm which I think of as the boost-by-filtration approaches in the first boosting paper updated for an adaboost-like structure. These kinds of approaches are doubtless helpful for large scale learning problems which are becoming more common.<\/li>\n
    3. Peter Bartlett<\/a>, Elad Hazan<\/a>, and Sasha Rakhlin<\/a> had a paper on Adaptive Online Learning<\/a>. This paper refines earlier results for online learning against an adversary via gradient descent, which is plausibly of great use in practice.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n
    4. MLOSS<\/a> was giving out free T-shirts which were cool. I missed the workshop starting this effort at last year’s NIPS due to workshop overload, but open source machine learning is definitely of great and sound interest to the community.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I learned a number of things at NIPS. The financial people were there in greater force than previously. Two Sigma sponsored NIPS while DRW Trading had a booth. The adversarial machine learning workshop had a number of talks about interesting applications where an adversary really is out to try and mess up your learning algorithm. … <\/p>\n

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