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The papers below appear in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 edited by Y. Bengio, D. Schuurmans, J. Lafferty, C. K. I. Williams and A. Culotta (2009).

Note that we have also included links to any supplementary material provided by the authors (see the [supplemental] links), as well as spotlight slides and audio ([slide], [audio]). These materials have NOT been subjected to the formal NIPS review process.


Information-theoretic lower bounds on the oracle complexity of convex optimization
Alekh Agarwal, Peter Bartlett, Pradeep Ravikumar, Martin Wainwright
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Streaming k-means approximation
Nir Ailon, Ragesh Jaiswal, Claire Monteleoni
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Complexity of Decentralized Control: Special Cases
Martin Allen, Shlomo Zilberstein
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Learning from Multiple Partially Observed Views - an Application to Multilingual Text Categorization
Massih Amini, Nicolas Usunier, Cyril Goutte
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Constructing Topological Maps using Markov Random Fields and Loop-Closure Detection
Roy Anati, Kostas Daniilidis
[pdf] [bibtex]

Data-driven calibration of linear estimators with minimal penalties
Sylvain Arlot, Francis Bach
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

On Learning Rotations
Raman Arora
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide] [audio]

Polynomial Semantic Indexing
Bing Bai, Jason Weston, David Grangier, Ronan Collobert, Kunihiko Sadamasa, Yanjun Qi, Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri
[pdf] [bibtex]

Nonparametric Bayesian Models for Unsupervised Event Coreference Resolution
Cosmin Bejan, Matthew Titsworth, Andrew Hickl, Sanda Harabagiu
[pdf] [bibtex]

Group Sparse Coding
Samy Bengio, Fernando Pereira, Yoram Singer, Dennis Strelow
[pdf] [bibtex]

Neurometric function analysis of population codes
Philipp Berens, Sebastian Gerwinn, Alexander Ecker, Matthias Bethge
[pdf] [bibtex]

Slow, Decorrelated Features for Pretraining Complex Cell-like Networks
James Bergstra, Yoshua Bengio
[pdf] [bibtex]

No evidence for active sparsification in the visual cortex
Pietro Berkes, Ben White, Jozsef Fiser
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

Manifold Regularization for SIR with Rate Root-n Convergence
Wei Bian, Dacheng Tao
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide] [audio]

Augmenting Feature-driven fMRI Analyses: Semi-supervised learning and resting state activity
Mathew Blaschko, Jacquelyn Shelton, Andreas Bartels
[pdf] [bibtex]

Efficient Match Kernel between Sets of Features for Visual Recognition
Liefeng Bo, Cristian Sminchisescu
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Randomized Pruning: Efficiently Calculating Expectations in Large Dynamic Programs
Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Slav Petrov, Dan Klein
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Unsupervised Feature Selection for the $k$-means Clustering Problem
Christos Boutsidis, Michael Mahoney, Petros Drineas
[pdf] [bibtex]

On Invariance in Hierarchical Models
Jake Bouvrie, Lorenzo Rosasco, Tomaso Poggio
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Optimal context separation of spiking haptic signals by second-order somatosensory neurons
Romain Brasselet, Roland Johansson, Angelo Arleo
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [correction]

Nash Equilibria of Static Prediction Games
Michael Brückner, Tobias Scheffer
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

A Game-Theoretic Approach to Hypergraph Clustering
Samuel Rota Bulò, Marcello Pelillo
[pdf] [bibtex]

Manifold Embeddings for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning under Partial Observability
Keith Bush, Joelle Pineau
[pdf] [bibtex]

Learning to Explore and Exploit in POMDPs
Chenghui Cai, Xuejun Liao, Lawrence Carin
[pdf] [bibtex]

Speaker Comparison with Inner Product Discriminant Functions
William Campbell, Zahi Karam, Douglas Sturim
[pdf] [bibtex]

A Stochastic approximation method for inference in probabilistic graphical models
Peter Carbonetto, Matthew King, Firas Hamze
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Bayesian Nonparametric Models on Decomposable Graphs
Francois Caron, Arnaud Doucet
[pdf] [bibtex]

Adaptive Design Optimization in Experiments with People
Daniel Cavagnaro, Mark Pitt, Jay Myung
[pdf] [bibtex]

Efficient Bregman Range Search
Lawrence Cayton
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Discriminative Network Models of Schizophrenia
Guillermo Cecchi, Irina Rish, Benjamin Thyreau, Bertrand Thirion, Marion Plaze, Marie-Laure Paillere-Martinot, Catherine Martelli, Jean-Luc Martinot, Jean-Baptiste Poline
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Learning with Compressible Priors
Volkan Cevher
[pdf] [bibtex]

Generalization Errors and Learning Curves for Regression with Multi-task Gaussian Processes
Kian Ming Chai
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Exploring Functional Connectivities of the Human Brain using Multivariate Information Analysis
Barry Chai, Dirk Walther, Diane Beck, Li Fei-Fei
[pdf] [bibtex]

Reading Tea Leaves: How Humans Interpret Topic Models
Jonathan Chang, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Sean Gerrish, Chong Wang, David Blei
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

A Parameter-free Hedging Algorithm
Kamalika Chaudhuri, Yoav Freund, Daniel Hsu
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

An Online Algorithm for Large Scale Image Similarity Learning
Gal Chechik, Uri Shalit, Varun Sharma, Samy Bengio
[pdf] [bibtex]

Factor Modeling for Advertisement Targeting
Ye Chen, Michael Kapralov, Dmitry Pavlov, John Canny
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Ranking Measures and Loss Functions in Learning to Rank
Wei Chen, Tie-Yan Liu, Yanyan Lan, Zhi-Ming Ma, Hang Li
[pdf] [bibtex]

The Ordered Residual Kernel for Robust Motion Subspace Clustering
Tat-Jun Chin, Hanzi Wang, David Suter
[pdf] [bibtex]

Kernel Methods for Deep Learning
Youngmin Cho, Lawrence Saul
[pdf] [bibtex]

Approximating MAP by Compensating for Structural Relaxations
Arthur Choi, Adnan Darwiche
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

AUC optimization and the two-sample problem
Stéphan Clémençon, Nicolas Vayatis, Marine Depecker
[pdf] [bibtex]

Statistical Models of Linear and Nonlinear Contextual Interactions in Early Visual Processing
Ruben Coen-Cagli, Peter Dayan, Odelia Schwartz
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

fMRI-Based Inter-Subject Cortical Alignment Using Functional Connectivity
Bryan Conroy, Ben Singer, James Haxby, Peter Ramadge
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Sensitivity analysis in HMMs with application to likelihood maximization
Pierre-Arnaud Coquelin, Romain Deguest, Remi Munos
[pdf] [bibtex]

Learning Non-Linear Combinations of Kernels
Corinna Cortes, Mehryar Mohri, Afshin Rostamizadeh
[pdf] [bibtex]

An Infinite Factor Model Hierarchy Via a Noisy-Or Mechanism
Aaron Courville, Douglas Eck, Yoshua Bengio
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Adaptive Regularization of Weight Vectors
Koby Crammer, Alex Kulesza, Mark Dredze
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Learning transport operators for image manifolds
Benjamin Culpepper, Bruno Olshausen
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

White Functionals for Anomaly Detection in Dynamical Systems
Marco Cuturi, Jean-Philippe Vert, Alexandre D'Aspremont
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

$L_1$-Penalized Robust Estimation for a Class of Inverse Problems Arising in Multiview Geometry
Arnak Dalalyan, Renaud Keriven
[pdf] [bibtex]

Distribution-Calibrated Hierarchical Classification
Ofer Dekel
[pdf] [bibtex]

Solving Stochastic Games
Liam Mac Dermed, Charles Isbell
[pdf] [bibtex]

A Smoothed Approximate Linear Program
Vijay Desai, Vivek Farias, Ciamac Moallemi
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

Localizing Bugs in Program Executions with Graphical Models
Laura Dietz, Valentin Dallmeier, Andreas Zeller, Tobias Scheffer
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

The Infinite Partially Observable Markov Decision Process
Finale Doshi-Velez
[pdf] [bibtex]

A Bayesian Model for Simultaneous Image Clustering, Annotation and Object Segmentation
Lan Du, Lu Ren, David Dunson, Lawrence Carin
[pdf] [bibtex]

Efficient Learning using Forward-Backward Splitting
John Duchi, Yoram Singer
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Streaming Pointwise Mutual Information
Benjamin Van Durme, Ashwin Lall
[pdf] [bibtex]

A Data-Driven Approach to Modeling Choice
Vivek Farias, Srikanth Jagabathula, Devavrat Shah
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

Subject independent EEG-based BCI decoding
Siamac Fazli, Cristian Grozea, Marton Danoczy, Benjamin Blankertz, Florin Popescu, Klaus-Robert Muller
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Semi-Supervised Learning in Gigantic Image Collections
Rob Fergus, Yair Weiss, Antonio Torralba
[pdf] [bibtex]

Evaluating multi-class learning strategies in a generative hierarchical framework for object detection
Sanja Fidler, Marko Boben, Ales Leonardis
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Orthogonal Matching Pursuit From Noisy Random Measurements: A New Analysis
Alyson Fletcher, Sundeep Rangan
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Sharing Features among Dynamical Systems with Beta Processes
Emily Fox, Erik Sudderth, Michael Jordan, Alan Willsky
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

An Additive Latent Feature Model for Transparent Object Recognition
Mario Fritz, Michael Black, Gary Bradski, Sergey Karayev, Trevor Darrell
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide] [audio]

An LP View of the M-best MAP problem
Menachem Fromer, Amir Globerson
[pdf] [bibtex]

Estimating image bases for visual image reconstruction from human brain activity
Yusuke Fujiwara, Yoichi Miyawaki, Yukiyasu Kamitani
[pdf] [bibtex]

Graph-based Consensus Maximization among Multiple Supervised and Unsupervised Models
Jing Gao, Feng Liang, Wei Fan, Yizhou Sun, Jiawei Han
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide] [audio]

Lattice Regression
Eric Garcia, Maya Gupta
[pdf] [bibtex]

From PAC-Bayes Bounds to KL Regularization
Pascal Germain, Alexandre Lacasse, Francois Laviolette, Mario Marchand, Sara Shanian
[pdf] [bibtex]

Perceptual Multistability as Markov Chain Monte Carlo Inference
Samuel Gershman, Ed Vul, Joshua Tenenbaum
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Bayesian Source Localization with the Multivariate Laplace Prior
Marcel Van Gerven, Botond Cseke, Robert Oostenveld, Tom Heskes
[pdf] [bibtex]

A joint maximum-entropy model for binary neural population patterns and continuous signals
Sebastian Gerwinn, Philipp Berens, Matthias Bethge
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

A Biologically Plausible Model for Rapid Natural Scene Identification
Sennay Ghebreab, Steven Scholte, Victor Lamme, Arnold Smeulders
[pdf] [bibtex]

A Gaussian Tree Approximation for Integer Least-Squares
Jacob Goldberger, Amir Leshem
[pdf] [bibtex]

Measuring Invariances in Deep Networks
Ian Goodfellow, Quoc Le, Andrew Saxe, Andrew Ng
[pdf] [bibtex]

Region-based Segmentation and Object Detection
Stephen Gould, Tianshi Gao, Daphne Koller
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Posterior vs Parameter Sparsity in Latent Variable Models
Joao Graca, Kuzman Ganchev, Ben Taskar, Fernando Pereira
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

A Fast, Consistent Kernel Two-Sample Test
Arthur Gretton, Kenji Fukumizu, Zaid Harchaoui, Bharath Sriperumbudur
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide] [supplemental]

Non-stationary continuous dynamic Bayesian networks
Marco Grzegorczyk, Dirk Husmeier
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

Label Selection on Graphs
Andrew Guillory, Jeff Bilmes
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Beyond Convexity: Online Submodular Minimization
Elad Hazan, Satyen Kale
[pdf] [bibtex]

On Stochastic and Worst-case Models for Investing
Elad Hazan, Satyen Kale
[pdf] [bibtex]

Robust Nonparametric Regression with Metric-Space Valued Output
Matthias Hein
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Hierarchical Learning of Dimensional Biases in Human Categorization
Katherine Heller, Adam Sanborn, Nick Chater
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Bayesian Sparse Factor Models and DAGs Inference and Comparison
Ricardo Henao, Ole Winther
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

Sparse and Locally Constant Gaussian Graphical Models
Jean Honorio, Luis Ortiz, Dimitris Samaras, Nikos Paragios, Rita Goldstein
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

Periodic Step Size Adaptation for Single Pass On-line Learning
Chun-Nan Hsu, Yu-Ming Chang, Hanshen Huang, Yuh-Jye Lee
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide] [audio]

Multi-Label Prediction via Compressed Sensing
Daniel Hsu, Sham Kakade, John Langford, Tong Zhang
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

Differential Use of Implicit Negative Evidence in Generative and Discriminative Language Learning
Anne Hsu, Thomas Griffiths
[pdf] [bibtex]

Accelerated Gradient Methods for Stochastic Optimization and Online Learning
Chonghai Hu, James Kwok, Weike Pan
[pdf] [bibtex]

Reconstruction of Sparse Circuits Using Multi-neuronal Excitation (RESCUME)
Tao Hu, Anthony Leonardo, Dmitri Chklovskii
[pdf] [bibtex]

Riffled Independence for Ranked Data
Jonathan Huang, Carlos Guestrin
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide] [audio]

Learning Brain Connectivity of Alzheimer's Disease from Neuroimaging Data
Shuai Huang, Jing Li, Liang Sun, Jun Liu, Teresa Wu, Kewei Chen, Adam Fleisher, Eric Reiman, Jieping Ye
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide] [audio]

Discrete MDL Predicts in Total Variation
Marcus Hutter
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Particle-based Variational Inference for Continuous Systems
Alexander Ihler, Andrew Frank, Padhraic Smyth
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Modeling Social Annotation Data with Content Relevance using a Topic Model
Tomoharu Iwata, Takeshi Yamada, Naonori Ueda
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

On the Algorithmics and Applications of a Mixed-norm based Kernel Learning Formulation
Saketha Nath Jagarlapudi, Dinesh G, Raman S, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Aharon Ben-Tal, Ramakrishnan K.R.
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Bayesian Belief Polarization
Alan Jern, Kai-min Chang, Charles Kemp
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Regularized Distance Metric Learning:Theory and Algorithm
Rong Jin, Shijun Wang, Yang Zhou
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

Local Rules for Global MAP: When Do They Work ?
Kyomin Jung, Pushmeet Kohli, Devavrat Shah
[pdf] [bibtex]

Potential-Based Agnostic Boosting
Adam Kalai, Varun Kanade
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

Directed Regression
Yi-hao Kao, Benjamin Van Roy, Xiang Yan
[pdf] [bibtex]

Breaking Boundaries Between Induction Time and Diagnosis Time Active Information Acquisition
Ashish Kapoor, Eric Horvitz
[pdf] [bibtex]

Multiple Incremental Decremental Learning of Support Vector Machines
Masayuki Karasuyama, Ichiro Takeuchi
[pdf] [bibtex]

Submodularity Cuts and Applications
Yoshinobu Kawahara, Kiyohito Nagano, Koji Tsuda, Jeff Bilmes
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

Individuation, Identification and Object Discovery
Charles Kemp, Alan Jern, Fei Xu
[pdf] [bibtex]

Abstraction and Relational learning
Charles Kemp, Alan Jern
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Quantification and the language of thought
Charles Kemp
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Matrix Completion from Noisy Entries
Raghunandan Keshavan, Andrea Montanari, Sewoong Oh
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Semi-supervised Regression using Hessian energy with an application to semi-supervised dimensionality reduction
Kwang In Kim, Florian Steinke, Matthias Hein
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Unsupervised Detection of Regions of Interest Using Iterative Link Analysis
Gunhee Kim, Antonio Torralba
[pdf] [bibtex]

Clustering sequence sets for motif discovery
Jong Kyoung Kim, Seungjin Choi
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Replacing supervised classification learning by Slow Feature Analysis in spiking neural networks
Stefan Klampfl, Wolfgang Maass
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Efficient and Accurate Lp-Norm Multiple Kernel Learning
Marius Kloft, Ulf Brefeld, Soeren Sonnenburg, Pavel Laskov, Klaus-Robert Müller, Alexander Zien
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Sparsistent Learning of Varying-coefficient Models with Structural Changes
Mladen Kolar, Le Song, Eric Xing
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

Skill Discovery in Continuous Reinforcement Learning Domains using Skill Chaining
George Konidaris, Andrew Barto
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

Fast, smooth and adaptive regression in metric spaces
Samory Kpotufe
[pdf] [bibtex]

Fast Image Deconvolution using Hyper-Laplacian Priors
Dilip Krishnan, Rob Fergus
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Learning to Hash with Binary Reconstructive Embeddings
Brian Kulis, Trevor Darrell
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Learning a Small Mixture of Trees
M. Pawan Kumar, Daphne Koller
[pdf] [bibtex]

Ensemble Nystrom Method
Sanjiv Kumar, Mehryar Mohri, Ameet Talwalkar
[pdf] [bibtex]

Monte Carlo Sampling for Regret Minimization in Extensive Games
Marc Lanctot, Kevin Waugh, Martin Zinkevich, Michael Bowling
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide] [audio] [correction]

Inter-domain Gaussian Processes for Sparse Inference using Inducing Features
Miguel Lazaro-Gredilla, Anibal Figueiras-Vidal
[pdf] [bibtex]

Unsupervised feature learning for audio classification using convolutional deep belief networks
Honglak Lee, Peter Pham, Yan Largman, Andrew Ng
[pdf] [bibtex]

Functional network reorganization in motor cortex can be explained by reward-modulated Hebbian learning
Robert Legenstein, Steven Chase, Andrew Schwartz, Wolfgang Maass
[pdf] [bibtex]

An Integer Projected Fixed Point Method for Graph Matching and MAP Inference
Marius Leordeanu, Martial Hebert, Rahul Sukthankar
[pdf] [bibtex]

Probabilistic Relational PCA
Wu-Jun Li, Dit-Yan Yeung, Zhihua Zhang
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Asymptotically Optimal Regularization in Smooth Parametric Models
Percy Liang, Francis Bach, Guillaume Bouchard, Michael Jordan
[pdf] [bibtex]

Nonparametric Greedy Algorithms for the Sparse Learning Problem
Han Liu, Xi Chen
[pdf] [bibtex]

Grouped Orthogonal Matching Pursuit for Variable Selection and Prediction
Aurelie Lozano, Grzegorz Swirszcz, Naoki Abe
[pdf] [bibtex]

Modeling the spacing effect in sequential category learning
Hongjing Lu, Matthew Weiden, Alan Yuille
[pdf] [bibtex]

Who’s Doing What: Joint Modeling of Names and Verbs for Simultaneous Face and Pose Annotation
Jie Luo, Barbara Caputo, Vittorio Ferrari
[pdf] [bibtex]

Variational Gaussian-process factor analysis for modeling spatio-temporal data
Jaakko Luttinen, Alexander Ilin
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Occlusive Components Analysis
Jörg Lücke, Richard Turner, Maneesh Sahani, Marc Henniges
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

Bayesian estimation of orientation preference maps
Jakob Macke, Sebastian Gerwinn, Leonard White, Matthias Kaschube, Matthias Bethge
[pdf] [bibtex]

Convergent Temporal-Difference Learning with Arbitrary Smooth Function Approximation
Hamid Maei, Csaba Szepesvari, Shalabh Bhatnagar, Doina Precup, David Silver, Rich Sutton
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide] [correction]

Compressed Least-Squares Regression
Odalric Maillard, Remi Munos
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Beyond Categories: The Visual Memex Model for Reasoning About Object Relationships
Tomasz Malisiewicz, Alyosha Efros
[pdf] [bibtex]

Efficient Large-Scale Distributed Training of Conditional Maximum Entropy Models
Gideon Mann, Ryan McDonald, Mehryar Mohri, Nathan Silberman, Dan Walker
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

Toward Provably Correct Feature Selection in Arbitrary Domains
Dimitris Margaritis
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide] [audio]

FACTORIE: Probabilistic Programming via Imperatively Defined Factor Graphs
Andrew McCallum, Karl Schultz, Sameer Singh
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Matrix Completion from Power-Law Distributed Samples
Raghu Meka, Prateek Jain, Inderjit Dhillon
[pdf] [bibtex]

Extending Phase Mechanism to Differential Motion Opponency for Motion Pop-out
Yicong Meng, Bertram Shi
[pdf] [bibtex]

Nonparametric Latent Feature Models for Link Prediction
Kurt Miller, Thomas Griffiths, Michael Jordan
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Accelerating Bayesian Structural Inference for Non-Decomposable Gaussian Graphical Models
Baback Moghaddam, Benjamin Marlin, Emtiyaz Khan, Kevin Murphy
[pdf] [bibtex]

Large Scale Nonparametric Bayesian Inference: Data Parallelisation in the Indian Buffet Process
Finale Doshi-Velez, David Knowles, Shakir Mohamed, Zoubin Ghahramani
[pdf] [bibtex]

Which graphical models are difficult to learn?
Andrea Montanari, Jose Ayres Pereira
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

A Generalized Natural Actor-Critic Algorithm
Tetsuro Morimura, Eiji Uchibe, Junichiro Yoshimoto, Kenji Doya
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Predicting the Optimal Spacing of Study: A Multiscale Context Model of Memory
Michael Mozer, Harold Pashler, Nicholas Cepeda, Robert Lindsey, Ed Vul
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Statistical Analysis of Semi-Supervised Learning: The Limit of Infinite Unlabelled Data
Boaz Nadler, Nathan Srebro, Xueyuan Zhou
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

3D Object Recognition with Deep Belief Nets
Vinod Nair, Geoffrey Hinton
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

A unified framework for high-dimensional analysis of $M$-estimators with decomposable regularizers
Sahand Negahban, Pradeep Ravikumar, Martin Wainwright, Bin Yu
[pdf] [bibtex]

STDP enables spiking neurons to detect hidden causes of their inputs
Bernhard Nessler, Michael Pfeiffer, Wolfgang Maass
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Noisy Generalized Binary Search
Rob Nowak
[pdf] [bibtex]

Correlation Coefficients are Insufficient for Analyzing Spike Count Dependencies
Arno Onken, Steffen Grünewälder, Klaus Obermayer
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Construction of Nonparametric Bayesian Models from Parametric Bayes Equations
Peter Orbanz
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental] [slide]

Learning from Neighboring Strokes: Combining Appearance and Context for Multi-Domain Sketch Recognition
Tom Ouyang, Randall Davis
[pdf] [bibtex]

Submanifold density estimation
ARKADAS OZAKIN, Alexander Gray
[pdf] [bibtex]

Zero-shot Learning with Semantic Output Codes
Mark Palatucci, Dean Pomerleau, Geoffrey Hinton, Tom Mitchell
[pdf] [bibtex]

Conditional Neural Fields
Jian Peng, Liefeng Bo, Jinbo Xu
[pdf] [bibtex]

Free energy score space
Alessandro Perina, Marco Cristani, Umberto Castellani, Vittorio Murino, Nebojsa Jojic
[pdf] [bibtex]

Maximum likelihood trajectories for continuous-time Markov chains
Theodore Perkins
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Robust Value Function Approximation Using Bilinear Programming
Marek Petrik, Shlomo Zilberstein
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Exponential Family Graph Matching and Ranking
James Petterson, Tiberio Caetano, Julian McAuley, Jin Yu
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Know Thy Neighbour: A Normative Theory of Synaptic Depression
Jean-Pascal Pfister, Peter Dayan, Mate Lengyel
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Time-rescaling methods for the estimation and assessment of non-Poisson neural encoding models
Jonathan Pillow
[pdf] [bibtex]

Bilinear classifiers for visual recognition
Hamed Pirsiavash, Deva Ramanan, Charless Fowlkes
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Distribution Matching for Transduction
Novi Quadrianto, James Petterson, Alex Smola
[pdf] [bibtex]

Convex Relaxation of Mixture Regression with Efficient Algorithms
Novi Quadrianto, Tiberio Caetano, John Lim, Dale Schuurmans
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Locality-sensitive binary codes from shift-invariant kernels
Maxim Raginsky, Svetlana Lazebnik
[pdf] [bibtex]

Multi-Label Prediction via Sparse Infinite CCA
Piyush Rai, Hal Daume
[pdf] [bibtex]

Rank-Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search: Retaining Meaning and Speed in High Dimensions
Parikshit Ram, Dongryeol Lee, Hua Ouyang, Alexander Gray
[pdf] [bibtex]

Linear-time Algorithms for Pairwise Statistical Problems
Parikshit Ram, Dongryeol Lee, William March, Alexander Gray
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Asymptotic Analysis of MAP Estimation via the Replica Method and Compressed Sensing
Sundeep Rangan, Alyson Fletcher, Vivek Goyal
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Spatial Normalized Gamma Processes
Vinayak Rao, Yee Whye Teh
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Lower bounds on minimax rates for nonparametric regression with additive sparsity and smoothness
Garvesh Raskutti, Martin Wainwright, Bin Yu
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Segmenting Scenes by Matching Image Composites
Bryan Russell, Alyosha Efros, Josef Sivic, Bill Freeman, Andrew Zisserman
[pdf] [bibtex]

Filtering Abstract Senses From Image Search Results
Kate Saenko, Trevor Darrell
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide] [audio]

Replicated Softmax: an Undirected Topic Model
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Geoffrey Hinton
[pdf] [bibtex]

Learning in Markov Random Fields using Tempered Transitions
Ruslan Salakhutdinov
[pdf] [bibtex]

Learning models of object structure
Joseph Schlecht, Kobus Barnard
[pdf] [bibtex]

Linearly constrained Bayesian matrix factorization for blind source separation
Mikkel Schmidt
[pdf] [bibtex]

Speeding up Magnetic Resonance Image Acquisition by Bayesian Multi-Slice Adaptive Compressed Sensing
Matthias Seeger
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

Improving Existing Fault Recovery Policies
Guy Shani, Christopher Meek
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Positive Semidefinite Metric Learning with Boosting
Chunhua Shen, Junae Kim, Lei Wang, Anton van den Hengel
[pdf] [bibtex]

Fast subtree kernels on graphs
Nino Shervashidze, Karsten Borgwardt
[pdf] [bibtex]

Neural Implementation of Hierarchical Bayesian Inference by Importance Sampling
Lei Shi, Thomas Griffiths
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Learning Label Embeddings for Nearest-Neighbor Multi-class Classification with an Application to Speech Recognition
Natasha Singh-Miller, Michael Collins
[pdf] [bibtex] [slide]

Semi-supervised Learning using Sparse Eigenfunction Bases
Kaushik Sinha, Mikhail Belkin
[pdf] [bibtex]

Hierarchical Modeling of Local Image Features through $L_p$-Nested Symmetric Distributions
Fabian Sinz, Eero Simoncelli, Matthias Bethge
[pdf] [bibtex] [supplemental]

A Sparse Non-Parametric Approach for Single Channel Separation of Known Sounds
Paris Smaragdis, Madhusudana Shashanka, Bhiksha Raj
[pdf] [bibtex]

A Bayesian Analysis of Dynamics in Free Recall
Richard Socher, Samuel Gershman, Adler Perotte, Per Sederberg, David Blei, Kenneth Norman
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Kernels and learning curves for Gaussian process regression on random graphs
Peter Sollich, Matthew Urry, Camille Coti
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Time-Varying Dynamic Bayesian Networks
Le Song, Mladen Kolar, Eric Xing
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Code-specific policy gradient rules for spiking neurons
Henning Sprekeler, Guillaume Hennequin, Wulfram Gerstner
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Kernel Choice and Classifiability for RKHS Embeddings of Probability Distributions
Bharath Sriperumbudur, Kenji Fukumizu, Arthur Gretton, Gert Lanckriet, Bernhard Schoelkopf
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On the Convergence of the Concave-Convex Procedure
Bharath Sriperumbudur, Gert Lanckriet
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Fast Learning from Non-i.i.d. Observations
Ingo Steinwart, Andreas Christmann
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Structural inference affects depth perception in the context of potential occlusion
Ian Stevenson, Konrad Koerding
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The Wisdom of Crowds in the Recollection of Order Information
Mark Steyvers, Michael Lee, Brent Miller, Pernille Hemmer
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Online Learning of Assignments
Matthew Streeter, Daniel Golovin, Andreas Krause
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Entropic Graph Regularization in Non-Parametric Semi-Supervised Classification
Amarnag Subramanya, Jeff Bilmes
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Efficient Recovery of Jointly Sparse Vectors
Liang Sun, Jun Liu, Jianhui Chen, Jieping Ye
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Modelling Relational Data using Bayesian Clustered Tensor Factorization
Ilya Sutskever, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Joshua Tenenbaum
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Adapting to the Shifting Intent of Search Queries
Umar Syed, Aleksandrs Slivkins, Nina Mishra
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Indian Buffet Processes with Power-law Behavior
Yee Whye Teh, Dilan Gorur
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Nonlinear directed acyclic structure learning with weakly additive noise models
Robert Tillman, Arthur Gretton, Peter Spirtes
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Compositionality of optimal control laws
Emanuel Todorov
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Maximin affinity learning of image segmentation
Srinivas Turaga, Kevin Briggman, Moritz Helmstaedter, Winfried Denk, Sebastian Seung
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Help or Hinder: Bayesian Models of Social Goal Inference
Tomer Ullman, Chris Baker, Owen Macindoe, Owain Evans, Noah Goodman, Joshua Tenenbaum
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Learning to Rank by Optimizing NDCG Measure
Hamed Valizadegan, Rong Jin, Ruofei Zhang, Jianchang Mao
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Gaussian process regression with Student-t likelihood
Jarno Vanhatalo, Pasi Jylänki, Aki Vehtari
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Measuring model complexity with the prior predictive
Wolf Vanpaemel
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Structured output regression for detection with partial truncation
Andrea Vedaldi, Andrew Zisserman
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Bootstrapping from Game Tree Search
Joel Veness, David Silver, William Uther, Alan Blair
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Tracking Dynamic Sources of Malicious Activity at Internet Scale
Shobha Venkataraman, Avrim Blum, Dawn Song, Subhabrata Sen, Oliver Spatscheck
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Explaining human multiple object tracking as resource-constrained approximate inference in a dynamic probabilistic model
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Rethinking LDA: Why Priors Matter
Hanna Wallach, David Mimno, Andrew McCallum
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Variational Inference for the Nested Chinese Restaurant Process
Chong Wang, David Blei
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A Rate Distortion Approach for Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields
Yang Wang, Gholamreza Haffari, Shaojun Wang, Greg Mori
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Decoupling Sparsity and Smoothness in the Discrete Hierarchical Dirichlet Process
Chong Wang, David Blei
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Sufficient Conditions for Agnostic Active Learnable
Liwei Wang
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Graph Zeta Function in the Bethe Free Energy and Loopy Belief Propagation
Yusuke Watanabe, Kenji Fukumizu
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Strategy Grafting in Extensive Games
Kevin Waugh, Nolan Bard, Michael Bowling
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Whose Vote Should Count More: Optimal Integration of Labels from Labelers of Unknown Expertise
Jacob Whitehill, Paul Ruvolo, Ting-fan Wu, Jacob Bergsma, Javier Movellan
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Training Factor Graphs with Reinforcement Learning for Efficient MAP Inference
Michael Wick, Khashayar Rohanimanesh, Sameer Singh, Andrew McCallum
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Matthew Wilder, Matt Jones, Michael Mozer
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A Neural Implementation of the Kalman Filter
Robert Wilson, Leif Finkel
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Sparse Estimation Using General Likelihoods and Non-Factorial Priors
David Wipf, Srikantan Nagarajan
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Robust Principal Component Analysis: Exact Recovery of Corrupted Low-Rank Matrices via Convex Optimization
John Wright, Arvind Ganesh, Shankar Rao, Yigang Peng, Yi Ma
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Fast Graph Laplacian Regularized Kernel Learning via Semidefinite–Quadratic–Linear Programming
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Learning Bregman Distance Functions and Its Application for Semi-Supervised Clustering
Lei Wu, Rong Jin, Steven Chu-Hong Hoi, Jianke Zhu, Nenghai Yu
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Statistical Consistency of Top-k Ranking
Fen Xia, Tie-Yan Liu, Hang Li
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Boosting with Spatial Regularization
Zhen Xiang, Yongxin Xi, Uri Hasson, Peter Ramadge
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Dual Averaging Method for Regularized Stochastic Learning and Online Optimization
Lin Xiao
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Adaptive Regularization for Transductive Support Vector Machine
Zenglin Xu, Rong Jin, Jianke Zhu, Irwin King, Michael Lyu, Zhirong Yang
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Parallel Inference for Latent Dirichlet Allocation on Graphics Processing Units
Feng Yan, Ningyi Xu, Yuan Qi
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Noise Characterization, Modeling, and Reduction for In Vivo Neural Recording
Zhi Yang, Qi Zhao, Edward Keefer, Wentai Liu
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Dirichlet-Bernoulli Alignment: A Generative Model for Multi-Class Multi-Label Multi-Instance Corpora
Shuang-Hong Yang, Hongyuan Zha, Bao-gang Hu
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Heterogeneous multitask learning with joint sparsity constraints
Xiaolin Yang, Seyoung Kim, Eric Xing
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Heavy-Tailed Symmetric Stochastic Neighbor Embedding
Zhirong Yang, Irwin King, Zenglin Xu, Erkki Oja
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Multi-Step Dyna Planning for Policy Evaluation and Control
Hengshuai Yao, Rich Sutton, Shalabh Bhatnagar, Dongcui Diao, Csaba Szepesvari
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Hierarchical Mixture of Classification Experts Uncovers Interactions between Brain Regions
Bangpeng Yao, Dirk Walther, Diane Beck, Li Fei-Fei
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Conditional Random Fields with High-Order Features for Sequence Labeling
Nan Ye, Wee Sun Lee, Hai Leong Chieu, Dan Wu
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Sparse Metric Learning via Smooth Optimization
Yiming Ying, Kaizhu Huang, Colin Campbell
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Analysis of SVM with Indefinite Kernels
Yiming Ying, Colin Campbell, Mark Girolami
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Nonlinear Learning using Local Coordinate Coding
Kai Yu, Tong Zhang, Yihong Gong
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A General Projection Property for Distribution Families
Yao-Liang Yu, Yuxi Li, Dale Schuurmans, Csaba Szepesvari
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Optimal Scoring for Unsupervised Learning
Zhihua Zhang, Guang Dai
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Anomaly Detection with Score functions based on Nearest Neighbor Graphs
Manqi Zhao, Venkatesh Saligrama
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DUOL: A Double Updating Approach for Online Learning
Peilin Zhao, Steven Chu-Hong Hoi, Rong Jin
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Optimizing Multi-Class Spatio-Spectral Filters via Bayes Error Estimation for EEG Classification
Wenming Zheng, Zhouchen Lin
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Thresholding Procedures for High Dimensional Variable Selection and Statistical Estimation
Shuheng Zhou
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Non-Parametric Bayesian Dictionary Learning for Sparse Image Representations
Mingyuan Zhou, Haojun Chen, John Paisley, Lu Ren, Guillermo Sapiro, Lawrence Carin
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Efficient Moments-based Permutation Tests
Chunxiao Zhou, Huixia Judy Wang, Yongmei Michelle Wang
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Canonical Time Warping for Alignment of Human Behavior
Feng Zhou, Fernando De la Torre
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Human Rademacher Complexity
Xiaojin Zhu, Timothy Rogers, Bryan Gibson
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Nonparametric Bayesian Texture Learning and Synthesis
Long Zhu, Yuanahao Chen, Bill Freeman, Antonio Torralba
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Slow Learners are Fast
Martin Zinkevich, Alex Smola, John Langford
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The 'tree-dependent components' of natural scenes are edge filters
Daniel Zoran, Yair Weiss
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