[UAI] Four-Year Scholarships on Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems at Oxford

[Apologies for duplicates] The application deadlines are 14th February 2014 and 14th March 2014. Full detail of the programme and information on how to apply can be found at www.eng.ox.ac.uk/aims *UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD **EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training* *In

[UAI] Funded PhD positions at Oxford/Warwick

Statistics or machine learning. Students must be motivated to do research in Statistics for high dimensional data analysis or for high dimensional modelling and become a future leader in statistical methodology and computational statistics. Thanks, Nando de Freitas

[UAI] Oxford University Awards for DPhil study

[ Apologies for duplicates ] The department of CS at the University of Oxford is offering several PhD (aka DPhil) studentships to outstanding applicants. http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/news/682-full.html I am looking new PhD students, with strong mathematical and programming skills, to carry out work on

[UAI] Reminder: UAI Early Registration - June 15th

This is a call to participate in the 2013 Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2013). Please note that the deadline for early registration is approaching soon: June 15th. http://auai.org/uai2013/index.shtml UAI will take place in Bellevue, Washington, USA on July 11-15, 2013

[UAI] Early registration for UAI 2013 - June 15th

models and big data, and e-commerce recommender systems. I look forward to seeing you there, Nando de Freitas UAI 2013 General Chair ___ uai mailing list uai@ENGR.ORST.EDU https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/uai

Re: [UAI] Please Help: Survey on Machine Learning and Probabilistic Modeling

nsemble methods seem to provide a bridge. Best wishes, Nando PS For those interested in knowing more about Kevin's work, here is the paper: Kevin Swersky, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, David Buchman, Benjamin Marlin, and Nando de Freitas. *On Autoencoders and Score Matching for Energy Based

Re: [UAI] Question about incremental learning of Bayesian network parameters

First, let us assume you are using a correct online EM algorithm, which updates the statistics recursively. I strongly recommend the work of Olivier cappe on this: http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.1745 Your only issue is deciding the size of the batch updates. (Since you are applying this to streaming da

[UAI] CIFAR Postdoctoral Fellowship

. *Canada-based NCAP Program Fellows are listed below. For more information, please visit the researcher profiles posted on the CIFAR website. UBC: Nando de Freitas, David Lowe U of Toronto: David Fleet, Brendan Frey, Geoffrey

[UAI] Funding opportunities for postdocs with MITACS in Canada

Dear future postdocs, MITACS, a mathematics institute in Canada, has recently announced the following post-doctoral opportunities. So, if you're a bright PhD student looking for a postdoc in machine learning, probabilistic inference, information retrieval, statistics and AI, I recommend you c

Re: [UAI] optimizing a stochastic function

As an alternative to stochastic approximation, you can also use an active learning framework. See e.g. Section III of http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~nando/papers/aplrss.pdf (apologies for the self-promotion) and references [13], [15], [29], [30] and [32] in this paper. Good luck. Nando. [EMAIL PROTEC