Schedule

The event starts at 9:30am and ends at 6pm on Wednesday, August 28th, 2013. Registration opens at 9:00am.
 
The program includes
  • 3 invited talks by Michael Jordan, Trevor Hastie and Yoram Singer;
  • 6 short talks and a poster session;
  • and, most importantly, break/lunch time for discussion.


9:00am


Registration opens

9:25am


Welcome to BayLearn 2013!

9:30am

Keynote 1 Michael Jordan, Berkeley
On the Computational and Statistical Interface and "Big Data" (slides)

10:20am

Session 1 Xinghao Pan, Berkeley; Joseph Gonzalez; Stefanie Jegelka; Tamara Broderick; Michael Jordan
Optimistic Concurrency Control for Distributed Unsupervised Learning

Ameet Talwalkar, Berkeley
MLI: An API for Distributed Machine Learning

10:50am

Break

11:20am

Keynote 2 Trevor Hastie, Stanford
Sparse Linear Models (slides)

12:10pm

Session 2 Jon Malmaud, MIT; Kevin Murphy, Google
Extracting Entities and Relations from Web Tables Using a Non-parametric Generative Model

Manfred Warmuth, UC Santa Cruz; S.V.N. Vishwanathan, Purdue University; Nan Ding, Google
From Relative Entropies to Bregman Divergences, to the Design of Convex and Tempered Non-convex Losses

12:40pm

Lunch

2:00pm

Keynote 3 Yoram Singer, Google BOOM: BOOsting with Momentum (50min)

2:50pm

Session 3 Andrew Saxe, Stanford University; James McClelland; Surya Ganguli
Exact solutions to the nonlinear dynamics of learning in deep linear neural networks

Sida Wang, Stanford University; Stefan Wager; Percy Liang
Semi-supervised Dropout Training

3:20pm

Break

3:50pm

Posters Session with posters from and presentations from Session 1, 2, 3 (130min)

6:00pm


End of the Symposium



Posters

Chengjie Qin, Florin Rusu

Jiang Wang, Yu Cheng, Ying Wu
 
Miguel Carreira-Perpinan, Weiran Wang

Benjamin Elizalde, Karl Ni, Gerald Friedland

Jimei Yang, Simon Safar, Ming-Hsuan Yang

Timothy Hunter, Jerome Thai, Kene Akametalu

Sofia Kyriazopoulou Panagiotopoulou, Anshul Kundaje, Serafim Batzoglou

Nemanja Djuric, Lakesh Kansakar, Slobodan Vucetic

Harald Steck

Guocong Song

Max Vladymyrov, Miguel Carreira-Perpinan

Lei Li, Yusuf Bugra Erol, Bharath Ramsundar, Stuart Russell

Emmanuel Candes, Lester Mackey, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Patrick Hummel, R. Preston McAfee, Martin Zinkevich

David Knowles, Alexis Battle, Daphne Koller