Schedule

The event starts at 9:30am and ends at 6pm on Tuesday, October 21st, 2014. Registration opens at 9:00am.

The program includes

4 invited talks by Geoff Hinton, Christopher Manning, Kevin Murphy, and Ben Recht;
6 short talks and two poster sessions;
and, most importantly, break/lunch time for discussion.

9:00am		Registration opens
9:25am		Welcome to Baylearn 2014!
9:30am	Keynote 1	Ben Recht, UC Berkeley Machine Learning Pipelines at Scale
10:15am	Session 1 Session Chair: Alexey Pozdnukhov	Jascha Sohl-Dickstein; Ben Poole; Surya Ganguli Fast large-scale optimization by unifying stochastic gradient and quasi-Newton methods Xinghao Pan; Stefanie Jegelka; Joseph Gonzalez; Joseph Bradley; Michael Jordan Parallel Double Greedy Submodular Maximization
10:45am	Break
11:15am	Keynote 2	Geoff Hinton, Google and University of Toronto Dark Knowledge
12:00pm	Session 2 Session Chair: Samy Bengio	Miguel Carreira-Perpinan; Ramin Raziperchikolaei Hashing with Binary Autoencoders Judy Hoffman; Sergio Guadarrama; Eric Tzeng; Jeff Donahue; Ross Girshick; Trevor Darrell; Kate Saenko LSDA: Large Scale Detection through Adaptation
12:30pm	Lunch + Poster session	Complimentary lunch provided
2:00pm	Keynote 3	Christopher Manning, Stanford Distributed representations of language are back
2:45pm	Session 3 Session Chair: Jean-Francois Paiement	Virginia Smith; Martin Jaggi; Martin Takac; Jonathan Terhorst; Sanjay Krishnan; Thomas Hofmann; Michael I. Jordan Communication-Efficient Distributed Dual Coordinate Ascent Dhanya Sridhar; James Foulds; Bert Huang; Marilyn Walker; Lise Getoor Collective Classification of Stance and Disagreement in Online Debate Forums
3:15pm	Break
3:45pm	Keynote 3 Session Chair: Mohak Shah	Kevin Murphy, Google Extracting declarative and procedural knowledge from documents and videos on the web
4:30pm	Reception + Poster session	Complimentary wine and cheese reception
6:00pm		End of the Symposium