Video Journal of Machine Learning Abstracts » Volume 2

Welcome to the 2nd issue of the Journal of Machine Learning Video Abstracts, published by Knowledge for All Foundation Ltd, London, with the goal of providing the legacy of the PASCAL2 Network of Excellence.

This issue is equaly dedicated to presenting the spotlight presentations of the 2011 Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference held in Granada, Spain, on December 12, as the Volume 1 of this Journal. The VideoLectures.NET team were on site to record the presentations and they post-processed the recordings to incorporate the slides into the video, they also provide the technical infrastructure for the journal pages.

We are publishing this Volume rather late, as the video specific publishing model is still experimental and it makes harder to organize all the necessary stages of the publishing cycle, therefore the review process took longer than expected. We are delighted to have been able to record these and make them available to the wider Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence community together with the wider audience. A special note of thankfulness goes also to our reviewers and spotlight chairs.

Journal Video Abstracts

Uniqueness of Belief Propagation on Signed Graphs
Yusuke Watanabe

Structural equations and divisive normalization for energy-dependent component analysis
Jun-ichiro Hirayama

Probabilistic amplitude and frequency demodulation
Richard Turner

Active dendrites: adaptation to spike-based communication
Balazs B Ujfalussy

Action-Gap Phenomenon in Reinforcement Learning
Amir-massoud Farahmand

The Fixed Points of Off-Policy TD
J. Zico Kolter

Evaluating the inverse decision-making approach to preference learning
Alan Jern

Identifying Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Brain Regions from Multi-Modality Neuroimaging Data using Sparse Composite Linear Discrimination Analysis
Jieping Ye

Anatomically Constrained Decoding of Finger Flexion from Electrocorticographic Signals
Qiang Ji

Active learning of neural response functions with Gaussian processes
Mijung Park

Neuronal Adaptation for Sampling-Based Probabilistic Inference in Perceptual Bistability
David P Reichert

Sequence learning with hidden units in spiking neural networks
Johanni Brea

Information Rates and Optimal Decoding in Large Neural Populations
David Pfau

A blind deconvolution method for neural spike identification
Chaitanya Ekanadham

Accelerated Adaptive Markov Chain for Partition Function Computation
Stefano Ermon

The Kernel Beta Process
David E Carlson

Solving Decision Problems with Limited Information
Denis D. Mauá

Algorithms and hardness results for parallel large margin learning
Phil Long

Non-Asymptotic Analysis of Stochastic Approximation Algorithms for Machine Learning
Francis R. Bach

Online Submodular Set Cover, Ranking, and Repeated Active Learning
Jeff A. Bilmes

Sparse Estimation with Structured Dictionaries
David P Wipf

See the Tree Through the Lines: The Shazoo Algorithm
Fabio Vitale

Minimax Localization of Structural Information in Large Noisy Matrices
Sivaraman Balakrishnan

Learning to Learn with Compound HD Models
Russ R Salakhutdinov

Object Detection with Grammar Models
Ross B. Girshick

Im2Text: Describing Images Using 1 Million Captioned Photographs
Vicente Ordonez

Improved Algorithms for Linear Stochastic Bandits
Yasin Abbasi-Yadkori

From Bandits to Experts: On the Value of Side-Observations
Ohad Shamir

Lower Bounds for Passive and Active Learning
Maxim Raginsky

Active Classification based on Value of Classifier
Tianshi Gao

Budgeted Optimization with Concurrent Stochastic-Duration Experiments
Javad Azimi

Projection onto A Nonnegative Max-Heap
Jieping Ye

Phase transition in the family of p-resistances
Morteza Alamgir

Complexity of Inference in Latent Dirichlet Allocation
David Sontag

Practical Variational Inference for Neural Networks
Alex Graves

Sparse Filtering
Jiquan Ngiam

Directed Graph Embedding: an Algorithm based on Continuous Limits of Laplacian-type Operators
Dominique Perrault-Joncas

Noise Thresholds for Spectral Clustering
Sivaraman Balakrishnan