We have machine learning and statistics meetings on a regular basis - Mondays at 12p in the Onterie conference room (931). Email i-stevenson <at> northwestern.edu if you'd like to be added to the announcements list.
Fall 2008 - Optimal Control
12/08/08 Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations (Max)
12/01/08 Euler-Lagrange Equations (Max)
Spring 2008 - Information theory, inference, and learning algorithms
Based on David MacKay's book.
10/06/08 Link Problems from Ch22 (13:16)
08/07/08 Link Problems from Ch20 (23:25)
07/14/08 Link Problems from Ch3 (13:15)
07/07/08 Link Problems from Ch2 (16:3:end)
06/30/08 Link Ch28 - Model Comparison and Occam's Razor (Kunlin)
06/30/08 Link Ch27 - Laplace's Method (Kunlin)
06/23/08 Link Ch26 - Exact Marginalization in Graphs - DAGs (Konrad)
05/26/08 Link Ch26 - Exact Marginalization in Graphs - Factor Graphs (Ian)
05/12/08 Link Ch24 - Exact Marginalization (Konrad)
05/05/08 Link Ch23 - Useful Probability Distributions (Greg)
04/28/08 Link Ch22 - ML and Clustering, con't (Kalpana)
04/21/08 Link Ch22 - ML and Clustering (Kalpana)
04/14/08 Link Ch20-21 - Clustering and Exact Inference (Citlali)
04/07/08 Link Ch19 - Why have Sex? Information Acquisition and Evolution (Greg)
03/24/08 Link Ch4-11 - Data Compression and Noisy Channel Coding (Ian)
03/17/08 PDF Ch2 - Probability Entropy and Inference (Max)
03/17/08 PDF Ch1 - Intro to Information Theory (Kunlin)
Winter 2008 - Statistics of natural scenes and movements
A recent special issue of Network on sensory coding and the natural environment.
02/11/08
- PDF How Are Complex Cell Properties Adapted to the Statistics of Natural Stimuli? (2004)
- Kording, Kayser, Einhauser, and Konig. J Neurophys, 91(1) 206-212. (Ian)
02/04/08
- PDF Emergence of simple-cell receptive field properties by learning a sparse code for natural images (1996)
- Olshausen and Field. Nature, 381(6583), 607-609. (Ian)
01/28/08
- PDF Analysis of the synergies underlying complex hand manipulation (2004)
- Todorov E, Ghahramani Z. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2004;6:4637-40. (Kalpana)
- PDF Postural hand synergies for tool use (1998)
- Santello, Flanders, Soechting. J Neurosci 18: 10105. (Taro)
01/21/08
- PDF What does the retina know about natural scenes? (1992)
- Atick and Redlich. Neural Comp 4,1296. (Max)
- PDF Efficient coding of natural scenes in the LGN… (1996)
- Dan, Atick, and Reid. J Neurosci 16,10. (Kunlin)
01/14/08
- PDF Statistics of natural images: scaling in the woods (1996)
- Ruderman and Bialek. Phys Rev 73, 6. (Ian)
- PDF Statistics of natural time-varying images (1995)
- Dong and Atick. Network 6, 3. (Ian)
Fall 2007 - Short course on unsupervised learning
Based on Zoubin Ghahramani's course at UCL - Fall 2005
01/07/08 PDF Lecture 8 - Variational Methods (Jim)
12/10/07 Link NIPS 2007 Overview (Ian)
12/03/07 PDF Lecture 7 - Sampling and MCMC (Greg)
11/26/07 PDF Lecture 6 - Hierarchical and Nonlinear Models - Sigmoid Belief Networks (Ian)
11/19/07 PDF Lecture 6 - Hierarchical and Nonlinear Models - Boltzmann Machines (Ian)
11/12/07 PDF Lecture 6 - Hierarchical and Nonlinear Models - ICA and stuff (Ian)
10/29/07 PDF Lecture 5 - Graphical Models - Belief Propagation (Kunlin)
10/22/07 PDF Lecture 5 - Graphical Models - The Basics (Kunlin)
09/24/07 PDF Lecture 4 - Latent Variable Time Series Models - HMMs (Greg)
09/17/07 PDF Lecture 4 - Latent Variable Time Series Models - Kalman Filters (Max)
09/10/07 PDF Lecture 3 - The EM Algorithm - Part 2 (Ian)
09/04/07 PDF Lecture 3 - The EM Algorithm - Part 1 (Greg)
