[Colloquium] FW: Guest Speaker

[Ponda Barnes]

REMINDER!
 
 
TTI-C Guest Speaker
 
Presented by:  Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
 
Speaker: Kilian Weinberger
Speaker's home page:  http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~kilianw/kqw/Welcome.html
 
 
Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Location: TTI-C Conference room
Time: 10:00
 
Title:
Metric Learning with Convex Optimization
 
Abstract:
Many problems in computer science can be simplified by clever
representations of sensory or symbolic input.  How to discover such
representations automatically, from large amounts of data, remains a
fundamental challenge. The goal of metric learning is to derive Euclidean
representations of labeled or unlabeled inputs from observed statistical
regularities.  In this talk I will review two recently proposed algorithms
for metric learning. Both algorithms rely on modern tools in convex
optimization that are proving increasingly useful in many areas of machine
learning. 
 
 
If you have any questions or would like to meet the speaker, please contact
Ponda Barnes at pondabarnes at tti-c.org.
For future TTI-C  talks and events, please go to
http://ttic.uchicago.edu/cal/month.php
 
 
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