[Colloquium] TTIC Talks: Piyush Rah, University of Utah
Liv Leader
lleader at ttic.edu
Mon Jan 23 10:09:08 CST 2012
When: Monday, January 30 @ 11 a.m.
Where: TTIC Conference Room #526, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor
Who: Piyush Rah, University of Utah
Title: Flexible Bayesian Modeling of Latent Features and Shared
Predictive Structures
Abstract: Nonparametric Bayesian approaches offer a flexible modeling
paradigm for data without limiting the model-complexity a priori. In this
talk, I will describe some of my recent work on nonparametric Bayesian
learning of low-dimensional latent structures from high-dimensional data
prevalent in domains such as language, vision, and biology. In particular,
I will talk about (1) a nonparametric Bayesian sparse latent feature model
that allows the latent features to be related with each-other via an a
priori unknown hierarchy, (2) a nonparametric Bayesian multi-task learning
model that learns shared, latent predictive structures from multiple
learning tasks, and (3) an efficient, search-based inference method for
finding approximate MAP solution in nonparametric Bayesian latent feature
models.
Host: Nati Srebro, nati at ttic.edu
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