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August 22-26, 2011, DTU Informatics, Cognitive Systems
Lecturers: Yee Whye Teh (University College London), Manfred Opper (Technical University of Berlin), Ryota Tomioka (University of Tokyo), Ulrich Paquet (Microsoft Research Cambridge), Mikkel N. Schmidt, Morten Mørup, Ole Winther, and Lars Kai Hansen.
Place: Room 033 – IMM building 321 (Monday) and Seminar Room 053 – IMM building 321 (Tuesday-Friday).
Hours: 09.30 – 17.00
Course description: Ph.D. Summer School in Machine Learning
The course consists of five days (Mon-Friday) of lectures and exercises on key topics in machine learning. The course (2.5 ects point) is passed by handing in a small report on one of the topics covered in the course. The course will cover probabilistic multivariate modeling and Bayesian inference, convex optimization, low rank approximations and kernel methods. The exercises cover both theoretical, technical programming and application aspects. It will be up to the students to decide on what aspects to focus on in the report. Specific machine learning application examples are used throughout the entire week.
Program:
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Mikkel N. Schmidt
Introduction to Bayesian inference
(Lecture slides) (Lecture slides 2x4) (Exercises)
Yee Whye Teh
Bayesian nonparametrics
(Lecture slides)(Exercises)
Morten Mørup
Mining Graphs by Relational Modeling
(Lecture slides) (Lecture slides 3x2) (Exercises)
Lars Kai Hansen
Learning from small samples in high dimensions
(Lecture slides) (Exercises)
Ulrich Paquet
Approximate Inference
(Lecture slides) (Lecture slides 2x4)
Ole Winther
Factor Modeling
(Lecture slides 2x4) (Exercises)
Manfred Opper
Approximate inference for continuous time Markov processes
(Lecture slides) (Exercises)
Ryota Tomioka
Convex optimization: old tricks for new problems
(Lecture slides) (Exercises)
To get to the 2012 version of the course click here
Previous years:
2010 course
2008 course
2007 course
2006 course
Registration:
Due to the popularity of the course, there is now a waiting list. Please send an expression of interest by e-mail to Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Morten Mørup,
, to obtain a place on the list.
Information about the course will be send out to the participants one week prior to the beginning of the course by e-mail.
Practical information:
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For further information, please contact:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Morten Mørup,
e-mail: ,
Phone: +45 45253900
Associate Professor, Ph.D. Ole Winther,
e-mail: ,
Phone: +45 45253895
Professor, Ph.D. Lars Kai Hansen,
e-mail: ,
Phone: +45 45253889
This years course is sponsored by the Danish Center for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (DCAMM) and ITMAN.
DTU Informatics, Section for Cognitive Systems, Building 321, 1. floor.