Unsupervised Learning Working Group
Spring 2004
The group will focus mainly on Cluster Analysis and Unsupervised Learning Methods.
Organizers:
Werner Stuetzle
and
Rebecca Nugent
Spring 2004 Schedule:
Wednesdays, Padelford C-301 (Conference Room),
9:00am-10:30am
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Wednesday, March 31, 2004
- Nema Dean, Alejandro Murua, Statistics, UW
- "Bayesian Variable Selection Cont."
- Paper by Marina Vannucci
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Wednesday, April 7, 2004
- McLean Sloughter, Statistics, UW
- "It Never Rains But It Pours: Modeling Mixed Discrete-Continuous Weather
Phenomena."
- Slides
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Wednesday, April 14, 2004
- Werner Stuetzle, Statistics, UW
- "Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction"
- Slides
- Wednesday April 21, 2004
- Rebecca Nugent, Statistics, UW
- "Kernel K-Means"
- Slides
- Wednesday April 28, 2004
- no talk
- Wednesday May 5, 2004
- Jeremy Tantrum, Research Associate, Center for Studies in Demography
and Ecology, UW
- "Clustering Social Networks"
- Wednesday May 12, 2004
- No meeting
- Wednesday May 19, 2004
- McLean Sloughter, Department of Statistics, UW
- "Clustering/Classification of Dependent Data"
- Slides
- Probabilistic Classification and Clustering in Relational Data by Taskar, Segal, & Koller
- Wednesday May 26, 2004
- Alejandro Murua, Department of Statistics, UW
- "Potts Model Revisited"
- Wednesday June 2, 2004
- McLean SLoughter, Pavel Krivitsky Department of Statistics, UW
- "Belief Propagation/Junction Tree Algorithm"
- BP Slides
- JTA Handout