Workshop Schedule

October 3, 2006

19:30 Workshop dinner

October 4, 2006

08:45 Registration, poster set-up

09:00 Welcome

09:15 Invited talk: Amy Greenwald, Brown University
A General Class of No-Regret Learning Algorithms and Game-Theoretic Equilibria

09:45 Maria-Florina Balcan
On a Theory of Learning with Similarity Functions

10:00 Inmar Givoni
Matrix Tile Analysis

10:15 Jo-Anne Ting
Towards Bayesian Black Box Learning Systems

10:30 Coffee break

10:45 Invited talk: Jennifer Dy, Northeastern University
Clustering High-Dimensional Data

11:15 Katherine Heller
Efficient Bayesian Algorithms for Clustering

11:30 Rebecca Hutchinson
Hidden Process Models

11:45 Invited talk: Maya Gupta, University of Washington
Recent advances in near-neighbor learning

12:15 Spotlight talks:

Jiayuan Huang
Correcting sample selection bias by unlabeled data

Alicia Peregrin Wolfe
Decision Tree Methods for Finding Reusable MDP Homomorphisms

Elena Zheleva
Evaluating a Reputation-based Spam Classification System

Ellie Lin
Improving Robot Navigation Through Self-Supervised Online Learning

12:30 Lunch

13:00 Poster session 1

13:45 Invited talk: Lise Getoor, University of Maryland
SRL: Statistical Relational Learning

14:15 Cecile Levasseur
Generalized statistical methods for fraud detection

14:30 Chloe-Agathe Azencott
Kernels for the Predictive Regression of Physical, Chemical and Biological Properties of Small Molecules

14:45 Invited talk: Marie desJardins, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Modeling and Learning User Preferences for Sets of Objects

15:15 Coffee break

15:30 Bethany Leffler
Efficient Exploration with Latent Structure

15:45 Finale Doshi
Efficient Model Learning for Dialog Management

16:00 Soumi Ray
Transfer in the context of Reinforcement Learning

16:15 Spotlight talks:

Gita Sukthankar
Simultaneous Team Assignment and Behavior Recognition from Spatio-temporal Agent Traces

Hila Becker
An Online Learning System for the Prediction of Electricity Distribution Feeder Failures

Melissa K Carroll
Classification of fMRI Images: An Approach Using Viola-Jones Features

Seyda Ertekin
Fast Online Classification with Support Vector Machines

16:30 Poster session 2

17:15 Open discussion

17:45 Closing remarks and poster take-down

18:00 End of workshop