Haifa Mini-workshop on Machine Learning : Theory and Practice
Schedule of the workshop
Tuesday 3rd March 2009: Room 337 – Taub Building, Technion, Haifa
14:00-14:30: Coffee
14:30-15:30: Shai Ben-David, University of Waterloo, Canada
The Theory-Practice Interplay in Machine Learning – Emerging Theoretical Challenges
15:30-15:45: Break
15:45-16:15 Malik Yousef, Institute of Applied Research, The Galilee Society, Israel
Development of New Computational Approaches for the Analysis of Gene Expression Datasets and Discovering Significant Networks Genes
16:30-17:15: Ohad Shamir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Vox Populi: On Learning from Crowds
17:15-18:00: Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin
Machine Learning on Physical Robots
20:00 Dinner at the Holiday Inn Hotel
Wednesday 4th March 2009: Room 570 – Education Building, CRI, University of Haifa
9:30-10:15 Naphtali Tishby, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Predictive Information, Learning, and the Perception Action Cycle
10:15-11:00: Yehuda Koren, Yahoo
Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Dynamics
11:30-12:15 Shai Ben-David, University of Waterloo, Canada
Learning when the Training and Application Domains Differ - Extending Theory to"Dirty" Realistic Scenarios
12:15-13:00: Noam Slonim, IBM
Active Online Learning via a Maximally Informative Classifier
13:00-14:15 Lunch at the CRI
14:15-15:00 Daphna Weinshall, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Beyond Novelty Detection: Incongruent Events, when General and Specific
Classifiers Disagree
15:00-15:45: Shie Mannor, Technion, Haifa
All Learning is Robust
16:00-16:45 Shaul Markovitch, Technion, Haifa
Anytime Learning of Anycost Classifiers
16:45-17:30 Amir Globerson, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Convex Duality in Learning and Inference Algorithms
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