GRACS

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Location: ACES 3.116 Time: Wednesdays, 10-11, every other week.

Theme

Graph Laplacians and large scale data mining.

Papers to read

Presenter
Date	17 Mar 2010.
Paper	Amar Subramanya and Jeff A. Bilmes. Entropic Graph Regularization in Non-Parametric Semi-Supervised Classification. In Neural Information Processing Society (NIPS), Vancouver, Canada, December 2009..

Paper	Semi-supervised Learning in Gigantic Image Collections Rob Fergus, Yair Weiss and Antonio Torralba, NIPS 2009..
Presenter	Nagarajan Natarajan
Date	17th Feb 2010.

Paper	http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~skumar/ens.pdf Ensemble Nystrom Method, Sanjiv Kumar, Mehryar Mohri and Ameet Talwalkar
Proposer	Zhengdong Lu
Why?	similar topic as the two other papers from NIPS09

Paper	http://www.cbrc.jp/~tsuda/pdf/icml05.pdf Koji Tsuda. ICML05
Proposer	Zhengdong Lu
Why?	A paper on KL-based objective for semi-supervised learning paper. Relevant to the Rob Fergus paper, actually cited by them. I read it years ago and found it interesting.

Paper	Fast Prediction on a Tree. 657-664 http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips21/NIPS2008_0824.pdf
Proposer	Inderjit Dhillon
Why?