Learning Club

The Learning Club is a forum of Technion faculty, garduate students and visitors, organized by the Computer Science Department.
Our goal is to introduce areas, and share ideas and open problems in various aspects of machine learning. The club's meetings are intended to be informal.
We meet for approximately one hour every two weeks. Meetings take place on Thursdays 11:30-12:30, in the CS department, Taub building, room 337.

We maintain a mailing list for announcing our activities. If you are interested in joining the Learning Club mailing list, or remove your name from the list, please email rani@cs.technion.ac.il .

Upcoming events

• Summer break. Learning club will start running again on October.

Previous events

• Thursday, 15/6/2000, 11:30: Ranit Aharonov-Barki talked about: Emergence of Memory-Driven Command Neurons in Evolved Artificial Agents (abstract)
• Thursday, 18/5/2000, 11:30:  Yishay Mansour  talked about: Planning in Markov Decision Processes using Sparse Sampling Methods (abstract)
• Thursday, 4/5/2000, 11:30:  Anat Sakov  talked about: The bootstrap and the bootstrap sample size (abstract)
• Thursday, 13/4/2000, 11:30:  Ron Meir  talked about: Localized Boosting Algorithms and Weak Learning (abstract)
• Thursday, 20/1/2000, 11:30, Fishbach 413:   Dan Geiger  talked about: Bayesian Parameter Priors for Bayesian Networks and the Characterization of Several Probability Distribution (abstract)
• Tuesday, 23/11/99, 14:30, Fishbach 413:   Mark Zlochin  talked about: Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian learning (abstract)
• Thursday, 21/10/99, 14:30, Fishbach 413:   Vladimir Vapnik  talked about: Direct Methods in Statistical Learning Theory (abstract)
• Thursday, 24/6/99, 13:00, Fishbach 413:   Naftali Tishby  talked about: What makes two patterns similar? An information theoretic approach to the extraction of 'meaningful' bits... (abstract)
• Thursday, 3/6/99, 13:00, Fishbach 413:   Tsachy Weissman talked about Prediction of individual binary sequences in the presence of noise (abstract)
• Thursday, 13/5/99, 13:00, Fishbach 413:  Neri Merhav talked about Universal prediction for indexed classes of sources (abstract)
• Tuesday, 23/2/99, 15:30, Fishbach 461:  Ron Meir continued his talk about support vector machines (abstract)
• Tuesday, 9/2/99, 15:30, Fishbach 461:  Ron Meir  talked about support vector machines (abstract)
• Tuesday, 26/1/99, 15:30, Fishbach 461:  Robert Snapp talked about The Local Nature of Nonparametric Pattern Classifiers (abstract), (talk slides)
• Tuesday, 29/12/98, 15:30, Fishbach 461:  Shai Ben-David talked about Hardness Results for Learning with Neural Networks (abstract)

Organizers

 Yoram Baram and Ran El-Yaniv

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