Machine Learning, etc

Here are a few that caught my eye: Scalable Training of L1-regularized Log-linear Models The main idea is to do L-BFGS in an orthant where t...

I found a large number of machine learning related patent applications by doing a few queries on http://www.freepatentsonline.com/ Here are ...

Suppose you want to predict binary y given x. You fit a conditional probability model to data and form a classifier by thresholding on 0.5. ...

Mathematica 6.0 is out, touted "The most important advance in the 20-year history of Mathematica" Among the highly anticipated fe...

There are some counter-intuitive things happening as dimension increases. For instance consider unit sphere (radius 1) If you go from 2 dime...

Concepts of positive definite matrices and positive definite operators often come up in Machine Learning, here are some movies I made to vis...

There's often confusion as to the nature of the differences between Logistic Regression and Naive Bayes Classifier. One way to look at i...

Here is an succinct derivation of probability calculus by Skillings (appeared in Appendix of his MaxEnt 2005 "Bayesics" article)

I needed to refresh some Graphical Models basics, and here are lecture notes I found useful Jeff Bilmes' Graphical Models course , give...

If you've used cell phones to send text messages you probably know about their auto-complete feature. For those that haven't -- each...

Learning from presentation or slides can be a much easier than from papers. I was reminded of that when I ran across Martin Wainwright's...

In a previous post I brought up the 1983 Machine Learning workshop which featured "33 papers", and it was the follow up to the 198...

At the NIPS " Towards Human-Level AI " workshop one of the messages was that perhaps we should first try to achieve rat-level AI, ...

Here's what Aleks Jakulin managed to dig up in Google newsgroup archives "1983 INTERNATIONAL MACHINE LEARNING WORKSHOP: AN INFORMA...

The Key Theorem of the Learning Theory is what Vapnik calls his theorem (for instance here ) that gives the necessary conditions for the Emp...