Call For Papers:

Math Models of Learning And Discovery Workshop

We are holding a mini-workshop April 26, April 29 and May 3. Please submit your research paper on your project in class May 3 or by May 4, 4:00 in Prof. Bennett’s box in Amos Eaton 301. Guidelines and formatting instructions are given below.

The invited speaker, Dr. Bennett, will give a presentation on April 26. Class reviews will also be done that day

In the workshop, each researcher will give a 20 minute presentation, followed by 5 minutes of questions and discussions. The presentations should professional quality research presentation suitable for such a workshop. Presentations will be evaluated on the same evaluation sheet used on all of the previous talks, but now you will be evaluated by your peers as well as Prof. Bennett. It is important that you attend all four days of the workshop.

The last day to hand in commentaries is April 26. If you need a make-up commentary, there is an extra paper that will not be presented on April 22 by Jebara that may be used.

April 26, Invited Talk: Kernel Methods, how far have we come?

Prof. Bennett

April 29, Project Presentations

1. Paul Evangilista

2. Phaedra Agius

3. Craig Tashman

4. Yi Guo

5. Lu, Renzhi

May 3, Project Presentations

1. John Marsh

2. Alex Tyrrell

3. Evrim Acar

4. Il Young Song

5. Xiaoli Zhang

May 5, Project Presentations Location To be announced

1. Josh Attenberg

2. Zhaolin Chenk

3. Jed Zaretski

4. Long Han

5. Mohammed Al Hasan

6. George Ajish

7. Vineet Chaoji

8. Zhiwei Zu

9. Travis Desell

10. Andrey Sarayev

Project Reports Due – May 3 in Class or May 4 in my Box

We will be using the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference Format:

Paper Format: Submissions may be up to eight pages in length, including figures and references, using a font no smaller than 10 point. Text is to be confined within a 8.25 inch by 6 inch rectangle. Please put copies of any codes that you write and samples of the input, runs, and outputs of your experiments in an Appendix. Feel free to edit these if necessary. You may put any additional material you feel are supportive of your project in the appendix. The appendix may be on-line (provide an appropriate link), or a hard copy attached to your paper.

(Note NIPS format is actually 5 inch margin by why be squishy)

Review Criteria: Papers will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, grammatical quality, clarity, experiment/implementation quality. Include estimates of the generalization ability of your method by cross-validation or other appropriate out-of-sample method. Ideally you should provide some experimental comparison of the proposed approach with appropriate baselines or for different parameter settings. Paper should be written like a real conference paper. Include an abstract, introduction and overview of what the paper is about, related work, description of proposed approach, experimental results, concusions (ideally with directions for future work), and whatever else you think is appropriate.