Carl Smith : March 22

This week in group meeting I will be presenting a somewhat recent paper from Josh Tenenbaum's group entitled "Modelling Relational Data using Bayesian Clustered Tensor Factorization", in which a model for relational data is proposed and explored and argued to be a happy compromise of the pros and cons of clustering methods and factorization models. I plan to present the model itself, some issues it addresses, and some of the results described in the paper.

David Pfau : Feb 22nd

This week I'll be presenting a machine learning classic, Lee and Seung's "Algorithms for Non-negative Matrix Factorization".  It's a short paper, so you won't be too distracted from your CoSyNe preparations.  If I have time I'll also present some parts of "Online Learning for Matrix Factorization and Sparse Coding" by Mairal et al, so if you're so inclined please peruse that as well.