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The reading schedule for the topics will be flexible. So that a
presenter may not know exactly which topic they will be covering until two
weeks before their turn.
2012
The books will be referred to by the initials of the authors' last names.
| M | KF | Topic |
| 19/20 | 11 | Inference as Optimization
- variational methods |
| 21/22 | 12 | Particle-Based Methods
- sampling |
| 5/7/8 | 16 | Learning
-risk, discriminative
vs generative, etc |
| 9/15 | 17 | Parameter Estimation
- MLE, MAP,
etc |
| 23 | 18 | Structure Learning |
| Date | Presenters | Topic |
| (Wed) Jan 18 | Bonnie | Variational Methods
(M 19) |
| (Thurs) Jan 26 | Bonnie | Variational Methods
(M 20 / KF 11) |
| (Thurs) Feb 2 | Alex | Waignwright and Jordan,
Graphical
models, exponential families, and variational inference |
| Feb 9 | Bonnie | Computational Biology
Applications of Variational Methods
- Cluster variational method applied to pedigrees and
- Variational
upperbound for site dependence in phylogenies |
| Feb 16 | Sancho | Particle Methods |
| Feb 23 | ---- | (Reading Week) |
| Mar 1 | Bonnie | Particle Methods
- MCMC in Murphy's book Chapter 22 sections 22.2.5, 22.3, 22.5.2
- Auxiliary Variable Methods
for Markov Chain Monte Carlo with Applications |
| Mar 8 | Liangliang | Particle Methods
-A. Lee, C. Yau, M. Giles, A. Doucet, & C.C. Holmes. On the Utility of
Graphics Cards to Perform Massively Parallel
Implementation of Advanced Monte Carlo Methods. J. Comp. Graph. Statist.,
vol. 19,
no. 4, pp. 769-789, 2010. abstract
- Tibbits MM, Haran M, Liechty JC. Parallel Multivariate Slice
Sampling. Statistics and Computing. 2011 pdf
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| Mar 15 | Sancho | Learning |
| Mar 22 | Bonnie | Non-Identifiable Pedigrees and
a Bayesian Solution |
| Mar 29 | Vincent | "On the robustness of Maximum
composite likelihood estimate" by Ximing Xu and Nancy Reid (2011). (paper)
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| Apr 5 | canceled | canceled
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| Apr 12 | Liangliang | Asger Hobolth and Eric A.
Stone, Simulation from
Endpoint-Conditioned, Continuous-Time Markov Chains on a Finite
State Space, with Applications to Molecular Evolution, 2009. (paper)
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2011
The books will be referred to by the initials of the authors' last names.
| M | KF | Topic |
| 6 | 3
4.1,4.2 | Graphical Models
- d-separation |
| 18 | 9 | Inference
- elimination algorithm |
| 18 | 10 | Clique Trees
- junction tree algorithm |
| 19/20 | 11 | Inference as Optimization
- variational methods |
| Date | Presenters | Topic |
| Oct 11, 2011 | Murry and Jano | Graphical
Models |
| Oct 25, 2011 | James | Undirected GMs and
Inference |
| Nov 8, 2011 | canceled | |
| Nov 22, 2011 | Jiarui | Clique Trees |
| Dec 6 | Monir and Bonnie | Mean Field |
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