2008

Jun

Advice for Graduate Students in Statistics
Jun 12th
Nonparametric Bayes Applications to...
Jun 9th

May

Reinforcement Learning blog
May 30th
Bracketing Entropy Bounds for Distribution...
May 20th

Apr

Embedding, Metric Entropy, etc.
Apr 26th
Shannon Sampling and Learning Theory
Apr 18th
Statistical Performance of Support Vector...
Apr 10th
Compression-related ideas in Machine...
Apr 4th
A few papers on estimation and control of...
Apr 2nd

Mar

Tumblr and I
Mar 28th
Approximate Dynamic Programming with Gaussian...
Mar 28th

Arthur C. Clarke

“He never grew up; but he never stopped growing”We missed Arthur C. Clarke a few hours...
Mar 19th
Discrepancy, Chaining, and Subgaussian...
Mar 18th
Regularization in Kernel Learning
Mar 18th

On Cross-Validation

Take a look at these papers (from John Langford’s blog).
Mar 16th

Rademacher Complexities and related...

A few sources that talk about Rademacher complexities (and other stuff):  O. Bousquet, S....
Mar 12th
Concentration Inequalities and Model...
Mar 12th
On the L_1-L_q Regularized Regression
Mar 11th
Life Goes on in Tehran
Mar 5th

Some References for Cross-Validation

B. Efron and G. Gong, “A Leisurely Look at the Bootstrap, the Jackkife, and...
Mar 4th
Machine Learning - Past and Future
Mar 2nd
Tree-Based Batch Mode Reinforcement Learning
Mar 2nd

Feb

Information Theory and Statistics
Feb 29th
Performance Bounds in Lp norm for Approximate...
Feb 27th
Sketching, Streaming and Sub-linear Space...
Feb 18th
Good Writing guide by Marc H. Raibert
Feb 11th
On the Performance of Clustering in Hilbert...
Feb 8th
Random projection trees and low dimensional...
Feb 2nd
Adaptive Confidence Bands
Feb 2nd

Jan

Regularization in Statistics
Jan 26th
Lasso-Type Recovery of Sparse Representations...
Jan 25th
Learning Bounds for Kernel Regression using...
Jan 23rd
Learning Rates of Least-Squares Regularized...
Jan 16th

Convergence Rates for Sparse Models

Sparsity Oracle Inequality for the Lasso (F. Bunea, A. Tsybakov, M. Wegkamp) (2007) Consistent...
Jan 10th
Covering Numbers for Support Vector Machines
Jan 8th
Generalized Representer Theorem
Jan 8th

Statistical Learning Theory Course...

Lecture notes from Peter Bartlett’s course on Statistical Learning Theory (Spring 2006). Note...
Jan 8th

Statistical Learning Theory course...

Lecture notes of Statistical Learning Theory course (Spring 2001) by Michael I Jordan. I found some...
Jan 8th
Culture and the Baldwin Effect
Jan 6th

TEC paper

As far as I am concerned, the TEC paper’s revisions are done. I sent all of them to my...
Jan 4th
Today, I was mostly working on TEC paper. I was working on rebuttal. Also I went to gym and worked...
Jan 3rd

2008!

Happy new year! (: Wish all of us have a world with no war, no poverty, and with a lot of new...
Jan 1st

2007

Dec

A Kernel View of the Dimensionality Reduction...
Dec 28th
Learning the Parts of Objects by Non-Negative...
Dec 27th
How to Be Heard
Dec 27th
Warch Watch
Man vs Machine Mini-golf Competition (University of Alberta)
Dec 24th

Daily

Nothing special happened today. Mohammad and I talked about the algorithm, and the way we could...
Dec 20th
Memories, attention, and intention
Dec 19th
Theory of Classification: A Survey of Some...
Dec 18th
Warch Watch
Feature Selection with Lasso
Dec 18th

Fractional Calculus and More

I found this paper[1] about the fractional variational principle. I didn’t know anything about...
Dec 15th
Local tail bounds for functions of...
Dec 13th
Smoothing L1-pen. est. for high-dim....
Dec 13th
PAC-Bayesian Bounds for Randomized Empirical...
Dec 13th
Today I worked on the consistency of the inverse problem + some thoughts about the perturbation...
Dec 12th
Going back home! Today, I mostly worked on the TEC’s paper.
Dec 12th
In school after more than a week (I was in NIPS). Working on TEC’s paper: need revisions
Dec 11th
And posting from Mac’s Dashboard!
Dec 11th
Anti Memoirs
Dec 11th

فارسی؟

و سوال دیگر این است: آیا می‌توان به فارسی هم نوشت؟
Dec 11th

Beginning

well … I’m here, testing a new thing, micro-blogging, I guess, and seeing what will...
Dec 11th