Advice for Graduate Students in Statistics

Nonparametric Bayes Applications to...

Reinforcement Learning blog

Bracketing Entropy Bounds for Distribution...

Embedding, Metric Entropy, etc.

Shannon Sampling and Learning Theory

Statistical Performance of Support Vector...

Compression-related ideas in Machine...

A few papers on estimation and control of...

Tumblr and I

Approximate Dynamic Programming with Gaussian...

Arthur C. Clarke

“He never grew up; but he never stopped growing”We missed Arthur C. Clarke a few hours...

Discrepancy, Chaining, and Subgaussian...

Regularization in Kernel Learning

On Cross-Validation

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

Rademacher Complexities and related...

A few sources that talk about Rademacher complexities (and other stuff):  O. Bousquet, S....

Concentration Inequalities and Model...

On the L_1-L_q Regularized Regression

Life Goes on in Tehran

Some References for Cross-Validation

B. Efron and G. Gong, “A Leisurely Look at the Bootstrap, the Jackkife, and...

Machine Learning - Past and Future

Tree-Based Batch Mode Reinforcement Learning

Information Theory and Statistics

Performance Bounds in Lp norm for Approximate...

Sketching, Streaming and Sub-linear Space...

Good Writing guide by Marc H. Raibert

On the Performance of Clustering in Hilbert...

Random projection trees and low dimensional...

Adaptive Confidence Bands

Regularization in Statistics

Lasso-Type Recovery of Sparse Representations...

Learning Bounds for Kernel Regression using...

Learning Rates of Least-Squares Regularized...

Convergence Rates for Sparse Models

Sparsity Oracle Inequality for the Lasso (F. Bunea, A. Tsybakov, M. Wegkamp) (2007) Consistent...

Covering Numbers for Support Vector Machines

Generalized Representer Theorem

Statistical Learning Theory Course...

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

Statistical Learning Theory course...

Lecture notes of Statistical Learning Theory course (Spring 2001) by Michael I Jordan. I found some...

Culture and the Baldwin Effect

TEC paper

As far as I am concerned, the TEC paper’s revisions are done. I sent all of them to my...

Today, I was mostly working on TEC paper. I was working on rebuttal. Also I went to gym and worked...

2008!

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

A Kernel View of the Dimensionality Reduction...

Learning the Parts of Objects by Non-Negative...

How to Be Heard

Daily

Nothing special happened today. Mohammad and I talked about the algorithm, and the way we could...

Memories, attention, and intention

Theory of Classification: A Survey of Some...

Fractional Calculus and More

I found this paper[1] about the fractional variational principle. I didn’t know anything about...

Local tail bounds for functions of...

Smoothing L1-pen. est. for high-dim....

PAC-Bayesian Bounds for Randomized Empirical...

Today I worked on the consistency of the inverse problem + some thoughts about the perturbation...

Going back home! Today, I mostly worked on the TEC’s paper.

In school after more than a week (I was in NIPS). Working on TEC’s paper: need revisions

And posting from Mac’s Dashboard!

Anti Memoirs

فارسی؟

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

Beginning

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