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UAI Workshops Program

Monday, July 15th


Workshops

1. Bayes Application Workshops
2. Approaches to Causal Structure Learning Workshop
3. New Challenges in E-Commerce Recommendations


Bayes Application Workshops (Room: Lake Washington A)

8:30am – Combined Applications Workshop Introductions

Application Workshop I: Big Data meets Complex Models

9:00 - 10:15
Session 1: Extracting information about individuals from complex data
  1. Identifying Learning Trajectories in an Educational Video Game – Kerr and Chung
  2. Using information to debug Complex Systems – Almond, Kim, Shute, & Ventura
  3. Transforming Personal Artifacts into Probabilistic Narratives – Rafatirad and Laskey
15' Open Discussion of Session 1
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:45
Session 2: Combining Learning and Expert Opinion
  1. Bayesian Supervised Dictionary Learning – Babagholami-Mohamadabadi, Jourabloo, Zolfaghari, & Manzuir-Shalmani
  2. Learning Parameters by Prediction Markets and Kelly Rule for Graphical Models – Sun, Hanson, Twardy, & Laskey
  3. Predicting Latent Variables with Knowledge and Data: A Case Study in Trauma Care – Yet, Marsh, Perkins, Tai, & Fenton
15' Open Discussion of Session 2
11:45 - 13:00 Break (lunch on your own)

Application Workshop 2: Spatial, Temporal, and Network Models

13:00 - 14:30
Session 3
  1. An Object-oriented Spatial and Temporal Bayesian Network for Managing Willows in an American Heritage River Catchment – Wilkinson, Chee, Nicholson, & Quintana-Ascencio
  2. Product Trees for Gaussian Process Covariance in Sublinear Time – Moore & Russell
  3. Latent Topic Analysis for Predicting Group Purchasing Behavior on the Social Web – Sun, Yeh, Mengshoel, & Griss
15' Open Discussion of Session 3
14:30 - 14:45 Coffee Break
14:45 - 15:45
Session 4
  1. A lightweight inference method for image classification – Agosta and Pillai
  2. Exploring Multiple Dimensions of Parallelism in Junction Tree Message Passing – Zheng and Mengshoel
10' Open Discussion of Session 3
15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00 Combined Applications Workshop Wrap-up and Planning Discussion

Approaches to Causal Structure Learning Workshop (Room: Lake Chelan)

8:45 - 10:00 Session 1 (75 minutes)
  • 8:45 - 9:20 Invited talk - David Heckerman
  • 9:20 - 9:55 Discovering Cyclic Causal Models with Latent Variables: A General SAT-Based Procedure - Hyttinen, Hoyer, Eberhardt, Järvisalo
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:15 Session 2 (105 minutes)
  • 10:30 - 11:05 Reasoning about Independence in Probabilistic Models of Relational Data - Maier, Marazopoulou, Jensen
  • 11:05 - 11:40 A Sound and Complete Algorithm for Learning Causal Models from Relational Data - Maier, Marazopoulou, Arbour, Jensen
  • 11:40 - 12:15 Single World Intervention Graphs - Richardson and Robins
12:15 - 14:00 Break (lunch on your own)
14:00 - 15:25 Session 3 (85 minutes)
  • 14:00 - 14:50 Invited Talk - Joris Mooij
  • 14:50 - 15:25 Identifiability of binary directed graphical models with hidden variables - Allman, Rhodes, Stanghellini and Valtorta
15:25 - 15:35 Poster spotlights
15:35 - 16:50 Posters (and coffee from 16:00)
16:50 - 18:00 Session 4 (70 minutes)
  • 16:50 - 17:25 Maximum Likelihood estimation of structural nested logistic model with an instrumental variable - Matsouaka and Tchetgen
  • 17:25 - 18:00 A finite population test of the sharp null hypothesis for Compliers - Loh and Richardson

New Challenges in E-Commerce Recommendations (Room: Lake Coeur d'Alene)

8:30 - 9:30 Alex Smola
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break
Oral Presentation 1
  • 10:00 - 10:30 Ratings Re-specification for Rank Ordered Recommendations - Oluwasanmi Koyejo, Sreangsu Archaryya, Joydeep Ghosh
  • 10:30 - 11:00 On the Evaluation of Rating-Prediction and Ranking - Harald Steck
  • 11:00 - 11:30 Exploiting Similarity to Optimize Recommendations Lists from Click Feedback - Hastagiri Prakash Vanchinathan, Isidor Nikolic, Fabio De Bona, Andreas Krause
  • 11:30 - 12:15 Collaborative filtering Graphlab - Danny Bickson
12:15 - 14:00 Break (lunch on your own)
14:00 - 15:00 Recommendations at Netflix - Carlos Gomez Uribe (Netflix)
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break
Oral Presentation 2
  • 15:15 - 15:45 Lei Tang (Walmart Labs)
  • 15:45 - 16:15 Vaclav Petricek (eHarmony)
  • 16:15 - 16:45 Bo Long A ds Recommendation and Large-Scale Machine Learning at LinkedIn
16:45 - 17:00 Panel Discussion

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