Bayesian Nonparametrics (2012)

Dates Fridays
3 February - 27 April 2012
Time 10:00-11:30
Organizer Yee Whye Teh.
Location 4th Floor Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London [directions]
 
Topics
  • Introduction and Motivation
  • Dirichlet Processes and Clustering
  • Random Partitions and Random Probability Measures
  • Beta Processes and Indian Buffet Processes
  • Gaussian Processes
  • Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes
  • Dependent Dirichlet Processes and other Spatial Processes
  • Coalescents, Fragmentations and Hierarchies
  • Stochastic Differential Equations
Schedule
Date Topics
February
03/02: Introduction and Motivation [slides]
Dirichlet Processes [slides]
10/02: Random Partitions and Random Probability Measures
Completely Random Measures [notes]
17/02: Normalized Random Measures and Generalizations
[notes]
24/02: Seminar by Ramses Mena Chavez:
Geometric weights priors for nonparametric modeling [abstract] [slides]
March
02/03: Normalized Random Measures and Generalizations
[notes]
09/03: NO LECTURE
16/03: MCMC Sampling for Nonparametric Mixture Models [manuscript]
23/03: Seminar by Alex Beskos:
Stochastic Differential Equations
30/03: Beta Processes
Indian Buffet Processes (Lloyd Elliott) [slides]
April
06/04: NO LECTURE
13/04: Hierarchical DPs, Hierarchical PYPs,
Sequence Memoizer (Jan Gasthaus) [slides]
20/04: NO LECTURE
27/04: Dependent Random Measures
(Vinayak Rao) [slides]
May
04/05: Fragmentations, Coalescents, and Hierarchies
(Charles Blundell) [slides]
11/05: NO LECTURE
18/05: Advanced topics in GPs (Maneesh Sahani)
 
To attend Please contact Yee Whye.