Sunday, May 27, 2007

ICML 07 proceeding is online now

http://oregonstate.edu/conferences/icml2007/paperlist.html

Here are some interesting papers:

Kernel Selection:

Kernel Selection for Semi-Supervised Kernel Machines [Abstract][Paper]

Learning Nonparametric Kernel Matrices from Pairwise Constraints


[Abstract][Paper]

More Efficiency in Multiple Kernel Learning [Abstract][Paper]

Multiclass Multiple Kernel Learning [Abstract][Paper]

MTL and Transfer Learning:

Uncovering Shared Structures in Multiclass Classification [Abstract][Paper]

Discriminative Learning for Differing Training and Test Distributions [Abstract][Paper]

Boosting for Transfer Learning [Abstract][Paper]

Learning a Meta-Level Prior for Feature Relevance from Multiple Related Tasks [Abstract][Paper]

Multi-Task Learning for Sequential Data via iHMMs and the Nested Dirichlet Process [Abstract][Paper]

Self-taught Learning: Transfer Learning from Unlabeled Data [Abstract][Paper]

The Matrix Stick-Breaking Process for Flexible Multi-Task Learning [Abstract][Paper]

Asymptotic Bayesian Generalization Error When Training and Test Distributions Are Different [Abstract][Paper]

Robust Multi-Task Learning with $t$-Processes [Abstract][Paper]

Relational Learning and structured prediction

Relational Clustering by Symmetric Convex Coding [Abstract][Paper]

Fast and Effective Kernels for Relational Learning from Texts [Abstract][Paper]

Exponentiated Gradient Algorithms for Log-Linear Structured Prediction [Abstract][Paper]

Ranking:

Learning Random Walks to Rank Nodes in Graphs [Abstract][Paper]

Feature Selection:

Supervised Feature Selection via Dependence Estimation [Abstract][Paper]

Feature Selection in Kernel Space [Abstract][Paper]

Minimum Reference Set Based Feature Selection for Small Sample Classifications [Abstract][Paper]

Spectral Feature Selection for Supervised and Unsupervised Learning [Abstract][Paper]

Monday, May 21, 2007

MSR internship offer

I just received an offer from MSR for this summer intern. But I decided to reject it since it's a more application oriented intern. Maybe, staying in school can help produce more works. That's more hope and belief.

BTW: I just checked with Martha and found that we can use CPT twice. Anyhow, this is a good news for ASU student. I'm not sure whether or not my complaint makes the difference. Again, do things proactively can always makes future better.

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Crafting papers in machine learning

Pat is like a tutor.

http://lyonesse.stanford.edu/~langley/papers/craft.ml2k.ps

I just encountered Pat's interesting paper on how to write a machine learning paper. Not sure whether or not he is a little regretful about emphasizing the experimental evaluation too much in the paper. But I think most of the general guide lines are still reasonable.

Friday, May 4, 2007

linux trick

I just found the rdesktop tool in linux is better to remote access windows system. Especially in the full-screen mode.

One trick to quit full screen mode:
Ctrl+Alt+Enter

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Windows Backup & Norton Ghost

After my system crashed, I have to reinstall a windows system on my laptop, which is horrible. It takes almost three days to finish all the installation and configuration process. Suffering from reinstall system, I decided to try to use Norton Ghost to backup the system to make my life easier. Unfortunately, GHOST requires a floppy drive to make sure your system is bootable when crashed. More serious, I installed a dual-boot system on my laptop (ubuntu7.04+windows xp pro (sp2)) with the first parition for windows being NTFS. So the MBR of windows is actually modified by linux, and ghost can not find the proper MBR infor for windows. To backup linux system is easy, just compress all the stuff into one tar file would be OK.

So I'm wondering whether or not I can backup the whole hard disk under linux system. But the problem is, even if I can backup the windows partition in linux, I cannot restore it as Ubuntu 7.04 does not support modification on NTFS. Haha, really frustrated with this backup research work.

It seems that linux backup is way too much easier than windows. But I'm still a newbie to linux. Maybe, after sometime, I can get rid of windows.