Preliminary Topic list
Below is a list of topics that we may cover in the journal club.
Spectral Methods
- Spectral Clustering
- Relation to Graph Partitioning via Min-cut and Min Normalized-Cut
- Applications in Vision
Mathematical Programming Algorithms
- Linear programming
- Support vector machines
- Quadratic programming and SMO
- Semi-definite programming and Second-order cone programming
- Skilling method for linear systems
Inference Techniques in Graphical Models
- The Junction Tree Algorithm
- Expectation Propagation
- Tree-based reparameterisations
- Bethe and Kickuchi approximations
- Linear response theory
- Plefka expansions
Gaussian Processes
- Relation to SVMs
Bounds and inequalities from Learning Theory
- TBA
Decision Problems, Reinforcement Learning and Game Theory
- Influence diagrams
- MDPs as linear programs
- Policy gradient methods
- POMDPs
- Game theory and graphical games
Manifold learning
- Multidimensional scaling
- Locally linear embedding
- Isomap
Advanced probabilistic models and methods
- Dirichlet diffusion trees
- Probabilistic context-free grammars
- Exact sampling methods
Conditional Random Fields
- TBA
Causality
- TBA
Robotics
- Control
- Planning
- Navigation
- Learning
Computational Complexity and Intractability
- NP-Completeness
Information Geometry
- TBA
Quantum Information Theory
- TBA