Preliminary Topic list

Below is a list of topics that we may cover in the journal club.

Spectral Methods

Mathematical Programming Algorithms

Inference Techniques in Graphical Models

Gaussian Processes

Bounds and inequalities from Learning Theory

Decision Problems, Reinforcement Learning and Game Theory

Manifold learning

Advanced probabilistic models and methods

Conditional Random Fields

Causality

Robotics

Computational Complexity and Intractability

Information Geometry

Quantum Information Theory