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'''First meeting to take place May 3 at 12:30-1:30 in EEB M406'''.   
 
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First meeting lead: John Halloran.
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Next meeting leads: Dj and Rishabh.
  
We'll be discussing a recent paper by Po-Ling Loh and Martin J Wainwright titled "[http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips25/NIPS2012_1027.pdf Structure estimation for discrete graphical models: Generalized covariance matrices and their inverses]" from NIPS 2012, where they prove conditions under which the (generalized)information matrix between jointly distributed discrete random variables denotes the edges in the corresponding graphical model of the random variables.
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We'll be discussing the extended version of the Po-Ling Loh and Martin J Wainwright paper "[http://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.0478v1 Structure estimation for discrete graphical models: Generalized covariance matrices and their inverses]." This week, we will mostly be focusing on the proofs of the main theorems of the paper.
 
 
The paper is available [http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips25/NIPS2012_1027.pdf here] or click on its title in the above paragraph.
 
  
 
== Email list ==
 
== Email list ==

Revision as of 01:23, 4 May 2013

This is the wiki page for topics to be discussed in the Graphical Models Reading Group, starting Spring 2013.

We will hold informal meetings to discuss papers regarding Probabilistic Graphical Models(PGMs). The field is very expansive, and as such paper topics may include exact/approximate inference techniques, variational methods, structure/parameter learning, interesting applications, and so on. Each weekly meeting will have a discussion leader who will both propose the paper to be discussed and get the discussion ball rolling for the meeting.

For questions, or other, please contact either:

  • John Halloran - halloj3 [at] ee.wash....edu
  • Scott Wisdom - swisdom [at] ee.wash....edu


Announcements

Wiki created and currently under heavy construction. Our first meeting quickly approaching.

Our first meeting has been scheduled: First meeting to take place May 3 at 12:30-1:30 in EEB M406.

Meeting Schedule

First meeting to take place May 3 at 12:30-1:30 in EEB M406.

Next meeting reading details

Next meeting leads: Dj and Rishabh.

We'll be discussing the extended version of the Po-Ling Loh and Martin J Wainwright paper "Structure estimation for discrete graphical models: Generalized covariance matrices and their inverses." This week, we will mostly be focusing on the proofs of the main theorems of the paper.

Email list

You can subscribe here: https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/graphicalmodels-rg

Prior Meetings

Date Paper Authors Venue Leader Info

Potential Papers

D. Weiss, B. Sapp, and B. Taskar. "Structured Prediction Cascades." arXiv, August 2012.

N. Noorshams and M. J. Wainwright. "Belief propagation for continuous state spaces: Stochastic message-passing with quantitative guarantees." arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.3850 (2012).

G. Andrew and J. Bilmes. "Memory-efficient inference in dynamic graphical models using multiple cores." AISTATS 2012.

C. Sutton and A. McCallum. "An Introduction to Conditional Random Fields." arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.4088 (2010).

A. Banerjee and S. Merugu and I. S. Dhillon and J. Ghosh. "Clustering with Bregman Divergences." The Journal of Machine Learning Research 6 (2005): 1705-1749.

J. Friedman and T. Hastie and R. Tibshirani. "Sparse inverse covariance estimation with the graphical lasso." Biostatistics 9.3 (2008): 432-441.

K. Mohan and M. J. Chung and S. Han and D. Witten and S. Lee and M. Fazel. "Structured Learning of Gaussian Graphical Models." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems(NIPS) 25. 2012.

Good Resources

Wainwright, Martin J., and Michael I. Jordan. "Graphical Models, Exponential Families, and Variational Inference." Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning 1.1-2 (2008): 1-305.

Jeff Bilmes' course on Dynamic Grpahical Models' website: "EE596A - Dynamic Graphical Models - Winter Quarter, 2013"