A little while ago, John Langford suggested that a discussion site be set up for ICML that allows attendees and others to talk about the accepted papers.
Having played around with various wiki systems and discussion sites in the past, I volunteered to help set something up. As John has noted on his blog the discussion [...]
The upcoming Volume 9 of the Journal of Machine Learning Research is dedicated a chunk of its pages to a paper entitled “Evidence Contrary to the Statistical View of Boosting” by David Mease and Abraham Wyner. Following this is a number of responses by heavyweights including boosting’s earliest proponents, Freund and Schapire, as well as [...]
John Langford has diagnosed a complexity illness that afflicts research in academia. One of its symptoms is what he calls “Math++”: the use of unnecessary and obfuscatory mathematics to improve the author’s chance of publication.
Having recently ploughed through a large number of math-heavy articles during the preparation of a COLT paper I have started to [...]
Things have been a little quite around here of late, mainly because I’ve been working on a submission for the NIPS 2007 Workshop on Principles of Learning Problem Design in early December.
I’m pleased to say that I’ll be presenting some recent results that Bob and I have been working on under the heading of “Representations [...]