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Learning discrete Markov Random Fields with nearly optimal runtime and sample complexity
Presented as part of the Workshop on Algorithms and Randomness on May 17, 2018 at 11:30 a.m. in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Room 1116.Raghu Meka is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is broadly interested in complexity theory, learning and probability theory.Runtime: 47:20 minutesWe give an algorithm for learning the structure of an undirected graphical model that has essentially optimal sample complexity and running time. We make no assumptions on the structure of the graphical model. For Ising models, this subsumes and improves on all prior work. For general t-wise MRFs, these are the first results of their kind.
Our approach is new and uses a multiplicative-weight update algorithm. Our algorithm-- Sparsitron-- is easy to implement (has only one parameter) and holds in the online setting. It also gives the first provably efficient solution to the problem of learning sparse Generalized Linear Models (GLMs).
Joint work with Adam Klivans
Group living homes for older people with dementia: Concept and effects
Eefsting, J.A. [Promotor]Pot, A.M. [Promotor]Depla, M.F.I.A. [Copromotor]Lange, J. de [Copromotor
Cementbetonnen plaatbekledingen op oevers en dijken, bundeling van artikelen uit de vakpers 1990-1991
CUR; Proefproject: Open colloidaal beton a/s dijkbekleding; PT civiele techniek, april 1990. Burger, A.M., Eversdijk, P.J. en Hendriksma, A.M.; Open cementbeton toegepast a/s bekleding voor dijken; Zeewering Breskens, proefproject voor colloidaal beton; Land + Water, mei 1990. Burger, A.M., Eversdijk, P.J. en Hendriksma, A.M.; Colloidaal beton weerstaat zware storm en hoge golven; De praktijk van open cementbeton a/s Plaatbekleding; Land + Water, juni 1990. CUR; Cementbetonnen plaatbekledingen op dijken; Proefprojecten CUR; Civiele Techniek, No4, 1990. Vrieze, C.G. de; Betonnen dijken, groen a/s gras; Proeven met colloidaal beton voor begroeide rivierdijken; Land + Water No.6, juni 1991. Eversdijk, P.J. en Fase, A.G.; Breuksteen met colloidaal beton pakt rivierdijken goed in; Proefproject Opijnen in Julianakanaal; Land + Water No. 7/8, augustus 1991. Rijke, W.G. de en Burger, A.M.; Cementbetonnen plaatbekledingen op dijken en oevers; Praktische ontwerpmethode (1); Civiele Techniek, jaargang 46, No.3, 1991. Rijke, W.G. de en Burger, A.M.; Cementbetonnen plaatbekledingen op dijken en oevers theoretisch waterdicht; Praktische ontwerpmethode (2); Civiele Techniek, jaargang 46, No.4, 1991. CUR; oemonstratieproject open colloidaal beton Noordoostpolder; Civiele Techniek, No.3, 1991
IoWoman, March/April 2004, Vol.34, no.2
Newsletter for the Iowa Commission on the Status of Wome
IoWoman, March/April 2004, Vol. 34, no. 2
Newsletter for the Iowa Commission on the Status of Wome
Gauge Fields and Strings
Based on his own work, the author synthesizes the most promising approaches and ideals in field theory today. He presents such subjects as statistical mechanics, quantum field theory and their interrelation, continuous global symmetry, non-Abelian gauge fields, instantons and the quantam theory of loops, and quantum strings and random surfaces. This book is aimed at postgraduate students studying field theory and statistical mechanics, and for research workers in continuous global theory
The Sphinx Between the First and Second Pyramids. From a Photograph Taken by the Author about 6 a.m., After Sleeping at the Foot of the Sphinx.
Caption: "The Sphinx Between the First and Second Pyramids.From a photograph taken by the Author about 6 A.M., after sleeping at the foot of the Sphinx."The Great Sphinx with two pyramids behind. Black-and-white photograph
Common Book Author Visit Highlights Spring Programming
Common Book author William Kamkwamba will visit campus on April 3 at 11 a.m. in Richardson Ballroom. All events are free and have cultural event status
Author of \u27The Soloist\u27 to Speak
Steve Lopez, author of The Soloist, will speak at 9:30 a.m., Thursday, November 5, in Polsky Theatre as part of the JCCC scholar in residence program
Musikstädte as real and imaginary soundscapes: urban musical images as literary motifs in twentieth-century German modernism
PhDThis study examines German literary images of musical life as part of the wider sound identity of the modern German city at the turn of the twentieth century. Focussing on a forty-year period from 1890 to 1930, synonymous with the emergence of the modern German metropolis as an aesthetic object, the project assesses, compares and contrasts how musical life in the Musikstädte was perceived and portrayed by writers in an increasingly noisy urban environment. How does urban musical life influence and condition city writings? What are the differences and similarities between the writings on various musical cities? Can an urban textual sound identity be derived from these differences and similarities? The approach employed to answer these questions is a new, cross-disciplinary one to urban sound in literature, moving beyond reading the key sounds of the urban soundscape using urban musicology, sensorial anthropology and cultural poetics towards a literary contextualisation of the urban aural experience.
The literary motifs of the symphony, the gramophone and urban noise are put under the spotlight through the analysis of a wide range of modernist works by authors who have a special relationship with music. At the centre of this analysis are the Kaffeehausliteratur authors Hermann Bahr, Alfred Polgar and Peter Altenberg, the then Munich-based author Thomas Mann and the lesser known René Schickele. The analysis of these particular works is framed in the music-geographical context of the Musikstadt and literary underpinnings of this topos, ranging from Ingeborg Bachmann to Hans Mayer and, once again, Thomas Mann. In analysing these texts, the methodological approach devised by Strohm, who identifies the blending of a range of urban sounds as a definition of urban space and identity, is applied. His ideas combine historical literary
analysis, musical history and urban sociology. They are rarely used in the analysis of the auditory environment.Arts and Humanities Research Council
Westfield TrustWestfield Trust Studentship
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