Data Mining and Statistical Learning

Fall 2012

All meetings will be held on Tuesday between 1:40 pm - 3:00 pm in CH212.
We will start with Collaborative Filtering as one of the themes of Autumn 2012.

• August 28, 2012
  No meeting this week
  


• September 4, 2012
  Speaker: Zhiyu Liang
  Title: "A Survey of Collaborative Filtering Techniques" Su and Khoshgoftaar (2009)
  


• September 11, 2012
  Speaker: Andrew Landgraf
  Title: "Matrix Factorization Techniques for Recommender Systems" Koren et al (2009)
  


• September 18, 2012
  No meeting this week
  


• September 25, 2012
  Speaker: Ran Wei
  Title: "Probabilistic Matrix Factorization" Salakhutdinov and Minh (2008)
  


• October 2, 2012
  Speaker: Ziyue Chen
  Title: "Learning Collaborative Information Filters" Billsus and Pazzani (1998)
  Speaker: Andrew Olsen
  Title: "Bayesian Probabilistic Matrix Factorization using Markov Chain Monte Carlo" Salakhutdinov and Minh (2008)
  


• October 9, 2012
  Speaker: Yuanlong Shao
  Title: "Restricted Boltzmann Machines for Collaborative Filtering" Salakhutdinov et al (2007)
  


• October 16, 2012
  No meeting this week
  


• October 22, 2012 (2:30 - 3:30)
  Guest Speaker: Prof. Ruey Tsay
  Title:
  


• October 30, 2012
  Speaker: Xiaomu Wang
  Title: "Modeling User Rating Profiles For Collaborative Filtering" Marlin (2003)
  


• November 6, 2012
  Speaker: Jojo Wang
  Title: "Google News Personalization: Scalable Online Collaborative Filtering" Das et al (2007)
  


• November 13, 2012
  Speaker: Hui Yang
  Title: "Improving regularized singular value decomposition for collaborative filtering" Paterek (2007)
  


• November 20, 2012
  Speaker: Po-Hsu Chen
  Title: "A Comparative Study of Collaborative Filtering Algorithms" Lee et al (2012)