Inductive Transfer : 10 Years Later
NIPS 2005 Workshop
Organizers: Danny Silver, Goekhan Bakir, Kristin Bennett, Rich Caruana, Massimiliano Pontil, Stuart Russell, Prasad Tadepalli

 
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Schedule:

Morning:
7.30 Welcome

7:35 Invited Speaker: Rich Caruana -  Foundations and Progress since 1995
8:00 Talk 1 - csMTL: A Context Sensitive Lifelong Learning System (R.Poirier, D.Silver)
8:15 Talk 2 - Transfer in Variable-Reward Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (N. Mehta, S. Natarajan, P. Tadepalli, A. Fern)
8:30 Break / Posters
9:00 Talk 3 - Transfer Learning by Constructing Informative Priors (R. Raina, A.Ng, D. Koller)
9:15 Talk 4 - Learning the Structure of Related Tasks (A. Niculescu-Mizil, R. Caruana)
9:30 Invited Speaker:
Tom Dietterich - Transfer Learning in the CALO Project (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes)
9:55 Panel/Discussion: Progress? Why does learning with zero prior knowledge continue to dominate research?
10:25 Close for the morning

Afternoon:
3:30 Welcome Back
3:35 Invited Speaker: Shai Ben-David - New directions/Open questions, ML Theory Perspective
4:00 Talk 5 - Transfer Learning with an Ensemble of Background Tasks (Z. Marx, M. Rosenstein, L. Pack Kaelbling, T. Dietterich)
4:15 Talk 6 - Transfer Learning of Object Classes: From Cartoons to Photographs (G. Heitz, G. Elidan, D. Koller)
4:30 Break / Posters
5:00 Talk 7 -  Learning to Learn and Collaborative Filtering (Kai Yu, V. Tresp)
5:15 Talk 8 - Multitask Transfer Using Multiple Latent Analysis (Z. Xiang, K. Bennett)

5:30 Invited Speaker: Theodoros Evgeniou - New directions/Open questions, Bayesian/Kernel Perspective
5:55 Panel/Discussion: What are the three most important problems to work on in future research?
6:25 Wrap-up and Close

 

Last updated 12/01/2005 - Danny Silver