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
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