NYC workshop 22 Aug on open source machine learning systems

The workshop is organized by John Langford (Microsoft Research NYC), along with Alekh Agarwal and Alina Beygelzimer, and it features Liblinear, Vowpal Wabbit, Torch, Theano, and . . . you guessed it . . . Stan!

Here’s the current program:

8:55am: Introduction
9:00am: Liblinear by CJ Lin.
9:30am: Vowpal Wabbit and Learning to Search (John Langford and Hal Daumé III)
10:00am: Break w/ refreshments
10:30am: Torch
11:00am: Theano and PyLearn (Bart van Merrienboer and Frederic Bastien)
11:30am: Stan (Bob Carpenter)
Noon: Lunch on your own
1:00pm: Summary: The systems as they exist
1:20pm: Panel: Can projects coordinate?
2:00pm: Break w/ refreshments
2:30pm: Discussion time for individual projects
4:00pm: Liblinear future plans
4:10pm: Vowpal Wabbit future plans
4:20pm: Torch future plans
4:30pm: Theano and PyLearn future plans
4:40pm: Stan future plans
4:50pm: Conclusion

It’s open to all (I think) as long as you let them know you’ll be coming; just email [email protected].

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