From schneide at cs.cmu.edu  Tue May 15 10:16:50 2007
From: schneide at cs.cmu.edu (Jeff Schneider)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:16:50 -0400
Subject: [Research] Reminder: Auton Lab Meeting Today 11:30am NSH 1507
Message-ID: <4649C0D2.807@cs.cmu.edu>


Please come and listen to an exciting preview of Brent's upcoming ICML talk 
and learn about a new way to find confidence regions.

Jeff.



-------- Original Message --------

Time & Place: Tuesday, May 15th, at 11:30am, NSH 1507

Food: Yes

Speaker: Brent Bryan

Title & Abstract:

Efficiently Computing Minimax Expected-Size Confidence Regions

Given observed data and a collection of parameterized candidate
models, a 1-alpha confidence region in parameter space provides useful
insight as to those models which are a good fit to the data, all while
keeping the probability of incorrect exclusion below alpha. With
complex models, optimally precise procedures (those with small
expected size) are, in practice, difficult to derive; one solution is
the Minimax Expected-Size (MES) confidence procedure. The key
computational problem of MES is computing a minimax equilibria to a
certain zero-sum game. We show that this game is convex with bilinear
payoffs, allowing us to apply any convex game solver, including linear
programming.  Exploiting the sparsity of the matrix, along with using
fast linear programming software, allows us to compute approximate
minimax expected-size confidence regions orders of magnitude faster
than previously published methods. We test these approaches by
estimating parameters for a cosmological model.

A copy of the paper can be found on the autonlab.org website.


_______________________________________________
Research mailing list
Research at autonlab.org
https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research



From awd at cs.cmu.edu  Thu May 17 16:55:55 2007
From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski)
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:55:55 -0400
Subject: [Research] [Fwd: Thesis Defense - Anna Goldenberg]
Message-ID: <1179435355.6240.7.camel@localhost>

Probably the last chance to ask Anna some tough questions :-)
Please come and enjoy while we can!

Artur
-------------- next part --------------
An embedded message was scrubbed...
From: Diane Stidle <diane+ at cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Thesis Defense - Anna Goldenberg
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:37:36 -0400
Size: 6165
URL: <https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/autonlab-research/attachments/20070517/d0d7a5b1/attachment.mht>

From mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu  Fri May 25 10:43:43 2007
From: mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu (Michael J. Baysek)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 10:43:43 -0400
Subject: [Research] Upload your papers
Message-ID: <4656F61F.4030201@cs.cmu.edu>

Hi Lab.

This is a reminder that you are all welcome to upload your papers to 
Autonlab.org. 

Here is the link that describes the paper upload process.
http://www.autonlab.org/autonweb/help/14487.html

Mike
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 3245 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
URL: <https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/autonlab-research/attachments/20070525/a982b760/attachment.bin>

From awm at google.com  Fri May 25 17:12:51 2007
From: awm at google.com (Andrew W. Moore)
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 17:12:51 -0400
Subject: [Research] Upload your papers
In-Reply-To: <4656F61F.4030201@cs.cmu.edu>
References: <4656F61F.4030201@cs.cmu.edu>
Message-ID: <982f89350705251412wfc63140u55d2fff144c22e5c@mail.gmail.com>

Yes, when I tell random folks (in or our of Google) about work done by
someone in the lab my answer is always "you can find it by going to
www.autonlab.org and searching..."

On 5/25/07, Michael J. Baysek <mjbaysek at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Lab.
>
> This is a reminder that you are all welcome to upload your papers to
> Autonlab.org.
>
> Here is the link that describes the paper upload process.
> http://www.autonlab.org/autonweb/help/14487.html
>
> Mike
>
> _______________________________________________
> Research mailing list
> Research at autonlab.org
> https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/autonlab-research/attachments/20070525/f13b0b26/attachment.html>