John Shawe-Taylor- Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning
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Centre for Computational
Statistics and Machine Learning
LaunchJohn Shawe-Taylor
April, 2007
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Aims of the new centre
Create a framework within which the different groups
can cooperate synergistically Build bridges to the many groups at UCL that could
benefit from advanced data analysis
Develop collaborations with commercial, industrialand scientific groups beyond UCL
Part of a drive towards handling large data for which
there is no pre-defined analysis technique Pioneer a new synthesis between traditional
statistics and new machine learning approaches
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Emphasis of orientation Well-founded approaches to data analysis and
machine learning: Statistically analysed
Bayesian approaches
Frequentist analysis
Understanding why and when the differentapproaches are more appropriate – and developingthe theoretical models to match practical applications
Aim to become internationally recognised for thetheoretical foundations and innovative applications ofcomputational statistics and machine learning
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Current members
Gatsby Unit
Maneesh Sahani Peter Dayan
Yee Whye Teh
One more position to be
filled Statistics
Philip Dawid
Tom Fearns
Trevor Sweeting
Computer Science
David Barber
Mark Herbster
Massimiliano Pontil
Simon Prince
John Shawe-Taylor
Support:
Jacky Pallace, centremanager
Clare Scurfield, admin support Tom Diethe, web development
and support
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Activities: general Seminar series at Gatsby, Statistics, and Computer
Science to be promoted centrally One day PASCAL workshop on May 21 linking with
groups at Cambridge, Bristol, Southampton and Paris Reading groups created with activities visible through
the web site Workshops on specialist themes: eg open house on
complex output learning in July 2006 Visitor programme to ensure exploit potential to
attract international contacts for short stop-overs andlonger visits
MSc Programme in Intelligent systems (Dir Mark) MSc in Computational Statistics and Machine
Learning to be launched in 2008
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Activities: clinics New approach to building collaborations with ‘users’
from inside and outside UCL
Half day event at which a potential user will presenttheir problem and describe their data if necessarycovered by an NDA
Representatives of different approaches supportedwithin the centre: kernel methods, statistics, Bayesianinference, etc, discuss options for analysis
Centre able to finance PhDs to assist with initial
pump-priming implementation of interesting solutions Potential for joint grant applications with appropriate
IPR agreements
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Activities: clinics First clinic was held in March
Marco Gillies presented a problem concerningintelligent animation
He will discuss the problem, his experience andsome ideas that arose out of the discussions
We would welcome proposals for new clinics
First phase is a discussion with a representative of thecentre to assess potential and identify key issues
If considered useful, presentation at the Clinic could behandled jointly with the representative
No guarantee of outcome, but hopefully helpful discussions
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Activities: Industrial Club proposal
Henry Stott from Decision Technologies will
share some thoughts on this option
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Web site: www.csml.ucl.ac.uk Active web site providing portal for all dealings with
the centre Entry point for new contacts: can learn about what
approaches can do, how to register for activitiesincluding clinics
Listings for seminars, reading groups, etc.
Easy to enter and register for new events on-line
Automatic generation of emails to interested parties
Supported by database storing activities andcontacts, etc.
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Presentations of the three component
groups
Computer Science group: JS-T
Statistics group: Philip Dawid
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit:Peter Dayan
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Current Computer Science group David Barber
expert in Bayesian inference over graphical models
has been working in modelling discrete dynamical systems
Mark Herbster graph-based semi-supervised and transductive learning
probabilistic and geometric approaches, spectral clustering
expert in analysis of on-line learning algorithms in an adversarial setting
Massi Pontil
expert in learning theory (particularly kernel methods, regularisation,convex optimisation)
EPSRC advanced research fellow with associated project investigatingmultiple task learning
Simon Prince
applying Bayesian inference in Computer Vision
John Shawe-Taylor
Additional members
Charles Micchelli (Expert in Computational Mathematics)
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Current projects
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EU Network of Excellence: Principled machine learning, linked to statistics, optimisation and
applications:
computer vision
Brain computer interfaces natural language processing and textual information access
Multimodal integration
speech
JS-T is scientific coordinator (Southampton coordinating site) Linking 56 sites across Europe, Israel and Australia
Innovative management style and broad impact
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VISDEM
Inference in Complex StochasticEnvironmental Models
EPSRC funded multi-site project
Involving Manfred Opper from TU Berlin, Aston,Surrey and Met office reps
Bayesian inference for stochastic differentialequations modelling uncertainty and finer scaleeffects
Generating interest in the Met office
Many other potential applications of the technology
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Learning the Structure of Music (LeStruM) EPSRCfunded project with University of Plymouth, LeibnizInstitute of Neurobiology and Johannes KeplerUniversity Linz Making fMRI and EEG scans of subjects listening to music Relating structure of responses to structure in the music Insight into how music creates effects and possibly how the
brain processes it?
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SMART
Statistical Multilingual Analysis for Retrieval andTranslation (SMART) EU funded STREP
8 site project lead by Xerox research labs in Grenoble
Apply recent advances in machine learning to statistical
machine translation and cross-lingual retrieval
Particularly correlation analysis and discriminative kernelmethods for structured output learning together with on-line adaptation of translation models
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Advanced Research Fellowship
5 year EPSRC Advanced Research
Fellowship for Massimiliano Pontil Includes a standard EPSRC project
Learning multiple tasks
Theoretical analysis and practicalimplementations
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Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
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Statistics Group
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Clinics example
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Club proposal
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Summary
Centre aims to set the agenda for fundamental
analysis in computational statistics and machinelearning
Can provide eclectic support covering the main well-
founded approaches to data analysis Hence providing innovative and informed advice for
users with a wide variety of problems and data fromscience or commerce
Registration on website to be invited soon
But drinks NOW!