Nuit Blanche in Review (December 2015)

 

 

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This is the last Nuit Blanche in Review for 2015 (the previous on was in November) and there are still a few days before things become hectic again: What Are You Waiting For ?

So it looks like, we began to use the term of The Great Convergence back in January and look what happened, it's already the end of the year. As recently as a few days ago, we had this, which makes me wonder if the tag is ML or CS or ML and CS. Any way, this got me inspired to write about  The Fall of Everything Else and realized we needed to accelerate things such as making some hardware become more relevant by increasing majorly the size of current datasets from said harware ( (Hamming's Time: Making Hyperspectral Imaging Mainstream).. To help in this endeavor, you may want to visit that site.  Next year or in a day, whichever comes faster, I'll begin to do the same for genomics, stay tuned. In the meantime, you want to read this Sunday Morning Insight: 10x Not 10% by Ken Norton.

We recently reached outr 4.5 million page views total, and had about 270,000 unique visits this year. That's about 740 visit per day or about 1000 unique visits per day of the week. Most importnatly, looking back since 2008, every day saw an average increase of 80 unique visits more than the previous day for the past 8 years.   Linear growth is fine.

 Here are some in-depth insights for subjects covered by Nuit Blanche.

Implementations

• Distributed Optimization with Arbitrary Local Solvers - implementation -

Matrix Factorization

• k-Means Clustering Is Matrix Factorization

Deep Learning

• Why are deep nets reversible: A simple theory, with implications for training
• A Mathematical Theory of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Feature Extraction
• The exponential advantage of distributed and deep representations
• The Great Convergence in Action: Learning optimal nonlinearities for iterative thresholding algorithms 

Manifold

• What Happens to a Manifold Under a Bi-Lipschitz Map?

Sketching/Streaming

• Streaming Kernel Principal Component Analysis

Tensor

• Moment Tensor Potentials: a class of systematically improvable interatomic potentials

RandNLA

• Householder QR Factorization: Adding Randomization for Column Pivoting

Compressive Sensing

• Biological screens from linear codes: theory and tools
• Perfect Recovery Conditions For Non-Negative Sparse Modeling / Compressive hyperspectral imaging via adaptive sampling and dictionary learning
• L1-Regularized Distributed Optimization: A Communication-Efficient Primal-Dual Framework
• Compressive Sampling using Annihilating Filter-based Low-Rank Interpolation

Subspace Clustering

• Innovation Pursuit: A New Approach to Subspace Clustering / Continuous and Simultaneous Gesture and Posture Recognition for Commanding a Robotic Wheelchair; Towards Spotting the Signal Patterns

Random Projections

• Representation and Coding of Signal Geometry
• Random Features Roundup
• Nonlinearities and Random Projections
• Unlabeled Sensing with Random Linear Measurements
• Universality laws for randomized dimension reduction, with applications

Thesis

• Thesis: High-Dimensional Big Data Processing with Dictionary Learning and Diffusion Maps by Aviv Rotbart

Book

• Ten Lectures and Forty-Two Open Problems in the Mathematics of Data Science, Afonso S. Bandeira
• Book: Convex Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity, Sébastien Bubeck

Hardware

• Inview Corporation Recent Developments

Challenge

• Challenge: Computational Imaging for VLBI Image Reconstruction

Paris Machine Learning

• Paris Machine Learning #4 Season 3: Netflix, CRISPR, SFdS, Craft.ai

Conferences (NIPS/ICML)

• NIPS2015 Papers and posters
• Around the blogs in 78 minutes: NIPS2015 edition
• Saturday Morning Videos: New videos of ICML 2015 in Lille

Jobs:

• CSJobs: PhD positions, University of Southampton, UK
• Job: PhD studentships and maybe a postdoc, Iowa State University

Stats

• Four and a half million page views: The Numbers Game in Long Distance Blogging

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