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Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 3:15pm

Sham Kakade

U. Penn. CIS

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRLB 4E19

Note the one-week postponement

I'll provide some competitive online bounds for a number of Bayesian algorithms, without making any assumptions on the data generation process. These bounds show that some of the most popular Bayesian algorithms (such as least squares regression and Bayesian logistic regression) perform favorably when compared, in retrospect, to the single best model in the model class. I'll also provide bounds for some widely used maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation algorithms, including regularized logistic regression. Finally, I'll present some results (on work in progress) on online bounds for Gaussian Processes. The bound here have an interesting dependence on an intrinsic notion of dimensionality.