Schedule

NIPS 2015 CiML workshop [new: we have posted the slides below]

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Palais des Congrès de Montréal

Convention and Exhibition Center

Room 512 e [Floor map] Talk abstracts

Morning session (9:00 am-12:00 pm)

9:00 - Welcome and introduction. Evelyne Viegas [slides]

9:10 - Invited talk, Challenges in Medical Image Analysis: Comparison, Competition, Collaboration, Bram van Ginneken [slides]

9:50 - Break

10:20 - Invited talk, Techniques and Technologies for Efficient and Realistic Benchmarks: Examples from the MediaEval Multimedia Benchmark and CLEF NewsREEL, Martha Larson [slides]

11:00 - Discussion: Open Innovation, Balazs Kegl and Ben Hamner moderators [Balazs' post][Balazs' slides]

12:00 - Break

Break-out session on AutoML challenge.

12:30 - Presentation of the AutoML challenge. Isabelle Guyon -- Announcement of the new GPU track. [slides]

13:00 - Automated Machine Learning: Successes & Challenges. Frank Hutter. Team aaad_freiburg. First place AutoML1 phase, second place AutoML2 phase. [paper][supplementary material][slides]

13:30 - Sensible allocation of computation for ensemble construction. James Lloyd. Team jrl44/backstreet.bayes. First place AutoML2 phase, second place AutoML1 phase. [slides]

14:00 - Scalable ensemble learning with stochastic feature boosting. Eugene Tuv. Team ideal.intel.analytics. First place Final0 phase, second place Final1 phase. [slides]

14:30 - Break

Afternoon session (15:00-18:30)

15:00 - Invited talk, Lessons Learned from the PASCAL VOC Challenges, and Improving the Data Analytics Process, Chris Williams [slides]

15:40 - Discussion: Coopetitions, Evelyne Viegas and Isabelle Guyon moderator

16:40 - Break

17:00 - Contributed talk, Academic Torrents: Scalable Data Distribution, Henry Z. Lo and Joseph Paul Cohen [paper][slides]

17:30 - Open discussion, Michele Sebag modelator

18:20 - Wrap up

18:30 - Adjourn