Professor Peter Orbanz and Professor Tamara Broderick
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This tutorial took place at the ISBA 2016 World Meeting Short Courses at the University of Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy. See this link for the latest versions and videos of the Nonparametric Bayes parts of this tutorial.
Sunday, June 12
Machine Learning (Peter Orbanz): 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Nonparametric Bayes Part I (Tamara Broderick): 2:00–3:00 PM
Nonparametric Bayes Part II (Tamara Broderick) 3:15–5:00 PM
Instructors:
Professor Peter Orbanz and Professor Tamara Broderick
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The machine learning part of the tutorial will try to give an overview of some widely used methods such as neural networks, SVMs, and Random Forests, and of how they relate to each other.
Nonparametric Bayesian methods make use of infinite-dimensional mathematical structures to allow the practitioner to learn more from their data as the size of their data set grows. What does that mean, and how does it work in practice? In this part of the tutorial, we'll cover why machine learning and statistics need more than just parametric Bayesian inference. We'll introduce such foundational nonparametric Bayesian models as the Dirichlet process and Chinese restaurant process and touch on the wide variety of models available in nonparametric Bayes. Along the way, we'll see what exactly nonparametric Bayesian methods are and what they accomplish.