MLSS 2016: machine learning summer school in Cádiz [deadline]

Following [time-wise] the AISTATS 2016 meeting, a machine learning school is organised in Cádiz (as is the tradition for AISTATS meetings in Europe, i.e., in even years). With an impressive [if downright scary] poster! There is no strong statistics component in the programme, apart from a course by Tamara Broderick on non-parametric Bayes, but the list of speakers is impressive and the ten day school is worth recommending for all interested students.  (I remember giving a short course at MLSS 2004 on Berder Island in Brittany, with the immediate reward of running the Auray-Vannes half-marathon that year…) The deadline for applications is March 25, 2016.

AISTATS 2014 / MLSS tutorial

Here are the slides of the tutorial on ABC methods I gave yesterday at both AISTAST 2014 and MLSS. (I actually gave a tutorial at another MLSS a few years ago, on the pretty island of Berder in Brittany, next to Vannes.) They are definitely similar to previous talks and tutorials I delivered on this topic of ABC algorithms, with only the last part being original (if unpublished yet). And even then: as Michael Gutmann from the University of Helsinki pointed out to me at the end of my talk, there are similarities between the classification method he exposed at MCMSki 4 in Chamonix and our use of random forests. Before my talk, I attended the tutorial of Roderick Murray-Smith from the University of Glasgow, on Machine learning and Human Computer Interaction, which was just stunning in its breadth, range of applications, and mastering of multimedia tools. Making me feel like a perfectly inadequate follower…