Learning Structure from Data: Nonparametric Bayes at Scale

Eric Jonas will be presenting "Learning Structure from Data: Nonparametric Bayes at Scale"

About the talk: Prior Knowledge builds Bayesian nonparametric models and solves them at scale using new forms of Markov-chain Monte Carlo, all to let regular developers safely and accurately predict, relate, and explain their data. In this talk, we'll given an overview of NPBayes, discuss our underlying model, and talk about how one solves it. We'll give an overview of the larger npbayes space, and talk about future research directions.

Speaker info: Eric Jonas is the CEO of Prior Knowledge

https://www.priorknowledge.com/team http://twitter.com/stochastician

Lightning Talks:

Nimalan Mahendran -- Adaptive MCMC with Bayesian Optimization paper: http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/proceedings/papers/v22/mahendran12/mahendran12.pdf Presentation at AISTATS 2012: http://youtu.be/_euhabEAgNM

Meetup Schedule:

6:30-6:45 -- socializing

6:45-7:00 -- lightning talks (contact us if you are interested in presenting)

7:00-8:00 -- main presentation

8:00-8:30 -- socializing

Note: This meetup will NOT be recorded!

Special Thanks: Bizo (http://www.bizo.com/home) for hosting!