Reminder: We have a talk this afternoon at 4pm. Hope to see you there.

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:02 AM, Aaron Courville <aaron.courville@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,

Toby Hocking will be joining us Friday afternoon to give a talk on
clustering. Please be there.

When: 4pm Friday June 22, 2012.
Where: AA3195

Title/Abstract:

"Clusterpath: An Algorithm for Clustering using Convex Fusion Penalties"

http://www.icml-2011.org/papers/419_icmlpaper.pdf

Abstract: We present a new clustering algorithm by proposing a convex
relaxation of hierarchical clustering, which results in a family of
objective functions with a natural geometric interpretation. We give
efficient algorithms for calculating the continuous regularization
path of solutions, and discuss relative advantages of the
parameters. Our method experimentally gives results similar to
spectral clustering for non-convex clusters, and has the added benefit
of learning a tree structure from the data.

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Aaron C. Courville
Département d’Informatique et
de recherche opérationnelle
Université de Montréal
email:Aaron.Courville@gmail.com



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Aaron C. Courville
Département d’Informatique et
de recherche opérationnelle
Université de Montréal
email:Aaron.Courville@gmail.com