NIPS 2003: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sebastian Thrun, Lawrence K. Saul, Bernhard Schölkopf (Eds.): Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16 [Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2003, December 8-13, 2003, Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada]. MIT Press 2004 ISBN 0-262-20152-6
Alexander T. Ihler, Erik B. Sudderth, William T. Freeman, Alan S. Willsky: Efficient Multiscale Sampling from Products of Gaussian Mixtures.
Mark Girolami, Ata Kabán: Simplicial Mixtures of Markov Chains: Distributed Modelling of Dynamic User Profiles.
David M. Blei, Thomas L. Griffiths, Michael I. Jordan, Joshua B. Tenenbaum: Hierarchical Topic Models and the Nested Chinese Restaurant Process.






Kenji Fukumizu, Francis R. Bach, Michael I. Jordan: Kernel Dimensionality Reduction for Supervised Learning.
Haifeng Li, Tao Jiang, Keshu Zhang: Efficient and Robust Feature Extraction by Maximum Margin Criterion.
Thomas Strohmann, Andrei Belitski, Gregory Z. Grudic, Dennis DeCoste: Sparse Greedy Minimax Probability Machine Classification.
Claudio Gentile: Fast Feature Selection from Microarray Expression Data via Multiplicative Large Margin Algorithms.
Liva Ralaivola, Florence d'Alché-Buc: Dynamical Modeling with Kernels for Nonlinear Time Series Prediction.


Denis V. Chigirev, William Bialek: Optimal Manifold Representation of Data: An Information Theoretic Approach.
Dengyong Zhou, Jason Weston, Arthur Gretton, Olivier Bousquet, Bernhard Schölkopf: Ranking on Data Manifolds.
Yoshua Bengio, Jean-François Paiement, Pascal Vincent, Olivier Delalleau, Nicolas Le Roux, Marie Ouimet: Out-of-Sample Extensions for LLE, Isomap, MDS, Eigenmaps, and Spectral Clustering.

David Barber, Felix V. Agakov: The IM Algorithm: A Variational Approach to Information Maximization.
Eiji Mizutani, James Demmel: Iterative Scaled Trust-Region Learning in Krylov Subspaces via Pearlmutter's Implicit Sparse Hessian-Vector Multiply.


Yuanqing Li, Andrzej Cichocki, Shun-ichi Amari, Sergei L. Shishkin, Jianting Cao, Fanji Gu: Sparse Representation and Its Applications in Blind Source Separation.
Charles Kemp, Thomas L. Griffiths, Sean Stromsten, Joshua B. Tenenbaum: Semi-Supervised Learning with Trees.
Ting Liu, Andrew W. Moore, Alexander G. Gray: Efficient Exact k-NN and Nonparametric Classification in High Dimensions.
Christopher J. Paciorek, Mark J. Schervish: Nonstationary Covariance Functions for Gaussian Process Regression.

Jakob J. Verbeek, Sam T. Roweis, Nikos A. Vlassis: Non-linear CCA and PCA by Alignment of Local Models.

Dengyong Zhou, Olivier Bousquet, Thomas Navin Lal, Jason Weston, Bernhard Schölkopf: Learning with Local and Global Consistency.
Neil D. Lawrence: Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models for Visualisation of High Dimensional Data.



Martin J. Wainwright, Michael I. Jordan: Semidefinite Relaxations for Approximate Inference on Graphs with Cycles.

XuanLong Nguyen, Michael I. Jordan: On the Concentration of Expectation and Approximate Inference in Layered Networks.
Radford M. Neal, Matthew J. Beal, Sam T. Roweis: Inferring State Sequences for Non-linear Systems with Embedded Hidden Markov Models.
Pedro F. Felzenszwalb, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Jon M. Kleinberg: Fast Algorithms for Large-State-Space HMMs with Applications to Web Usage Analysis.
Mark A. Paskin: Sample Propagation.
Amos J. Storkey: Generalised Propagation for Fast Fourier Transforms with Partial or Missing Data.

Thore Graepel, Ralf Herbrich, Andriy Kharechko, John Shawe-Taylor: Semi-Definite Programming by Perceptron Learning.
Noam Shental, Aharon Bar-Hillel, Tomer Hertz, Daphna Weinshall: Computing Gaussian Mixture Models with EM Using Equivalence Constraints.



Matthew Brand: Minimax Embeddings.

Ting-Fan Wu, Chih-Jen Lin, Ruby C. Weng: Probability Estimates for Multi-Class Classification by Pairwise Coupling.
Rajat Raina, Yirong Shen, Andrew Y. Ng, Andrew McCallum: Classification with Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Models.

John C. Platt: Fast Embedding of Sparse Similarity Graphs.
Anton Schwaighofer, Marian Grigoras, Volker Tresp, Clemens Hoffmann: GPPS: A Gaussian Process Positioning System for Cellular Networks.
David I. Ferguson, Aaron Morris, Dirk Hähnel, Christopher R. Baker, Zachary Omohundro, Carlos F. Reverte, Scott Thayer, Charles Whittaker, William Whittaker, Wolfram Burgard, Sebastian Thrun: An Autonomous Robotic System for Mapping Abandoned Mines.
Jason Weston, Christina S. Leslie, Dengyong Zhou, André Elisseeff, William Stafford Noble: Semi-supervised Protein Classification Using Cluster Kernels.
Alice X. Zheng, Michael I. Jordan, Ben Liblit, Alexander Aiken: Statistical Debugging of Sampled Programs.
Nicholas P. Hughes, Lionel Tarassenko, Stephen J. Roberts: Markov Models for Automated ECG Interval Analysis.
Cynthia Archer, Todd K. Leen, António M. Baptista: Parameterized Novelty Detectors for Environmental Sensor Monitoring.
Benjamin M. Marlin: Modeling User Rating Profiles For Collaborative Filtering.
Michael J. Quinlan, Stephan K. Chalup, Richard H. Middleton: Application of SVMs for Colour Classification and Collision Detection with AIBO Robots.
Daniel B. Neill, Andrew W. Moore: A Fast Multi-Resolution Method for Detection of Significant Spatial Disease Clusters.
Andrew Rabinovich, Sameer Agarwal, Casey Laris, Jeffrey H. Price, Serge Belongie: Unsupervised Color Decomposition Of Histologically Stained Tissue Samples.
Darya Chudova, Christopher E. Hart, Eric Mjolsness, Padhraic Smyth: Gene Expression Clustering with Functional Mixture Models.
Saori C. Tanaka, Kenji Doya, Go Okada, Kazutaka Ueda, Yasumasa Okamoto, Shigeto Yamawaki: Different Cortico-Basal Ganglia Loops Specialize in Reward Prediction at Different Time Scales.
Xuerui Wang, Rebecca A. Hutchinson, Tom M. Mitchell: Training fMRI Classifiers to Discriminate Cognitive States across Multiple Subjects.
Roland Vollgraf, Michael Scholz, Ian A. Meinertzhagen, Klaus Obermayer: Nonlinear Filtering of Electron Micrographs by Means of Support Vector Regression.
Yu Zhou, Steven G. Mason, Gary E. Birch: Impact of an Energy Normalization Transform on the Performance of the LF-ASD Brain Computer Interface.
Guido Dornhege, Benjamin Blankertz, Gabriel Curio, Klaus-Robert Müller: Increase Information Transfer Rates in BCI by CSP Extension to Multi-class.
Sung Chan Jun, Barak A. Pearlmutter: Subject-Independent Magnetoencephalographic Source Localization by a Multilayer Perceptron.

Maxim Likhachev, Geoffrey J. Gordon, Sebastian Thrun: ARA*: Anytime A* with Provable Bounds on Sub-Optimality.


Andrew Y. Ng, H. Jin Kim, Michael I. Jordan, Shankar Sastry: Autonomous Helicopter Flight via Reinforcement Learning.
Yu-Han Chang, Tracey Ho, Leslie Pack Kaelbling: All learning is Local: Multi-agent Learning in Global Reward Games.
Daniela Pucci de Farias, Nimrod Megiddo: How to Combine Expert (and Novice) Advice when Actions Impact the Environment?
J. Andrew Bagnell, Sham Kakade, Andrew Y. Ng, Jeff G. Schneider: Policy Search by Dynamic Programming.
Arnab Nilim, Laurent El Ghaoui: Robustness in Markov Decision Problems with Uncertain Transition Matrices.


Gerald Tesauro: Extending Q-Learning to General Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems.
Curt A. Bererton, Geoffrey J. Gordon, Sebastian Thrun: Auction Mechanism Design for Multi-Robot Coordination.
Milos Hauskrecht, Branislav Kveton: Linear Program Approximations for Factored Continuous-State Markov Decision Processes.
Arnulf B. A. Graf, Felix A. Wichmann: Insights from Machine Learning Applied to Human Visual Classification.
Virginia R. de Sa: Sensory Modality Segregation.
Artur S. d'Avila Garcez, Luís C. Lamb: Reasoning about Time and Knowledge in Neural Symbolic Learning Systems.
Marc Toussaint: Learning a World Model and Planning with a Self-Organizing, Dynamic Neural System.
Woojae Kim, Daniel J. Navarro, Mark A. Pitt, In Jae Myung: An MCMC-Based Method of Comparing Connectionist Models in Cognitive Science.
David Philipona, J. K. O'Regan, Jean-Pierre Nadal, Olivier J. M. D. Coenen: Perception of the Structure of the Physical World Using Unknown Multimodal Sensors and Effectors.
Zach Solan, David Horn, Eytan Ruppin, Shimon Edelman: Unsupervised Context Sensitive Language Acquisition from a Large Corpus.
Yuuya Sugita, Jun Tani: A Holistic Approach to Compositional Semantics: A Connectionist Model and Robot Experiments.
Aaron C. Courville, Nathaniel D. Daw, Geoffrey J. Gordon, David S. Touretzky: Model Uncertainty in Classical Conditioning.
Reid R. Harrison: A Low-Power Analog VLSI Visual Collision Detector.
Rock Z. Shi, Timothy K. Horiuchi: A Summating, Exponentially-Decaying CMOS Synapse for Spiking Neural Systems.
Hsin Chen, Patrice Fleury, Alan F. Murray: Minimising Contrastive Divergence in Noisy, Mixed-mode VLSI Neurons.
Adria Bofill-i-Petit, Alan F. Murray: Synchrony Detection by Analogue VLSI Neurons with Bimodal STDP Synapses.
Masakazu Yagi, Hideo Yamasaki, Tadashi Shibata: A Mixed-Signal VLSI for Real-Time Generation of Edge-Based Image Vectors.
Francesco Tenore, Ralph Etienne-Cummings, M. Anthony Lewis: Entrainment of Silicon Central Pattern Generators for Legged Locomotory Control.
Eric K. C. Tsang, Bertram Emil Shi: A Neuromorphic Multi-chip Model of a Disparity Selective Complex Cell.
Ingo Steinwart: Sparseness of Support Vector Machines---Some Asymptotically Sharp Bounds.
Tong Zhang: An Infinity-sample Theory for Multi-category Large Margin Classification.
Philip Derbeko, Ran El-Yaniv, Ron Meir: Error Bounds for Transductive Learning via Compression and Clustering.





David L. Donoho, Victoria Stodden: When Does Non-Negative Matrix Factorization Give a Correct Decomposition into Parts?
Tong Zhang: Learning Bounds for a Generalized Family of Bayesian Posterior Distributions.
Susanne Still, William Bialek, Léon Bottou: Geometric Clustering Using the Information Bottleneck Method.
Peter L. Bartlett, Michael I. Jordan, Jon D. McAuliffe: Large Margin Classifiers: Convex Loss, Low Noise, and Convergence Rates.
David C. Hoyle, Magnus Rattray: Limiting Form of the Sample Covariance Eigenspectrum in PCA and Kernel PCA.
Dörthe Malzahn, Manfred Opper: Approximate Analytical Bootstrap Averages for Support Vector Classifiers.
Justin Werfel, Xiaohui Xie, H. Sebastian Seung: Learning Curves for Stochastic Gradient Descent in Linear Feedforward Networks.
Gal Chechik, Amir Globerson, Naftali Tishby, Yair Weiss: Information Bottleneck for Gaussian Variables.


Yuval Aviel, David Horn, Moshe Abeles: The Doubly Balanced Network of Spiking Neurons: A Memory Model with High Capacity.
Thomas Natschläger, Wolfgang Maass: Information Dynamics and Emergent Computation in Recurrent Circuits of Spiking Neurons.
Peter J. Thomas, Donald J. Spencer, Sierra K. Hampton, Peter Park, Joseph P. Zurkus: The Diffusion-Limited Biochemical Signal-Relay Channel.
Aaron J. Gruber, Peter Dayan, Boris S. Gutkin, Sara A. Solla: Dopamine Modulation in a Basal Ganglio-cortical Network Implements Saliency-based Gating of Working Memory.
Nathan A. Dunn, John S. Conery, Shawn R. Lockery: Circuit Optimization Predicts Dynamic Network for Chemosensory Orientation in the Nematode C. elegans.
Maneesh Sahani: A Biologically Plausible Algorithm for Reinforcement-shaped Representational Learning.
Yoichi Miyawaki, Masato Okada: Mechanism of Neural Interference by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Network or Single Neuron?
Jonathan W. Pillow, Liam Paninski, Eero P. Simoncelli: Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a Stochastic Integrate-and-Fire Neural Model.
Liam Paninski: Design of Experiments via Information Theory.
Kazuyuki Samejima, Kenji Doya, Yasumasa Ueda, Minoru Kimura: Estimating Internal Variables and Paramters of a Learning Agent by a Particle Filter.
Bernd Porr, Ausra Saudargiene, Florentin Wörgötter: Analytical Solution of Spike-timing Dependent Plasticity Based on Synaptic Biophysics.
Brian J. Fischer, Charles H. Anderson: A Probabilistic Model of Auditory Space Representation in the Barn Owl.
Ryan C. Kelly, Tai Sing Lee: Decoding V1 Neuronal Activity using Particle Filtering with Volterra Kernels.
Jan Eichhorn, Andreas S. Tolias, Alexander Zien, Malte Kuss, Carl Edward Rasmussen, Jason Weston, Nikos K. Logothetis, Bernhard Schölkopf: Prediction on Spike Data Using Kernel Algorithms.
William M. Campbell, Joseph P. Campbell, Douglas A. Reynolds, Douglas A. Jones, Timothy R. Leek: Phonetic Speaker Recognition with Support Vector Machines.
Pedro J. Moreno, Purdy Ho, Nuno Vasconcelos: A Kullback-Leibler Divergence Based Kernel for SVM Classification in Multimedia Applications.
Kannan Achan, Sam T. Roweis, Brendan J. Frey: Probabilistic Inference of Speech Signals from Phaseless Spectrograms.
Jeff Bondy, Ian C. Bruce, Suzanna Becker, Simon Haykin: Predicting Speech Intelligibility from a Population of Neurons.
Tomohiro Nakatani, Masato Miyoshi, Keisuke Kinoshita: One Microphone Blind Dereverberation Based on Quasi-periodicity of Speech Signals.


Scott A. Beardsley, Lucia M. Vaina: A Functional Architecture for Motion Pattern Processing in MSTd.
Alan L. Yuille, Fang Fang, Paul R. Schrater, Daniel Kersten: Human and Ideal Observers for Detecting Image Curves.
Matthias H. Hennig, Florentin Wörgötter: Eye Micro-movements Improve Stimulus Detection Beyond the Nyquist Limit in the Peripheral Retina.
Salvador Ruiz-Correa, Linda G. Shapiro, Marina Meila, Gabriel Berson: Discriminating Deformable Shape Classes.
Kevin P. Murphy, Antonio Torralba, William T. Freeman: Graphical Model For Recognizing Scenes and Objects.
Amit Gruber, Yair Weiss: Factorization with Uncertainty and Missing Data: Exploiting Temporal Coherence.
Jianxin Wu, James M. Rehg, Matthew D. Mullin: Learning a Rare Event Detection Cascade by Direct Feature Selection.
Sanjiv Kumar, Martial Hebert: Discriminative Fields for Modeling Spatial Dependencies in Natural Images.
Leonid Sigal, Michael Isard, Benjamin H. Sigelman, Michael J. Black: Attractive People: Assembling Loose-Limbed Models using Non-parametric Belief Propagation.

Gwen Littlewort, Marian Stewart Bartlett, Ian R. Fasel, Joel Chenu, Takayuki Kanda, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Javier R. Movellan: Towards Social Robots: Automatic Evaluation of Human-robot Interaction by Face Detection and Expression Classification.
Anuj Srivastava, Xiuwen Liu, Washington Mio, Eric Klassen: A Computational Geometric Approach to Shape Analysis in Images.
Lyndsey C. Pickup, Stephen J. Roberts, Andrew Zisserman: A Sampled Texture Prior for Image Super-Resolution.
Charles R. Rosenberg, Thomas P. Minka, Alok Ladsariya: Bayesian Color Constancy with Non-Gaussian Models.
Claudio Fanti, Marzia Polito, Pietro Perona: An Improved Scheme for Detection and Labelling in Johansson Displays.



