Copenhagen, Denmark,

21 - 22 May 2015

Hosts Local Page
organized by Ole Winther, Aki Vehtari, Neil Lawrence,

hosted by Ole Winther, DTU,

Thursday 21 May

9:00 - 9:30 Tree Structured Gaussian Process Approximations, Rich Turner, University of Cambridge

9:45 - 10:15 Distributed Gaussian Processes for Large Scale Probabilistic Regression, Marc Deisenroth, Imperial College London

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 11:30 Distributed Kernel Representations for Variational Sparse Gaussian Processes, Michalis Titsias, Athens University of Economics and Business

11:45 - 12:15 Probabilistic Backpropagation for Scalable Learning of Bayesian Neural Networks, José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Harvard University

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:00 Convergence and dynamics of expectation propagation and adaptive TAP, Ole Winther, DTU

14:15 - 14:45 Bayesian inference for spatio-temporal spike and slab priors, Michael Riis Andersen, DTU

15:00 - 15:30 Tea

15:30 - 16:00 Scalable Variational Gaussian Process Classification, James Hensman, University of Sheffield

16:15 - 16:45 Hilbert Space Methods for Reduced-Rank Gaussian Process Regression, Simo Särkkä, Aalto University

20:30 Workshop dinner at Madklubben Bistro-de-Luxe, Store Kongensgade 66

Friday 22 May

9:00 - 9:30 Nonparametric estimation of the drift in stochastic differential equations, Manfred Opper, Technical University Berlin

9:45 - 10:15 Big Bayes without sub-sampling bias: paths of partial posteriors, Heiko Strathmann, University College London

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 11:30 Bayesian leave-one-out cross-validation approximations for Gaussian latent variable models, Aki Vehtari, Aalto University

11:45 - 12:15 Scalable Gaussian Process Classification via Expectation Propagation, Daniel Hernández-Lobato, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:00 Towards(?) Marginal Likelihood Lower Bounds with EP, Ulrich Paquet, Microsoft Research

14:15 - 14:45 Expectation Propagation: Factorization and Entropy Approximation, John Cunningham, Columbia University

15:00 - 15:30 Tea

15:30 - 16:00 Two Things I’ve Learnt About GPs Since 2006, Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield