Machine Learning


Research Interests

visualization, dimensionality reduction, data mining, spectral optimizations, semidefinite programming


Papers

Minimum Volume Embedding

Blake Shaw, Tony Jebara -- In proceedings AI Stats ’07

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Minimum Volume Embedding (MVE) is an algorithm for non-linear dimensionality reduction that uses semidefinite programming (SDP) and matrix factorization to find a low-dimensional embedding that preserves local distances between points while representing the dataset in many fewer dimensions.


Minum Volume Embedding (NYAS)

New York Academy of Science - Machine Learning Symposium 2007

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Optimizing Eigengaps and Spectral Functions using Iterated SDP

Tony Jebara, Blake Shaw, Andrew Howard -- Learning Workshop 2007

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B-matching for Embedding

Tony Jebra, Blake Shaw, Vlad Schogolev

Snowbird Machine Learning Conference, April 2006

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Teaching

Programming Languages (Matlab)

w3101 section 1 - Spring 2008

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