What Users Want
Alex Smola (Yahoo! Research)
NICTA SML SEMINARDATE: 2010-11-25
TIME: 11:00:00 - 12:30:00
LOCATION: NICTA - 7 London Circuit
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ABSTRACT:
User modeling is a key component in understanding how humans interact with internet properties. In this talk I present a set of nonparametric Bayesian modeling techniques to address these issues. In particular I will cover problems of large scale inference in Latent Dirichlet Allocation, the integration of information between several sources of data, and time-dependence in modeling user activity. The talk will touch both on the statistical modeling issues involved and on the engineering problems on the systems side to make such algorithms work at internet scale.
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Further info at http://alex.smola.org/
