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Nov 22, 2024
Simple identity theft - the perfect crime?
Today, I learned a lesson about how crime does in fact pay and how ill-equipped we are to stop it.
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Oct 26, 2024
Setting up OpenSpeedTest on a Synology NAS with docker compose
OpenSpeedTest is handy to measure the performance of the local (W)LAN: It is like any other speed test service, but it runs locally. Setting it up on a Synology NAS is easy.
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Apr 7, 2023
Escaping email overload
I recently welcomed a group of new team members who were not used to the email centric culture. This can be overwhelming: We have dozens of email lists and automated systems sending status updates and alerts that everyone receives email from. Many of us who have lived this way for a long time have coping mechanisms. These are mine.
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Feb 11, 2022
Home Assistant: Housing the Raspberry Pi in an Argon One M.2 case
I am a fan of the Argon One M.2 case raspberry Pi case. I finally got my hands on one for the Raspberry Pi which runs my Home Assistant. The transfer wasn’t entirely straight forward. The notes below might help the next person doing this.
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Feb 5, 2022
Home Assistant: Water leak detection and notification with the Aqara Water Leak Sensor
This week, I added a bunch of Aqara Water Leak Sensors to my home assistant setup.
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Jan 30, 2022
Home Assistant: Detect whether the TV is on based on power measure of a smart plug
I plugged my TV into a smart plug which conveniently also measures power flow through it. I wanted to use this to detect whether the TV was on.
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Jan 30, 2022
Connecting a Webcam to a Hyper-V VM via RDP
As mentioned before, I run work on a VM on my personal machine. I use Hyper-V as the hypervisor. For a while, struggled how to get the webcam to be available in the VM. Turns out you can just use the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) for this.
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Jan 11, 2022
Home Automation: What works for me
Home automation has been an interest of mine for a while. Here, I collect notes on what worked for me. Both as a reminder for myself and in the hopes that it is useful to others dabbling in the space. This is not a tutorial for any of the devices mentioned. There are plenty of those available on the internet.
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Sep 15, 2021
PerfGuard: deploying ML-for-systems without performance regressions, almost!
Remmelt Ammerlaan, Gilbert Antonius, Marc Friedman, H M Sajjad Hossain, Alekh Jindal, Peter Orenberg, Hiren Patel, Shi Qiao, Vijay Ramani, Lucas Rosenblatt, Abhishek Roy, Irene Shaffer, Soundarajan Srinivasan, Markus Weimer
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Apr 15, 2021
FLAML: A Fast and Lightweight AutoML Library
Chi Wang, Qingyun Wu, Markus Weimer, Erkang Zhu
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Nov 5, 2020
A Tensor Compiler for Unified Machine Learning Prediction Serving
Supun Nakandala, Karla Saur, Gyeong-In Yu, Konstantinos Karanasos, Carlo Curino, Markus Weimer, Matteo Interlandi
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Oct 19, 2020
Connecting a Webcam and USB Audio to a Hyper-V VM
Update (2022-01-30): I found a way to do this via RDP and documented it here
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Aug 23, 2020
Building Continuous Integration Services for Machine Learning
Bojan Karlaš, Matteo Interlandi, Cedric Renggli, Wentao Wu, Ce Zhang, Deepak Mukunthu Iyappan Babu, Jordan Edwards, Chris Lauren, Andy Xu, Markus Weimer
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Aug 1, 2020
Vamsa: Automated Provenance Tracking in Data Science Scripts
Mohammad Hossein Namaki, Avrilia Floratou, Fotis Psallidas, Subru Krishnan, Ashvin Agrawal, Yinghui Wu, Yiwen Zhu, Markus Weimer
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Jul 17, 2020
MLOS: An Infrastructure for Automated Software Performance Engineering
Carlo Curino, Neha Godwal, Brian Kroth, Sergiy Kuryata, Greg Lapinski, Siqi Liu, Slava Oks, Olga Poppe, Adam Smiechowski, Ed Thayer, Markus Weimer, Yiwen Zhu
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Jun 23, 2020
Git on the Windows Subsystem for Linux
I do most of my dev work on WSL, with the help of some nice integrations with the Windows side of the machine. I run both VS Code and the Git credential manager on Windows, called from within Linux:
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Jan 15, 2020
Cloudy with high chance of DBMS: a 10-year prediction for Enterprise-Grade ML
Ashvin Agrawal, Rony Chatterjee, Carlo Curino, Avrilia Floratou, Neha Gowdal, Matteo Interlandi, Alekh Jindal, Konstantinos Karanasos, Subru Krishnan, Brian Kroth, Jyoti Leeka, Kwanghyun Park, Hiren Patel, Olga Poppe, Fotis Psallidas, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Abhishek Roy, Karla Saur, Rathijit Sen, Markus Weimer, Travis Wright, Yiwen Zhu
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Jan 15, 2020
Extending Relational Query Processing with ML Inference
Konstantinos Karanasos, Matteo Interlandi, Doris Xin, Fotis Psallidas, Rathijit Sen, Kwanghyun Park, Ivan Popivanov, Supun Nakandal, Subru Krishnan, Markus Weimer, Yuan Yu, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Carlo Curino
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Dec 27, 2019
MLSys: The New Frontier of Machine Learning Systems
Alexander Ratner, Dan Alistarh, Gustavo Alonso, David G. Andersen, Peter Bailis, Sarah Bird, Nicholas Carlini, Bryan Catanzaro, Jennifer Chayes, Eric Chung, Bill Dally, Jeff Dean, Inderjit S. Dhillon, Alexandros Dimakis, Pradeep Dubey, Charles Elkan, Grigori Fursin, Gregory R. Ganger, Lise Getoor, Phillip B. Gibbons, Garth A. Gibson, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Justin Gottschlich, Song Han, Kim Hazelwood, Furong Huang, Martin Jaggi, Kevin Jamieson, Michael I. Jordan, Gauri Joshi, Rania Khalaf, Jason Knight, Jakub Konečný, Tim Kraska, Arun Kumar, Anastasios Kyrillidis, Aparna Lakshmiratan, Jing Li, Samuel Madden, H. Brendan McMahan, Erik Meijer, Ioannis Mitliagkas, Rajat Monga, Derek Murray, Kunle Olukotun, Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Gennady Pekhimenko, Theodoros Rekatsinas, Afshin Rostamizadeh, Christopher Ré, Christopher De Sa, Hanie Sedghi, Siddhartha Sen, Virginia Smith, Alex Smola, Dawn Song, Evan Sparks, Ion Stoica, Vivienne Sze, Madeleine Udell, Joaquin Vanschoren, Shivaram Venkataraman, Rashmi Vinayak, Markus Weimer, Andrew Gordon Wilson, Eric Xing, Matei Zaharia, Ce Zhang, Ameet Talwalkar
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Jun 15, 2019
My talk at ICML 2019
Today, I gave a talk at the Coding Theory for Large-Scale Machine Learning Workshop at ICML 2019. You can find the slides below, or download them: PDF|PPTX
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Apr 4, 2019
My talk at XLDB 2019
Today, I gave a talk at XLDB 2019. You can find the slides below, or download them: PDF|PPTX
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Dec 20, 2018
From the Edge to the Cloud: Model Serving in ML.NET
Yunseong Lee, Alberto Scolari, Byung-Gon Chun, Markus Weimer, Matteo Interlandi
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Dec 12, 2018
TVM and Apache
Yesterday, I introduced The Apache Software Foundation to the large crowd at the TVM conference. You can download my slides as PDF and PPTX.
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Nov 19, 2018
Papers accepted to NeurIPS Workshops 2018
I am happy to announce that my team has five papers accepted in the workshop section of NeurIPS this year:
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Oct 23, 2018
PRETZEL: Opening the Black Box of Machine Learning Prediction Serving Systems
Yunseong Lee, Alberto Scolari, Byung-Gon Chun, Marco Domenico Santambrogio, Markus Weimer, Matteo Interlandi
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Sep 12, 2018
Test of Time Award at ECML/PKDD 2018
I am honored and humbled to receive the Test of Time Award together with Alex Smola and Alexandros Karatzoglou. It is given to our work on matrix factorization you can find here on my website. Here is the deck Alex used at ECML/PKDD 2018 today in his talk to commemorate the work, give it perspective with the field since and produce some ideas of where the field might go.
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Feb 7, 2018
Batch-Expansion Training: An Efficient Optimization Framework
Michal Derezinski, Dhruv Mahajan, S. Sathiya Keerthi, S. V. N. Vishwanathan, Markus Weimer
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Dec 23, 2017
How to fix the Anaconda Prompt installed by Visual Studio 2017
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Dec 15, 2017
Towards Geo-Distributed Machine Learning
Ignacio Cano, Markus Weimer, Dhruv Mahajan, Carlo Curino, Giovanni Matteo Fumarola, Arvind Krishnamurthy
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Nov 16, 2017
Towards High-Performance Prediction Serving Systems
Yunseong Lee, Alberto Scolari, Matteo Interlandi, Markus Weimer, Byung-Gon Chun
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Oct 31, 2017
Apache REEF: Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework
Byung-Gon Chun, Tyson Condie, Yingda Chen, Brian Cho, Andrew Chung, Carlo Curino, Chris Douglas, Matteo Interlandi, Beomyeol Jeon, Joo Seong Jeong, Gyewon Lee, Yunseong Lee, Tony Majestro, Dahlia Malkhi, Sergiy Matusevych, Brandon Myers, Mariia Mykhailova, Shravan Narayanamurthy, Joseph Noor, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Sriram Rao, Russell Sears, Beysim Sezgin, Taegeon Um, Julia Wang, Markus Weimer, Youngseok Yang
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Oct 31, 2016
We're hiring Machine Learning Researchers
Are you amazed by the progress machine learning has made over the past few years? Are you at the same time frustrated that so relatively few organizations in the world can benefit from ML? Do you read NIPS, COLT, ICML and KDD papers for pleasure? If you answered yes to these I want to talk to you. Apply within.
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Jun 28, 2016
Get paid to work on Apache REEF
The team dedicated to Apache REEF at Microsoft is hiring. Apply within :-)
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Jun 22, 2016
Salmon: Towards Production-Grade, Platform-Independent Distributed ML
Mikhail Bilenko, Tom Finley, Shon Katzenberger, Sebastian Kochman, Dhruv Mahajan, Shravan Narayanamurthy, Julia Wang, Shizhen Wang, Markus Weimer
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Jun 22, 2016
Dolphin: Runtime Optimization for Distributed Machine Learning
Byung-Gon Chun, Brian Cho, Beomyeol Jeon, Joo Seong Jeong, Gunhee Kim, Joo Yeon Kim, Woo-Yeon Lee, Yun Seong Lee, Markus Weimer, Youngseok Yang, Gyeong-In Yu
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May 25, 2016
Validating checksums in PowerShell
In this post, I describe to verify
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May 25, 2016
Twitter's Heron, powered by Apache REEF
Today, Twitter announced the open sourcing of Heron, their successor to Apache Storm. Heron’s Apache Hadoop YARN port is built using Apache REEF. I’m excited and looking forward to the interesting edge cases they’ll report over on the dev list :-)
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May 14, 2016
Apache REEF @ Apache Big Data 2016
Sergiy Matusevych presented Apache REEF at Apache Big Data 2016 in Vancouver, BC. Find the slides below.
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Mar 14, 2016
How to make a C++ project compile in Visual Studio 2013 and 2015
Over in Apache REEF, we needed to make our solution compile in both Visual Studio 2013 and 2015. The main impediment to that was the C++ code in the project, which needs to be compiled with the “right” compiler, depending on the version of Visual Studio used. Below, I describe how we created a project file that can be compiled uniformly across Visual Studio versions.
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Feb 3, 2016
Better code reviews for Apache REEF
Using GitHub and Apache’s JIRA for code and issue management can be a bit of a pain. I started a Firefox extension that helps a bit with is. For now, it only adds the JIRA link to the Pull Requests overview page. More to come in the future. Download Version 0.0.1, Source.
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Dec 12, 2015
Towards Geo-Distributed Machine Learning
Ignacio Cano, Markus Weimer, Dhruv Mahajan, Carlo Curino and Giovanni Matteo Fumarola
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Nov 15, 2015
Slides from my talks in Europe in October
Below, you find my slides from my talks in Europe. You can also download them as a PPTX or PDF using the controls at the bottom of the frame.
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Sep 30, 2015
Behind the scenes of Azure Data Lake - Apache REEF
Raghu Ramakrishnan just posted about what we’ve been up to at Microsoft in the last few years:
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Sep 7, 2015
Europe October 2015
During October 2015, I am visiting several European universities and academic institutions.
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Sep 5, 2015
Onto Jekyll
I’ve decided to move this page to Jekyll and have it hosted on GitHub. For the next couple of weeks, this likely means that the page will be riddled with dead links. Stay tuned…
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Sep 1, 2015
Learning Systems 2015 CFP is up
The call for papers for the Learning Systems workshop at NIPS 2015 has been posted:
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Jun 2, 2015
REEF: Retainable Evaluator Execution Framework
Markus Weimer, Yingda Chen, Byung-Gon Chun, Tyson Condie, Carlo Curino, Chris Douglas, Yunseong Lee, Tony Majestro, Dahlia Malkhi , Sergiy Matusevych, Brandon Myers, Shravan Narayanamurthy, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Sriram Rao, Russell Sears, Beysim Sezgin, Julia Wang
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Dec 12, 2014
Elastic Distributed Bayesian Collaborative Filtering
Alex Beutel, Markus Weimer, Tom Minka, Yordan Zaykov, Vijay Narayanan
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Jan 9, 2014
Towards Resource-Elastic Machine Learning
Shravan Narayanamurthy, Markus Weimer, Dhruv Mahajan, Tyson Condie, Sundararajan Sellamanickam, Keerthi Selvaraj
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Jan 9, 2014
Distributed and Scalable PCA in the Cloud
Arun Kumar, Nikos Karampatziakis, Paul Mineiro, Markus Weimer and Vijay Narayanan
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Aug 2, 2013
How to setup PowerShell for GitHub, Maven and Java development
This post has been replaced by the guid in the Apache REEF wiki
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Jul 5, 2013
Tutorial: Machine Learning on Big Data (SIGMOD 2013)
You can download our slides as a PowerPoint or PDF file.
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Apr 24, 2013
ICDE Tutorial on Machine Learning on Big Data
As promised, below the fold there are the slides for our tutorial at ICDE 2013. You can also download them as .PPTX and .PDF.
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Apr 4, 2013
G'day mates: Australia April 2013
I am travelling in Australia for a few days. I can be found in these locations:
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Sep 7, 2012
CFP: Big Learning 2012: Algorithms, Systems and Tools
NIPS 2012 Workshophttp://www.biglearn.org
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Jul 1, 2012
Declarative Systems for Large-Scale Machine Learning
Vinayak Borkar, Yingyi Bu, Michael J. Carey, Joshua Rosen, Neoklis Polyzotis, Tyson Condie, Markus Weimer and Raghu Ramakrishnan
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Jun 6, 2012
KDD Cup 2011 proceedings online
The proceedings of KDD Cup 2011 are now online at JMLR.
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May 21, 2012
A last yodel
Friday was my last day at Yahoo!
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Apr 16, 2012
Talk at Berlin Buzzwords
I’ve been invited to talk about our work on ScalOps at Berlin Buzzwords! According to the Schedule, I’ll be speaking June 4th, 17:04 - 17:45 in the room “Kleistsaal”.
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Apr 6, 2012
WWW 2012 Tutorial: New Templates for Scalable Data Analysis
Alex Smola, Amr Ahmed, Markus Weimer
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Nov 21, 2011
Machine learning in ScalOps, a higher order cloud computing language
Markus Weimer, Tyson Condie and Raghu Ramakrishnan
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Sep 1, 2011
CFP: Big Learning Workshop
Big Learning: Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale
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Aug 21, 2011
The Yahoo! Music Dataset and KDD-Cup’11
Gideon Dror, Noam Koenigstein, Yehuda Koren, Markus Weimer
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Mar 16, 2011
Back to CS 101
So, you read Alex’ post on applying the hashing trick to matrix factorization or our paper on the subject and thought you’d just go ahead and implement it. And instead of computing two hashes, one for the Rademacher function ( [latex]\sigma[/latex] in the paper) and one for the index in the storage array, you compute just one and use the sign of the hash as [latex]\sigma[/latex] and the absolute value for the index. Which looks something like this in Java:
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Dec 11, 2010
A Convenient Framework for Efficient Parallel Multipass Algorithms
Markus Weimer, Sriram Rao, Martin Zinkevich
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Dec 9, 2010
Parallelized Stochastic Gradient Descent
Martin Zinkevich, Markus Weimer, Alex Smola, Lihong Li
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Oct 25, 2010
KDD Cup 2011 - Organized by Yahoo!
I’m happy to announce that we are organizing KDD Cup this year. Read more at kdd.org
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Aug 30, 2010
Quantile Matrix Factorization for Collaborative Filtering
Alexandros Karatzoglou, Markus Weimer
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May 12, 2010
Collaborative Filtering on a Budget
Alexandros Karatzoglou, Alex Smola, Markus Weimer
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Feb 26, 2010
Yahoo! Learning To Rank Challenge
Yahoo! is running a learning to rank challenge. So finally, we can see a fair comparison between all the different approaches to learning to rank.
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Feb 12, 2010
MLOSS 2010 – ICML Workshop just accepted
We are glad to announce that our MLOSS 2010 workshop at this years ICML conference has been accepted!
We are therefore happily accepting software submissions. The deadline for the submissions is April 10th, 2010. If accepted, you can present your software to the workshop audience, which is a great opportunity to make your piece of software more known to the machine learning community.
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Jan 18, 2010
Machine Teaching -- A Machine Learning Approach to Technology Enhanced Learning
Markus Weimer
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Oct 25, 2009
Maximum margin matrix factorization for code recommendation
Markus Weimer, Alexandros Karatzoglou and Marcel Bruch
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Jun 30, 2009
Call for Papers – Special Issue of the “Journal of Web Semantics”
I’m a reviewer of the Special Issue of the Journal of Web Semantics on “Bridging the Gap” - Data Mining and Social Network Analysis for Integrating Semantic Web and Web 2.0. Here is the call for papers.
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Mar 30, 2009
CofiRank 0.1 released
We just released version 0.1 of cofirank, the implementation of our algorithm of the same name.
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Feb 11, 2009
Upcoming Conference: iatel
My grad school is organizing a conference next summer on e-learning – technology enhanced learning for those from across the ocean. You might think “yawn! yet another conference!”, but this one is special:
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Oct 25, 2008
Adaptive Collaborative Filtering
Markus Weimer, Alexandros Karatzoglou and Alexander J. Smola
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Sep 30, 2008
Optimization of the NDCG ranking score
A few people contacted me with the question how the NDCG optimization in our NIPS07 paper on collaborative ranking is done in detail. Unfortunately, we did not manage to squeeze these details into the paper itself. Luckily, there is the internet and I just uploaded my notes on this to the CofiRank site. Please note that these notes are not peer reviewed. If you find a bug/typo/whatever in the derivations, I would be more than happy to hear from you!
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Sep 19, 2008
Improving Maximum Margin Matrix Factorization
Markus Weimer, Alexandros Karatzoglou and Alexander J. Smola
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Dec 17, 2007
CofiRank - Maximum Margin Matrix Factorization for Collaborative Ranking
Markus Weimer, Alexandros Karatzoglou, Quoc Viet Le, Alex Smola
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