Awards

Two classic paper prizes for papers that appeared at ICML 2003:

 

Semi-Supervised Learning Using Gaussian Fields and Harmonic Functions
Xiaojin Zhu,  Zoubin Ghahramani, and John Lafferty.

 

Online Convex Programming and Generalized In finitesimal Gradient Ascent
Martin Zinkevich

Both classic papers will have an associated invited oral Wednesday 10:30 track A.

 

The best paper is shared between the following two papers:

 

918 Fast Semidifferential-based Submodular Function Optimization
Rishabh Iyer (University of Washington) <rkiyer@u.washington.edu>
Stefanie Jegelka (U.C. Berkeley) <stefje@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Jeff Bilmes (University of Washington, Dept. of EE) <bilmes@ee.washington.edu>
Wednesday 10:30 Track B

 

408 Vanishing Component Analysis
Roi Livni (HUJI) <roi.livni@mail.huji.ac.il>
David Lehavi (Hp Research) <david.lehavi@hp.com>
Sagi Schein (Hp Research) <sagi.schein@hp.com>
Hila Nachliely (Hp Research) <hila.nachlieli@hp.com>
Shai Shalev-Shwartz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) <shais@cs.huji.ac.il>
Amir Globerson (Hebrew University) <amir.globerson@mail.huji.ac.il>
Tuesday 2:00 Track C

 

The best paper runner up is shared between the following:

 

403 Smooth Sparse Coding via Marginal Regression for Learning Sparse Representations
Krishnakumar Balasubramanian (Georgia Tech) <krishnakumar3@gatech.edu>
Kai Yu (Baidu) <kai.yu.cool@googlemail.com>
Guy Lebanon (Georgia Tech) <lebanon@cc.gatech.edu>
Monday 2:00 Track B.

 

657 Sparse coding for multitask and transfer learning
Andreas Maurer <am@andreas-maurer.eu>
Massi Pontil <m.pontil@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
Bernardino Romera-Paredes (University College London) <ucabbro@ucl.ac.uk>
Tuesday 4:00 Track C