Meeting Schedule

Here is the schedule of the weekly meetings of the group this summer. 

Date Topic Presenter
Jul 10 Comparing Clusterings. (see here) Marina Meila
Jul 24 Introduction and Comparison of various spectral methods.(see here) Deepak Verma
Aug 1 Multiway cuts and spectral clustering(see here) Liang Xu
Aug 8 Web as a Graph Qunhua Li
Aug 15 No Meeting.  
Aug 22 Learning Spectral Methods Liang Xu
Aug 29

The Missing Link - A Probabilistic Model of Document Content and Hypertext Connectivity

Background Reading:  PLSA,  PHITS 

For the extermely motivated: Gaussian Latent Semantic Models for Collaborative Filtering

Deepak Verma