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Daniel Tarlow

Machine Learning Research Group
University of Toronto
Department of Computer Science

dtarlow cs toronto edu

About

I'm a Ph.D. student in the Machine Learning Group within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where I also received my M.Sc. in January of 2008. I graduated from Stanford in June of 2006 with a BS in Computer Science. My advisor is Richard Zemel, and I also work with Brendan Frey.

I am broadly interested in the representation, reasoning, and learning needed to apply probabilistic models to hard real world problems. I spend most of my time working on MAP inference problems -- specifically, new formulations and applications of max-product belief propagation and related decomposition-based algorithms. Beyond this, I work a bit on nonparametric Bayesian models, clustering, image segmentation, 3D reconstruction from feature trajectories, recommendation systems, and other matrix-factorization-based models.

Last year, I was on leave in San Francisco, splitting my time between modeling hurricane damage to oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and learning about the physics and uncertainty associated with modeling how we use energy in cities and buildings.


Around the Web


Peer Reviewed Publications

Machine Learning & Computer Vision

Flexible Priors for Exemplar-based Clustering (2008)
Daniel Tarlow, Richard Zemel, and Brendan Frey.
The 24th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).
[pdf] [bibtex]

Unsupervised Learning of Skeletons from Motion (2008)
David Ross, Daniel Tarlow, and Richard Zemel.
The 10th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
[pdf] [webpage]

Learning Articulated Skeletons From Motion (2007)
David Ross, Daniel Tarlow, and Richard Zemel.
Workshop on Dynamical Vision at International Conference on Computer Vision (WDV-ICCV).
[pdf] [webpage] [bibtex]

Using Combinatorial Optimization within Max-Product Belief Propagation (2007)
John Duchi, Daniel Tarlow, Gal Elidan, and Daphne Koller.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 19).
[pdf] [bibtex]

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Automatically Calibrating a Probabilistic Graphical Model of Building Energy Consumption (2009)
Daniel Tarlow, Andrew Peterman, Benedict Schwegler, and Christopher Trigg.
The 11th International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) Conference on Building Simulation.
[pdf]


Selected Talks

Max-Product in High Order Factor Graphs
Toronto Machine Learning Group Seminar, Toronto, Canada, Fall 2009.
Microsoft Research Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, Summer 2009.

Automatically Calibrating a Probabilistic Graphical Model of Building Energy Consumption
IBPSA Conference on Building Simulation, Glasgow, Scotland, Summer 2009.

Flexible Priors for Exemplar-based Clustering
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Helsinki, Finland, Summer 2008.
Toronto Machine Learning Group Seminar, Toronto, Canada, Winter 2008.
[pdf] [video]

Learning Articulated Skeletons from Motion
CIFAR Summer School on Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception, Summer 2007.
[pdf]

Using Combinatorial Optimization within Max-Product Belief Propagation
Toronto Machine Learning Group Seminar, Toronto, Canada, Fall 2006.
[ppt] [pdf]

The Role of Features in a Feedback-based Ranking System
Google TechTalk, Mountain View, California, Summer 2006.

Partition-based Inference in Markov Networks
with John Duchi.
DAGS, Stanford, California, Spring 2006.

Learning in General Games
with Lee Zen and Ankit Garg.
Stanford Logic Group, Stanford, California, Winter 2005.
[link]

Automated Grading of Logic-based Homework Problems
Stanford Logic Group, Stanford, California, Summer 2004.


Other Stuff

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