EE596A – Submodularity Functions, Optimization, and
Application to Machine Learning
Fall Quarter 2012
Prof. Jeff Bilmes
University of Washington, Seattle
Department of Electrical Engineering
Spring Quarter, 2012
http://j.ee.washington.edu/~bilmes/classes/ee596a_fall_2012/
Lecture 15 - November 21st, 2012
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Announcements, Assignments, and Reminders
Please do use our discussion board
(https://catalyst.uw.edu/gopost/board/bilmes/29948/) for
all questions, comments, so that all will benefit from them being
answered.
I’ll likely be gone the week of Dec 3rd-7th. Hence, we’ll most likely
have two extra lectures the following week (during finals week).
More details TBA.
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Cumulative Outstanding Reading
Read Tom McCormick’s overview paper on SFM http://people.
commerce.ubc.ca/faculty/mccormick/sfmchap8a.pdf
Read chapters 1 - 3 from Fujishige book.
Matroid properties http:
//www-math.mit.edu/~goemans/18433S09/matroid-notes.pdf
Read over lecture slides, all posted on our web page (http://j.ee.
washington.edu/~bilmes/classes/ee596a_fall_2012/).
See the summary slide at the end for lectures for additional reading
sources.
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On Final Projects
We will have final project presentations the week of Dec 10th.
Final projects can be something related to your own research, or just
the presentation of 2 or more papers that relate strongly to
submodularity.
Each presentation should be about 20 minutes.
You are also to turn in a no more than 4 page write up on your
project (conference style, with short abstract).
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On Final Projects: deadlines
By Wednesday, Nov 28th: Proposed Papers to review, or topic of
final project (on our dropbox (https:
//catalyst.uw.edu/collectit/dropbox/bilmes/23873)).
By Thursday, Nov 29th: I’ll give you feedback on these.
By Wednesday Dec 5th: Progress report, initial draft of write up.
By Wednesday Dec 12th: Final 4 page write up.
Time/place of presentations TBD (they’ll be combined with final
lecture of the class, goal is to have two lectures the week of Dec
10th).
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Review: Lecture 14
Today, we’re going to continue going over slides from lecture 14, so
we go back to those slides now. Note that lecture14 slides are
significantly improved since last Friday.
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Sources for Today’s Lecture
Schrijver-2003, Edmonds-1969, Fujishige-2005, Choquet-1955,
Grabisch/Marichal/Mesiar/Pap “Aggregation Functions”, Bach-2011.
Birkhoff, “Lattice Theory”, 1967.
Bixby, Cunningham, Topkis, ”The Partial Order of a Polymatroid
Extreme Point”, 1985.
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