NIPS 2015 CONFERENCE BOOK MONTREAL 2015 N I P S 2 0 15 LOCATION Palais des Congrès de Montréal Convention and Exhibition Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada TUTORIALS December 7, 2015 CONFERENCE SESSIONS December 8 - 10, 2015 SYMPOSIA Sponsored by the Neural Information Processing December 10, 2015 System Foundation, Inc The technical program includes 6 invited talks and WORKSHOPS 403 accepted papers, selected from a total of 1838 December 11-12, 2015 submissions considered by the program committee. Because the conference stresses interdisciplinary interactions, there are no parallel sessions. Papers presented at the conference will appear in “Advances in Neural Information Processing 28,” edited by edited by Daniel D. Lee, Masashi Sugiyama, Corinna Cortes, Neil Lawrence and Roman Garnett. 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS Core Logistics Team 2 Wednesday Organizing Committee 3 Oral Sessions Program Committee 3 Sessions 5 - 8, Abstracts 73 NIPS Foundation Offices and Board Members 3 Spotlights Sessions Sponsors 4 - 7 Sessions 5 - 8, Abstracts 73 Poster Sessions PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS 8 Sessions 1 - 101 76 Exhibitors 9 Location of Presentations 80 Letter From The President 10 Abstracts 81 Future Conferences 11 Demonstrations 102 MONDAY Thursday Tutorials Oral Sessions Abstracts 13 Session 9 105 Poster Sessions Spotlights Sessions Location of Presentations 15 Session 9 105 Sessions 1 - 101 16 Poster Sessions Monday Abstracts 17 Sessions 1 - 100 105 Location of Presentations 109 Tuesday Abstracts 110 Oral Sessions Sessions 1 - 4, Abstracts 41 Symposia 131 Spotlights Sessions Workshops 132 Sessions 1 - 4, Abstracts 41 Reviewers 133 Poster Sessions Author Index 135 Sessions 1 - 101 44 Location of Presentations 48 CORE LOGISTICS TEAM Abstracts 49 The organization and management of NIPS would not be possible without the help of many volunteers, students, Demonstrations 70 researchers and administrators who donate their valuable time and energy to assist the conference in various ways. However, there is a core team at the Salk Institute whose tireless efforts make the conference run smoothly and efficiently every year. NIPS would like to especially thank This year, NIPS would particularly like to acknowledge the Microsoft Research for their donation of exceptional work of: Conference Management Toolkit (CMT) Lee Campbell - IT Manager software and server space. Mary Ellen Perry - Executive Director Mike Perry - Administrator NIPS appreciates the taping of tutorials, Susan Perry - Volunteer Manager conference, symposia & select workshops. Jen Perry - Administrator Lee Maree Fazzio - Administrator 2 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs: Corinna Cortes (Google Research) Workshop Chairs: Borja Balle (McGill University) Neil D Lawrence (University of Sheffield) Marco Cuturi (Kyoto University) Program Chairs: Daniel D Lee (University of Pennsylvania) Demonstration Chair: Marc’Aurelio Ranzato (Facebook) Masashi Sugiyama (The University of Tokyo) Publications Chair and Electronic Proceedings Chair Tutorials Chair: Ralf Herbrich (Amazon Development Center Roman Garnett (Washington Univ. St. Louis) Germany GmbH) Program Managers: Pedro A Ortega (Univ. of Pennsylvania) Yung-Kyun Noh (Seoul National Univ.) NIPS Foundation OFFICERS & BOARD MEMBERS PRESIDENT ADVisory BOARD Terrence Sejnowski, The Salk Institute Sue Becker, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada Yoshua Bengio, University of Montreal, Canada TREASURER Jack Cowan, University of Chicago Marian Stewart Bartlett, UC San Diego Thomas G. Dietterich, Oregon State University Stephen Hanson, Rutgers University Secretary Michael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley Michael Mozer, University of Colorado, Boulder Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania Scott Kirkpatrick, Hebrew University, Jerusalem EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Daphne Koller, Stanford University Mary Ellen Perry, The Salk Institute John Lafferty, University of Chicago Todd K. Leen, Oregon Health & Sciences University EXECUTIVE BOARD Richard Lippmann, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Max Welling, University of Amsterdam Bartlett Mel, University of Southern California Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge John Moody, Itnl Computer Science Institute, Berkeley & Portland Peter Bartlett, Queensland University and UC Berkeley John C. Platt, Microsoft Research Léon Bottou, Microsoft Research Gerald Tesauro, IBM Watson Labs Chris J.C. Burges, Microsoft Research Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University Fernando Pereira, Google Research Dave Touretzky, Carnegie Mellon University Rich Zemel, University of Toronto Lawrence Saul, University of California, San Diego Bernhard Schölkopf, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems EMERITUS MEMBERS Dale Schuurmans, University of Alberta, Canada Gary Blasdel, Harvard Medical School John Shawe-Taylor, University College London T. L. Fine, Cornell University Sara A. Solla, Northwestern University Medical School Eve Marder, Brandeis University Yair Weiss, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chris Williams, University of Edinburgh PROGRAM COMMITTEE Maria-Florina Balcan (Carnegie Mellon Tomoharu Iwata (Nippon Telegraph and Shinichi Nakajima (Technische U. Berlin) Ichiro Takeuchi (Nagoya Inst. of University.) Telephone Corporation) Sebastian Nowozin (MSR Cambridge) Technology) David Balduzzi (Wellington) Amos J. Storkey (U. of Edinburgh) Peter Orbanz (Columbia U.) Toshiyuki Tanaka (Kyoto U.) Samy Bengio (Google Research) Kee-Eung Kim (KAIST) Sinno Pan (NTU Singapore) Ryota Tomioka (Toyota Technological Alina Beygelzimer (Yahoo!) Samory Kpotufe (Princeton U.) Barnabas Poczos (Carnegie Mellon U.) Inst. at Chicago) Daniel Braun (MPI Tuebingen) Andreas Krause (ETH) Massimiliano Pontil (U. Collage London) Ivor Tsang (U. of Technology, Sydney) Emma Brunskill (CMU) James Kwok (Hong Kong U. of Science Novi Quadrianto (U. of Sussex) Koji Tsuda (U. of Tokyo) Gal Chechik (Bar Ilan U. / Google) and Tech) Gunnar Raetsch (Memorial Sloan- Naonori Ueda (Nippon Telegraph and Kyunghyun Cho (U. Montreal) Christoph Lampert (Inst. of Science & Kettering Cancer Center) Telephone Corporation) Seungjin Choi (POSTECH) Tech Austria) Alain Rakotomamonjy (U. of Rouen) Laurens van der Maaten (U.of Delft) Aaron Courville (U. Montreal) John Langford (Microsoft) Cynthia Rudin (MIT) Rene Vidal (Johns Hopkins U.) Marco Cuturi (Kyoto U.) Hugo Larochelle (U. Sherbrooke) Ruslan Salakhutdinov (U. of Toronto) S.V.N. Vishwanathan (UC Santa Cruz) Florence d’Alche-Buc (Telecom Pavel Laskov (U. of Tuebingen) Issei Sato (U. of Tokyo) Liwei Wang (Peking U.) ParisTech) Svetlana Lazebnik (U. of Illinois at Clayton Scott (U. of Michigan) Sinead Williamson (U. of Texas at Marc Deisenroth (Imperial College Urbana-Champaign) Matthias Seeger (Amazon Development Austin) London) Honglak Lee (U. Michigan) Center Germany, Berlin) Eric Xing (Carnegie Mellon U.) Inderjit Dhillon (U. of Texas at Austin) Deng Li (MSR) Dino Sejdinovic (U. of Oxford) Huan Xu (National U. of Singapore) Francesco Dinuzzo (IBM Research) Hang Li (Huawei Technologies) Yevgeny Seldin (U. of Copenhagen) Eunho Yang (IBM Thomas J. Watson Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan (EPFL) Chih-Jen Lin (National Taiwan U.) Jianbo Shi (U. of Pennsylvania) Research Center) Aldo Faisal (Imperial College London) Hsuan-Tien Lin (National Taiwan U.) Aarti Singh (CMU) Jieping Ye (U. of Michigan) Emily Fox (U. Washington) Yuanqing Lin (NEC Labs) Le Song (Georgia Inst. of Technology) Byron Yu (Carnegie Mellon U.) Kenji Fukumizu (Inst. of Statistical Zhouchen Lin (Peking U.) Cheng Soon Ong (NICTA) Jingyi Yu (U. of Delaware) Mathematics) Tie-Yan Liu (MSR Asia) Nati Srebro (Toyota Technological Inst. Xinhua Zhang (National ICT Australia) Thomas Gaertner (Fraunhofer IAIS) Aurelie Lozano (IBM Research) at Chicago) Dengyong Zhou (MSR) Amir Globerson (Hebrew U. of David McAllester (Toyota Technological Bharath Sriperumbudur ( Pennsylvania Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing U.) Jerusalem) Inst. at Chicago) State U.) Jun Zhu (Tsinghua U.) Ian Goodfellow (Google) Marina Meila (U. of Washington) Alan Stocker (U. of Pennsylvania) Xiaojin Zhu (U. of Wisconsin-Madison) Moritz Grosse-Wentrup (MPI for Shakir Mohamed (Google) Wee Sun Lee (National University of Intelligent Systems) Claire Monteleoni (George Washington Singapore) Bohyung Han (Postech) U.) Ilya Sutskever (Google) Elad Hazan (Princeton U.) 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