Avrham P Ruderman
About Me
I am a PhD student at the College of Computer Science and Engineering, Autralian National University and at the Machine Learning Research Group, NICTA.
Research Interests
- Feature learning, particularly computational aspects.
- Unsupervised learning, particularly how it can help supervised learning.
- Estimation of f-divergences.
- Statitical learning theory.
Publications
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Tighter Variational Representations of f-Divergences via Restriction to Probability Measures
Avraham Ruderman, Mark Reid, Dario Garcia-Garcia, James Petterson
ICML, 2012.
[arXiv]
[bibtex]
This paper is about empirically estimating the f-divergence between two distributions.