Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and CSAIL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Building 46-4053
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
Email: rsalakhu (at) mit (dot) edu
Office: 46-4053H

Visit my new webpage at Toronto.



Quick link to my research papers and invited talks.

In July 2011, I will be joining the faculty of Department of Statistics and Department of Computer Science (by courtesy) at the University of Toronto.

I will serve as an Area Chair for the NIPS 2011 program committee.

Upcoming Visits:

Several Representative Papers:


Recent Papers:

Learning with the Weighted Trace-norm under Arbitrary Sampling Distributions
Rina Foygel, Ohad Shamir, Nathan Srebro, and Ruslan Salakhutdinov
ArXiv Report, 2011

Domain Adaptation: Overfitting and Small Sample Statistics
Dean Foster, Sham Kakade, and Ruslan Salakhutdinov
ArXiv Report [ pdf], 2011

One-shot learning of simple visual concepts
Brenden Lake , Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Jason Gross, and Josh Tenenbaum.
To appear in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011 [ pdf], videos

Learning to Share Visual Appearance for Multiclass Object Detection
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Antonio Torralba , and Josh Tenenbaum.
To appear in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2011 [ pdf]

Collaborative Filtering in a Non-Uniform World: Learning with the Weighted Trace Norm.
Ruslan Salakhutdinov and Nathan Srebro.
Neural Information Processing Systems 24, 2011 [ pdf]

Practical Large-Scale Optimization for Max-Norm Regularization.
Jason Lee, Benjamin Recht, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Nathan Srebro, and Joel A. Tropp.
Neural Information Processing Systems 24, 2011 [ pdf]

Discovering Binary Codes for Documents by Learning Deep Generative Models.
Geoffrey Hinton and Ruslan Salakhutdinov.
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2010, [ pdf]

One-Shot Learning with a Hierarchical Nonparametric Bayesian Model.
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Josh Tenenbaum, and Antonio Torralba.
MIT Technical Report MIT-CSAIL-TR-2010-052, 2010, [ pdf]

An Efficient Learning Procedure for Deep Boltzmann Machines.
Ruslan Salakhutdinov and Geoffrey Hinton .
MIT Technical Report MIT-CSAIL-TR-2010-037, 2010, [ pdf] [ Code]

Learning in Deep Boltzmann Machines using Adaptive MCMC.
Ruslan Salakhutdinov.
In 27th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2010), [ pdf]

Efficient Learning of Deep Boltzmann Machines.
Ruslan Salakhutdinov and Hugo Larochelle.
AI and Statistics, 2010, [ pdf]