• About summer seminar

• Discriminative vs. generative learning

Summer Seminar Information

• Schedule, slides, and related information relocated at:

URL: http://enpub.eas.asu.edu/cseml

• Group meeting password protected

• Newsgroup: asuml@googlegroups.com, Want to join? E-mail shuiwang.ji@asu.edu

Preliminary Summer Schedule

• 05/31/2007: Hidden Markov Models by Zheng Zhao

• 06/05/2007 and 06/07/2007 : TBA• 06/12/2007 and 06/14/2007: ICML’07

papers• 06/26/2007--: Structured learning,

Embryonic biology, ICML’07 papers, etc.• E-mail slides to shuiwang.ji@gmail.com at

least one day before presentation.

Generative vs. Discriminative Learning

Shuiwang Ji

HMM vs. CRF

• Naïve Bayes Logistic regression

• HMM CRF

Additional readings

• An Introduction to Conditional Random Fields for Relational Learning (http://www.cs.umass.edu/~mccallum/papers/crf-tutorial.pdf )