"Sparse Methods for Machine Learning: Theory and Algorithms" at this year's NIPS (http://nips.cc/Conferences/2009/Program/event.php?ID=1491) might be interesting as well. I'm not sure if the tutorial focuses on large-scale algorithms, however sparse solutions are crucial at application time.
Bye, Michael > The above is the title of a tutorial to be held at NIPS 2009 that might > be interesting to Mahout people: > > http://nips.cc/Conferences/2009/Program/event.php?ID=1493 > > There is a chance a video of the tutorial will be available online after > the talk. > > Cheers, > Isabel > > >
