Cheriton School of Computer Science Professor , his former PhD student , now an Assistant Professor at McMaster University, along with colleagues Christopher Liaw, Abbas Mehrabian and Yaniv Plan, have received a , the .
NeurIPS (formerly NIPS) is the largest and most important annual conference for machine learning. It attracts more than 5,000 paper submissions and many thousands of participants. This year, the conference was held from December 3 to 8, 2018 in Palais des congrès de Montréal, a large convention center in Montréal.
Their paper is titled . Estimating distributions from observed data is a fundamental task in statistics that has been studied for more than a century. This task also arises in applied machine learning and it is common to assume that the distribution can be modelled using a mixture of Gaussians. Read the .