"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
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