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                  <h1>Algorithms At Large</h1>
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         </div><P>All group members will engage in collaborations with members of other groups at Oxford
         and elsewhere to tackle interesting algorithmic problems arising in a plethora of applications.</P>
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            <h3>Faculty</h3>
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                        <span itemprop="name">Rahul Santhanam</span>
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                        <span itemprop="name">Peter Jeavons</span>
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                        <span itemprop="name">Joel Ouaknine</span>
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            <h3>Past Members</h3>
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                     <span itemprop="name">Matthias Lanzinger</span>
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         <h2>Selected Publications</h2>
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         <ul class="list-unbulleted list-unbulleted-spaced"><li> <p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Bayesian Multi&#x2212;Scale Optimistic Optimization </strong> </p>
            	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Ziyu Wang&#x201a; Babak Shakibi&#x201a; Lin Jin and Nando de Freitas  </em> </p>
            	
            	
            	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
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            Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)</em>.
            
            Pages 1005&#x2212;1014.
            2014.
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            href="/publications/publication8435-abstract.html"> Details   <span class="sr-only" > about <em> Bayesian Multi&#x2212;Scale
            Optimistic Optimization  </em></span> </a> | <a
            
            href="/publications/publication8435.bib"> BibTeX  <span class="sr-only" > data for <em> Bayesian Multi&#x2212;Scale Optimistic
            Optimization  </em></span>   </a> 
            					| <a href="http://jmlr.org/proceedings/papers/v33/wang14d.pdf"> Download (pdf)  <span class="sr-only" > of <em> Bayesian
            Multi&#x2212;Scale Optimistic Optimization  </em></span>   </a>
            				</li><li> <p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            An Introduction to MCMC for Machine Learning </strong> </p>
            	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Christophe Andrieu&#x201a; Nando de Freitas&#x201a; Arnaud Doucet and Michael I.
            Jordan  </em> </p>
            	
            	
            	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In <em>Machine Learning</em>.
            
            Vol. 50.
            
            No. 1&#x2212;2.
            
            Pages 5&#x2212;43.
            2003.
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            <p class="publicationlinks"> <a
            
            href="/publications/publication7533-abstract.html"> Details   <span class="sr-only" > about <em> An Introduction to MCMC for
            Machine Learning  </em></span> </a> | <a
            
            href="/publications/publication7533.bib"> BibTeX  <span class="sr-only" > data for <em> An Introduction to MCMC for Machine
            Learning  </em></span>   </a>  | <a
            href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1020281327116">
            DOI (10.1023/A:1020281327116)
            </a> 
            					| <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A%3A1020281327116"> Link <span class="sr-only" > to <em> An Introduction to MCMC
            for Machine Learning  </em></span> </a>
            				</li><li> <p class="publicationTitle"> <strong>
            Linear and Parallel Learning for Markov Random Fields </strong> </p>
            	    <p class="publicationAuthors"> <em> Yariv Dror Mizrahi&#x201a; Misha Denil and Nando de Freitas  </em> </p>
            	
            	
            	<p class="publicationDetails"> 
            In  
            <em>
            International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)</em>.
            2014.
            </p>
            	
            <p class="publicationlinks"> <a
            
            href="/publications/publication8647-abstract.html"> Details   <span class="sr-only" > about <em> Linear and Parallel Learning
            for Markov Random Fields  </em></span> </a> | <a
            
            href="/publications/publication8647.bib"> BibTeX  <span class="sr-only" > data for <em> Linear and Parallel Learning for Markov
            Random Fields  </em></span>   </a> 
            					| <a href="http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/nando.defreitas/publications/LAP.pdf"> Download (pdf)  <span class="sr-only"
            > of <em> Linear and Parallel Learning for Markov Random Fields  </em></span>   </a>
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