Amr Ahmed
Google Publications
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Dirichlet-Hawkes Processes with Applications to Clustering Continuous-Time Document Streams
Nan Du, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Amr Ahmed, Alexander J. Smola, Le Song
Proceedings of the 21th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (2015), pp. 219-228
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Reducing the Sampling Complexity of Topic Models
Aaron Li, Amr Ahmed, Sujith Ravi, Alexander J Smola
ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) (2014)
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Amr Ahmed, Abhimanyu Das, Alexander J. Smola
ACM International Conference on Web Search And Data Mining (WSDM) (2014)
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Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with the Parameter Server
Mu Li, David G. Anderson, Jun Woo Park, Alexander J. Smola, Amr Ahmed, Vanja Josifovski, James Long, Eugene J. Shekita, Bor-Yiing Su
Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), USENIX (2014), pp. 583-598
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Taxonomy Discovery for Personalized Recommendation
Yuchen Zhang, Amr Ahmed, Vanja Josifovski, Alexander J Smola
ACM International Conference on Web Search And Data Mining (WSDM) (2014)
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Distributed Large-scale Natural Graph Factorization
Amr Ahmed, Nino Shervashidze, Shravan Narayanamurthy,, Vanja Josifovski, Alexander J Smola
Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013) (to appear)
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Focused Marix Factorization for Audience Selection in Display Advertising
Bhargav Kanagal, Amr Ahmed, Sandeep Pandey, Vanja Josifovski, Lluis Garcia-Pueyo, Jeff Yuan
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) (2013)
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Hierarchical Geographical Modeling of User locations from Social Media Posts
Amr Ahmed, Liangjie Hong, Alexander J Smola
Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013) (to appear)
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KDD tutorial: The Dataminer Guide to Scalable Mixed-Membership and Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Amr Ahmed, Alexander J Smola
ACM conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) (2013) (to appear)
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Latent Factor Models with Additive Hierarchically-smoothed User Preferences
Amr Ahmed, Bhargav Kanagal, Sandeep Pandey, Vanja Josifovski, Lluis Garcia-Pueyo
Proceedings of The 6th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) (2013)
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Measurement and modeling of eye-mouse behavior
Vidhya Navalpakkam, LaDawn Jentzsch, Rory Sayres, Sujith Ravi, Amr Ahmed, Alex J. Smola
Proceedings of the 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (2013)
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Scalable Dynamic Nonparametric Bayesian Models of Content and Users
Amr Ahmed, Eric P. Xing
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI - Best paper track) (2013) (to appear)
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The Nested Chinese Restaurant Franchise Process: User Tracking and Document Modeling
Amr Ahmed, Liangjie Hong, Alexander J Smola
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (2013) (to appear)
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FastEx: Hash Clustering with Exponential Families
Amr Ahmed, Sujith Ravi, Shravan Narayanamurthy, Alex Smola
Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. (NIPS) (2012)
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Hokusai | Sketching Streams in Real Time
Sergiy Matusevych, Alex Smola, Amr Ahmed
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) (2012)
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MedLDA: Maximum Margin Supervised Topic Models
Jun Zhu, Amr Ahmed, Eric P. Xing
Journal of Machine Learning Research (2012) (to appear)
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Web-Scale Multi-Task Feature Selection for Behavioral Targeting
Amr Ahmed, Mohamed Aly, Abhimanyu Das, Alex Smola, Tasos Anastasakos
Proceedings of The 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), ACM (2012) (to appear)
Previous Publications
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Discovering Geographical Topics In The Twitter Stream
Liangjie Hong, Amr Ahmed, Siva Gurumurthy, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis, Alex Smola
Proceedings of The 21st International World Wide Web conference (WWW) (2012)
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Fair and Balanced: Learning to Present News Stories
Amr Ahmed, Choon-hui Teo, S.V.N Vishwanathan, Alex Smola
Proceedings of The 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) (2012)
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Hokusai - Sketching Streams in Real Time
Sergiy Matusevych, Alex J. Smola, Amr Ahmed
CoRR, vol. abs/1210.4891 (2012)
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Scalable Inference in Latent Variable Models
Amr Ahmed, Mohamed Aly, Joseph Gonzalez, Shravan Narayanamurthy, Alex Smola
Proceedings of The 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) (2012)
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Supercharging Recommender Systems using Taxonomies for Learning User Purchase Behavior
Bhargav Kanagal, Amr Ahmed, Sandeep Pandey, Vanja Josifovski, Jeff Yuan, Lluis Garcia Pueyo
Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB) (2012)
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Tutorial: New Templates for Scalable Data Analysis
Amr Ahmed, Alex Smola, Markus Weimer
The 21st International World Wide Web conference (WWW) (2012)
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Modeling Users and Content: Structured Probabilistic Representation, and Scalable Online Inference Algorithms
Ph.D. Thesis (2011)
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Online Inference for the Infinite Cluster-topic Model: Storylines from Streaming Text
Amr Ahmed, Qirong Ho, Choon-hui Teo, Jacobe Eisenstein, Alex Smola, Eric Xing
Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) (2011)
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Online Inference for the Infinite Topic-Cluster Model: Storylines from Streaming Text
Amr Ahmed, Qirong Ho, Choon Hui Teo, Jacob Eisenstein, Alexander J. Smola, Eric P. Xing
Journal of Machine Learning Research - Proceedings Track, vol. 15 (2011), pp. 101-109
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Scalable Distributed Inference of Dynamic User Interests for Behavioral Targeting
Amr Ahmed, Yucheng Low, Mohamed Aly, Vanja Josifovski, Alex Smola
Proceedings of The 17th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2011., ACM
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Sparse Additive Generative Models of Text
Jacob Eisenstein, Amr Ahmed, Eric Xing
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (2011)
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Tutorial: Latent Variable Models for the Internet
Amr Ahmed, Alex Smola
the 20th International World Wide Web conference (WWW) (2011)
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Tutorial: Graphical Models for the Internet
Amr Ahmed, Alex Smola
The 25th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. (NIPS), (2011)
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Unified analysis of streaming news
Amr Ahmed, Qirong Ho, Jacob Eisenstein, Eric P. Xing, Alexander J. Smola, Choon Hui Teo
WWW (2011), pp. 267-276
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Uniļ¬ed Analysis of Streaming News
Amr Ahmed, Qirong Ho, Jacob Eisenstein, Eric P. Xing, Alex Smola, Choon-hui Teo
Proceedings of the 20th International World Wide Web conference (WWW) (2011)
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WWW 2011 invited tutorial overview: latent variable models on the internet
Amr Ahmed, Alexander J. Smola
WWW (Companion Volume) (2011), pp. 281-282
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Estimating Time-Varying Networks
Mladen Kolar, Le Song, Amr Ahmed, Eric P. Xing
Annals of Applied Statistics (AOAS) (2010)
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Recovering Time-Varying Networks of Dependencies in Social and Biological Studies
Amr Ahmed, Eric P. Xing
Proceeding of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) (2010)
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Staying Informed: Supervised and Semi-Supervised Multi-view Topical Analysis of Ideological Perspective
Amr Ahmed, Eric P. Xing
Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (2010)
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Structured Literature Image Finder: Extracting Information from Text and Images in Biomedical Literature.
Luis Pedro Coelho, Amr Ahmed, Andrew Arnold, Joshua Kangas, Saboor Sheikh, Eric P. Xing, William W. Cohen, Robert Murphey
Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, Springer (2010)
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Structured Literature Image Finder: Parsing Text and Figures in Biomedical Literature
Amr Ahmed, Andrew Arnold, Luis Pedro Coelho, Joshua Kangas, Saboor Sheikh, Eric P. Xing, William W. Cohen, Robert Murphy
Journal of Web Semantics (2010)
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Timeline: A Dynamic Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Model for Recovering Birth/Death and Evolution of Topics in Text Stream
Amr Ahmed, Eric P. Xing
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) (2010)
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Collapsed Variational Inference for Time-Varying Dirichlet Process Mixture Models
Amr Ahmed, Eric P. Xing
Non-Parametric Bayes Workshop, NIPS (2009)
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MedLDA: Maximum Margin Supervised Topic Models for Regression and Classification
Jun Zhu, Amr Ahmed, Eric P. Xing
The 26th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (2009)
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SLIF: Structure Literature Image Finer
Amr Ahmed, Andrew Arnold, Luis Pedro Coelho, Joshua Kangas, Saboor Sheikh, Eric P Xing, William W Cohen, Robert Murphy
The Annual Meeting of The ISMB BioLINK Special Interest Group : Text Mining, Image Analysis and the future of Scientific Publishing In Association with ISMB/ECCB (2009)
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Structured Correspondence Topic Models for Mining Captioned Figures in Biological Literature
Amr Ahmed, Eric P. Xing, William W. Cohen, Robert Murphy
Proceedings of The Fifteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) (2009)
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Dynamic Non-Parametric Mixture Models and The Recurrent Chinese Restaurant Process : with Applications to Evolutionary Clustering
Amr Ahmed, Eric P Xing
Proceedings of The Eighth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) (2008)
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Joint Latent Topic Models for Text and Citations
Ramesh Nallapati, Amr Ahmed, Eric P. Xing, William W. Cohen
Proceedings of The Fourteen ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) (2008)
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Time-Varying Networks: Recovering Temporally Rewiring Genetic Networks During the Life Cycle of Drosophila melanogaster
Amr Ahmed, Le Song, Eric P Xing
arXiv:0901.0138v2 (2008)
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Training Hierarchical Feed-forward Visual Recognition Models Using Transfer Learning from Pseudo-Tasks
Amr Ahmed, Kai Yu, Wei Xu, Yihong Gong, Eric P. Xing
Proceeding of the 10th European Conference of Computer Vision (ECCV) (2008)
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Modeling Topic Evolution in Text Stream
Amr Ahmed, Eric P Xing
CMU-MLD Technical Report CMU-ML-07-117 (2007)
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On Tight Approximate Inference of the Logistic Normal Topic Admixture Model
Amr Ahmed, Eric P Xing
The Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) (2007)
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Sparse Word Graphs: A scalable algorithm for capturing word correlations in topic models
Ramesh Nallapati, Amr Ahmed, William W Cohen, Eric P. Xing
In International Conference of Data Mining, Workshop on High performance data mining (ICDM WS) (2007)
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Efficient Communication in Multi-Agent Systems
Myeong-Wuk Jang, Amr Ahmed, Gul Agha
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III: Research Issues and Practical Applications, LNCS 3390, Springer-Verlag (2005)
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Task Assignment for a Physical Agent Team via a Dynamic Forward/Reverse Auction Mechanism.
Amr Ahmed, Abhilash Patel, Tom Brown, MyungJoo Ham, Myeong-Wuk Jang, Gul Agha
The International Conference of Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems KIMAS (2005)







