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What models, algorithms, and techniques are leading machine learning researchers working on?

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  So the question seems to be: "what models, algorithms, and techniques are leading machine researchers working on?" I couldn't summarize all of them if I tried, but I recommend getting started by looking at the tutorials and workshops from recent conference meetings of Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), and the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).  For example: http://nips.cc/Conferences/2008/Program/schedule.php?Session=Workshops http://nips.cc/Conferences/2009/Program/schedule.php?Session=Workshops http://icml2008.cs.helsinki.fi/tutorials.shtml You can click through the titles there to get all the information you could desire.