Who Am I?

I'm a PhD student in the field of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. My primary interest is in the field of Machine Learning with a particular focus in Online Learning and sequential decision making. My thesis advisor is Peter Bartlett.

List of Publications

  • Webspam Identification Through Content and Hyperlinks
    Jacob Abernethy, Olivier Chapelle and Carlos Castillo
    [PDF] - AirWeb 2008, Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (April 2008)
  • Optimal Strategies and Minimax Lower Bounds for Online Convex Games
    Jacob Abernethy, Peter Bartlett, Alexander Rakhlin and Ambuj Tewari
    [PDF - draft] - Conference on Learning Theory (July 2008)
  • Competing in the Dark: An Efficient Algorithm for Bandit Linear Optimization
    Jacob Abernethy, Elad Hazan and Alexander Rakhlin
    Best Student Paper Award
    [PDF - draft] - Conference on Learning Theory (July 2008)
  • Optimal Strategies from Random Walks
    Jacob Abernethy, Manfred Warmuth and Joel Yellin
    [PDF - draft] - Conference on Learning Theory (July 2008)
  • A New Approach to Collaborative Filtering: Operator Estimation with Spectral Regularization
    Francis Bach, Jacob Abernethy, Jean-Philippe Vert, Theodoros Evgeniou
    [PDF - draft] - Journal of Machine Learning Research (Accepted for Publication, July 2008)
  • Eliciting Consumer Preferences Using Robust Adaptive Choice Questionnaires
    Jacob Abernethy, Theodoros Evgeniou, Olivier Toubia, Jean-Philippe Vert
    [PDF] - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 2
  • Online Discovery of Similarity Mappings
    Alexander Rakhlin, Jacob Abernethy, Peter Bartlett
    [PDF] - International Conference on Machine Learning (June 2008)
  • Multitask Learning with Expert Advice
    Jacob Abernethy, Peter Bartlett, Alexander Rakhlin
    [PDF] - Conference on Learning Theory (June 2007)
  • Continuous Experts and the Binning Algorithm
    Jacob Abernethy, John Langford, Manfred Warmuth
    [PDF] - Conference on Learning Theory (June 2006)

Interesting Links

Some Research Collaborators and Co-authors