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Selected and Recent papers
Online Learning in The Manifold of Low-Rank Matrices
U. Shalit, D. Weinshall, G. Chechik
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS spotlight) 2010

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Activity motifs reveal principles of timing in transcriptional control of the yeast metabolic network
G. Chechik, E. Oh, O. Rando, J. Weissman, A. Regev and D. Koller
Nature Biotechnology, 26(11) pp 1251-1259. Nov 2008 , Local PDF version
Activity motifs web-page | Research Highlights in Nat Chem Biology, Nat Reviews genetics

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Functional Organization of the S. cerevisiae Phosphorylation Network
D. Fiedler, H. Braberg, M. Mehta, G. Chechik, G. Cagney, P. Mukherjee, and A.C. Silva, M. Shales, S.R. Collins, S. van Wageningen, P. Kemmeren, F.C.P. Holstege, J.S. Weissman, M. Christopher-Keogh, D. Koller, K.M. Shokat, and N.J. Krogan
Cell, 136(5) 952-63. 2009

Timing properties of gene expression responses to environmental changes
G. Chechik and D. Koller
J. Computational Biology. Vol 16, p. 279-290, 2009

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Reduction of Information Redundancy in the Ascending Auditory Pathway
G. Chechik, M. Anderson, O. Bar-Yosef, E. Young, N. Tishby and I. Nelken
Neuron 51 (3), 359-368, 2006. Full Text | PDF
News-and-views by J. Schnupp; Accompanying web-page. Faculty of 1000
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Faculty of 1000

Temporal and Cross-Subject Probabilistic Models for fMRI Prediction Tasks
Alexis Battle, Gal Chechik and Daphne Koller
Neural Information Processing Systems NIPS 2006; Human Brain Mapping 2006;
3rd prize, 2006 EBC competition..
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Full list of Publications

Journal Papers
20. Large scale online Learning of Image Similarity through ranking
G. Chechik, V. Sharma, U. Shalit, S. Bengio
J. Machine Learning Research. 11 p. 1109-1135, 2010, OASIS web-page

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19. Sound retrieval and ranking using auditory sparse-code representations
RF. Lyon, M. Rehn, T. Walters, S. Bengio, G. Chechik
Neural Computation, 22(9) 2390-2416, 2010

18. Activity motifs reveal principles of timing in transcriptional control of the yeast metabolic network
G. Chechik, E. Oh, O. Rando, J. Weissman, A. Regev and D. Koller
Nature Biotechnology, 26(11) pp 1251-1259. Nov 2008

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17. Functional Organization of the S. cerevisiae Phosphorylation Network
D. Fiedler, H. Braberg, M. Mehta, G. Chechik, G. Cagney, P. Mukherjee, and A.C. Silva, M. Shales, S.R. Collins, S. van Wageningen, P. Kemmeren, F.C.P. Holstege, J.S. Weissman, M. Christopher-Keogh, D. Koller, K.M. Shokat, and N.J. Krogan
Cell, 136(5) 952-63. 2009

16. Timing properties of gene expression responses to environmental changes
G. Chechik and D. Koller
J. Computational Biology. Vol 16, p. 279-290, 2009

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15. Max Margin classification of data with absent features
Gal Chechik, Geremy Heitz, Gal Elidan, Pieter Abbeel and Daphne Koller
Journal of Machine Learning Research, JMLR, 9(Jan):1--21, 2008

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14. Euclidean Embedding of Co-occurrence Data.
Amir Globerson, Gal Chechik, Fernando Pereira and Naftali Tishby
Journal of Machine Learning Research, JMLR, 8 (Oct), 2007

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13. Information theory in auditory research
Israel Nelken, Gal Chechik
Hearing Research 229, p. 94-105, 2007

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12. Reduction of Information Redundancy in the Ascending Auditory Pathway
G. Chechik, M. Anderson, O. Bar-Yosef, E. Young, N. Tishby and I. Nelken
Neuron 51 (3), p. 359-368, 2006.

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11. Discrete profile alignment via information bottleneck.
S. O'Rourke, G. Chechik, R. Friedman, and E. Eskin
BMC bioinformatics, 7(S1):S8, Feb 2006, p. 1-11.

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10. Encoding stimulus information by spike numbers and mean response time in primary auditory cortex.
I. Nelken, G. Chechik, T.D. Mrsic Flogel A.J. King and J.W.H. Schupp
J. Computational Neuroscience 19(2):199-221, 2005

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9. Information Bottleneck for Gaussian variables.
G. Chechik, A. Globerson, N. Tishby and Y. Weiss
J. Machine Learning Research 6(Jan) p.165-188, 2005

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8. Applying an artificial neural network to warfarin maintenance dose prediction.
I. Solomon, N. Marashak, G. Chechik, L. Leibovici, A. Lubetsky, H. Halkin, D. Ezra and N. Ash
Isr. Med. Assoc. J., 6(12): 732-735, 2004

Abstract
7. Spike timing dependent plasticity and relevant information maximization.
Gal Chechik
Neural Computation 15 (7) p.1481-1510, 2003

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6. Effective Learning with Ineffective Hebbian Learning Rules.
Gal Chechik, Isaac Meilijson, and Eytan Ruppin
Neural Computation 13(4) p.817-840, 2001

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5. Spike time dependent plasiticty and mutual information maximization
Gal Chechik, Isaac Meilijson, and Eytan Ruppin
Neurocomputing, 38: 147-152,2001

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4. Neuronal normalization provides effective learning through ineffecive learning rules.
Gal Chechik, Isaac Meilijson, and Eytan Ruppin
Neurocomputing, 32:345-351, 2000

3. Neuronal Regulation: A Mechanism for Efficient Synaptic Pruning During Brain Maturation.
Gal Chechik, Isaac Meilijson, and Eytan Ruppin
Neural Computation 11(8) p. 2151-2170. 1999

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2. Neuronal regulation: A biologically plausible mechanism for efficient synaptic pruning in development
Gal Chechik, Isaac Meilijson, and Eytan Ruppin
Neurocomputing, 26-27: 633-639, 1999

1. Synaptic pruning in development: a computational account.
Gal Chechik, Isaac Meilijson, and Eytan Ruppin
Neural Computation 10 (7) p.1759-1777, 1998

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Reviewed Conference Papers
25. Online Learning in The Manifold of Low-Rank Matrices
U. Shalit, D. Weinshall, G. Chechik
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS spotlight) 2010

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24. Object Separation In X-Ray Image Sets
GA Heitz, G. Chechik
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR, oral) 2010

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23. Large scale online Learning of Image Similarity through ranking
G. Chechik, V. Sharma, U. Shalit, S. Bengio
Neural Information Processing System, NIPS 2009

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22. Large-Scale Content-Based Audio Retrieval from Text Queries.
Gal Chechik, Eugene Ie, Martin Rehn, Samy Bengio, Dick Lyon
Multimedia information retrieval, MIR 2008.

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21. Max Margin classification of incomplete data.
Gal Chechik, Geremy Heitz, Gal Elidan, Pieter Abbeel and Daphne Koller
Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2006.

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20. Temporal and Cross-Subject Probabilistic Models for fMRI Prediction Tasks
Alexis Battle, Gal Chechik and Daphne Koller
Neural Information Processing Systems NIPS 2006

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19. Euclidean Embedding of Co-occurrence Data
Outstanding student paper award
A. Globerson, G. Chechik, F. Pereira and N. Tishby
Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2004 p.497-504.

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18. Embedding Heterogeneous Data Using Statistical Models.
A. Globerson, G. Chechik, F. Pereira and N. Tishby
American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2006, Nectar Track

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17. Filling missing enzymes in metabolic pathways using heterogeneous data.
Gal Chechik, Aviv Regev and Daphne Koller
NIPS Computational Biology workshop, Whistler 2005

16. Changes in Stimulus representations in the ascending auditory pathway
G. Chechik, M. Anderson, O. Bar-Yosef, E. Young, N. Tishby and I. Nelken
COSYNE 2005

15. Discrete profile alignment via information bottleneck
Sean O'Rourke, Gal Chechik, Robin Friedman and Eleazar Eskin
NIPS 2004

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14. A needle in a haystack: Local one class optimization
Koby Crammer and Gal Chechik,
International conference in machine learning, ICML 2004

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13. Information Bottleneck for Gaussian Variables.
Gal Chechik, Amir Globerson, Naftali Tishby and Yair Weiss
NIPS 2003

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12. Extracting continuous relevant features.
Amir Globerson, Gal Chechik and Naftali Tishby
in: Daniel Baier and Klaus-Dieter Wernecke (eds.): Innovations in Classification, Data Science, and Information Systems. Proc. 27th Annual GfKl Conference, University of Cottbus, Germany 2003. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg-Berlin, 224-238, 2004.

 
11. Sufficient Dimensionality reduction with irelevance statistics.
Amir Globerson, Gal Chechik and Naftali Tishby
Uncertainty in artificial inteligence, Acapulco Mexico (UAI 2003)

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10. Are there representations in evolved embodied agents? Taking measures.
Hezi Avraham, Gal Chechik and Eytan Ruppin
European conference on artificial life,(ECAL 2003)

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9. Extracting relevant structures with side information.
Gal Chechik and Naftali Tishby
Neural Information Processing Systems-15, NIPS 2002

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8. Groups redundancy measures reveal redundancy reduction along the auditory pathway.
Gal Chechik, A. Globerson, M.J. Anderson, Eric D. Young, Israel Nelken and N. Tishby
Neural Information Processing Systems-14, (NIPS 2001)

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7. Spike time dependant plasticity and mutual information
Gal Chechik and Naftali Tishby
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 13, Vancouver Canada (NIPS 2000)

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6. Temporal dependant plasticity maximizes mutual information in a spiking neural network
Gal Chechik
Ninth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Bruge Belgium (CNS 2000)

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5. Effective learning requires synaptic remodeling at the neuronal level.
Gal Chechik, Isaac Meilijson and Eytan Ruppin.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 12 (NIPS 1999)

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4. Neuronal normalization provides effective learning through ineffective synaptic learning rules.
Gal Chechik, Isaac Meilijson and Eytan Ruppin.
Eighth Computational Neuroscience meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (CNS 1999)

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3. Neuronal Regulation Implements Efficient Synaptic Pruning.
Gal Chechik, Isaac Meilijson and Eytan Ruppin.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 11. (NIPS 1998)

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2. Efficient Synaptic Pruning with Neuronal Regulation
Gal Chechik, Isaac Meilijson and Eytan Ruppin
Seventh Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, Santa Barbara, CA. (CNS 1998)

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1. Synaptic Pruning: A Novel Account in Neural Terms.
Gal Chechik, Isaac Meilijson, and Eytan Ruppin
Sixth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, CNS 1997
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Books and Special issues
NIPS workshop on New Problems and Methods in Computational Biology.
Yanjun Qi, Gal Chechik, editors,
BMC bioinformatics, Volume 11 Suppl 8, 2010

NIPS workshop on New Problems and Methods in Computational Biology.
Gal Chechik, Christina Leslie, Gunnar Ratsch, Koji Tsuda, editors,
BMC bioinformatics, Volume 7 Suppl 1, 2007

NIPS workshop on New Problems and Methods in Computational Biology.
Gal Chechik, Christina Leslie, Gunnar Ratsch, Koji Tsuda, editors,
BMC bioinformatics, Volume 7 Suppl 1, 2005

Information, Computation and Learning. (Hebrew)
Gal Chechik, Lidror Troyanski and Naftali Tishby
Hebrew University Press, 2003

Book Chapters
Neuronal regulation and synaptic normalization.
Gal Chechik, David Horn and Eytan Ruppin
In M. Arbib editor, The handbook of Brain Theory and Neural networks. 2nd edition. MIT Press 2002

I Nelken, N. Ulanovsky, L. Las, O. Bar-Yosef, M. Anderson, G. Chechik, N. Tishby and E.D. Young.
Transformations of stimulus representations in the ascending auditory system.
In: Auditory signal processing: physiology psychoacoustics and models, Eds. D. Pressnitzer A. de Cheveigne S. McAdams and L. Collet. Springer New York 223-229. 2004,

PhD Thesis
Gal Chechik,
Information theoretic approach to the study of auditory coding (122 pages)
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Individual chapters
Abstract
Introduction
Extracting information from spike trains
Quantifying coding interactions
Redundancy reduction in the auditory pathway
Extracting relevant structures
Summary
Appendices
Technical reports
Gal Chechik
Types, Super types, and the mutual information distribution.
Technical Report of the Leibniz Center, The Hebrew university. 2002-61

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Conference Abstracts
Large scale online Learning of Image Similarity through ranking
G. Chechik, V. Sharma, U. Shalit, S. Bengio
The 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis IbPRIA 2009

M. Rehn , RF. Lyon , S. Bengio , TC. Walters and G. Chechik
Sound ranking using auditory sparse-code representations
Proc. ICML: Workshop on Sparse Methods for Music Audio. (2009)


Gal Chechik
Redundancy reduction in the ascending auditory system
Workshop on mathematical neuroscience. Montreal, 2007.


Gal Chechik, A. Regev, D. Koller
Its about Time: Transcription Timing in the Yeast Metabolic Pathway.
Bioinformatics workshop, Graybill VI conference, Fort Collins, CO, 2007.


Gal Chechik, A. Regev, D. Koller
Filling missing components in yeast metabolic pathways using heterogeneous data.
Computational biology workshop at NIPS 2005, Vancouver CA.


Sean O'Rourke, Gal Chechik and Eleazar Eskin
Separation of overlapping subpopulations by mutual information.
Computational biology workshop at NIPS 2005, Vancouver CA.


Gal Chechik, A. Regev, D. Koller
Filling missing components in yeast metabolic pathways using heterogeneous data.
7th BioPathways Meeting at ISMB 2005. Detroit, 2005.


Gal Chechik
Information and redundancy in the auditory system.
NIPS workshop on Estimation of entropy and information of undersampled distibutions: Theory and Applications to the neural code.
Organized by I. Nemenman and W. Bialek, Whistler Canada 2003.


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Gal Chechik, Israel Nelken and Naftali Tishby
Extracting relevant structures using side information. NATO advanced study institute, learning theory and practice, Leuven Belgium 2002.

 
G. Chechik, M. Anderson, E.D. Young, N. Tishby and I. Nelken,
Redundancy reduction along the ascending auditory pathway.
Society For Neuroscience meeting, San Diego CA 2001.

G. Chechik, N. Tishby,
Spike time dependant plasticity and mutual information. The 9th Annual Meeting of Israeli neuroscience society, Eilat, Israel. 2000.

G. Chechik, I. Meilijson and E. Ruppin,
Effective learning requires neuronal remodeling of Hebbian synapses. Neural Computation in Science and Technology (NCST-99). Maale Hachamisha, Israel 1999.

G. Chechik, I. Meilijson and E. Ruppin,
Robust Associative Memory with Asymmetric Synaptic Learning Rules. The 8th Annual Meeting of Israeli neuroscience society Eilat, Israel (1999).

G. Chechik, I. Meilijson and E. Ruppin,
Enforcing Effective Synaptic Learning via a Neuronal Mechanism. NeuroScience letters. Supl 51. Proceedings of the 7th annual meeting of the Israeli Neuroscience Society. (1998).

G. Chechik, I. Meilijson and E. Ruppin,
Neuronal Regulation: A Mechanism For Efficient Synaptic Pruning During Brain Maturation. NeuroScience letters. Supl 51. Proceedings of the 7th annual meeting of the Israeli Neuroscience Society. (1998).

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