Graphs -- Temporally Evolving Community Detection and Prediction in Content-Centric Networks -- Local Topological Data Analysis to Uncover the Global Structure of Data Approaching Graph-Structured Topologies -- Similarity Modeling on Heterogeneous Networks via Automatic Path Discovery -- Dynamic hierarchies in temporal directed networks -- Risk-Averse Matchings over Uncertain Graph Databases -- Discovering Urban Travel Demands through Dynamic Zone Correlation in Location-Based Social Networks -- Social-Affiliation Networks: Patterns and the SOAR Model -- ONE-M: Modeling the Co-evolution of Opinions and Network Connections -- Think before You Discard: Accurate Triangle Counting in Graph Streams with Deletions -- Semi-Supervised Blockmodelling with Pairwise Guidance -- Kernel Methods -- Large-scale Nonlinear Variable Selection via Kernel Random Features -- Fast and Provably Effective Multi-view Classification with Landmark-based SVM -- Nyström-SGD: Fast Learning of Kernel-Classifiers with Conditioned Stochastic Gradient Descent -- Learning Paradigms -- Hyperparameter Learning for Conditional Kernel Mean Embeddings with Rademacher Complexity Bounds -- Deep Learning Architecture Search by Neuro-Cell-based Evolution with Function-Preserving Mutations -- VC-Dimension Based Generalization Bounds for Relational Learning -- Robust Super-Level Set Estimation using Gaussian Processes -- Robust Super-Level Set Estimation using Gaussian Processes -- Scalable Nonlinear AUC Maximization Methods -- Matrix and Tensor Analysis -- Lambert Matrix Factorization -- Identifying and Alleviating Concept Drift in Streaming Tensor Decomposition -- MASAGA: A Linearly-Convergent Stochastic First-Order Method for Optimization on Manifolds -- Block CUR: Decomposing Matrices using Groups of Columns -- Online and Active Learning -- SpectralLeader: Online Spectral Learning for Single Topic Models -- Online Learning of Weighted Relational Rules for Complex Event Recognition -- Toward Interpretable Deep Reinforcement Learning with Linear Model U-Trees -- Online Feature Selection by Adaptive Sub-gradient Methods -- Frame-based Optimal Design -- Hierarchical Active Learning with Proportion Feedback on Regions -- Pattern and Sequence Mining -- An Efficient Algorithm for Computing Entropic Measures of Feature Subsets -- Anytime Subgroup Discovery in Numerical Domains with Guarantees -- Discovering Spatio-Temporal Latent Influence in Geographical Attention Dynamics -- Mining Periodic Patterns with a MDL Criterion -- Revisiting Conditional Functional Dependency Discovery: Splitting the "C" from the "FD" -- Sqn2Vec: Learning Sequence Representation via Sequential Patterns with a Gap Constraint -- Mining Tree Patterns with Partially Injective Homomorphisms -- Probabilistic Models and Statistical Methods -- Variational Bayes for Mixture Models with Censored Data -- Exploration Enhanced Expected Improvement for Bayesian Optimization -- A Left-to-right Algorithm for Likelihood Estimation in Gamma-Poisson Factor Analysis -- Causal Inference on Multivariate and Mixed-Type Data -- Recommender Systems -- POLAR: Attention-based CNN for One-shot Personalized Article Recommendation -- Learning Multi-granularity Dynamic Network Representations for Social Recommendation -- GeoDCF: Deep Collaborative Filtering with Multifaceted Contextual Information in Location-based Social Networks -- Personalized Thread Recommendation for MOOC Discussion Forums -- Inferring Continuous Latent Preference on Transition Intervals for Next Point-of-Interest Recommendation -- Transfer Learning -- Feature Selection for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation using Optimal Transport -- Towards more Reliable Transfer Learning -- Differentially Private Hypothesis Transfer Learning -- Information-theoretic Transfer Learning framework for Bayesian Optimisation -- A Unified Framework for Domain Adaptation using Metric Learning on Manifolds.