[Lisa_teatalk] [Lisa_labo] TEA TALK: run up to NIPS (NOTE NEW TIME)

Yoshua Bengio bengioy at iro.umontreal.ca
Tue May 3 14:45:47 EDT 2011


We'd like this to take about 5 min per person. If it takes too much  
time, we can continue next
week, where possibly other students will present as well.

-- Yoshua

On 3-May-11, at 2:11 PM, Aaron Courville wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> As suggested by Yoshua, we're going to have a run up to NIPS tea talk
> this Thursday. The idea is we give very brief pitches for the various
> projects underway with an eye to a NIPS submission. Students not on a
> project can shop around and get involved.
>
> List of speakers / subjects: (YOU MIGHT BE ON THE LIST!)
>
> - Ian Goodfellow: new estimation criteria for energy based models and
> a new reconstruction semi-restricted Boltzmann machine
> - Guillaume Desjardins: tracking the partition function and bilinear  
> RBMs
> - Xavier Glorot & Yann Dauphin: reconstruction sampling with sparse  
> connections
> - Xavier Glorot & Antoine Bordes: word sense disambiguation with
> semantic triplet models
> - James Bergstra: I'd like to essentially scale up the mu-ssRBM to
> work on big images using pyramidal image representations.
> - Remi Bardenet & James Bergstra: adaptive model selection
> - François Savard: deep auto-encoders with (recurrent) top-down
> connections for coordinating internal representations
> - Salah Rifai: semantic hashing with contrastive auto-encoders
> - David Warde-Farley & Razvan Pascanu: sparse coding for animations  
> compression
> - Eric Thibodeau-Laufer: hybrid non-parametric & parametric
> (embeddings-based) content-based collaborative filtering
> - Razvan Pascanu: long-term dependencies in recurrent networks
>
> Time / Date: 15h00 / Thursday, May 5th, 2011
> Location: LISA Lab (AA3256)
>
> Hope to see you there.
>
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>
> -- 
> Aaron C. Courville
> Département d’Informatique et
> de recherche opérationnelle
> Université de Montréal
> email:Aaron.Courville at gmail.com
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