[Lisa_teatalk] Reminder: Tea Talk This Morning!

Aaron Courville aaron.courville at gmail.com
Fri Nov 4 10:12:50 EDT 2011


Reminder: we have a tea talk this morning at 11h30 in the LISA Lab. Details
below.

Cheers,
Aaron


On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Aaron Courville
<aaron.courville at gmail.com>wrote:

> Due to a conflicting Ubisoft meeting we have rescheduled Ian's Tea Talk
> for Friday at 11h30. Original message, including the abstract, below.
>
> i.e.
> New Date/Time: Friday Nov. 4th / 11h30
>
> Cheers,
> Aaron
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Aaron Courville <aaron.courville at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Due to travel by some of us to a DARPA-related meeting. The tea talk this
>> week has been moved to Friday. Hope you all can make it -- this talk should
>> be of interest to everyone and particularly for the newer students that may
>> not have had much previous exposure to statistical learning theory. The
>> talk will be given by Ian Goodfellow.
>>
>> Date/Time: Friday Nov. 4th / 14h00
>> Location: LISA Lab (AA3256)
>>
>> Title: Statistical Learning Theory
>>
>> Abstract:
>> I will give a tutorial on statistical learning theory. First I will
>> show how to prove some simple probabilistic guarantees on the
>> generalization error of a classifier in the PAC learning framework
>> using Chebyshev's inequality. Next I will discuss how to extend these
>> bounds to more realistic settings using the concept of
>> Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension. Finally I will compare structural risk
>> minimization, a model selection principle based on statistical
>> learning theory, to other methods of obtaining low generalization
>> error.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Aaron
>>
>> --
>> Aaron C. Courville
>> Département d’Informatique et
>> de recherche opérationnelle
>> Université de Montréal
>> email:Aaron.Courville at gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Aaron C. Courville
> Département d’Informatique et
> de recherche opérationnelle
> Université de Montréal
> email:Aaron.Courville at gmail.com
>
>
>


-- 
Aaron C. Courville
Département d’Informatique et
de recherche opérationnelle
Université de Montréal
email:Aaron.Courville at gmail.com
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