[Lisa_teatalk] [Lisa_labo] Tea Talk Tomorrow!

Frédéric Bastien nouiz at nouiz.org
Tue Nov 8 10:33:47 EST 2011


Reminder,

every body that got a paper accepted to NIPS, tell me! I must put in
the our publication web page.

Fred

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Aaron Courville
<aaron.courville at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greeting,
>
> This week we will have Olivier D. tell us about sum-product networks and his
> recent contributions to their theoretic development. This work will be
> appearing at the upcoming NIPS.
>
> When: Wednesday Nov. 9th. 14h00
> Where: LISA LAB (AA3256)
>
> Title: On Sum-Product Networks
>
> Abstract:
> I will explain what are sum-product networks, why they can be useful, and
> why we care about deep ones.
> I will provide theoretical results on the expressive power of deep
> sum-product networks, showing they are able to represent some functions
> (exponentially) more compactly than their shallow counterpart.
> These results contribute to motivate recent research involving learning of
> deep sum-product networks, and more generally motivate research in Deep
> Learning.
> This is joint work with Yoshua.
>
>
> 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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