[Lisa_teatalk] Tea Talk 13 July Friday @13.00 Z-209 by Dustin Webb

Kyung Hyun Cho cho.k.hyun at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 12:40:31 EDT 2014


Hi all,

This is a reminder for the upcoming tea talk at 13.00 on Friday. *The tea
talk (Z-209)* will be followed by *Nicolas Boulanger's Ph.D. defence at
AA-3195* at 14.00. I encourage people to attend both the tea talk and the
defence.

Best,
- Cho

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Kyung Hyun Cho <cho.k.hyun at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> This Friday at 13.00, Dustin will give a tea talk about building a
> deep/multilayer kernel based on the paper <Kernel Methods for Deep
> Learning> by Youngmin Cho and Lawrence K. Saul presented earlier at NIPS
> 2009.
>
> Note that the place is not the usual lecture hall in the same building,
> but is Z-209 in the neighbouring building (Pavillon Claire-McNicoll).
>
> Hope to see many of you on Friday!
> - Cho
>
> ====
>
> - Speaker: Dustin Webb (University of Utah)
> - Date and Time: 13 July 2014 @13.00
> - Place: Z-209
> - Abstract:
>
> We introduce a new family of positive-definite kernel functions that mimic
> the
> computation in large, multilayer neural nets. These kernel functions can
> be used
> in shallow architectures, such as support vector machines (SVMs), or in
> deep
> kernel-based architectures that we call multilayer kernel machines (MKMs).
> We
> evaluate SVMs and MKMs with these kernel functions on problems designed to
> illustrate the advantages of deep architectures. On several problems, we
> obtain
> better results than previous, leading benchmarks from both SVMs with
> Gaussian
> kernels as well as deep belief nets.
>
> http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~saul/papers/nips09_kernel.pdf
>
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