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

David Krueger david.scott.krueger at gmail.com
Wed Jul 16 12:58:03 EDT 2014


That should be the 18th, correct??


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Kyung Hyun Cho <cho.k.hyun at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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