[Lisa_teatalk] [Lisa_labo] ICML Practice talk: Thursday June 2nd by Kelvin Xu

Laurent Dinh dinh.laurent at gmail.com
Thu Jul 2 13:28:33 EDT 2015


This is the reminder for the talk today.

Cheers,
-- 
Laurent

Le mardi 30 juin 2015, Yoshua Bengio <yoshua.bengio at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> For those who are not acquainted with this tradition, we often do these
> practice talks, which give an opportunity to
> a presenter to practice in front of a friendly audience, and *more
> importantly* get critical and constructive feedback
> in order to improve the presentation. For a 20 min talk we often spend a
> whole hour discussing ways to improve
> things. Such talks, especially at major conferences like ICML, are
> important for the visibility of the lab to the outside world!
>
> Your participation in this event is thus greatly appreciated!
>
> See you on Thursday, 3:30pm.
>
> -- Yoshua
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Jörg Bornschein <bornj at iro.umontreal.ca
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bornj at iro.umontreal.ca');>> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>> this Thursday Kelvin will present
>>
>> Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual
>> Attention
>>
>> which was accepted for this years ICML. Looking forward to see you there
>> and to get your feedback.
>>
>> Location: AA-3195
>> Time: Thursday, July 2nd, 3:30pm
>>
>> Abstract
>>
>> Inspired by recent work in machine translation and object detection, we
>> introduce an attention based model that automatically learns to describe
>> the content of images. We describe how we can train this model in a
>> deterministic manner using standard backpropagation techniques and
>> stochastically by maximizing a variational lower bound. We also show
>> through visualization how the model is able to automatically learn to fix
>> its gaze on salient objects while generating the corresponding words in the
>> output sequence. We validate the use of attention with state-of-the-art
>> performance on three benchmark datasets: Flickr8k, Flickr30k and MS COCO.
>>
>>
>>
>>    Jorg
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Lisa_labo mailing list
>> Lisa_labo at iro.umontreal.ca
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Lisa_labo at iro.umontreal.ca');>
>> https://webmail.iro.umontreal.ca/mailman/listinfo/lisa_labo
>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://webmail.iro.umontreal.ca/pipermail/lisa_teatalk/attachments/20150702/0e8280ea/attachment.html 


More information about the Lisa_teatalk mailing list