Hello MILA friends,
A reminder that tomorrow thursday at 15:30 we will have a talk by David Grangier on a novel and much faster seq2seq architecture for translation "Neural Machine Translation: Achieving Fast Training and Fast Inference with Gated Convolutions."
This is part of the "colloques du DIRO series", so there is a traditional coffee+biscuits half-an-hour before.
Reposting the full announcement below ( url: http://diro.umontreal.ca/ departement/colloques/une-nouvelle/news/david-grangier- neural-machine-translation-achie-42551/ )
Conférencier : David Grangier, Facebook AI Research, Menlo Park, CA
Titre : Neural Machine Translation: Achieving Fast Training and Fast Inference with Gated Convolutions
Travail conjoint avec Michael Auli, Yann Dauphin, Angela Fan, Jonas Ghering et Sergey Edunov
Local : André-Aisenstadt 1360
Date et heure : Jeudi 12 octobre, 15h30, café-biscuits à 15h
Résumé : Neural architectures for Machine Translation (MT) and related language modeling tasks is an active research field. The first part of our talk introduces several architectural changes to the original work of Bahdanau et al. 2014. We replace non-linearities with our novel gated linear units, recurrent units with convolutions and introduce multi-hop attention to allow more complex attention patterns. These changes improve generalization performance, training efficiency and decoding speed. The second part of our talk analyzes the properties of the distribution predicted by the model, examine how predictions differ from their empirical counterpart and we discuss how this influences beam search.
Biographie du conférencier : David Grangier is a research scientist at Facebook AI Research, Menlo Park, CA. David earned his PhD in Machine Learning from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne advised by Samy Bengio. He worked at different industrial labs, including NEC Labs America (2008-2011), AT&T Research (2011-2012) and Microsoft Research (2012-2014). Currently, David works on machine learning and its application to natural language processing, he is particularly interested in text generation tasks. http://david.grangier.info/
Pour vous préparer, vous pourriez lire...
Convolutional Sequence to Sequence Learning Jonas Gehring, Michael Auli, David Grangier, Denis Yarats, Yann N. Dauphin - International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). 2017.
Language Modeling with Gated Convolutional Networks Yann N. Dauphin, Angela Fan, Michael Auli and David Grangier - International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). 2017.
Efficient softmax approximation for GPUs Edouard Grave, Armand Joulin, Moustapha Cisse and David Grangier and Hervé Jegou - International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). 2017.
A Convolutional Encoder Model for Neural Machine Translation Jonas Gehring, Michael Auli, David Grangier, Yann N. Dauphin - Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2017.
Neural Generation of Text from Structured Data with Application to the Bibliography Domain Remi Lebret, David Grangier and Michael Auli - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). 2016.
Vocabulary Selection Strategies for Neural Machine Translation Gurvan L'Hostis, David Grangier, Michael Auli - arXiv:1610.00072. 2016.
Strategies for Training Large Vocabulary Neural Language Models W. Chen, D. Grangier and M. Auli - Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2016.