Dear all,

This is a reminder of two talks scheduled tomorrow. The first talk in the morning will be given by Yingbo Zhou from University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. The talk will happen in AA3195 starting from 10.30.

Dr. Gerry Tesauro from IBM T. J. Watson Research Center will be the second speaker tomorrow. The talk will be in S-116 starting at 13.30.

Hope to see many of you there!

- Cho

= Schedule =

Available also at: http://lisa.iro.umontreal.ca/seminars_en.html

+ 3 Dec 2014 (Wed)

- 13.30 - 14.30 <A Multiplicative Model for Learning Distributed Text-Based Attribute Representations> by Ryan Kiros (University of Toronto)

+ 4 Dec 2014 (Thu)

- 10.30 - 11.30 <What if computer can perceive the world like we do?> by Xinyi Chen, Peng (Eric) Ding (DeepGlint)

- 13.30 - 14.30 <Learning Compact Yet Rich Models for Text> by Sarath Chandar (IBM India)

+ 5 Dec 2014 (Fri)

- 10.30 - 11.30 <Joint Training of Deep Autoencoders> by Dr. Yingbo Zhou (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York)

- 13.30 - 14.30 <How Watson Learns Superhuman Jeopardy! Strategies> by Dr. Gerald Tesauro (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center)

+ 15 Dec 2014 (Mon)

- 10.30 - 11.30 <On the Number of Linear Regions of Deep Neural Networks> by Dr. Guido Montufar <MPI MIS>

- 13.30 - 14.30 <Machine Learning with Nearest Neighbors> by Prof. Yung-Kyun Noh (KAIST)

+ 16 Dec 2014 (Tue)

- 13.30 - 14.30 <General Stochastic Networks for Classification> by Matthias Zohrer (TU Graz)