Dear all,

Have you all enjoyed NIPS last week? Although NIPS is over for everyone else, our own seminar series still continues for two more days! 

Tomorrow (Monday), we will have two talks:

10.30 - 11.30 (Z-215) Dr. Guido Montufar from MPI MIS

13.30 - 14.30 (AA3195) Dr. Yung-Kyun Noh from KAIST/SNU

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)

  - 10.30 - 11.30 <TBD> by Nicolas le Roux (Criteo)

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