Greeting,
This week we will have Olivier D. tell us about sum-product networks and his recent contributions to their theoretic development. This work will be appearing at the upcoming NIPS.
When: Wednesday Nov. 9th. 14h00
Where: LISA LAB (AA3256)
Title: On Sum-Product Networks
Abstract:
I will explain what are sum-product networks, why they can be useful, and why we care about deep ones.
I
will provide theoretical results on the expressive power of deep
sum-product networks, showing they are able to represent some functions
(exponentially) more compactly than their shallow counterpart.
These results contribute to motivate recent research involving learning
of deep sum-product networks, and more generally motivate research in
Deep Learning.
This is joint work with Yoshua.
Cheers,
Aaron
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Aaron C. Courville
Département d’Informatique et
de recherche opérationnelle
Université de Montréal
email:Aaron.Courville@gmail.com