Please join us for tomorrow's tea-talk by Cho. The room will be, as usual, the lisa lab.
Speaker: Cho KyungHyun
Title: Neural Networks in Helsinki and Why I like RBMs
Abstract:
I will start the talk by briefly presenting research activities related
to machine learning and neural networks going on in Helsinki, especially
that of the department of information and computer science at the Aalto
University. From there on I will explain
my interest toward restricted Boltzmann machines and other unsupervised
neural networks, which is based on the observation that neural networks
may be viewed as an excellent machinery for approximating hierarchical
probabilistic inference. In due course, I
will introduce two novel approaches for training Boltzmann machines. At
the end my current research direction focusing on recurrent neural
networks and their potential application to machine translation will be
discussed.
Razvan