[Lisa_seminaires] [TeaTalk] James Wright, July 28, AA3195, 13:45 (ROOM CHANGED!)

Dzmitry Bahdanau dimabgv at gmail.com
Ven 28 Juil 09:31:08 EDT 2017


Hi all,

A kind reminder that this talk is today! Please note that the room has
changed, it will take place at *AA3195*.

Dima

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 at 10:10 Dzmitry Bahdanau <dimabgv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Our next speaker is James Wright from Microsoft Research NYC. The talk
> will take place on July 28, at AA6214, 13:45. Hope to see many of there!
>
> Title:
> Deep Learning for Predicting Human Strategic Behavior
>
> Abstract:
> Predicting the behavior of human participants in strategic settings is an
> important problem in many domains.  Most existing work either assumes that
> participants are perfectly rational, or attempts to directly model each
> participant's cognitive processes based on insights from cognitive
> psychology and experimental economics.  In this work, we present an
> alternative, a deep learning approach that automatically performs cognitive
> modeling without relying on such expert knowledge.   We introduce a novel
> architecture that allows a single network to generalize across different
> input and output dimensions by using matrix units rather than scalar units,
> and show that its performance significantly outperforms that of the
> previous state of the art, which relies on expert-constructed features.
>
> Bio:
> James Wright's research focuses on problems at the intersection of
> economics, behavioral modeling, and machine learning, with a focus on
> modeling and predicting human behavior in strategic settings.  Prior to
> joining Microsoft Research NYC, he completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science at
> the University of British Columbia, where he was advised by Kevin
> Leyton-Brown.
>
> Dima
>
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