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

Dzmitry Bahdanau dimabgv at gmail.com
Ven 28 Juil 13:46:42 EDT 2017


We are starting right now!

On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 at 09:31 Dzmitry Bahdanau <dimabgv at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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