[Lisa_seminaires] [DIRO Talk] Jacob Andreas (UC Berkeley) Mon Feb 26 11AM Z240

Michael Noukhovitch mnoukhov at gmail.com
Mar 27 Fév 17:14:20 EST 2018


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On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 10:47 AM Michael Noukhovitch <mnoukhov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Reminder: this is in 15!
>
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:29 Michael Noukhovitch <mnoukhov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Kicking off next week's special DIRO talks we have *Jacob Andreas* from *UC
>> Berkeley* giving a talk on *Monday Feb 26* at *11:00AM* in room *Claire-McNicoll
>> Z240*.
>>
>> You should be able to learn quite a bit from this presentation just by
>> listening!
>> Michael
>>
>> *TITLE *Learning from Language
>>
>> *KEYWORDS *NLP, compositional/modular learning, reinforcement learning,
>> interpretable ML
>>
>>
>> *ABSTRACT*Natural language is built from a library of concepts and
>> compositional
>> operators that provide a rich source of information about how humans
>> understand the world.  Can this information help us build better
>> machine learning models? In this talk, we'll explore three ways of
>> integrating compositional linguistic structure and learning: using
>> language as a source of modular reasoning operators for question
>> answering, as a scaffold for fast and generalizable reinforcement
>> learning, and as a tool for understanding representations in neural
>> networks.
>>
>> *BIO*
>> Jacob Andreas is a fifth-year PhD student at UC Berkeley working in
>> natural language processing. He holds a B.S. from Columbia and an
>> M.Phil. from Cambridge, where he studied as a Churchill scholar. His
>> papers were recognized at NAACL 2016 and ICML 2017. Jacob has been an
>> NSF graduate fellow, a Huawei--Berkeley AI fellow, and a Facebook
>> fellow.
>>
>
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