Saturday, April 01, 2017

Saturday Morning Videos: Representation Learning Workshop at Simons Institute, Berkeley (March 27th-31st, 2017)

A photo of New Zealand taken this week. 

 ICLR is in three weeks, so what about dwelving into representation learning. As it turns out, this week, the Representation Learning Workshop took place at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computation at UC Berkeley. Here are all the videos (an impressive feat given it happened this week). Thank you to the organizers Sham Kakade , Sanjeev Arora , Kristen Grauman, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Noah Smith  for the line-up. 
Here is the abstract:
This workshop will focus on dramatic advances in representation and learning taking place in natural language processing, speech and vision.  For instance, deep learning can be thought of as a method that combines the tasks of finding a classifier (which we can think of as the top layer of the deep net) with the task of learning a representation (namely, the representation computed at the last-but-one layer).

Developing a theory for such empirical work is an exciting quest, especially since the empirical work draws upon non-convex optimization.  The workshop will draw a mix of theorists and practitioners, and the following is a list of sample issues that will be discussed:  (a) Which models for representation make more sense than
others, and why? (In other words, what patterns in data are they capturing, and how are those patterns useful?)  (b) What is an analog of generalization theory for representation learning?  Can it lead to a theory of transfer learning to new distributions of inputs?  (c) How can we design algorithms for representation learning with provable guarantees?  What progress has already been made, and what lessons can we draw from it?  (d) How can we learn representations that combine probabilities and logic?
and the videos (Russ's slides are also added per his tweet) . Enjoy !
Monday, March 27th, 2017
9:00 am – 9:20 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:20 am – 9:30 am
Opening Remarks
9:30 am – 10:10 am
10:10 am – 10:50 am
10:50 am – 11:20 am
Break
11:20 am – 12:20 pm
12:20 pm – 2:15 pm
Lunch
2:15 pm – 3:15 pm
3:15 pm – 3:45 pm
Break
3:45 pm – 4:25 pm
4:30 pm – 4:45 pm
4:45 pm – 5:00 pm
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Reception
Tuesday, March 28th, 2017
9:00 am – 9:30 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am – 10:10 am
10:10 am – 10:50 am
10:50 am – 11:20 am
Break
11:20 am – 12:20 pm
12:20 pm – 2:15 pm
Lunch
2:15 pm – 2:55 pm
2:55 pm – 3:35 pm
3:35 pm – 4:10 pm
Break
4:10 pm – 5:00 pm
Panel
Wednesday, March 29th, 2017
9:00 am – 9:30 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am – 10:10 am
10:10 am – 10:50 am
10:50 am – 11:20 am
Break
11:20 am – 12:20 pm
12:20 pm – 2:15 pm
Lunch
2:15 pm – 2:55 pm
2:55 pm – 3:35 pm
3:35 pm – 4:10 pm
Break
4:10 pm – 4:30 pm
4:35 pm – 4:55 pm
Thursday, March 30th, 2017
9:00 am – 9:30 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am – 10:10 am
10:10 am – 10:50 am
10:50 am – 11:20 am
Break
11:20 am – 12:20 pm
12:20 pm – 2:15 pm
Lunch
2:15 pm – 2:55 pm
2:55 pm – 3:35 pm
3:35 pm – 4:10 pm
Break
4:10 pm – 5:00 pm
Panel
Friday, March 31st, 2017
9:00 am – 9:30 am
Coffee and Check-In
9:30 am – 10:10 am
10:10 am – 10:50 am
10:50 am – 11:20 am
Break
11:20 am – 12:20 pm
12:20 pm – 2:15 pm
Lunch
2:15 pm – 2:55 pm
2:55 pm – 3:35 pm
3:35 pm – 4:10 pm
Break
4:10 pm – 4:30 pm





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