Last week at ICML 2020, Mikael Henaff, Akshay Krishnamurthy, John Langford and I had a paper on a new reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm that solves three key problems in RL: (i) global exploration, (ii) decoding latent dynamics, and (iii) optimizing a given reward function. Our ICML poster is here. The paper is a bit mathematically heavy in nature so this …
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Xiaoyi Yin (尹肖贻) has kindly translated this post into Chinese (中文)This post was prompted by a tweet I saw from my colleague, Colin:I’m currently a researcher at Google with a “non-traditional background”, where non-traditional background means “so…
I’ve been following the renamed COVID-19 epidemic closely since potential exponentials deserve that kind of attention. The last few days have convinced me it’s a good idea to start making contingency plans for machine learning conferences like ICML. The plausible options happen to be structurally aligned with calls to enable reduced travel to machine learning …
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A brief review of Martin Ford’s book that features interviews with 23 of the most well-known and brightest minds working on AI.
A brief summary of what’s new in the 3rd edition of Python Machine Learning.
Not too long ago, in the Summer of 2018, I was super excited to join the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after obtaining my…
Snapchat’s new gender-bending filter is a source of endless fun and laughs at parties. The results are very pleasing to look at. As someone who is used to working with machine learning algorithms, it’s almost magical how robust this feature is.
I was …
Github repo here: https://github.com/ericjang/maml-jax
Adaptive behavior in humans and animals occurs at many time scales: when I use a new shower handle for the first time, it takes me a few seconds to figure out how to adjust the water temperat…
Some thoughts on the interesting BagNet paper (accepted at ICLR 2019) currently being circulated around the Machine Learning Twitter Community.
Disclaimer: I wasn’t a reviewer of this paper for ICLR. I think it was worthy of acceptance to the c…
A PDF version of this post can be found here.
Chinese translation by Xiaoyi Yin
Notions of uncertainty are tossed around in conversations around AI safety, risk management, portfolio optimization, scientific measurement, and insurance. Here are a few …