On April 17th, 2018, Hugo Larochelle from Google Brain is bringing together some of the best researchers in the Montreal AI community on a single stage for a unique conference benefiting Centraide.<\/p>\n
Attendees are encouraged to give generously. No matter the amount, every donation counts. To double our impact, Hugo Larochelle has offered to match all donations, up to $25,000!<\/p>\n
8:00 – 8:45
\nWelcoming and registration<\/p>\n
8:45 – 9:00
\nWelcoming words<\/p>\n
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\nKeynote: Deep Learning to Solve Challenging Problems<\/strong>
\nJeff Dean, Google senior fellow and lead of Google Brain<\/p>\n
\nModeling user clicks<\/strong>
\nLaurent Charlin, HEC Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n
\nBreak<\/p>\n
\nAdvances in temporal abstraction for reinforcement learning<\/strong>
\nDoina Precup, Deepmind & McGill<\/p>\n
\nRecent progress in Generative Adversarial Networks<\/strong>
\nAaron Courville, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n
\nLunch<\/p>\n
\nDrawing inspiration for AI from living intelligence<\/strong>
\nYoshua Bengio, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n
\nNew perspectives on GANs<\/strong>
\nSimon Lacoste-Julien, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n
\nOptimization dynamics for adaptive and efficient learning systems<\/strong>
\nIoannis Mitliagkas, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n
\nAccelerating stochastic optimization methods using gradient transport<\/strong>
\nNicolas Le Roux, Google & McGill University<\/p>\n
\nBreak<\/p>\n
\nSome progress on fast approximate natural gradient descent<\/strong>
\nPascal Vincent, Facebook & Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<\/p>\n
\nLearning to Predict Important Content by Reading Summaries<\/strong>
\nJackie CK Cheung, McGill University<\/p>\n
\nMachine learning for human rights: detecting burned villages from the sky<\/strong>
\nJulien Cornebise, Element AI<\/p>\n
\nRewarding dialogue systems<\/strong>
\nLayla El Asri, Microsoft Maluuba<\/p>\n
\nCocktail hour<\/p>\n