Algorithms
Reinforcement Learning: Bringing Together Computation, Behavior and Neural Coding
Reinforcement learning carries subtly different meanings in machine learning, cognitive science and neuroscience. In this talk, I will try to clarify in which ways the concepts overlap and in which ways they differ. I will…
The 20th Northwest Probability Seminar: Stochastic Explosions in Branching Processes and Non-uniqueness for Nonlinear PDE
We will discuss stochastic processes, Le Jan-Sznitman cascades, that can be associated with certain nonlinear PDE and how explosion of these cascades can be exploited to prove non-uniques for the associated Cauchy problems. In particular,…
The 20th Northwest Probability Seminar: First Order Logic on Galton-Watson Trees
The 20th Northwest Probability Seminar, a one-day mini-conference organized by the University of Washington, the Oregon State University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Oregon, and Microsoft Research, was held on October 20,…
The 20th Northwest Probability Seminar: Cutoff for Product Replacement on Finite Groups
Let G be a finite group, and consider the following \emph{product replacement walk} on the set of generating n-tuples of elements of G: randomly pick two of the n elements, say g and h, and…
The 20th Northwest Probability Seminar: The KPZ Fixed Point
The (1d) KPZ universality class contains random growth models, directed random polymers, stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi equations (e.g. the eponymous Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation). It is characterized by unusual scale of fluctuations, some of which appeared earlier in random…
Advanced Machine Learning Day 3: Neural Program Synthesis
How do you learn programs? View presentation slides here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Program-Synthesis-SLIDES.pdf
Advanced Machine Learning Day 3: Neural Architecture Search
How do you search over architectures? View presentation slides here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Neural-Architecture-Search-SLIDES.pdf
