{"id":741427,"date":"2021-04-14T17:06:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T00:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-research-item&p=741427"},"modified":"2021-04-20T17:46:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T00:46:20","slug":"msr-mila-workshop-day-2","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/msr-mila-workshop-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MSR and Mila Workshop Day 2: Wednesday, April 14, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MSR and Mila Workshop featured presentations and forward-thinking breakout sessions hosted by Mila professors, students and researchers at Microsoft.<\/p>\n

The workshop was an opportunity for Mila professors, students and MSR researchers to share and present what they\u2019re currently working on with the goal of facilitating and building on existing research collaborations between Mila & MSR.<\/p>\n

1:50 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTowards Hyperparameter-Free Optimization for Modern Machine Learning<\/strong>
\nSpeaker: Simon Lacoste-Julien, Associate Professor, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Mila<\/p>\n

32:50 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nSuccessor Feature Sets for Planning and Imitation<\/strong>
\nSpeaker: Geoff Gordon, Partner Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal<\/p>\n

1:02:30 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nDialogue as Collaborative Construction of Dataflow<\/strong>
\nSpeaker: Jason Eisner, Partner Principal Researcher, Microsoft Semantic Machines<\/p>\n

1:31:43 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nBreakout Session A: Memory in RL<\/strong>
\nSpeakers:\u00a0Ida Momennejad, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research
\nBlake Richards, Assistant Professor, McGill University, Mila
\nGuillaume Lajoie, Assistant Professor, Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Mila<\/p>\n

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\nBreakout Session B: Observe, Remember, and Assist<\/strong>
\nSpeakers:\u00a0Andrew McNamara, Director of Engineering, Turing
\nGeoff Gordon, Microsoft Research
\nGerald Haslhofer, Microsoft (MMX)
\nKaheer Suleman, Microsoft Research
\nTim Franklin, Microsoft (MMX)
\nTianyu Li, McGill University<\/p>\n

3:42:49 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nTowards Broad and Robust AI<\/strong>
\nSpeaker: Irina Rish, Associate Professor, University of Montreal, Mila<\/p>\n

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\nClosing Discussion and Thank You Remarks<\/strong>
\nSpeakers:\u00a0Professor Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Mila
\nPeter Lee, CVP, Research and Incubations, Microsoft Research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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