The application process for the 2016 edition of the CIFAR Deep Learning Summer School is now closed.
Announcing the 2016 edition of the CIFAR Deep Learning Summer School! We have a very exciting line-up of speakers.
We are now accepting applications!
Important dates:
– Application process opening: March 22nd, 2016.
– Deadline for receiving applications: April 11th, 2016.
– Application acceptance/rejection decisions: May 7th, 2016.
The LISA lab (with 4 deep learning faculty: Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent, myself and Roland Memisevic) is recruiting graduate students and post-docs for deep learning research. Salary is negotiable. The team is large (about 30 students and professionals), intellectually stimulating and very productive. Montreal is a 4-university city, among the most culturally interesting places to live. Our graduates are highly sought by big data and AI companies. If you are interested, please contact me!
It is well understood that the performance of machine learning methods is heavily dependent on the choice of data representation (or features) on which they are applied. The rapidly developing field of representation learning is concerned with questions surrounding how we can best learn meaningful and useful representations of data. We take a broad view of the field, and include in it topics such as deep learning and feature learning, metric learning, kernel learning, compositional models, non-linear structured prediction, and issues regarding non-convex optimization.
Despite the importance of representation learning to machine learning and to application areas such as vision, speech, audio and NLP, there is currently no common venue for researchers who share a common interest in this topic. The goal of ICLR is to help fill this void.
ICLR 2014 will be a 3-day event from April 14th to April 16th 2014, in Banff, Canada. The conference will follow the recently introduced open reviewing and open publishing publication process, which is explained in further detail here: Publication Model.
The program for the International Conference on Representation Learning (ICLR2013) is now available here.
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/representationlearning2013/
Held in conjunction with AISTATS2013, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 2nd-4th 2013
Submission deadline: January 15th 2013
Overview
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It is well understood that the performance of machine learning methods
is heavily dependent on the choice of data representation (or
features) on which they are applied. The rapidly developing field of
representation learning is concerned with questions surrounding how we
can best learn meaningful and useful representations of data. We take
a broad view of the field, and include in it topics such as deep
learning and feature learning, metric learning, kernel learning,
compositional models, non-linear structured prediction, and issues
regarding non-convex optimization.
Despite the importance of representation learning to machine learning
and to application areas such as vision, speech, audio and NLP, there
is currently no common venue for researchers who share a common
interest in this topic. The goal of ICLR is to help fill this void.
A non-exhaustive list of relevant topics:
– unsupervised representation learning
– supervised representation learning
– metric learning and kernel learning
– dimensionality expansion, sparse modeling
– hierarchical models
– optimization for representation learning
– implementation issues, parallelization, software platforms, hardware
– applications in vision, audio, speech, and natural language processing.
– other applications
Aaron Courville 