[Colloquium] REMINDER: Talks at TTIC: Rich Caruana, Microsoft

[Dawn Ellis]

When:     Thursday, April 30th at 11am

Where:    TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526

Who:       Rich Caruana, Microsoft

Title:       Do Deep Nets Really Need To Be Deep?

Abstract:

Deep neural networks are the state of the art on problems such as speech
recognition and computer vision.  Using a method called model compression,
we show that shallow nets can learn the complex functions previously
learned by deep nets and achieve accuracies previously only achievable with
deep models while using the same number of parameters as the original deep
models.  On the TIMIT phoneme recognition and CIFAR-10 image recognition
tasks, shallow nets can be trained that perform similarly to complex,
well-engineered, deeper convolutional architectures.  The same model
compression trick also can be used to compress impractically large deep
models and ensembles of large deep models down to small- or medium-size
deep models that run more efficiently on mobile devices or servers.


Short Bio:

Rich Caruana is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. Before joining
Microsoft, Rich was on the faculty at the Computer Science Department at
Cornell University, at UCLA’s Medical School, and at CMU’s Center for
Learning and Discovery (CALD). Rich’s Ph.D. is from Carnegie Mellon
University, where he worked with Tom Mitchell and Herb Simon. His thesis on
Multi-Task Learning helped generate interest in a new subfield of machine
learning called Transfer Learning. Rich received an NSF CAREER Award in
2004 (for Meta Clustering), best paper awards in 2005 (with Alex
Niculescu-Mizil), 2007 (with Daria Sorokina), and 2014 (with Todd Kulesza,
Saleema Amershi, Danyel Fisher, and Denis Charles), co-chaired KDD in 2007
(with Xindong Wu), and serves as area chair for NIPS, ICML, and KDD. His
current research focus is on learning for medical decision making, deep
learning, adaptive clustering, and computational ecology.

Host:  David McAllester,  mcallester at ttic.edu




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