[Colloquium] 10/16 Research at TTIC: Nathan Srebro, TTIC

[Mary Marre]

*When: *    Friday, October 16th at noon

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

*Who: *       Nathan Srebro, TTIC

*Title*: Learning and Optimization: Deep and Distributed


In this talk I will give an overview of my group's research on stochastic
optimization and learning, and discuss in detail two specific topics:
understanding the real inductive bias and thus providing better
optimization procedures for deep learning; and multi-task distributed
learning.


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*Research at TTIC Seminar Series*

TTIC is hosting a weekly seminar series presenting the research currently
underway at the Institute. Every week a different TTIC faculty member will
present their research.  The lectures are intended both for students
seeking research topics and adviser, and for the general TTIC and
University of Chicago communities interested in hearing what their
colleagues are up to.

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Speaker details can be found at: http://www.ttic.edu/tticseminar.php.

For additional questions, please contact David McAllester at
mcallester at ttic.edu




Mary C. Marre
Administrative Assistant
*Toyota Technological Institute*
*6045 S. Kenwood Avenue*
*Room 504*
*Chicago, IL  60637*
*p:(773) 834-1757*
*f: (773) 357-6970*
*mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*
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