[Colloquium] 6/6 TTIC Colloquium: Brian Ziebart, UIC

[Mary Marre]

When:     Monday, June 6th at 11:00 a.m.

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

Who:        Brian Ziebart, UIC


Title:        Supervised Machine Learning as an Adversarial Game

Abstract: A standard approach to supervised machine learning is to choose
the form of a predictor and optimize its parameters based on training
data.  Approximations of the predictor's performance measure are often
required to make the optimization problem tractable.  Instead of
approximating the performance measure and using the exact training data,
this talk introduces a supervised machine learning framework that
adversarially approximates the training data and uses the exact performance
measure.  This formulation provides flexibility for addressing sample
selection bias, the fundamental problem hindering advances in active
learning, and for inductively optimizing multivariate performance measures
like the F-measure and the discounted cumulative gain from information
retrieval and ranking tasks.

Bio: Brian Ziebart is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer
Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his PhD from
Carnegie Mellon University where he was also a postdoctoral fellow. He has
published over 25 articles in leading machine learning and artificial
intelligence venues, including a Best Paper at the International Conference
on Machine Learning.


Host:  Karen Livescu, klivescu at ttic.edu <klivescu at ttic.edu>



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Mary C. Marre
Administrative Assistant
*Toyota Technological Institute*
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*Chicago, IL  60637*
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*mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*
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