<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal">When: <span class="gmail-m_-7432955778986487772gmail-m_-2281065137265786506gmail-m_-3320638437953326758gmail-m_3990498715904616980gmail-il">Friday</span>, January 13th at noon </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal">Where: TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal">Who: Michael Maire; TTIC</p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Title: Fractal and Multigrid Architectures for Deep Neural Networks<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Abstract:<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are central to modern computer vision systems. This talk covers two recent works, each connecting a particular design pattern for network architecture to corresponding learning capabilities.<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The first explores repeated application of a simple expansion rule to generate deep networks whose structural layouts are precisely truncated fractals. These networks match the state-of-the-art performance held by residual networks on both CIFAR and ImageNet classification tasks, thereby demonstrating that residual representations may not be fundamental to the success of extremely deep networks. Additionally, fractal networks can be trained to exhibit an anytime property: shallow subnetworks provide a quick answer, while deeper subnetworks, with higher latency, provide a more accurate answer.<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The second proposes a multigrid extension of CNNs. Here, network layers operate across scale space, consuming multigrid inputs and producing multigrid outputs; convolutional filters themselves have both within-scale and cross-scale extent. Multigrid structure enables such networks to learn internal attention and dynamic routing mechanisms, and use them to accomplish tasks on which standard CNNs fail.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px">******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>**********************</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Research at TTIC Seminar Series</font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To receive announcements about the seminar series, please subscribe to the mailing list: <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/ttic.edu/group/talks/subscribe" target="_blank">https://groups.google.co<wbr>m/a/ttic.edu/group/<span class="gmail-m_-7432955778986487772gmail-m_-2281065137265786506gmail-m_-3320638437953326758gmail-m_3990498715904616980gmail-m_-8247393949946928606gmail-m_-8480526344443392316gmail-m_-1056553444316568634gmail-m_593248408351034154gmail-m_8873931552348078312gmail-m_-3900280345830708483gmail-m_2412953322955092339gmail-m_-3568727914368024249gmail-m_-7538648194147727859gmail-il"><span class="gmail-m_-7432955778986487772gmail-m_-2281065137265786506gmail-m_-3320638437953326758gmail-m_3990498715904616980gmail-m_-8247393949946928606gmail-m_-8480526344443392316gmail-m_-1056553444316568634gmail-m_593248408351034154gmail-m_8873931552348078312gmail-m_-3900280345830708483gmail-m_2412953322955092339gmail-m_-3568727914368024249gmail-il"><span class="gmail-m_-7432955778986487772gmail-m_-2281065137265786506gmail-m_-3320638437953326758gmail-m_3990498715904616980gmail-il">talks</span></span></span>/subsc<wbr>ribe</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Speaker details can be found at: <a href="http://www.ttic.edu/tticseminar.php" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/tticse<wbr>minar.php</a>.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For additional questions, please contact Nathan Srebro at <a href="mailto:mcallester@ttic.edu" target="_blank">nati@ttic.edu</a> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mary C. Marre</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Administrative Assistant</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Room 504</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">p:(773) 834-1757</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">f: (773) 357-6970</font></i></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Mary Marre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal">When: <span class="m_-7432955778986487772gmail-m_-2281065137265786506gmail-m_-3320638437953326758gmail-m_3990498715904616980gmail-il">Friday</span>, January 13th at noon </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal">Where: TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 526</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px;line-height:normal">Who: Michael Maire; TTIC</p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Title: Fractal and Multigrid Architectures for Deep Neural Networks<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Abstract:<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are central to modern computer vision systems. This talk covers two recent works, each connecting a particular design pattern for network architecture to corresponding learning capabilities.<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The first explores repeated application of a simple expansion rule to generate deep networks whose structural layouts are precisely truncated fractals. These networks match the state-of-the-art performance held by residual networks on both CIFAR and ImageNet classification tasks, thereby demonstrating that residual representations may not be fundamental to the success of extremely deep networks. Additionally, fractal networks can be trained to exhibit an anytime property: shallow subnetworks provide a quick answer, while deeper subnetworks, with higher latency, provide a more accurate answer.<br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The second proposes a multigrid extension of CNNs. Here, network layers operate across scale space, consuming multigrid inputs and producing multigrid outputs; convolutional filters themselves have both within-scale and cross-scale extent. Multigrid structure enables such networks to learn internal attention and dynamic routing mechanisms, and use them to accomplish tasks on which standard CNNs fail.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px">******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>**********************</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><b><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Research at TTIC Seminar Series</font></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">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. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To receive announcements about the seminar series, please subscribe to the mailing list: <a href="https://groups.google.com/a/ttic.edu/group/talks/subscribe" target="_blank">https://groups.google.co<wbr>m/a/ttic.edu/group/<span class="m_-7432955778986487772gmail-m_-2281065137265786506gmail-m_-3320638437953326758gmail-m_3990498715904616980gmail-m_-8247393949946928606gmail-m_-8480526344443392316gmail-m_-1056553444316568634gmail-m_593248408351034154gmail-m_8873931552348078312gmail-m_-3900280345830708483gmail-m_2412953322955092339gmail-m_-3568727914368024249gmail-m_-7538648194147727859gmail-il"><span class="m_-7432955778986487772gmail-m_-2281065137265786506gmail-m_-3320638437953326758gmail-m_3990498715904616980gmail-m_-8247393949946928606gmail-m_-8480526344443392316gmail-m_-1056553444316568634gmail-m_593248408351034154gmail-m_8873931552348078312gmail-m_-3900280345830708483gmail-m_2412953322955092339gmail-m_-3568727914368024249gmail-il"><span class="m_-7432955778986487772gmail-m_-2281065137265786506gmail-m_-3320638437953326758gmail-m_3990498715904616980gmail-il">talks</span></span></span>/subsc<wbr>ribe</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Speaker details can be found at: <a href="http://www.ttic.edu/tticseminar.php" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/tticse<wbr>minar.php</a>.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For additional questions, please contact Nathan Srebro at <a href="mailto:mcallester@ttic.edu" target="_blank">nati@ttic.edu</a> </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div></div><div><div class="m_-7432955778986487772gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Mary C. Marre</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Administrative Assistant</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Room 504</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">p:<a href="tel:(773)%20834-1757" value="+17738341757" target="_blank">(773) 834-1757</a></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">f: <a href="tel:(773)%20357-6970" value="+17733576970" target="_blank">(773) 357-6970</a></font></i></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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