<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; line-break: after-white-space;"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><font color="#000000" class="">University of Chicago and Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago<br class="">Machine Learning Seminar Series</font></b><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><b class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;">Arthur Szlam</b><br class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;" class="">Facebook Research</span><br class=""><br class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Wednesday, October 2, 1:30 – 2:30 pm<br class="">TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue,<br class="">5th Floor, Room 526</b></span></font><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><b class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;">Title:</b></font></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; line-break: after-white-space;"><font class=""><font color="#000000" face="Arial" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15.333333015441895px;" class="">Language and Interaction in Minecraft</span></font><br class=""><b class="" style="font-family: Arial; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><font face="Arial" class="" style="font-weight: normal;"><b class=""><br class=""></b></font></b></font></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; line-break: after-white-space;"><font face="Arial" class=""><span class=""><font face="Arial" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><b class="">Abstract:</b><br class=""></font><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;" class="">I will discuss a research program aimed at building a Minecraft assistant, in order to facilitate the study of agents that can complete tasks specified by dialogue, and eventually, to learn from dialogue interactions. I will describe the tools and platform we have built allowing players to interact with the agents and to record those interactions, and the data we have collected. In addition, I will describe an initial agent from which we (and hopefully others) can iterate.</span></font></div><font face="Arial" class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><br class=""><b class="">Bio:</b><br class=""></font><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;" class="">Arthur Szlam (<a href="mailto:aszlam@fb.com" class="">aszlam@fb.com</a>) received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. He is a research scientist at Facebook AI Research, Menlo Park, California. Prior to joining Facebook, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, and an assistant professor at City College of New York. He is a Sloan Foundation fellow. His research interests are in computational harmonic analysis, the relationships between smoothness, frequency, and scale on graphs and data clouds, and applications to signal processing and machine learning.<br class=""><b class="">Host: Nati Srebro</b></span></font></span></font></div></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; line-break: after-white-space;"><font face="Arial" class=""><span class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></font></span></font></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; line-break: after-white-space;"><font face="Arial" class=""><span class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></font></span></font></div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; line-break: after-white-space;"></div></body></html>