<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">When: </font></font></b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"> Friday, April 29th at <b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">10:30am<span class="gmail_default"> CT</span></b></font></font><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where: </b><span class="gmail_default"><b></b></span><span class="gmail_default">T</span></font></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">alk will be giv</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">en </span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold"><u style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">live, in-person</u></font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold"> </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">at</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"> TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"> 5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><b><br></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#000000"><b><span class="gmail_default">Where: </span></b></font><b>Zo</b><b>om Virtual Talk</b> (<a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dvnkEMPuRaaLMFP229ryMg" target="_blank">register in advance here</a>)<font color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"><b><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">Who: <span class="gmail_default"></span> </font></font></b>Prof. Alexei (Alyosha) Efros, UC Berkeley</font></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></b></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif"><b style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">Title: </b>Self-Supervision: Learning from the Bottom Up</font></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><p><font face="georgia, serif"><b style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Abstract:</b><font color="#212121"> </font>Why do self-supervised learning? A common answer is: "because data labeling is expensive." In this talk, I will argue that there are other, perhaps more fundamental reasons for working on self-supervision. First, it should allow us to get away from the tyranny of top-down semantic categorization and force meaningful associations to emerge naturally from the raw sensor data in a bottom-up fashion. Second, it should allow us to ditch fixed datasets and enable continuous, online learning, which is a much more natural setting for real-world agents. Third, and most intriguingly, there is hope that it might be possible to force a self-supervised task curriculum to emerge from first principles, even in the absence of a pre-defined downstream task or goal, similar to evolution. In this talk, I will touch upon these themes to argue that, far from running its course, research in self-supervised learning is only just beginning.</font></p><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px;font-weight:700">B</span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px;font-weight:700">io:</span> <span class="gmail_default"></span><span class="gmail_default">Alyosha is </span></font><span style="font-size:small">a professor at EECS Department at UC Berkeley, where <span class="gmail_default">he</span> <span class="gmail_default">is</span> part of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR). Before that, <span class="gmail_default">he</span> spent nine years on the faculty of the Robotics Institute at CMU. <span class="gmail_default">He is</span> also still remembered in Oxford, where <span class="gmail_default">he</span> did a post-doc with Andrew Zisserman. Starting in 2007, <span class="gmail_default">he has</span> also been closely collaborating with Team WILLOW at École Normale Supérieure / INRIA in beautiful Paris.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px;font-weight:700">Host:</span> <a href="mailto:greg@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Greg </a></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:greg@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Shakhnarovich</a></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border-radius:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-size:13px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></p></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Brandie Jones </font></b><div><div><i><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Administrative Assistant</font></b></i></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Toyota Technological Institute</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL 60637</font></span></div></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6"><a href="http://www.ttic.edu" target="_blank">www.ttic.edu</a> </font></span></div></div></div></div></div>
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