[AI Seminar] AI Seminar sponsored by Apple -- Hieu Pham -- April 24

[Adams Wei Yu]

A gentle reminder that the talk will be tomorrow (Tuesday) noon in NSH 3305.

On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 10:01 PM, Adams Wei Yu <weiyu at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear faculty and students,
>
> We look forward to seeing you next Tuesday, April 24, at noon in NSH 3305 for
> AI Seminar sponsored by Apple. To learn more about the seminar series,
> please visit the AI Seminar webpage <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/>.
>
> On Tuesday, Hieu Pham will give the following talk:
>
> Title: From Neural Combinatorial Optimization to Automatic Machine
> Learning
>
> Abstract:
>
> Despite neural networks' impressive performance on many tasks, designing
> efficient and deploying neural networks stands an arduous challenge. It
> involves making a lot of discrete decisions, such as which models to use
> and how to deploy such models. Automatizing these designs thus comes at a
> great benefit. In this talk, I will show how one can view the task of
> designing and deploying neural networks as a combinatorial optimization
> problem. Then, I will discuss an application of deep reinforcement learning
> (DRL) on a canonical combinatorial optimization task: the Traveling
> Salesman Problem (TSP), which outperforms many existing heuristics.
> Finally, I will connect the dots, showing that the same DRL approach on TSP
> can be applied to automatize the process of designing and deploying neural
> networks. Time permits, I will discuss the existing challenges and some
> future directions in this line of work.
>
>
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