Mila organizes weekly tea talks generally on Friday at 10:30 in the auditorium. These talks are technical presentations aimed at the level of Mila researchers on a variety of subjects spanning machine learning and are open to the public.
If you’re interested in giving a tea talk, please email .
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The schedule for previous and upcoming talks as well as some of the presentation slides are available below.
https://sites.google.com/lisa.iro.umontreal.ca/tea-talk-recordings/home
Dates [M/D/Y] | Time | Speaker | Place | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri January 11 2019 | 10h30 | Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert | Mila Auditorium | BabyAI: A Platform to Study the Sample Efficiency of Grounded Language Learning |
| Fri January 18 2019 | ||||
| Fri January 25 2019 | 10h30 | Hugo Larochelle | Mila Auditorium | (Part II) Few-Shot Learning with Meta-Learning: Progress Made and Challenges Ahead |
| Fri February 1 2019 | 10h30 | Isabela Albuquerque | Mila Auditorium | Multi-objective training of Generative Adversarial Networks with multiple discriminators |
| Fri February 8 2019 | ||||
| Fri March 8 2019 | 10h30 | David Blei | Mila Auditorium | The Blessings of Multiple Causes |
| Fri March 15 2019 | ||||
| Fri 22 March 2019 | ||||
| Fri 29 March 2019 | 10h30 | Jeffrey Pennington | Mila Auditorium | Are Overparameterized Neural Networks Actually Just Linear Models? |
| Fri 5 April 2019 | 10h30 | Anirudh Goyal | Mila Auditorium | Inductive Biases, Invariances and Generalization |
| Fri 12 April 2019 | 10h30 | Yoshua Bengio | Mila Auditorium | Meta-transfer learning for factorizing representations and knowledge for AI |
| Fri 19 April 2019 | 10h 30 | Dhruva Raman | Mila Auditorium | Fundamental Bounds on Learning Performance in Neural Circuits |
| Fri 26 April 2019 | ||||
| Fri 3 May 2019 | 10h30 | ICLR Lightning talks | Mila Auditorium | ICLR Lightning Talks |
| Fri 10 May 2019 | ||||
| Fri 17 May 2019 | 10h30 | Dan Sodickson | Auditorium H2 | Machine Learning and Medicine: How AI will change the way we see patients, and the way we see ourselves. |
| Fri 24 May 2019 | 10h30 | Marc BelleMare and Pieter Abeel | Mila Auditorium | Part 1 : Some progress on understanding the benefits of distributional reinforcement learning, Part 2 : Model-based RL with Meta-Model-Free RL |
| Fri 31 May 2019 | 10h30 | Liam Li | Mila Auditorium | Random Search and Reproducibility for Neural Architecture Search |
| Fri 7 June 2019 | ||||
| Fri 14 June 2019 | ||||
| Fri 21 June 2019 | 10h30 | Guy Wolf | Mila Auditorium | Geometry-based Data Exploration |
| Fri 28 June 2019 | 10h30 | Audrey Durand | Mila Auditorium | Bandits in the wild |
| Fri 5 July 2019 | 10h30 | Ankseh Anand and Evan Racah | Mila Auditorium | Unsupervised State Representation Learning in Atari |
| Fri 12 July 2019 | 10h30 | Ravindran Balaraman | Mila Auditorium | Reinforcement Learning at Work. |
| Fri 19 July 2019 | 10h30 | Paul Cisek | Mila Agora | Rethinking behavior from an evolutionary perspective |
| Fri 26 July | ||||
| Fri 2 August | ||||
| Fri 9 August | 10h30 | Leila Wehbe | Mila Agora | Using insights from the human brain to interpret and improve NLP models |
| Fri 16 August | ||||
| Fri 23 August | ||||
| Fri 30 August | ||||