Hugo Larochelle

I am the lead of the Google Brain team in Montreal, adjunct professor at Université de Montréal and a Canada CIFAR Chair. My research focuses on the study and development of deep learning algorithms.

For additional information on me and my research, consider the following links:

• My up-to-date publications list
• My students:
  • Disha Shrivastava (Ph.D., co-advised with Danny Tarlow)
  • David Bieber (Ph.D., co-advised with Danny Tarlow)
  • William Fedus (Ph.D., co-advised with Yoshua Bengio)
  • Adam Salvail-Bérard (Ph.D., co-advised with Jean-Pierre Dussault)
• The classes I have taught at Université de Sherbrooke
• My YouTube channel with videos of my online courses
• My detailed CV

Publications

Hyperbolic Discounting and Learning over Multiple Horizons

InfoBot: Transfer and Exploration via the Information Bottleneck

Recall Traces: Backtracking Models for Efficient Reinforcement Learning

GuessWhat?! Visual object discovery through multi-modal dialogue

Describing Videos by Exploiting Temporal Structure