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Jacob Louis Hoover
Student Ph.D., McGill University
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Jacob Louis Hoover
Information Theory
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Probabilistic Models
Probabilistic Systems and Languages
http://jahoo.github.io

I am member of The Montreal Computational & Quantitative Linguistics Lab, under Tim O’Donnell. I am interested in information theory, mathematical linguistics, and probabilistic models of human language processing.

Options of Interest: Temporal Abstraction with Interest Functions

A Story of Two Streams: Reinforcement Learning Models from Human Behavior and Neuropsychiatry

Learning Nonlinear Brain Dynamics: van der Pol Meets LSTM

Modeling Psychotherapy Dialogues with Kernelized Hashcode Representations: A Nonparametric Information-Theoretic Approach

Beyond Backprop: Online Alternating Minimization with Auxiliary Variables

Learning to Learn without Forgetting by Maximizing Transfer and Minimizing Interference