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Steps Towards Making Machine Learning More Natural
Mengye Ren
https://umd.zoom.us/j/94543765116?pwd=clY3MVV5Z1g4T2xpdnJMdjFiMFhYdz09
Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 1:00-2:00 pm Calendar
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Abstract

Over the past decades, we have seen machine learning making great strides in understanding visual scenes and natural languages. Yet, most of its success relies on training models on a massive amount of data offline and evaluating them in a similar test environment. By contrast, humans can learn new concepts and skills with very few examples. In order to approach the human ability of quick learning in the natural world, we need to think beyond the classic machine learning paradigm. In this talk, I will present some new learning tasks and highlight key ingredients of meta-learning and representation learning to make machines learn more naturally with limited labeled data.

Bio

Mengye Ren is a PhD student in the machine learning group of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He was also a research scientist at Uber ATG working on self-driving cars from 2017 to 2021. His research focuses on making machines learn in more natural environments with less labeled data. He was a recipient of the Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Fellowship in 2018.

This talk is organized by Richa Mathur