Alex will be presenting on "Deep FOREST: TOWARDS AN ALTERNATIVE TO
DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS" by Zhi-Hua Zhou and Ji Feng. You can read the
paper here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.08835.pdf
[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.08835.pdf]Here's an abstract straight from
Alex: "It is much easier to find deep learning hagiography than it is
to find an explanation of why it works or even a good definition of
the phrase. A better concept, I will argue, is representation
learning, and this means approximately that feature engineering is
integrated into the training process in an essential way. The linked
paper was my original entree to this subject and it provides an
example of representation learning which uses decision trees (as
opposed to artificial neurons) as it's primitive building block. In my
talk, I'll explain what representation learning is in more detail,
argue that the algorithms called 'deep learning' are applications of
representation learning via neural networks, and demonstrate that this
is why techniques like convolutional neural nets are effective. Having
set the stage, I will walk through the algorithm described in the
paper and give similar insight into why representation learning drives
it's effectiveness."
Alex Mueller is an ancient SAINT LOUIS townie, mathematician and data
scientist. He recently founded a Capnion to develop cryptographic data
privacy tools to prevent data breaches. Read more about his new
company here: https://www.capnion.com/ [https://www.capnion.com/]
Food from Qdoba supplied by Capnion.
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