Feb 4, 2020 - 4:00 pm Venue:  Singleton Auditorium Address:  Singleton(46-3002), 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA 02139 Speaker/s:  Leslie Pack Kaelbling, CSAIL

Abstract: We, as robot engineers, have to think hard about our role in the design of robots and how it interacts with learning, both in "the factory" (that is, at engineering time) and in "the wild" (that is, when the robot is delivered to a customer). I will share some general thoughts about the strategies for robot design and then talk in detail about some work I have been involved in, both in the design of an overall architecture for an intelligent robot and in strategies for learning to integrate new skills into the repertoire of an already competent robot.

Organizer:  Jean Lawrence Organizer Email:  cbmm-contact@mit.edu

Mar 16, 2020 - 4:00 pm Venue:  Singleton Auditorium Address:  Singleton(46-3002), 43 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA 02139 Speaker/s:  Lior Wolf, Tel Aviv University and Facebook AI Research.

Please note that this talk has been canceled.

We will reschedule his talk at the earliest convenience.

 

Abstract: Hypernetworks, also known as dynamic networks, are neural networks in which the weights of at least some of the layers vary dynamically based on the input. Such networks have composite architectures in which one network predicts the weights of another network. I will briefly describe the early days of dynamic layers and present recent results from diverse domains: 3D reconstruction from a single image, image retouching, electrical circuit design, decoding block codes, graph hypernetworks for bioinformatics, and action recognition in video. Finally, I will present a new hypernetwork-based model for the role of feedback in neural computations.

Organizer:  Frederico Azevedo Jean Lawrence Organizer Email:  cbmm-contact@mit.edu