21 Aug 2018, 12noon to 3pm, AG05
Prof Paul Smolensky, Johns Hopkins University and Microsoft Research, will be visiting the Research Centre for Machine Learning for a conversation on neuro-symbolic computing, his book (with Legendre), The Harmonic Mind, MIT Press, and recent papers and results using Tensor Product Representations (TPR) and learning such as A neural-symbolic approach to design of captcha, https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.11475, as well as applications of TPRs to natural language tasks and data sets such as the Stanford question answering dataset SQuAD.