Ruslan Salakhutdinov ( CMU) Deep Learning: Recent Advances and New Challenges

Ruslan Salakhutdinov is a professor of computer science at the Carnegie Mellon University. Since 2009, he s published at least 42 papers on machine learning. His research has been funded by Google, Microsoft and Samsung. In 2016, Ruslan joined Apple as its director of AI research. Abstract: In the first part of the talk, Ruslan will introduce XLNet, a generalized autoregressive pretraining method that (1) enables learning bidirectional contexts by maximizing the expected likelihood over all permutations of