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