MLT is presenting 2 workshop papers at the NeurIPS 2019 conference in Vancouver, Canada. Meet Asir Saeed at the poster session at the NeurIPS Workshop Machine Learning for Creativity and Design. Creative GANs for generating poems, lyrics, and metaphors Asir Saeed, Suzana Ilić, Eva Zangerle Generative models for text have substantially contributed to tasks like machine translation … Continue reading MLT AT NEURIPS 2019 IN VANCOUVER
MLTOKYO (study group)
ML MATH READING SESSIONS
If you haven't signed up yet, follow this link. It helps us keep track of time zones that need to be covered. First info email has been sent out. If you didn't receive the email, please check your spam folder. Here's its content: Thank you for signing up for the MLT Math Reading Sessions – … Continue reading ML MATH READING SESSIONS
MLT LAUNCHED AS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION
Machine Learning Tokyo launched as a nonprofit organization On Septeber 25 more than 100 people joined us for our Machine Learning Tokyo Launch event as a nonprofit organization at Mistletoe of Tokyo, celebrating the team, our contributors, the community and our partnership with Mistletoe Japan, Inc. Serial Entrepreneur and Investor Taizo Son joined us for … Continue reading MLT LAUNCHED AS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION
DEEP PERCEPTION HACKATHON
Machine Learning Tokyo, the Digital Nature Group at the University of Tsukuba and ON-1 Tokyo are organizing a Deep Perception 2-day Hackathon to combine Deep Learning with interactive AR/VR/MR environments. The goal is to explore both fields and find novel ways of synthesis and interaction. We'll have teams of 3-5 people with different technical and … Continue reading DEEP PERCEPTION HACKATHON
WOMEN IN MACHINE LEARNING
150 people joined us for our Women in Machine Learning event on August 10 at Mercari. This event was organized in collaboration with Women Who Code Tokyo, a local chapter of the global nonprofit Women Who Code, an initiative that is supporting women to excel in tech careers. We heard two fantastic talks by Shreya … Continue reading WOMEN IN MACHINE LEARNING
BRAIN-MACHINE INTERFACES, TALK & DISCUSSION
Recently scientists at Elon Musk's Neuralink presented their impressive work on Brain-Machine-Interfaces. (Read the white paper) There are many labs and research groups all over the world working on Neural Interfaces. One of those labs is at UPCT Span. On July 31 we welcomed Antonio Lozano for a talk at ELSI. With a group of … Continue reading BRAIN-MACHINE INTERFACES, TALK & DISCUSSION
INTRO TO REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
We finally kicked off our MLT Reinforcement Learning sessions with an "Intro to RL" study group at the Tokyo Metropolitan Library. Anugraha Sinha walked us through the following: Theory Introduction to RL Important elements of an RL problem Description of Markov Decision Process (MDP) and and Markov Assumption. Importance of parametrization of State, Action, Reward … Continue reading INTRO TO REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
