MLSS 2018 in Madrid

Posted on Sun 02 September 2018 in Machine Learning

The Machine Learning Summer Schools (MLSS) is the largest and most popular machine learning summer school series. For two weeks in August and September the MLSS 2018 is held in Madrid.

I am happy to speak on the topics of generative adversarial networks (GANs) this year.

My talk materials are …


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Stable GAN Models and Creative Machines

Posted on Mon 04 December 2017 in Machine Learning

We just published an article discussing our recent work on stabilizing generative adversarial networks.


NIPS 2016 Generative Adversarial Training workshop talk

Posted on Sat 10 December 2016 in Machine Learning

The biggest AI conference of the year has just ended: NIPS in Barcelona broke all records this year and the program was exciting as always. It certainly remains my favorite conference to attend.

One of the best things about NIPS are the numerous high-quality workshops; this year David Lopez-Paz, Alex …


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Becoming a Bayesian, Part 3

Posted on Fri 15 May 2015 in Machine Learning

This post continues the previous post, part 1 and part 2, outlining my criticism towards a ''naive'' subjective Bayesian viewpoint:

  1. The consequences of model misspecification.
  2. The ''model first computation last'' approach.
  3. Denial of methods of classical statistics, in this post.

Denial of the Value of Classical Statistics

Suppose for the …


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Becoming a Bayesian, Part 2

Posted on Sat 02 May 2015 in Machine Learning

This post continues the previous post, part 1, outlining my criticism towards a ''naive'' subjective Bayesian viewpoint:

  1. The consequences of model misspecification.
  2. The ''model first computation last'' approach, in this post.
  3. Denial of methods of classical statistics.

The ''Model First Computation Last'' approach

Without a model (not necessarily probabilistic) we …


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