Sebastian's slow blog

  • Stable GAN Models and Creative Machines

    Sebastian Nowozin - Mon 04 December 2017 -

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


  • NIPS 2016 Generative Adversarial Training workshop talk

    Sebastian Nowozin - Sat 10 December 2016 -

    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 …


  • Book Review: Computer Age Statistical Inference

    Sebastian Nowozin - Wed 23 November 2016 -

    Book cover: Computer Age Statistical
Inference

    A new book, Computer Age Statistical Inference: Algorithms, Evidence, and Data Science by Bradley Efron and Trevor Hastie, was released in July this year. I finished reading it a few weeks ago and this is a short review from the …


  • Streaming Log-sum-exp Computation

    Sebastian Nowozin - Sun 08 May 2016 -

    A common numerical operation in statistical computing is to compute

    $$\log \sum_{i=1}^n \exp x_i,$$

    where \(x_i \in \mathbb{R}\), and \(n\) is potentially very large.

    We can implement the above computation by exponentiating each number, then summing …


  • Where will Artificial Intelligence come from?

    Sebastian Nowozin - Wed 20 April 2016 -

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making progress in great strides, or at least it appears so! Almost no week passes by without some major announcements of new challenges solved by AI technology or new products powered by AI.

    Indeed many quantifiable …