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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Book Review: Computer Age Statistical Inference

Posted on Wed 23 November 2016 in Machine Learning, Statistics, Book Review

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 point of view of a machine learning researcher.

Living in …


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Streaming Log-sum-exp Computation

Posted on Sun 08 May 2016 in Algorithms

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 them, then taking a logarithm as follows (written in Julia …


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Where will Artificial Intelligence come from?

Posted on Wed 20 April 2016 in Artificial Intelligence

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 factors attest an unprecedented level of activity: capital investments, number …


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