{"600051":{"#nid":"600051","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Proposal by Bo Dai","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETitle: Learning on Functions via Stochastic Optimization\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBo Dai\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Computational Science and Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDate: Wednesday, December 20, 2017\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETime: 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM EST\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELocation: KACB 1315\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommittee\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E-------------\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Le Song (Advisor), School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Hongyuan Zha, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Byron Boots, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Guanghui Lan, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Arthur Gretton, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAbstract\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E-------------\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMachine learning has recently witnessed revolutionary success in a wide spectrum of domains. Most of these applications involve learning with complex inputs and\/or outputs, which could be graphs, functions, distributions, and even dynamics. The success of these machine learning applications often requires at least two factors: i) the exploitation of structure information in learning models, and ii) the utilization of huge amount of data. However, the structure information corresponds delicate conditions in optimization point of view, while a huge amount of data requires algorithms efficient and scalable. Integrating both parts can be very challenging, from both computational and theoretical perspectives.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this dissertation, we mainly focused on large-scale learning on functions problems, which includes kernel methods as the inputs are functions, Bayesian inference as the inputs are log-likelihoods, and learning with invariances and reinforcement learning as the inputs are dynamics. By exploiting the special structures with stochastic optimization in function spaces, we developed principled and practical algorithms for each problem. Moreover, the new perspective sheds light on existing open problems in particular areas.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":": Learning on Functions via Stochastic Optimization"}],"uid":"27707","created_gmt":"2017-12-18 19:59:35","changed_gmt":"2017-12-18 19:59:35","author":"Tatianna Richardson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-12-20T08:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2017-12-20T10:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-12-20T10:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-12-20 13:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-12-20 15:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-12-20 15:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"102851","name":"Phd proposal"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}