{"625163":{"#nid":"625163","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Proposal by Michael Cogswell","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E Disentangling Neural Networks Representations for Improved Generalization\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMichael Cogswell\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nPh.D. Student\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Interactive Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EDate:\u003C\/strong\u003E Thursday, August 29th, 2019\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ETime:\u003C\/strong\u003E 3:00pm - 5:00pm (EST)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ELocation:\u003C\/strong\u003E CODA C0915 Atlantic\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nProf. Dhruv Batra, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nProf. Devi Parikh, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nProf. James Hays, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nProf. Ashok Goel, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nProf. Stefan Lee, Oregon State University\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nModern neural networks have helped the field of artificial intelligence tackle increasingly complex perceptual problems. However, despite the increasingly broad capabilities of neural networks, each new task they are applied to still requires significant engineering effort. This is in part due to the entangled nature of the representations learned by these models. Entangled representations capture spurious patterns that are only useful for specific examples instead of factors of variation that explain the data generally. We show that encouraging representations to be disentangled makes them generalize better.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIn this thesis proposal we identify three notions of entangled representations, enforce disentanglement in each case, and show that more general representations result from enforcing disentanglement. Our existing work considers language compositionality in goal driven dialog and statistical independence of features in image classification as notions of disentanglement. Our proposed work will disentangle a multi-modal language and vision representation from the tasks it is used to solve. By increasing the generality of neural networks through disentanglement we hope to reduce the effort required to apply neural networks to new tasks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Disentangling Neural Networks Representations for Improved Generalization"}],"uid":"27707","created_gmt":"2019-08-26 17:56:25","changed_gmt":"2019-08-26 17:56:25","author":"Tatianna Richardson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2019-08-29T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2019-08-29T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2019-08-29T18:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2019-08-29 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2019-08-29 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2019-08-29 22:00:00","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":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}