Mathematics and Innovation in Machine Learning

Sebastian Nowozin is currently a Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge. His research focuses on probabilistic deep learning, consequences of model misspecification, understanding agent complexity in order to improve learning efficiency, and designing models for reasoning and planning. His PhD thesis is titled "Learning with Structured Data: Applications to Computer Vision", which he completed in 2009. We discuss the work in his thesis on structured inputs and structured outputs, which involves beautiful ideas from polyhedral combinatorics and optimization. We talk about his recent work on Bayesian deep learning and the connections it has to ideas that he explored during his PhD. Episode notes: https://cs.nyu.edu/~welleck/episode4.html Follow the Thesis Review (@thesisreview) and Sean Welleck (@wellecks) on Twitter, and find out more info about the show at https://cs.nyu.edu/~welleck/podcast.html