Martha White

Martha White, an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, specializes in reinforcement learning and adaptive agents. She dives into the exciting world of regularized factor models and their unifying power in machine learning. Martha emphasizes the importance of mathematical rigor in her research and discusses the transformative role of convex optimization. The conversation touches on sparse coding's relevance in representation learning, the nuances between pre-training and joint training in machine learning, and the critical value of collaboration in academic research.