Presentations from the Machine Learning Mini-Symposium Available

All presentations now available from the Mini-Symposium on Deep Generative Models and Unsupervised Machine Learning held on 25 October 2017. See also our Meetup page

Talks by Aapo Hyvarinen (Professor, University College London), Yoshua Bengio (Professor, Université de Montréal) and David Blei (Professor, Columbia University, New York).

Aapo Hyvarinen’s talk

Yoshua Bengio’s talk

David Blei’s talk

 

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