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The ninth annual International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) is taking place May 3-7 online this year! We are proud to share that the work of our researchers are being included in the proceedings.
ICLR is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of AI called representation learning -- also known as deep learning -- as well as its application areas. Out of the nearly 3000 submissions, only 860 were accepted for presentation at the conference; and of those accepted, only 114 submissions were selected for Spotlight presentations.
Amii Fellows and Canada CIFAR AI Chairs – professors at the University of Alberta and the University of British Columbia – are included in the proceedings, as well as other Amii researchers and alums (* indicates Amii researcher or alum):
Fuzzy Tiling Activations: A Simple Approach to Learning Sparse Representations Online
PMI-Masking: Principled masking of correlated spans
Model-Invariant State Abstractions for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning featured at the Self-supervision for Reinforcement Learning (SSL-RL) workshop:
Towards Reinforcement Learning in the Continuing Setting featured at the Never-Ending Reinforcement Learning (NERL) workshop:
Improved object recognition using neural networks trained to mimic the brain's statistical properties presented at the How Can Findings About The Brain Improve AI Systems? workshop:
Amii Fellows & Canada CIFAR AI Chairs have also served in the organization of the conference:
Area Chairs
Outstanding Paper Award Committee
As well, Amii researchers and alum have received accolades for being outstanding reviewers! Congratulations to Eric Graves, Kris De Asis, Nadia Ady, Mike Johanson and Amii Fellow & Canada CIFAR AI Chair Martha White.
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Dec 4th 2023
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Learn more about the research and work of Geoffrey Rockwell, one of the latest Fellows to join Amii’s team of world-class researchers. Geoffrey is a professor in both Media Tech Studies and in the philosophy department at the University of Alberta.
Nov 22nd 2023
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On October 17, Dr. Deepa Krishnaswamy, from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, presented “AI-derived annotations for lung cancer collections using NCI Imaging Data Commons" at the AI Seminar.
Nov 22nd 2023
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On October 20, Eric Graves, from the University of Alberta, presented “Balancing Bias and Variance in Emphatic Off-policy Reinforcement Learning" at the AI Seminar.
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