Weekly summary 2016-10-08

Done

• DL
  • (*) NN learns DL. (Did half of calculations - see notebook.)
  • DL generalizations.
• Papers (started reading)
  • LCLS10 A Contextual-Bandit Approach to Personalized News Article Recommendation
  • DHKK Efficient Optimal Learning for Contextual Bandits
  • SCH Unsupervised Part-Of-Speech Tagging with Anchor Hidden Markov Models
  • A spectral algorithm for learning Hidden Markov Models
• RL: read Ch. 7-8 (Fri)
• Avi’s birthday conference. Aaronson, Micali’s talks. (Micali has good general advice.)
• Alexa meeting.
• Thought a little about generalization of NN.
• Talked to Kiran on convolutional DL (Mon)

Threads

• PMI - get some results!
• SoS - lectures 2 and 3
• DL: do experiments suggested in DL generalization
  • (*) NN learns DL. (Finish)
  • DL generalizations.
• Stability of SGD
  • @Elad: do local minima generalize? (write up a formal question)
• Graphical models reading