Guest Speaker: Jason Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California Date/Time: Thursday, October 4, 2018, 2:00 pm Location: 3403 Siebel Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science and DAIS Abstract: We provide new theoretical insights on why over-parametrization is effective in learning neural networks. For a k hidden node shallow network with quadratic activation […]
Author: yanello@illinois.edu
Towards Theoretical Understanding of Overparametrization in Deep Learning
Guest Speaker: Jason Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California Date/Time: Thursday, October 4, 2018, 2:00 pm Location: 3403 Siebel Sponsored by the Department of Computer Science and DAIS Abstract: We provide new theoretical insights on why over-parametrization is effective in learning neural networks. For a k hidden node shallow network with quadratic activation […]
Mao Ye, Associate Professor of Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Big Data in Finance”
Location: 3124 SC Time: 4:00-5:00pm Friday, June 15, 2018 Abstract. Modern financial markets generate vast quantities of data. As the data environment has become increasingly “big” and analyses increasingly computerized, the information that different market participants extract and use has grown more varied and diverse. At one extreme, high-frequency traders (HFTs) implement ultra-minimalist algorithms optimized for […]