Learn how to model real problems with probabilistic programming

August 6th, 2018 (9a.m. - 6p.m.)

Links to part of the course materials are available on MLTRAIN.

Time Event
09:00am - 09:45am Golnoosh Farnadi and Eriq Augustine:
Introduction to Probabilistic Soft Logic
09:45am - 10:30am Eriq Augustine:
Getting Started with Probabilistic Soft Logic
10:50am - 11:35am Golnoosh Farnadi:
Collective Classification and Link Prediction
11:35am - 12:20pm Eriq Augustine:
Entity Resolution
02:05pm - 02:50pm Eli Bingham:
Introduction to Pyro, Models/Inference
02:50pm - 03:35pm Eli Bingham:
Bayesian Regression
04:00pm - 04:45pm Noah Goodman:
Variational Auto-encoders
04:45pm - 05:30pm Noah Goodman:
Building on the VAE: recipes for missing and sequential data (semisupervised VAE, DMM)
05:30pm - 05:55pm Hyungil Ahn:
Applying Deep Probabilistic Programming to Enterprise AI

This year at UAI we are hosting a full day of hands-on training on Probabilistic Programming during the first day of the tutorials (August 6th). Learn how to model uncertainty with the next generation of machine learning tools. In this MLTrain we will cover use cases of Probabilistic programming languages like Pyro and Probabilistic Soft Logic. You will learn:

  • The theory behind these language (Inference model, algorithms)
  • How to use knowledge graphs like freebase in your models
  • How to incorporate user domain knowledge in your models
  • How to solve relational problems like entity resolution.
  • How to build generative models
  • How to solve problems with small amount of data

This workshop will be classroom style, with lectures and ipython notebook exercises on real problems. Probabilistic programming languages are high-level languages that make it easy for developers to define probability models and then “solve” these models automatically.

Ticket Prices (student):

  • Early Bird: $250 (ends June 15th)
  • Late Bird: $350
  • On-site: $500

Ticket Prices (non-student):

  • Early Bird: $350 (ends June 15th)
  • Late Bird: $500
  • On-site: $600
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* UAI offers some very compelling sponsorship packages for big companies and startups. For more information and custom packages contact us at uai2018chairs@gmail.com

** All proceedings from the event will go to AUAI, the non-profit organization that organizes the annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) and, more generally, promotes research in pursuit of advances in knowledge representation, learning and reasoning under uncertainty.







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