Autonomous Learning: Summer School 2014
Program & Videos
Please note that there will be a printed program booklet available at our summer school.
All talks will be held in the Leibniz-Saal (E1 05),
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Inselstraße 22).
| Monday, September 01, 2014 | ||
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Welcome address | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Theme 1: Learning representations Shun-ichi Amari (RIKEN, Japan) Information geometry and its applications to learning | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch break | |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Theme 1: Learning representations Shun-ichi Amari (RIKEN, Japan) Basic principles of supervised and unsupervised learning: toward understanding deep learning | |
| 17:30 | Get-together BBQ at Glashaus (on individual payment) | |
| Tuesday, September 02, 2014 | ||
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Theme 3: Learning to act in real-world environments Christos Dimitrakakis (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) Planning under uncertainty: Markov decision processes | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Theme 2: Acting to learn (exploration) Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany) Intrinsically motivated exploration of behavioural modes | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch break | |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Theme 1: Learning representations Thomas Martinetz (University of Lübeck, Germany) Sparse coding and efficient sensing | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Theme 2: Acting to learn (exploration) Friedrich Sommer (Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley, USA) Information-theory based policies for learning in (embodied) closed sensori-motor loops | |
| Wednesday, September 03, 2014 | ||
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Theme 3: Learning to act in real-world environments Tamim Asfour (KIT Karlsruhe, Germany) Structural bootstrapping for 24/7 humanoids | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Theme 2: Acting to learn (exploration) Marc Toussaint (Stuttgart University, Germany) Bandits, global optimization, active learning, and Bayesian reinforcement learning -- understanding the common ground | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch break | |
| 14:30 - 17:00 | Poster session | |
| 18:00 | Social event | |
| Thursday, September 04, 2014 | ||
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Theme 3: Learning to act in real-world environments Michael Beetz (Bremen University, Germany) Autonomous Learning for Human-scale Everyday Manipulation Tasks | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Theme 3: Learning to act in real-world environments Helge Ritter (Bielefeld University, Germany) Issues, algorithms, and challenges | |
| 12:30 - 14:30 | Lunch break | |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Theme 1: Learning representations Matthias Bethge (University of Tübingen, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Germany) Natural image statistics & neural representation learning | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Concluding discussion | |
Date and Location
September 01 - 04, 2014
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Inselstraße 22
04103 Leipzig
Germany
see travel instructions
Scientific Organizers
Nihat AyMPI for Mathematics in the Sciences
Information Theory of Cognitive Systems Group
Leipzig (Germany)
Marc Toussaint
Stuttgart University
Coordinator of Priority Program Autonomous Learning (Germany)
Administrative Contact
Marion LangeStuttgart University / TU Berlin
Coordination Priority Program Autonomous Learning
Stuttgart (Germany)
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