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Learning Machines and Teaching Machines. Isabelle Guyon isabelle@clopinet.com. Outline. The need to disseminate our research to the outer world The means The contents The team The timeline. The need. What to do answer when asked by common people: what’s your job? Increase impact
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Learning Machines and Teaching Machines Isabelle Guyon isabelle@clopinet.com
Outline • The need to disseminate our research to the outer world • The means • The contents • The team • The timeline
The need • What to do answer when asked by common people: what’s your job? • Increase impact • Cross-fertilize with other disciplines • Attract new researchers • Boost our own energy • Get more funding
The idea • Turn research in Learning into a set of pedagogical “exhibits”. • Display these exhibits on the Internet, promote their use in teaching. • Turn them into a show, which can be displayed in schools and museums.
Exhibits • Wikipedia articles • Slide shows with voice over • Videos • Games/interactive software • Children/adult activities: “kitchen counter demos”. • Life demonstrations
Topics Survival Forecasting & Decision making Control Language Memory Creation
Challenges • Challenges are teaching machines! • Pascal challenges • Use of challenges in teaching • Latest on-going challenge
NIPS 2006 Feature Selection Challenge • Five datasets, 75 participants • Web site (still available) • Book • Machine learning toolkit (“Spider”) • Class taught: http://clopinet.com/isabelle/Projects/ETH/
40 ARCENE 20 0 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 40 DEXTER 20 0 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 40 DOROTHEA 20 0 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 40 GISETTE 20 0 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 40 MADELON 20 0 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Test BER (%) NIPS 2006 Datasets tr/va/te f
Agnostic Learning vs. Prior Knowledge tr/va/te af/pf 150 ADA 100 50 0 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45 0.5 150 100 GINA 50 0 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45 0.5 150 HIVA 100 50 0 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45 0.5 150 100 NOVA 50 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45 0.5 150 SYLVA 100 50 0 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45 0.5 Test BER (%) http://www.agnostic.inf.ethz.ch/
The Team • Coordinator • Web master • Scientific exhibition expert • Idea providers • Content providers • Sponsors
Timeline • February 2007: first draft web site; call for “exhibit” proposals • July 2007: Deadline for “exhibit” proposals • August 2007: Organizing committee meeting. • September 2007: Submit proposal to NIPS. • December 2007: Show exhibit 1st time at NIPS. • January 2008: start working on pedagogical kit; scale up exhibition.