======== Advanced Topics for self-study and Presentation ========


===== Advanced Topics for self-study and Presentation =====

=== Presentation (Part I) 2-5pm, March 27 (Tuesday) @LAS3033 ===

  - **Yuping Lin**: Convolutional Neural Nets for Image Recognition ([[https://papers.nips.cc/paper/4824-imagenet-classification-with-deep-convolutional-neural-networks.pdf | paper1]], [[ https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.4842|paper2]],[[ https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03385|paper3]], [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07261
|paper4]])
  - **Abbas Masoumzadeh**: Object detection using R-CNNs ([[https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2524|paper1]], [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.08083|paper2]], [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01497|paper3]])
  - **Joseph Sanu**: Capsule models ([[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.09829.pdf|paper1]], [[https://openreview.net/pdf?id=HJWLfGWRb|paper2]], [[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fritz/absps/transauto6.pdf|paper3]])
  - **Zana Rashidi**:  Deep Reinforcement Learning ([[https://web.stanford.edu/class/psych209/Readings/MnihEtAlHassibis15NatureControlDeepRL.pdf|paper1]], [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.06461|paper2]], [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.05952|paper3]], [[https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06581|paper4]])
  - **Farzaneh Heidari**: Learning Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms over Graphs ([[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.01665.pdf|paper1]], [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.05629.pdf|paper2]], [[http://ml.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/former/_media/publications/rieecml05.pdf|paper3]]) 


=== Presentation (Part II) 2-5pm, March 29 (Thursday) @LAS3033 ===

  - **Amin Omidvar**:  Reading Comprehension using RNNs/LSTMs ([[https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03340|paper1]],[[https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P16-1223|paper2]])
  - **Yuchen Kang**: Neural Machine Translation ([[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.0473.pdf|paper1]], [[http://papers.nips.cc/paper/6622-decoding-with-value-networks-for-neural-machine-translation.pdf|paper2]], [[https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/72cd/8930ba5573651bfe769d26d3d16741738dec.pdf|paper3]])
  - **Zihuan Zhang**: Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) ([[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.05908.pdf|paper1]], [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.07869.pdf
|paper2]], [[https://aclweb.org/anthology/K/K16/K16-1002.pdf|paper3]])
  - 
**Wenxiao Fu**: Gaussian Processes ([[http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/gpB.pdf|paper]])