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Re:Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton by defen on Friday December 21, 2018 @03:05PM (#18736145)
Princeton has an extremely strong mathematics department (possibly the best in the world) plus the IAS is nearby. Perhaps they are looking for close collaboration with pure mathematicians? My understanding is that there are not very strong theoretical underpinnings to most of the machine learning techniques in use today.
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Re:Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton by auntienomen on Friday December 21, 2018 @03:14PM (#18736223)
Indeed, the IAS has an upcoming program on machine learning.
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Re:Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton by cilefen on Saturday December 22, 2018 @12:20PM (#18741453)
The IAS program is underway since 2017 http://www.math.ias.edu/theoretical_machine_learning
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Re:Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton by auntienomen on Saturday December 22, 2018 @01:49PM (#18741883)
Yes, although the special one year program (with lots of shorter term guests) doesn't kick off until 2019.
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Re:Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton by Zophike1 on Saturday December 22, 2018 @04:13PM (#18742483)
> My understanding is that there are not very strong theoretical underpinnings to most of the machine learning techniques in use today.

I wonder how come this is the case from looking at ArXiv, it seems there are plenty of low-hanging fruit relating to the Foundations of Machine Learning.

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Re:Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton by tnecniv on Friday December 21, 2018 @05:48PM (#18737399)
> My understanding is that there are not very strong theoretical underpinnings to most of the machine learning techniques in use today.

Yes, particularly with regards to generalization. There's a large number of theorists racing to explain that.

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Re:Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton by mlevental on Friday December 21, 2018 @03:22PM (#18736288)
as far as i can tell from perusing the literature for the last ~year very few people care about theory in ML
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Re:Google to open artificial intelligence lab in Princeton by hnuser355 on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:53AM (#18740559)
? I know people at most schools I pay attention to getting paid to specifically work on that. In fact this is what probably one of the most famous applied mathematicians in certain engineering crowds (Ingrid Daubechies) is working on for her big project from what i understand
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