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Pascal Vincent

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Associate Fellow

Learning in Machines & Brains

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Université de Montréal

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About

Pascal Vincent is an Associate Fellow in CIFAR’s Learning in Machines & Brains program and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila. He is an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO) at Université de Montréal.

Vincent’s current research interests in the statistical machine learning field include unsupervised feature learning, manifold modelling, alternative parameter estimation techniques for energy based models, semi-supervised learning and learning of deep neural-network architectures. His current main focus is on fundamental principles and techniques for extracting meaningful high level distributed representations from raw high dimensional sensory inputs. Vincent’s work on regularizing auto-encoders (denoising and contractive variants) for unsupervised feature and deep network learning was at the heart of the strategy that won the 2011 Unsupervised and Transfer Learning Challenge.

Awards

  • Best Student Paper Award, ICML, 2012
  • Outstanding Student Paper (Honorable Mention), NIPS, 2011

Relevant Publications

  • Bengio, Y., Courville, A., & Vincent, P. (2013). Representation learning: A review and new perspectives. IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence, 35(8), 1798-1828.

  • Vincent, P., Larochelle, H., Lajoie, I., Bengio, Y., Manzagol, P. A., & Bottou, L. (2010). Stacked denoising autoencoders: Learning useful representations in a deep network with a local denoising criterion. Journal of machine learning research, 11(12).

  • Erhan, D., Courville, A., Bengio, Y., & Vincent, P. (2010). Why does unsupervised pre-training help deep learning?. In Proceedings of the thirteenth international conference on artificial intelligence and statistics (pp. 201-208). JMLR Workshop and Conference Proceedings.

  • Vincent, P., Larochelle, H., Bengio, Y., & Manzagol, P. A. (2008). Extracting and composing robust features with denoising autoencoders. In Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Machine learning (pp. 1096-1103).

  • Bengio, Y., Ducharme, R., Vincent, P., & Janvin, C. (2003). A neural probabilistic language model. The journal of machine learning research, 3, 1137-1155.

Institution

Mila

Université de Montréal

Department

Computer Science and Operations Research (DIRO)

Education

  • BEng, École supérieure d'ingénieurs en electrotechnique et electronique

Country

Canada

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