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Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago – MIDAS Seminar Series

December 16, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Rackham Amphitheatre

BingLiu

Bing Liu, PhD

University of Illinois, Chicago

Recorded Seminar

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“Lifelong Machine Learning”

Abstract: Lifelong Machine Learning (or Lifelong Learning) is an advanced machine learning paradigm that learns continuously, accumulates the knowledge learned in the past, and uses it to help future learning. In the process, the learner becomes more and more knowledgeable and effective at learning. This learning ability is one of the hallmarks of human intelligence. However, the current dominant machine learning paradigm learns in isolation: given a training dataset, it runs a machine learning algorithm on the dataset to produce a model. It makes no attempt to retain the learned knowledge and use it in future learning. Although this isolated learning paradigm has been very successful, it requires a large number of training examples, and is only suitable for well-defined and narrow tasks. In comparison, we human can learn effectively with a few examples because we have accumulated so much knowledge in the past which enables us to learn with little data or effort. Lifelong learning aims to achieve this capability. As statistical machine learning matures, it is time to break the isolated learning tradition to study lifelong learning. Applications such as intelligent assistants, chatbots, and physical robots that interact with humans and systems in real-life environments are also calling for such lifelong learning capabilities. Without the ability to accumulate the learned knowledge and use it to learn more knowledge incrementally, a system will probably never be truly intelligent. In this talk, I will introduce lifelong learning, discuss related learning paradigms, and present some of our recent work on the topic.

 

Bio: Bing Liu is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include lifelong machine learning, sentiment analysis, data mining, machine learning, and natural language processing. He has published extensively in top conferences and journals in these areas. Two of his papers have received 10-year Test-of-Time awards from KDD, the premier conference of data mining and data science. He also authored four books: one on lifelong machine learning (coming later this month), one on Web data mining, and two on sentiment analysis. Some of his work has also been widely reported in the press, including a front-page article in the New York Times. On professional services, he serves as the current Chair of ACM SIGKDD. He has served as program chair of many leading data mining conferences, including KDD, ICDM, CIKM, WSDM, SDM, and PAKDD, as associate editor of leading journals such as TKDE, TWEB, and DMKD, and as area chair or senior PC members of numerous natural language processing, AI, Web research, and data mining conferences. He is a Fellow of ACM, AAAI and IEEE.

For more information on MIDAS or the Seminar Series, please contact midas-contact@umich.edu.

MIDAS gratefully acknowledges Northrop Grumman Corporation for its generous support of the MIDAS Seminar Series.

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Date:
December 16, 2016
Time:
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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Website:
http://midas.umich.edu/seminar-series/

Venue

Rackham Amphitheatre
915 E. Washington St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 United States
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Organizer

Alison Martin
Phone:
(734) 615-8945
Email:
aalison@umich.edu
Website:
http://midas.umich.edu/faculty-member/alison-martin/