Learning to Act from Observational Data: Machine Learning and Causal Inference in Healthcare by Uri Shalit (Technion) – DSI Learning Club
Gonda Building (901), Room 101.June 7th, Thu 10:00 , Uri Shalit (webpage). Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (Faculty). Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. Learning to Act from Observational Data: Machine Learning and Causal Inference in Healthcare Abstract: The proliferation of data collection in the health, commercial, and economic spheres, brings with it opportunities for extracting new knowledge ... Read more
Detecting and Correcting for Label Shift with Black Box Predictors by Zachary Chase Lipton (DSI Learning Club)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101.June 11th, Mon. 11:00 , Zachary Chase Lipton (webpage). Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. Detecting and Correcting for Label Shift with Black Box Predictors Abstract: Faced with distribution shift between training and test set, we wish to detect and quantify the shift, and to correct our classifiers without test set ... Read more
The Intel AI Lab – Learning Club Talk by Yinyin Liu (TBD)
Yinyin Liu, Head of Data Science, Intel AIPG will be visiting biu on June 13 and will be able to give a talk about the Intel AI Lab. Possible times are 10-11, 11-12 or 12-13. Please let us know what works for you by filling the following doodle: https://doodle.com/poll/ty6rep3r7ybptffa Yinyin Liu, Head of Data Science, Intel ... Read more
A Provably Correct Algorithm for Deep Learning that Actually Works by Eran Malach (DSI Learning Club)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101.June 14th, Thu 10:00 , Eran Malach (webpage). The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (PhD Student) Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. A Provably Correct Algorithm for Deep Learning that Actually Works Abstract: We describe a layer-by-layer algorithm for training deep convolutional networks, where each step involves gradient updates for a two layer network followed by ... Read more
Embedding-based Term Sets & Dynamic Ontologies (News, Economics and AI meetup)
Thomson-Reuters offices Park Ofer, 94 Derech Em Hamoshavot Oren Building (Building 6), entrance level floor · Petakh Tiqwa Park Ofer, 94 Derech Em Hamoshavot, Petakh Tiqwa, IsraelA News, Economics and AI meetup 18:00-18:15 gathering + pizza 18:15-19:00: SetExpander: End-to-end Term Set Expansion based on Multi-Context Term Embeddings * by Moshe Wasserblat * 19:00-20:00: Sluglines -- a Dynamic News Ontology * by Shai Hertz * see meetup page for full details: https://www.meetup.com/News-Economics-and-AI/events/252556709/
AI Satellite Resolution
building 505, room 201שיפור רזולוציה של טמפרטורת הקרקע מלוויין בעזרת כלים ואלגוריתמים מתחום למידת מכונה http://dsi.biu.ac.il/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ai-satellite_resolution.pdf ai-satellite_resolution
“The missing elements in NLP” by Prof. Yoav Goldberg from Bar-Ilan (Amazon Research Day, Haifa)
Sammy Ofer Stadium, Haifa Pinkhas ve-Avraham Rutenberg St 2, Haifa, IsraelDetails & Registration: https://ard.amazon-ml.com/haifa/ PAssword: HaifaARD
Data Science Environmental Applications – Government and Academia workshop
Nanotechnology Triplex Building 206, BIU Campus, Auditorium 50כנס יישומים סביבתיים של מדעי הנתונים 23.10.18 (ארוע עבר) :תכנית הכנס 1 2 3 ניסיון dsi_gov_env_event_program מושב פתיחה ד"ר חיים כץ. אגף איכות מים, רשות המים פרופ' עידו דגן ראש המכון למדעי הנתונים, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן מבוא למדעי הנתונים – הפקת תובנות ושיפור תהליכי עבודה בהתבסס על מאגרי נתונים ממשלתיים ד"ר אורן גליקמן מנהל המכון למדעי הנתונים, ... Read more
News, Economics and AI meetup — Latest Research by the Bar-Ilan NLP Lab. (slides available)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101.Details This meeting will feature the BIU NLP Lab. Lab leaders Ido Dagan and Yoav Goldberg will tell us about current developments in their work. Some more bits of recent research will be introduced by Lab's senior grad students. Agenda: 18:00-18:20: gathering + pizzas 18:20-18:50: Prof. Ido Dagan: Extracting and Exploring Open Textual Knowledge (slides) 18:50-19:00: ... Read more
כנס יישום מדיניות בעידן הביג דאטה
הכנסת, ירושליםConf Program Video of Lecture by Prof. Ido Dagan & Prof. Oren Perez ("עידו דגן ואורן פרז 'פיקוח, רגולציה ויישום מדיניות בעידן הביג דאטה: נקודת מבט רב-תחומית'') Lecture by Dr. Ariel Rosenfeld ("בינה מלאכותית מבוססת נתונים למען מלחמה בתאונות הדרכים "ד"ר אריאל רוזנפלד, המחלקה לניהול, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן)
כשתורת הגרפים פגשה משוואות דיפרנציאליות הרצאה ראשונה בסדרה מה עושים עם זה
חדר הסמינריונים מספר 201, בניין 216ד"ר ברוך ברזל כמה אנשים דרושים כדי להחליף נורה? התשובה הרצינית אומרת שדרושים עשרות אלפים. החל מהמוכר בחנות מוצרי החשמל, דרך נהגת המשאית שהובילה את המנורות, יצרני הזכוכית, חרשי המתכת, כורי הנחושת... אם כן, החלפת מנורה, הזמנת כוס בירה, גלישה באינטרנט - כמעט כל פעולה שאנו עושים - היא תוצאה של שיתוף פעולה של המוני ... Read more
DSI Learning Club – Ohad Shamir, Weizmann Institute of Science (Faculty)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101.Nov. 11th 2018, Sun. 12:00 , Ohad Shamir (webpage). Weizmann Institute of Science. Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. Optimization Landscape of Neural Networks: Where Do the Local Minima Hide? Abstract: Training neural networks is a highly non-convex optimization problem, which is often successfully solved in practice, but the reasons for this are poorly understood. ... Read more
1st Japan-Israel Machine-learning and AI Workshop
Details on conference website. https://polarified.wixsite.com/jiml2018
Tamir Hazan, Technion . “Direct Optimization through argmax for Discrete Variational Auto-Encoder” (DSI Learning Club)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101.Nov. 25th 2018, Sun. 12:00 , Tamir Hazan (webpage). Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. Direct Optimization through argmax for Discrete Variational Auto-Encoder Abstract: Reparameterization of variational auto-encoders is an ehttps://sites.google.com/view/biu-learning-clubffective method for reducing the variance of their gradient estimates. However, when the latent variables are discrete, a reparameterization ... Read more
“Automated text classification and its applications for detecting truths and lies” by Dr. Jonathan Schler
901 (brain center), room 102Invited talk, as part of "Language of lies: recent advances in research and future prospects" Workshop
Djame Seddah – Analysis of “noisy” textual social media data in Hebrew and French
Building 408, room #8תשתיות לניתוח טקסטים רועשים (נגיד מטוויטר) בעברית ובצרפתית
Aryeh Kontorovich – Ben-Gurion University (DSI Learning Club)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101Aryeh Kontorovich (webpage). Ben-Gurion University.
S.O.U.N.D. Workshop 2018 on Automatic Methods for Analyzing and Predicting Social Structure from Diverse Auditory Data Sets (Day I)
The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center (building 901), Bar-Ilan UniversitySOUND program 09:00 – 09:30 Opening remarks: ■ Miriam Faust, Rector, Bar-Ilan University, Israel ■ Merav Galili, Vice President for Development, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 09:30 – 11:00 Session 1: Measuring social interaction in speech (Moderator: Sharon Gannot) ■ Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA, Enabling Behavioral Machine Intelligence from Speech, Language and beyond ... Read more
S.O.U.N.D. Workshop 2018 on Automatic Methods for Analyzing and Predicting Social Structure from Diverse Auditory Data Sets (Day II)
The Weisfeld Hall, Feldman building (301), Bar-Ilan UniversitySOUND program 09:00 – 09:30 Gathering (Coffee) 09:30 – 10:30 Session 4: Applying speech analysis methods to study human social interaction (Moderator: Ilanit Gordon) ■ Michael J Tanana, University of Utah, USA, Learning how to be a better listener. From a Bot. ■ Brian Baucom, University of Utah , USA, Vocally encoded emotional arousal in ... Read more
Deep Entities and Convolutional Sentiments (News, Economics and AI meetup)
Thomson-Reuters offices Park Ofer, 94 Derech Em Hamoshavot Oren Building, entrance level floor · Petakh Tiqwa#1 Entity extraction by deep learning - from research to production * by Hila Zarosim and Noam Rotem * The Non-English Languages Team at TMS (Refinitiv’s Text Metadata Services) has recently released a deep-learning-based component for tagging people names in French news documents. The model, Tensorflow-based, was trained by Python code, while the final destination ... Read more
Relational Private Law and Network Theory
Building 504 (Economic Studies), Conferences Room, Ground FloorRelational Private Law and Network Theory Conveners: Lisa Bernstein, Oren Perez & Benjamin Shmueli Wednesday, January 2, 2019, Building 504 (Economic Studies), Conferences Room, Ground Floor 14:00 Session II: Private Governance and Network Theory Chair: Prof. Arie Reich, Bar-Ilan University Prof. Oren Perez, Bar-Ilan University, Global Networked Authority Prof. Lisa Bernstein, University of Chicago, Contract Governance in Small World ... Read more
Data Science for Legislation Studies (Methodological Workshop) talk by Oren Glickman
The Benin Faculty of Law building 306, Hall 200, 2nd floorBar-Ilan University Faculty of Law, The Israeli Association of Legislation and The Israel Science Foundation International Workshop Rearranging the Arrangements Law: Comparative, Multidisciplinary, Empirical and Normative Perspectives on Omnibus Legislation (Slides)
Roy Bar-Haim, IBM Debating Technologies group — DSI Learning Club Talk
Gonda Building (901), Room 101Dec. 30th 2018, Sun. 12:00 , Roy Bar-Haim (webpage). Debating Technologies group, IBM Research AI - Haifa. Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101.
יום חשיפה למדע הנתונים לחברי סגל בפקולטה למדעי הרוח
מטרות האירוע בשנים האחרונות יותר ויותר מאגרי נתונים רלוונטיים למחקר במדעי הרוח עוברים דיגיטציה והופכים להיות נגישים למחקר כמותי בקנה מידה גדול. במקביל התפתחו שיטות מחקר חישוביות לניתוח מאגרים דיגיטליים. מטרת האירוע היא לחשוף את חברי הסגל בתחומי מדעי הרוח לשיטות מחקר עדכניות המבוססות על ניתוח נתונים ממוחשב. מטרה נוספת היא לחשוף את חברי הסגל ... Read more
NEW WAY OF THINKING IN DATA SCIENCE: The Symbolic Data Analysis Paradigm for Big and Complex Data.
Building 206 – Nanotechnology Complex; Room C-50Registration: MaorT@most.gov.il (Name, Institution, department, position email and mobile number requested). ----- In all domains of human activity, we are more and more faced with the problem of understanding and extracting knowledge from standard, big and complex data, often multi-sources (with mixture of numerical, textual, image, social networks data). Data Science, considered as a science ... Read more
Hacking Deep Learning 2
Auditorium C50, Nanotechnology Building (bldg. 206), Bar-Ilan UniversityHacking_Deep_Learning_2 Speakers Battista Biggio, University of Cagliari Tamir Hazan, The Technion Morten Dahl, Dropout Labs Adi Shamir, Weizmann Institute of Science Adrià Gascón, The Alan Turing Institute Registration Registration fee is 150 ILS for the entire day and includes lunch and refreshments. For any question/request regarding registration, please contact us at: cyber.center@biu.ac.il Please register by ... Read more
כנס בינלאומי במדעי הרוח הדיגיטליים
building 404, room 201כנס בינלאומי במדעי הרוח הדיגיטליים באוניברסיטת בר אילן בין ה10-13 בפברואר להרשמה חינם
Bar-Ilan Workshop on Technological Tools for Manuscript Research
Bar-Ilan University, Building 404, computer lab, Room no. 201 at the 2nd floor.We are excited to invite researchers, students, practitioners, librarians, and all interested in Digital Humanities to the International Conference on Technological Tools for Manuscript Research that will take place in Bar-Ilan University on 10-13/02/2019. Free registration is required - refreshments and lunch are included for registered participants, places are limited! To register: registration To the program: https://is.biu.ac.il/digital-humanities-conference19 ... Read more
New Capabilities in Unsupervised Image to Image Translation by Sagie Benaim, TAU (DSI Learning Club talk)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101.Feb. 24th 2019, Sun. 12:00 , Sagie Benaim (webpage). Tel-Aviv University (PhD Student). Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. New Capabilities in Unsupervised Image to Image Translation Abstract: In Unsupervised Image to Image Translation, we are given an unmatched set of images from domain A and domain B, and our task is to generate, given ... Read more
Fundamentals of Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing – NVIDIA DLI full day workshop
building 604, room 202The NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) and The Data Science Institute at Bar-Ilan University invite you to attend a hands-on deep learning workshop on 25-02-2019 from 09:00-17:00 at room 202 Building 604, exclusively for verifiable academic students, staff, and researchers. NVIDIA DLI offers hands-on training for developers, data scientists, and researchers looking to solve challenging ... Read more
Big Data and the Right to Political Participation by Dr. Michal Saliternik
חדר סגל, בניין 306הרצאה בנושא Big Data and the Right to Political Participation שנכתב ע"י ד"ר מיכל סליטרניק, סמינר המחלקתי של הפקולטה למשפטים: יום ג' 12.3.19 בין השעות 14:00-15:30 בחדר סגל, בניין 306.
Close-set Companies and Corpus-wide Claims (News, Economics and AI meetup)
Thomson-Reuters offices - Park Ofer, 94 Derech Em Hamoshavot, Oren Building, entrance level floor - Petakh Tiqwa, ilDetails #1 Close Set Extraction: Discovering Companies We Know * by Rani Shlivinski * Slides: Closed Set Extracyion for Meetup - March 2019 #2 Project Debater and Corpus-wide Claim Detection * by Shai Gretz * Project Debater is the first AI system developed to compete in a full-live debate with a human debater. The project, ... Read more
Information Theory of Deep Learning – The computational benefits of the hidden layers by Naftali Tishby
Building 216 room 20114/03/2019 - 12:00 Information Theory of Deep Learning - The computational benefits of the hidden layers Naftali Tishby Speaker: Naftali Tishby Date : 14/03/2019 - 12:00 Title : Information Theory of Deep Learning - The computational benefits of the hidden layers Abstract: The surprising success of machine learning with deep neural networks poses two fundamental challenges. One is understanding why ... Read more
Generalization Bounds for Unsupervised Image to Image translations with WGANs. by Tomer Galanti (tau)
Gonda Building (901), Room 101.Mar. 17th 2019, Sun. 12:00 , Tomer Galanti (webpage). Tel-Aviv University (PhD Student). Location: Gonda Building (901), Room 101. Generalization Bounds for Unsupervised Image to Image translations with WGANs. Abstract: The recent empirical success of cross-domain mapping algorithms, between two domains that share common characteristics, is not well-supported by theoretical justifications. This lacuna is especially ... Read more
Dan Jurafsky: Extracting Social Meaning from Language by Computer (Guest talk)
Build. 905, room 62TITLE:Extracting Social Meaning from Language by ComputerABSTRACT:I describe research from our lab on computationally extracting social meaning from language, meaning that takes into account social relationships between people. I begin with our work on police body-worn cameras, in which we apply speech and natural language processing techniques to camera footage of interactions between police and ... Read more
DSI Dinner – March 28 2019
Engineering (Kofkin) building Building 1102, Auditorium 2The Bar-Ilan Data Science institute (DSI) is glad to invite you to its bi-annual dinner event. The event is open to all BIU researchers interested in data science including faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students. When: March 28, 17:00 -- 20:00 Where: Engineering (Kofkin) building Building 1102, Auditorium 2 Schedule: 17:00: Gathering 17:15: DSI ... Read more
A Universally Consistent 1-Nearest-Neighbor Algorithm by Sivan Sabato
Nano Building (206), Room B991Mar. 31st 2019, Sun. 12:00 , Sivan Sabato (webpage). Ben-Gurion University. Location: Nano Building (206), Room B991. A Universally Consistent 1-Nearest-Neighbor Algorithm Abstract: We show a 1-Nearest-Neighbor algorithm that is universally strongly-Bayes-consistent in all metric spaces where such a learner exists. This is the first learning algorithm known to enjoy this property. Joint ... Read more
Unsupervised Learning for Translation across Languages and Images, CS colloquium talk by Yedid Hoshen (Facebook)
Building 216, Room 201Unsupervised Learning for Translation across Languages and Images 04/04/2019 - 12:00 Speaker: Yedid Hoshen Seminar: colloquium מיקום: Building 216, Room 201 Abstract: This talk will describe my past and ongoing work on translating images and words between very different datasets without supervision. Although Humans often do not require supervision to make connections between very different ... Read more
Learning Representations for Planning, Talk by Aviv Tamar (Technion)
Nano Building (206), Room B991Apr. 7th 2019, Sun. 12:00 , Aviv Tamar (webpage). Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Location: Nano Building (206), Room B991. Learning Representations for Planning Abstract: How can we build autonomous robots that operate in unstructured and dynamic environments such as homes or hospitals? This problem has been investigated under several disciplines, including planning (motion ... Read more
Digital Humanities Workshop
Bar-Ilan. building 604, room 202Instructor: Dr. Yael Netzer, Ben Gurion University Program: 10:00-11:30: Form, structure and content from scanned documents to digital data: a quick introduction to – structured, unstructured, semi-structured documents, representation standards and knowledge resources. 11:30-12:00: Break & installations 12:00-13:30: From texts to maps: a 'hands-on' class: a quick journey - named entities recognition; data representation: ... Read more
Using information theory for deep learning, Raja Giryes (TAU)
Nano Building (206), Room B991Apr. 28th 2019, Sun. 12:00 , Raja Giryes (webpage). Tel-Aviv University. Location: Nano Building (206), Room B991. Using information theory for deep learning Abstract: In this talk, we will use two tools in information theory to gain a better understanding of deep learning training. First, we will describe the problem of analog channel coding and ... Read more
Near-optimal Sample Complexity Bounds for Robust Learning of Gaussians Mixtures via Compression Schemes, Shai Ben David (University of Waterloo)
CS Building (216), Room 201 .Apr. 29th 2019, Sun. 11:00 , Shai Ben David (webpage). University of Waterloo. Location: CS Building (216), Room 201 . Near-optimal Sample Complexity Bounds for Robust Learning of Gaussians Mixtures via Compression Schemes Abstract: We prove that Θ(kd2 /ε^2 ) samples are necessary and sufficient for learning a mixture of k Gaussians in R^d , ... Read more
Sentiment and Crisis in Financial Texts, News, Economics and AI meetup event
Bar Ilan Center for Smart Cities (1501) Bar Ilan University. The Dahan Family Unity ParkTwo talks blending together textual analysis and finance with applications to sentiment and crisis prediction. #1 A New Method for Sentiment Analysis of Financial Documents * by Danny Lesmy, School of Business Administration, Hebrew University * #2 The Financial Crisis and the Financial Literature - a Textual Analysis * by Dr. Alon Raviv, The Graduate ... Read more
AutoML by Alibaba: Architecture Search, Anneal and Prune (by Lihi Zelnik-Manor, Technion and Asaf Noy, Alibaba)
Nano Building (206), Room B991.May. 12th 2019, Sun. 12:00 , Lihi Zelnik-Manor and Asaf Noy (webpage). Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and Alibaba. Location: Nano Building (206), Room B991. AutoML by Alibaba: Architecture Search, Anneal and Prune Abstract: Manual network architecture search and hyper-parameter tuning of neural network based algorithms could be a very interesting task but also ... Read more
BISFAI – The Bar-Ilan Symposium in Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
Bar Ilan University, Ramat GanBISFAI, the Bar-Ilan Symposium in Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, is the premier event of AI happening in Israel. For details and registration: http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~galk/bisfai19/
Geometric transformations in deep learning and Bayesian nonparamteric mixture models (by Oren Freifeld, Ben-Gurion University)
Nano Building (206), Room B991.June. 2nd 2019, Sun. 12:00 , Oren Freifeld (webpage). Ben-Gurion University. Location: Nano Building (206), Room B991. Geometric transformations in deep learning and Bayesian nonparamteric mixture models. Abstract: This talk will focus on two of the main research directions at our Vision, Inference, and Learning group: 1) Geometric transformations in deep learning and 2) Bayesian ... Read more
9th Israel Database Day @ Bar-Ilan University
Beck AuditoriumWe are happy and proud to host the 9th Israel DB Day, for the first time here at Bar-Ilan University - on Thursday, June 13, 2019, Beck Auditorium. It will be a workshop-style full day ofinteresting talks and poster session, including a special keynote by Prof. Alon Halevy about subjective databases that allow querying online reviews by marrying database, information ... Read more
Containers tutorial by Yuval Mazor (NVIDIA)
בנין 306 חדר 111Yuval from NVIDIA will be giving a tutorial on containers, docker containers, NGC containers, how to use them, etc. - relvant to both novice users and advanced users.
Deep Learning Summer School (Basic)
Amazon - Sharona Tel AvivFor details and registration: https://sites.google.com/datalab.cs.biu.ac.il/biusummerschool/home?authuser=4
Deep Learning Summer School (Advanced)
Bar Ilan University, Ramat GanFor details and registration: https://sites.google.com/datalab.cs.biu.ac.il/biusummerschool/home?authuser=4