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Francois Laviolette

3 accepted papers

2019

Dichotomize and Generalize: PAC-Bayesian Binary Activated Deep Neural Networks

NeurIPS 2019poster

We present a comprehensive study of multilayer neural networks with binary activation, relying on the PAC-Bayesian theory. Our contributions are twofold: (i) we develop an end-to-end framework to train a binary activated deep neural network, (ii) we provide nonvacuous PAC-Bayesian generalization bou…

2015

Algorithms for the Hard Pre-Image Problem of String Kernels and the General Problem of String Prediction

ICML 2015poster

We address the pre-image problem encountered in structured output prediction and the one of finding a string maximizing the prediction function of various kernel-based classifiers and regressors. We demonstrate that these problems reduce to a common combinatorial problem valid for many string kernel…