Information and Computing Sciences Colloquium

Doing the Undoable — By Weaving a Web of Patterns

Arno Siebes

Date: 16:00 – 17:00, Friday, 20.12.2019
Location: Minnaert – 2.02

Title: Doing the Undoable — By Weaving a Web of Patterns
Abstract:Believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast is easy. Actually doing them is, well, impossible, isn’t it? However, ever since Hume we know that machines can’t learn and yet they do so every day. How can that be?

In the spirit of the traditionally somewhat contemplative nature of the season, I’ll sketch my own take on the the problem of induction quasi-philosophically — but mathematically rigorous. And I’ll explain how this allows me to learn from data by weaving a web of patterns; well almost always, almost perfectly, that is.