Radically improving neural networks with insights from modern neuroscience
Join us for PyData Pittsburgh's June event
I’m pleased to announce PyData Pittsburgh’s June event: the talk Radically Improving Neural Networks with Insights from Modern Neuroscience featuring Dr. Rorry Brenner.
In an era when most of the effort in machine learning seems to be geared toward taking a few established patterns and scaling them up and up and up, Rorry is doing something different — genuinely new and exciting machine learning research focused on improving the fundamental building blocks of neural networks.
We’ll be gathering in person on the evening of Tuesday, June 11 at the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University. Food and beverages will be provided.
Please RSVP on Meetup and see below for more information about Rorry and his talk.
See you there!
About the talk
The architecture and mechanics of the current generation of deep neural networks are based on our understanding of biological neurons from the 1950s. Neuroscience has advanced a lot since then, but our approach to building and training artificial neural networks hasn't kept up! Dr. Rorry Brenner has developed and patented a new algorithm that brings insights from modern neuroscience to silicon-based deep learning. Dr. Brenner's algorithm, called perforated backpropagation, has been shown to deliver significant accuracy and efficiency improvements to existing neural network models across a wide variety of fields and applications.
In this talk, Dr. Brenner will:
Review the biological inspiration behind the original artificial neuron
Survey more recent developments in neuroscience that explain how biological neurons can exponentially outperform their silicon-based counterparts
Provide an overview of how the technology he created brings this more sophisticated understanding of neurons to machine learning
Finally, Dr. Brenner will share some examples of applications that demonstrate the benefits of his approach and discuss potential opportunities to try out the technology as a beta tester.
About the speaker
Dr. Rorry Brenner is the founder and CEO of Perforated AI, a start-up company specializing in the implementation of a patent-protected modification to the backpropagation algorithm. Prior to starting Perforated AI, Rorry earned his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from USC and B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon. His professional experience includes 9 years of deep learning work with 5 years in industry on commercial and government projects.
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