Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Research Visitors

Visits of International Scientists

We invited Soravit Changpinyo (University of Southern California) in October, collaborating with Mathieu Dehouck , Pascal Denis and Aurélien Bellet on multi-task learning and transfer of word embeddings.

Jan Ramon collaborated with Wilhelmiina Hamalainen , who visited the magnet lab for 2 weeks. In particular, they worked on multiple hypothesis tests for regression and discretization problems.

Mark Herbster from University College London was invited for one week in January and collaborated with Fabio Vitale and Marc Tommasi on machine learning and similarity prediction in graphs.

Several international researchers have also been invited to give a talk at the Magnet seminar:

• Tim Vandercruys (Toulouse): “Modeling Meaning with Latent Factorization Models” (April)

• Soravit Changpinyo (University of Southern California): “Synthesized Classifiers for Zero-Shot Learning” (October)

• Thomas Kipf (University of Amsterdam): “Deep Learning on Graphs with Graph Convolutional Networks” (December)

Local Workshops

• Fabio Vitale organized the workshop Graph-based Learning and Graph Mining.

• Pascal Denis organized the Workshop on Argumentation Mining.

Visits to International Teams

In March, April and May Fabio Vitale visited the Department of Computer Science of the University of Milan, collaborating with Prof. Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi and Prof. Claudio Gentile .

In July, Aurélien Bellet and Pascal Denis visited the Department of Computer Science of the University of California (Los Angeles), collaborating with Prof Fei Sha .

In September, Mathieu Dehouck visited the Department of Computer Science of the University of California (Los Angeles), collaborating with Prof Fei Sha .

Since September, Fabio Vitale is working at the department of computer science of Aalto University, Helsinki (Finland), in the DMG group (http://research.ics.aalto.fi/dmg/index.shtml) led by Prof. Aristides Gionis .