Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• Grill, Valko & Munos gave an oral presentation at NIPS. Oral presentations at NIPS are rare: out of 2500+ submissions, only 1.8% are presented orally.

• Using a deep learning approach (sparse denoising autoencoders), Strub, Mary & Gaudel have obtained the best ever published results on the data from the Netflix challenge on recommendation systems. 10 years ago, such an achievement was worth 1M$.