Hugo Larochelle
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Hugo Larochelle Assistant Professor Member of the CREI research center Département d'informatique Université de Sherbrooke Email: hugo [dot] larochelle [at] usherbrooke [dot] ca Phone: (819) 821-8000 # 66121 Fax: (819) 821-8200 Office: D4-1024-1 Address: 2500 boul. de l'Université, Sherbrooke (QC), Canada, J1K 2R1 |
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Research interests
My research focuses on machine learning, i.e. in the development of algorithms capable of extracting concepts and abstractions from data. I'm particularly interested in deep and probabilistic neural networks, applied to problems related to artificial intelligence such as computer vision and natural language processing.More specifically, my research mainly addresses the following topics:
- Tasks: supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised learning, structured output prediction, ranking, density estimation;
- Models: deep learning, neural networks, autoencoders, Boltzmann machines, Markov random fields;
- Applications: object recognition and tracking, document classification, information retrieval;
Research projects
Here is a short list of my current projects:- Attention-based computer vision: development of
computer vision systems relying on attentional mechanisms;
- Deep learning: exploration of learning
procedures and algorithms to better train neural
networks with several hidden layers;
- Restricted Boltzmann machines for
classification: investigation of variants of the
restricted Boltzmann machine that are more suitable
for classification problems in high dimensions
(images, documents, etc.);
- Learning algorithms for structured output
prediction: development of new learning
algorithms for structured output prediction, with a
focus on energy-based models;
- Neural autoregressive models: investigation of
neural network-based solutions to the modelling of the distribution
of high-dimensional data.
Mini-CV
Before joining the Computer Science department of Université de Sherbrooke, I spent two years in the machine learning group at University of Toronto, where I was a postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton.I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Université de Montréal, under the supervision of professor Yoshua Bengio. I also did my undergrad at Université de Montréal, in Mathematics and Computer Science.
My complete CV can be found here.