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The NIPS '17 Competition: Building Intelligent Systems

  • Offers new challenges and methods on reinforcement learning and deep reinforcement learning applied to human body motion and intelligent conversational settings
  • Discusses machine learning methods for classifying clinically actionable genetic mutations
  • Provides challenges and methods on adversarial learning applied to attacks and defenses
  • Presents deep learning applied to transfer knowledge in art

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Table of contents (13 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction to NIPS 2017 Competition Track

    • Sergio Escalera, Markus Weimer, Mikhail Burtsev, Valentin Malykh, Varvara Logacheva, Ryan Lowe et al.
    Pages 1-23
  3. The First Conversational Intelligence Challenge

    • Mikhail Burtsev, Varvara Logacheva, Valentin Malykh, Iulian Vlad Serban, Ryan Lowe, Shrimai Prabhumoye et al.
    Pages 25-46
  4. ConvAI Dataset of Topic-Oriented Human-to-Chatbot Dialogues

    • Varvara Logacheva, Mikhail Burtsev, Valentin Malykh, Vadim Polulyakh, Aleksandr Seliverstov
    Pages 47-57
  5. A Talker Ensemble: The University of Wroclaw’s Entry to the NIPS 2017 Conversational Intelligence Challenge

    • Jan Chorowski, Adrian Lancucki, Szymon Malik, Maciej Pawlikowski, Pawel Rychlikowski, Pawel Zykowski
    Pages 59-77
  6. Multi-view Ensemble Classification for Clinically Actionable Genetic Mutations

    • Xi Zhang, Dandi Chen, Yongjun Zhu, Chao Che, Chang Su, Sendong Zhao et al.
    Pages 79-99
  7. Learning to Run Challenge: Synthesizing Physiologically Accurate Motion Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

    • Łukasz Kidziński, Sharada P. Mohanty, Carmichael F. Ong, Jennifer L. Hicks, Sean F. Carroll, Sergey Levine et al.
    Pages 101-120
  8. Learning to Run Challenge Solutions: Adapting Reinforcement Learning Methods for Neuromusculoskeletal Environments

    • Łukasz Kidziński, Sharada Prasanna Mohanty, Carmichael F. Ong, Zhewei Huang, Shuchang Zhou, Anton Pechenko et al.
    Pages 121-153
  9. Reinforcement Learning to Run… Fast

    • Wojciech Jaśkowski, Odd Rune Lykkebø, Nihat Engin Toklu, Florian Trifterer, Zdeněk Buk, Jan Koutník et al.
    Pages 155-167
  10. Human-Computer Question Answering: The Case for Quizbowl

    • Jordan Boyd-Graber, Shi Feng, Pedro Rodriguez
    Pages 169-180
  11. Studio Ousia’s Quiz Bowl Question Answering System

    • Ikuya Yamada, Ryuji Tamaki, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yoshiyasu Takefuji
    Pages 181-194
  12. Adversarial Attacks and Defences Competition

    • Alexey Kurakin, Ian Goodfellow, Samy Bengio, Yinpeng Dong, Fangzhou Liao, Ming Liang et al.
    Pages 195-231
  13. Aifred Health, a Deep Learning Powered Clinical Decision Support System for Mental Health

    • David Benrimoh, Robert Fratila, Sonia Israel, Kelly Perlman, Nykan Mirchi, Sneha Desai et al.
    Pages 251-287

About this book

This book summarizes the organized competitions held during the first NIPS competition track. It provides both theory and applications of hot topics in machine learning, such as adversarial learning, conversational intelligence, and deep reinforcement learning.

Rigorous competition evaluation was based on the quality of data, problem interest and impact, promoting the design of new models, and a proper schedule and management procedure. This book contains the chapters from organizers on competition design and from top-ranked participants on their proposed solutions for the five accepted competitions: The Conversational Intelligence Challenge, Classifying Clinically Actionable Genetic Mutations, Learning to Run, Human-Computer Question Answering Competition, and Adversarial Attacks and Defenses.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department Mathematics & Informatics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Sergio Escalera

  • Microsoft (United States), Redmond, USA

    Markus Weimer

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