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John Platt
Researcher at Microsoft
Publications - 369
Citations - 66980
John Platt is an academic researcher from Microsoft. The author has contributed to research in topics: Support vector machine & Artificial neural network. The author has an hindex of 83, co-authored 369 publications receiving 60242 citations. Previous affiliations of John Platt include Google & California Institute of Technology.
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Greedy Layer-Wise Training of Deep Networks
TL;DR: These experiments confirm the hypothesis that the greedy layer-wise unsupervised training strategy mostly helps the optimization, by initializing weights in a region near a good local minimum, giving rise to internal distributed representations that are high-level abstractions of the input, bringing better generalization.
Proceedings Article
Multiple Instance Boosting for Object Detection
TL;DR: MILBoost adapts the feature selection criterion of MILBoost to optimize the performance of the Viola-Jones cascade to show the advantage of simultaneously learning the locations and scales of the objects in the training set along with the parameters of the classifier.
Patent
Technique which utilizes a probabilistic classifier to detect "junk" e-mail by automatically updating a training and re-training the classifier based on the updated training set
TL;DR: In this article, a probabilistic classifier (e.g., a support vector machine) trained on prior content classifications is used to classify a message into one of a number of different folders, depicted in a pre-defined visually distinctive manner or simply discarded in its entirety.
Patent
Auto playlist generation with multiple seed songs
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a system that generates playlists for a library or collection of media items via selecting a plurality of seed items, at least one of which is an undesirable seed item.
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Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning
David Rolnick,Priya L. Donti,Lynn H. Kaack,K. Kochanski,Alexandre Lacoste,Kris Sankaran,Andrew S. Ross,Nikola Milojevic-Dupont,Natasha Jaques,Anna Waldman-Brown,Alexandra Luccioni,Tegan Maharaj,Evan D. Sherwin,S. Karthik Mukkavilli,Konrad P. Kording,Carla P. Gomes,Andrew Y. Ng,Demis Hassabis,John Platt,Felix Creutzig,Jennifer Chayes,Yoshua Bengio +21 more
TL;DR: From smart grids to disaster management, high impact problems where existing gaps can be filled by ML are identified, in collaboration with other fields, to join the global effort against climate change.