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(Seminar) Bayesian tensor network: towards efficient and interpretable probabilistic machine learning

11/02 2020
  • Title (Seminar) Bayesian tensor network: towards efficient and interpretable probabilistic machine learning
  • Speaker
  • Date
  • Venue
  • Abstract

    CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics

    Institute of Theoretical Physics

    Chinese Academy of Sciences

     Seminar

    Title

    题目

    Bayesian tensor network: towards efficient and interpretable probabilistic machine learning

    Speaker

    报告人

    冉仕举

    Affiliation

    所在单位

    首都师范大学

    Date

    日期

    2020年11月2日10:00-11:00

    Venue

    地点

    ITP South Building 6420

    Contact Person

    所内联系人

    张潘

    Abstract

    摘要

    Developing novel machine learning models with both high interpretability and efficiency is an important but extremely challenging issue. In this work, Bayesian tensor network (BTN) is proposed by combining Bayesian statistics with tensor network (TN), which captures the conditional probabilities of exponentially many events efficiently with polynomial complexity and meanwhile retraining high interpretability as a probabilistic model. BTN is tested on classifying images of hand-written digits and fashion articles, where the classification tasks are mapped to the problems of capturing the conditional probabilities in an exponentially large sample space. Impressive performance using simple loop-free structures are demonstrated with insignificant over-fitting. Furthermore, BTN can be used to as a module to construct novel end-to-end models by hybridizing with neural networks.