Geoffrey Hinton: Dark Knowledge [video]

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Here are the slides he's using (I think):

http://www.ttic.edu/dl/dark14.pdf

And here is Caruana's 2006 "Model Compression" paper he mentions:

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1150464

(Note the actual citation is Buciluǎ, Caruana, and Niculescu-Mizil 2006.)

Those are indeed the slides from the talk (or very close). Hinton gave this talk at Caltech last month. Very cool.

I wish people would properly edit videos like this before uploading them. The complete inaudibility of the host up to 3:14 is rather disconcerting. If you can't fix the sound, cut it!

Here's a link to the point where Geoffrey takes over, which is audible, but you'll probably need to crank up your volume:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK61htlw8hY&t=3m14s

Fortunately there doesn't seem to be any problem with background noise, but I can still barely hear it on my MBP with the volume at max. Headphones will most likely help.

Audio Hijack Pro is very helpful in these cases. Once you've hijacked the browser audio you can add effects to normalize levels (AudioUnit Effect/Apple/AUMultibandCompressor), remove buzzing (AUFilter), or fix poor balance (4FX Effect/Channel Tweaker or Monomizer).

Can you do that live and passthrough the audio?

Sorry for the late reply: yes, it is realtime. You may need to restart the target process, but it will ask to do this automatically.

Fantastic insights, as usual. Definitely worth putting up with the annoying audio.

FYI - Hinton is doing an AMA on r/machinelearning on Monday!

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