Moved into Boston

[Guicho 271828]

I see, maybe it is safer to avoid that title in the US.
Please make the title just as "Classical PDDL/STRIPS Planning in Deep
Latent Space".


2019年8月1日(木) 16:19 Jeff Read <bitwize at gmail.com>:

>
> Color me intrigued -- it certainly does seem interesting, and potentially
> unifies symbol and logic based GOFAI with the "throw more statistics at the
> problem" school that currently encompasses "AI" as a buzzword. If we're
> still on for August 15 I would love to attend as I think I would learn much.
>
> Bikeshed issue: You may wish to consider revising the title of your talk.
> "Make X great again" is considered "normalizing hate speech" and very
> offensive, therefore unacceptable by 2019 professional standards. Major
> open-source conferences will reject a talk proposal with such a title, and
> some may preëmptively ban you from the con entirely for proposing it.
> Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/aurynn/status/1128053124323655680
>
> It may not be an issue among us (Faré may even like it, and relish a twist
> of the old knife), but among less laid-back groups and conferences it can
> be severely career-limiting.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 7:33 AM Masataro Asai <guicho2.71828 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for the invitation :)
>>
>> August 15th should work, but I need to confirm the schedule in the
>> company, which I cannot check now until I complete the onboarding
>> process of US IBM (although I have been in IBM Japan for quite a while...)
>>
>> Will they be posted on any sort of MIT bulletin board? Is it more of an
>> academic event? That might need a permission from the manager. For an
>> informal meeting it should be fine.
>>
>> Blurb meaning the short description / abstract of the talk? Let me give
>> a try...
>>
>> For myself:
>>
>> Masataro Asai, aka guicho271828, is a Lisp hacker with 11 years of
>> experience in Common Lisp, who received a Ph.D in Artificial
>> Intelligence from the University of Tokyo. He is an expert in heuristic
>> graph search and automated planning and scheduling, also known as AI
>> Planning, with publications records on top AI conferences e.g. AAAI,
>> IJCAI, ICAPS. Author of a fast pattern match library Trivia, a numerical
>> computation library NUMCL (which got 400 stars) and more.
>>
>> For the talk:
>>
>> Title: Make Symbols Great Again!: Classical PDDL/STRIPS Planning in Deep
>> Latent Space
>>
>> Domain-independent classical planners require the symbolic models of the
>> problem domain and instance as input, resulting in a knowledge
>> acquisition bottleneck. Meanwhile, although deep learning has achieved
>> significant success in many fields, the knowledge is encoded in a
>> subsymbolic representation which is incompatible with symbolic systems
>> such as planners. We introduce LatPlan, an unsupervised architecture
>> combining deep learning and classical planning. Given only an unlabeled
>> set of image pairs showing a subset of transitions allowed in the
>> environment (training inputs), and a pair of images representing the
>> initial and the goal states (planning inputs), LatPlan finds a plan to
>> the goal state in a symbolic latent space and returns a visualized plan
>> execution.
>>
>> In the talk, we also survey the recent progress in the related fields
>> and also informally talk about my future ambitions.
>>
>> Regards
>> Masataro
>>
>>
>> Faré wrote:
>> > Congratulations!
>> >
>> > Let's summon a Boston Lisp Meeting to greet you.
>> > How about Thursday August 15th at 1800?
>> >
>> > I'll try to reserve a room at MIT. Either way, we can meet for dinner
>> > afterwards.
>> >
>> > Can you give a speech on some topic of your choice? Otherwise is there
>> > any other candidate?
>> > Can you give me a one-paragraph blurb about yourself, another one
>> > about your topic?
>> >
>> > —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics•
>> http://fare.tunes.org
>> > Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
>> >                  — Thomas Alva Edison
>> >
>> > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 7:27 AM Masataro Asai <guicho2.71828 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Dear all,
>> >>
>> >> I just moved to Boston yesterday. 5yr assignment.
>> >> Thanks
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Masataro Asai Ph.D
>> >>
>> >> Research Staff Member
>> >> IBM Research
>> >>
>> >> Tel: +81-44-856-9009
>> >> Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357
>> >> Mail: guicho2.71828 at gmail.com
>> >> Website: http://guicho271828.github.io/
>> >>
>>
>> --
>> Masataro Asai Ph.D
>>
>> Research Staff Member
>> IBM Research
>>
>> Tel: +81-44-856-9009
>> Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357
>> Mail: guicho2.71828 at gmail.com
>> Website: http://guicho271828.github.io/
>>
>>
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