Moved into Boston

[Masataro Asai]

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/