Moved into Boston
Guicho 271828
guicho2.71828 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 30 23:05:38 UTC 2019
Ok, It seems the new boss at Cambridge seems to be much more liberal and
open-minded than
the manager I had in Japan. I got an approval. Please go ahead -- update
the info. Thank you.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 5:44 PM Masataro Asai <guicho2.71828 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Please do not do it yet --- I should ask my boss if I can give a talk.
> (the abstract is almost a copy from my paper abstract, to avoid issues)
>
> Jonathan Godbout wrote:
> > It should be updated: https://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 7:33 AM Masataro Asai <guicho2.71828 at gmail.com
> > <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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/
>
--
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(private): http://guicho271828.github.io/
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