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most citedA Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot

200 citations · 731 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.LG2026

Discovering Latent Groups for Robust Classification

Ankur Garg, Ulrich Aïvodji, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou +1

Machine learning models exploit spurious correlations, achieving high average accuracy but failing disproportionately on underrepresented subgroups. Existing methods address this b…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Behaviour Discovery and Attribution for Explainable Reinforcement Learning

Rishav Rishav, Somjit Nath, Vincent Michalski +1

Building trust in reinforcement learning (RL) agents requires understanding why they make certain decisions, especially in high-stakes applications like robotics, healthcare, and f…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Empowering Clinicians with Medical Decision Transformers: A Framework for Sepsis Treatment

Aamer Abdul Rahman, Pranav Agarwal, Rita Noumeir +3

Offline reinforcement learning has shown promise for solving tasks in safety-critical settings, such as clinical decision support. Its application, however, has been limited by the…

cs.CV2024

On the Limits of Multi-modal Meta-Learning with Auxiliary Task Modulation Using Conditional Batch Normalization

Jordi Armengol-Estapé, Vincent Michalski, Ramnath Kumar +3

Few-shot learning aims to learn representations that can tackle novel tasks given a small number of examples. Recent studies show that cross-modal learning can improve representati…

cs.LG2022

Learning Robust Dynamics through Variational Sparse Gating

Arnav Kumar Jain, Shivakanth Sujit, Shruti Joshi +3

Learning world models from their sensory inputs enables agents to plan for actions by imagining their future outcomes. World models have previously been shown to improve sample-eff…

cs.LG2021★ 40 cited

Accounting for Variance in Machine Learning Benchmarks

Xavier Bouthillier, Pierre Delaunay, Mirko Bronzi +14

Strong empirical evidence that one machine-learning algorithm A outperforms another one B ideally calls for multiple trials optimizing the learning pipeline over sources of variati…

cs.CV2020★ 72 cited

HighRes-net: Recursive Fusion for Multi-Frame Super-Resolution of Satellite Imagery

Michel Deudon, Alfredo Kalaitzis, Israel Goytom +7

Generative deep learning has sparked a new wave of Super-Resolution (SR) algorithms that enhance single images with impressive aesthetic results, albeit with imaginary details. Mul…

cs.CV2019★ 2 cited

An Empirical Study of Batch Normalization and Group Normalization in Conditional Computation

Vincent Michalski, Vikram Voleti, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou +4

Batch normalization has been widely used to improve optimization in deep neural networks. While the uncertainty in batch statistics can act as a regularizer, using these dataset st…

cs.LG2018★ 125 cited

Towards Deep Conversational Recommendations

Raymond Li, Samira Kahou, Hannes Schulz +3

There has been growing interest in using neural networks and deep learning techniques to create dialogue systems. Conversational recommendation is an interesting setting for the sc…

cs.CV2018★ 79 cited

ChatPainter: Improving Text to Image Generation using Dialogue

Shikhar Sharma, Dendi Suhubdy, Vincent Michalski +2

Synthesizing realistic images from text descriptions on a dataset like Microsoft Common Objects in Context (MS COCO), where each image can contain several objects, is a challenging…

cs.CL2018★ 14 cited

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot (Short Version)

Iulian V. Serban, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Mathieu Germain +15

We present MILABOT: a deep reinforcement learning chatbot developed by the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) for the Amazon Alexa Prize competition. MILABOT is capa…

cs.CV2017★ 131 cited

FigureQA: An Annotated Figure Dataset for Visual Reasoning

Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Vincent Michalski, Adam Atkinson +3

We introduce FigureQA, a visual reasoning corpus of over one million question-answer pairs grounded in over 100,000 images. The images are synthetic, scientific-style figures from…

cs.CL2017★ 200 cited

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Chatbot

Iulian V. Serban, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Mathieu Germain +15

We present MILABOT: a deep reinforcement learning chatbot developed by the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) for the Amazon Alexa Prize competition. MILABOT is capa…

cs.CV2017★ 4 cited

The "something something" video database for learning and evaluating visual common sense

Raghav Goyal, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Vincent Michalski +11

Neural networks trained on datasets such as ImageNet have led to major advances in visual object classification. One obstacle that prevents networks from reasoning more deeply abou…

cs.SC2016

Theano: A Python framework for fast computation of mathematical expressions

The Theano Development Team, Rami Al-Rfou, Guillaume Alain +110

Theano is a Python library that allows to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficiently. Since its introduction, it has bee…

cs.LG2015

RATM: Recurrent Attentive Tracking Model

Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Vincent Michalski, Roland Memisevic

We present an attention-based modular neural framework for computer vision. The framework uses a soft attention mechanism allowing models to be trained with gradient descent. It co…

cs.LG2015★ 41 cited

EmoNets: Multimodal deep learning approaches for emotion recognition in video

Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Xavier Bouthillier, Pascal Lamblin +15

The task of the emotion recognition in the wild (EmotiW) Challenge is to assign one of seven emotions to short video clips extracted from Hollywood style movies. The videos depict…

cs.LG2014★ 8 cited

Modeling sequential data using higher-order relational features and predictive training

Vincent Michalski, Roland Memisevic, Kishore Konda

Bi-linear feature learning models, like the gated autoencoder, were proposed as a way to model relationships between frames in a video. By minimizing reconstruction error of one fr…

cs.CV2013★ 13 cited

Learning to encode motion using spatio-temporal synchrony

Kishore Reddy Konda, Roland Memisevic, Vincent Michalski

We consider the task of learning to extract motion from videos. To this end, we show that the detection of spatial transformations can be viewed as the detection of synchrony betwe…