Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 5 Episode 1

22.09.2022 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Thursday, September 22, 2022 from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM (Hong Kong Time) Where? This meetup was hosted in-person at Amazon AWS office in Tower 535, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. First in-person meetup in a while! The page of the event on Meetup: HKML S5E1 Programme: Talk 1: Aspect-based sentiment analysis Speaker: Yanwei Cui, Michelle Hong Abstract: Sentiment analysis is crucial for enterprise to study the thoughts of their customers.

Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 4 Episode 9

15.06.2022 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, June 15, 2022 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Hong Kong Time) Where? This meetup was hosted on zoom. The page of the event on Meetup: HKML S4E9 Programme: Talk 1: Machine learning summary in 30 minutes Speaker: Richard Xu Abstract: “Posterior inference”, “conjugate functions”, “neural tangent kernels”… We are overwhelmed by the growing number of buzzwords we see in the academic machine learning literature.

Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 4 Episode 8

11.05.2022 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, May 11, 2022 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Hong Kong Time) Where? This meetup was hosted on zoom. The page of the event on Meetup: HKML S4E8 Programme: Talk 1: Speaker identification in presidential debate Speaker: Gautier Marti (25min) In this short presentation, I just illustrate the task of speaker identification: Who is speaking, and when? This can be done relatively well with basic Machine Learning tools (Gaussian Mixture Models).

Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 4 Episode 7

13.04.2022 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, April 13, 2022 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Hong Kong Time) Where? This meetup was hosted on zoom. The page of the event on Meetup: HKML S4E7 Programme: Talk 1: Recent Advances in Machine Learning Applications, and Trends Speaker: Gautier Marti (10min) More of an introduction to the Hong Kong Machine Learning Meetups, and a call for future talks than a focused presentation. Not technical (beginner level).

Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 4 Episode 6

16.03.2022 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, March 16, 2022 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Hong Kong Time) Where? This meetup was hosted on zoom. The page of the event on Meetup: HKML S4E6 Programme: Talk 1: Sequential Bootstrapping in Finance: Approaching the true IID Sampling Speaker: Valeriia Pervushyna, Quantitative Researcher at Hudson & Thames https://hudsonthames.org Abstract: Most classic Machine Learning approaches highly rely on the assumption of the i.i.d of samples.

Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 4 Episode 5

26.01.2022 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, January 26, 2022 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Hong Kong Time) Where? This meetup was hosted on zoom. The page of the event on Meetup: HKML S4E5 Programme: Talk 1: Information geometry & adaptive assessment [TL;DR] Why do we keep bothering students with long questionnaires while we could adaptively assess their knowledge, and track it over time? We will present why the research field of educational data mining is old, hard, beautiful and important.