Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 3 Episode 12

21.07.2021 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, July 21, 2021 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Hong Kong Time) Where? At your home, on zoom. All meetups will be online as long as this COVID-19 crisis is not over. Programme: Talk 1: PAGnol: A French extreme-scale model Julien Launay & Igor Carron Extreme-scale models with billions of parameters (GPT-3, T5, etc.) have garnered increased interest over the past year, demonstrating unique few-shot learning abilities.

Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 3 Episode 11

23.06.2021 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, June 23, 2021 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Hong Kong Time) Where? At your home, on zoom. All meetups will be online as long as this COVID-19 crisis is not over. Programme: Talk 1: The Book of Alternative Data: A Guide for Investors, Traders and Risk Managers Saeed Amen, co-author with Alexander Denev, will present his recent book on alt data, an important input to machine learning models in finance.

Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 3 Episode 10

05.05.2021 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, May 5, 2021 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Hong Kong Time) Where? At your home, on zoom. All meetups will be online as long as this COVID-19 crisis is not over. Programme: Talk 1: Building Probabilistic Causal Models using Collective Intelligence Alexander Denev, Head of AI at Deloitte, Lecturer at Oxford. Author of: Book of Alternative Data: A Guide for Investors, Traders and Risk Managers

Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 3 Episode 9

16.03.2021 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Tuesday, March 16, 2021 from 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM (Hong Kong Time) Where? At your home, on zoom. All meetups will be online as long as this COVID-19 crisis is not over. Programme: Talk 1: Towards Financial Fraud Detection in ERP Systems using Deep Neural Networks Marco Schreyer, PhD student, University of St. Gallen Marco’s papers: Detection of Accounting Anomalies in the Latent Space using Adversarial Autoencoder Neural Networks Adversarial Learning of Deepfakes in Accounting Learning Sampling in Financial Statement Audits using Vector Quantised Autoencoder Neural Networks You can find a summary of these papers (among others) there.

Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 3 Episode 8

17.02.2021 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, February 17, 2021 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Hong Kong Time) Where? At your home, on zoom. All meetups will be online as long as this COVID-19 crisis is not over. Programme: Talk 1 (Chaired by Gautier Marti): Explainable, accelerated machine intelligence in finance and insurance Jochen Papenbrock, NVIDIA https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/industries/finance/ Abstract: How can we build Explainable, Trustworthy, and Responsible AI for the Financial Service Industry?

Hong Kong Machine Learning Season 3 Episode 7

27.01.2021 - Hong Kong Machine Learning

When? Wednesday, January 27, 2021 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (Hong Kong Time) Where? At your home, on zoom. All meetups will be online as long as this COVID-19 crisis is not over. Programme: Talk 1 (Chaired by Jose Vinicius de Miranda Cardoso): Debiased Inverse Propensity Score Weighting for Estimation of Average Treatment Effects with High-Dimensional Confounders Yuhao Wang, Tsinghua University arxiv paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.08661.pdf Talk 2 (Chaired by Gautier Marti/Thibault Bourgeron): Algorithms for Learning Graphs in Financial Markets Jose Vinicius de Miranda Cardoso, HKUST