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Dependent Types for Machine Learning in Dex - David Duvenaud - University of Toronto
David Duvenaud · AIPLANS 2021

Tue Dec 14 11:00 AM -- 11:45 AM (PST) @
in Advances in Programming Languages and Neurosymbolic Systems (AIPLANS) »

This talk will give a gentle introduction to Dex, an experimental programming language. Dex is designed to combine the clarity and safety of high-level functional languages with the efficiency of low-level numerical languages. For example, Dex allows one to move much of the informal type and shape information normally contained in comments into compile-time checked types, while also omitting unambiguous details, to keep things terse. It also allows in-place updates and stateful, loopy code that can automatically take advantage of parallelism in a fine-grained way. We'll demonstrate these features on standard deep architectures like attention and graph neural nets.

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David Duvenaud (University of Toronto)

David Duvenaud is an assistant professor in computer science at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on continuous-time models, latent-variable models, and deep learning. His postdoc was done at Harvard University, and his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. David also co-founded Invenia, an energy forecasting and trading company.

AIPLANS 2021 (NeurIPS)

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