Challenges in representation learning: a report on three machine learning contests.

Journal: Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
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Abstract

The ICML 2013 Workshop on Challenges in Representation Learning(1) focused on three challenges: the black box learning challenge, the facial expression recognition challenge, and the multimodal learning challenge. We describe the datasets created for these challenges and summarize the results of the competitions. We provide suggestions for organizers of future challenges and some comments on what kind of knowledge can be gained from machine learning competitions.

Authors

  • Ian J Goodfellow
    Université de Montréal, Montréal QC H3T 1N8, Canada. Electronic address: goodfeli@iro.umontreal.ca.
  • Dumitru Erhan
    Google, Venice, CA 90291, USA. Electronic address: dumitru@google.com.
  • Pierre Luc Carrier
    Université de Montréal, Montréal QC H3T 1N8, Canada.
  • Aaron Courville
    Université de Montréal, Montréal QC H3T 1N8, Canada.
  • Mehdi Mirza
    Université de Montréal, Montréal QC H3T 1N8, Canada.
  • Ben Hamner
    Kaggle, USA.
  • Will Cukierski
    Kaggle, USA.
  • Yichuan Tang
    University of Toronto, Canada.
  • David Thaler
  • Dong-Hyun Lee
    Nangman Computing, Republic of Korea.
  • Yingbo Zhou
    University at Buffalo, USA.
  • Chetan Ramaiah
    University at Buffalo, USA.
  • Fangxiang Feng
    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China.
  • Ruifan Li
    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China.
  • Xiaojie Wang
    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China.
  • Dimitris Athanasakis
    University College London, United Kingdom.
  • John Shawe-Taylor
    Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
  • Maxim Milakov
  • John Park
  • Radu Ionescu
    University of Bucharest, Romania.
  • Marius Popescu
    University of Bucharest, Romania.
  • Cristian Grozea
    VICOM, Singapore.
  • James Bergstra
    University of Waterloo, Canada.
  • Jingjing Xie
    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China.
  • Lukasz Romaszko
  • Bing Xu
    Department of Rehabilitation, the People`s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, Guangxi, People's Republic of China.
  • Zhang Chuang
    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China.
  • Yoshua Bengio
    Université de Montréal, Montréal QC H3T 1N8, Canada.