Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

• Visually grounded interaction and language, workshop at NIPS 2017, organized by Florian Strub, Harm de Vries, Abhishek Das, Satwik Kottur, Stefan Lee, Mateusz Malinowski, Olivier Pietquin, Devi Parikh, Dhruv Batra, Aaron C Courville, Jérémie Mary. URL: https://nips.cc/Conferences/2017/Schedule?showEvent=8766

• O. Maillard: Workshop of the working group Sequential Structured Statistical Learning, May 17 2017 at Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (Bures-sur-Yvette). URL: https://sites.google.com/site/groupedetravailsssl

Member of the Conference Program Committees

Members of SequeL have been involved in the following program committees in 2017:

• Senior PC for International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017)

• Senior PC for ACM KDD 2017

• International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AI & STATS 2017)

• PC member for the international Conference On Learning Theory (COLT 2017)

• European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML 2017)

• 1st Workshop on Transfer in Reinforcement Learning (TiRL) 2017

• The Third International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Big Data (MOD 2017)

• French conferences:

  • Extraction et Gestion de Conaissances (EGC),

  • Journées Francophones de Planification, Décision, Apprentissage (JFPDA)

  • Journées de la Société Francophone de Classification (SFC)

  • Conférence francophone sur l'Apprentissage Automatique (CAp)

Reviewer

Édouard Oyallon receives a “best NIPS reviewer award”.

Members of SequeL have reviewed papers for the following conferences:

• AI&Stats, COLT, ECML, ICML, IJCAI, NIPS, ALT.

Journal

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Automatica

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Journal Reviewer

• IEEE transaction on Software Engineering

• International Federation of Automatic Control

• Bernoulli Journal

• Journal of Machine Learning Research

• IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing

Invited Talks

• R. Gaudel, Recommendation as a Sequential Process, Presented on Februaray 1st, 2017, at Séminaire CMLA, Paris, France (CMLA 2017)

• R. Gaudel, Recommendation as a Sequential Process, Presented on January 10th, 2017, at Séminaire ENSAI, Rennes (Bruz), France (ENSAI 2017)

• A. Lazaric, Spectral Methods for Reinforcement Learning, Presented on April 10, 2017, at Amazon, Berlin, Germany

• M. Valko, SequeL, graphs in ML, and online recommender systems, Presented on November 9th, 2017 at Plateau Inria Euratechnologies in Lille, France (Euratechnologies 2017)

• M. Valko, Sequential sampling for kernel matrix approximation and online learning Presented on September 19th, DeepMind, London, UK (DeepMind 2017)

• M. Valko, Active learning on networks and online influence maximization, Presented on September 18th, 2017, Decision Theory and Network Science: Methods and Applications, Lancaster, UK (STOR-i 2017)

• M. Valko, Side observation in graph bandits, Presented on July 11th, 2017, ICML 2017 workshop on Picky Learners, Sydney, Australia (ICML 2017)

• M. Valko, Distributed sequential sampling for kernel matrix approximation, Presented on June 28th, 2017, L'Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, France (IMT 2017)

• M. Valko, Online sequential solutions for recommender systems, Presented on June 14th, 2017 at Journées Scientifiques Inria 2017 in Nice, France (JS 2017)

• M. Valko, Where is Justin Bieber?, Presented on March 30th, 2017 at Dating day in Lille, France (Dating 2017)

• M. Valko, Distributed sequential sampling for kernel matrix approximation, Presented on March 22nd, 2017, for Universität Potsdam at Amazon (Berlin 2017)

Scientific Expertise

• É. Kaufmann was a member of the committee of Experts for Hiring junior faculty in the maths departement of Université of Lille 1

• J.Mary was a member of the industrial transfer commission of Inria Lille

• Alessandro Lazaric was reviewer for NSFC-ISF Research Grant

• Philippe Preux is a member of the evaluation committee and participates in the hiring, promotion, and evaluation juries of Inria:

  • Inria CR1 hiring committee

  • Inria Lille CR2 hiring committee

  • Inria committee for researcher promotion

  • Inria committee for PEDR

• Philippe Preux was a member of the hiring committees for 1 professor and 2 associate professors at the Université de Lille 3

• Philippe Preux was a member of the committee for PhD grant of the “Pôle Métropolitain de la Côte d'Opale”

• Philippe Preux reviewed a proposal for ANRT (and declined invitation from ANR)

• M. Valko is an elected member of the evaluation committee and participates in the hiring, promotion, and evaluation juries of Inria, notably

  • Hiring committee for junior researchers at Inria Saclay (2017)

  • Inria work group for deontological ethics (2017)

  • Selection committee for Inria award for scientific excellence of junior and confirmed researchers (2017)

• M. Valko was a member national Inria acceptance committee for hiring junior researchers

• M. Valko was a member of the committee of Experts for Hiring junior faculty at CMLA, ENS Paris-Saclay

Research Administration

• M. Gaudel was member of the Board of CRIStAL.

• Philippe Preux is:

  • “délégué scientifique adjoint” of the Inria center in Lille

  • member of the Inria evaluation committee (CE)

  • member of the Inria internal scientific committee (COSI)

  • member of the scientific committee of CRIStAL

  • the head of the “Data Intelligence” thematic group at CRIStAL