[26] Kevin Ellis - Algorithms for Learning to Induce Programs

29/05/2021 1h 17min
[26] Kevin Ellis - Algorithms for Learning to Induce Programs

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Episode Synopsis

Kevin Ellis is an assistant professor at Cornell and currently a research scientist at Common Sense Machines. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, program synthesis, and neurosymbolic models.

Kevin's PhD thesis is titled "Algorithms for Learning to Induce Programs", which he completed in 2020 at MIT. We discuss Kevin’s work at the intersection of machine learning and program induction, including inferring graphics programs from images and drawings, DreamCoder, and more.

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