TechFest 2019
Preferred.AI held a TechFest on Friday 23 August 2019, 3.30pm – 6.30pm to share the recent projects that we’re actively pursuing.
- Captivating talks based on recent top AI publications
- Useful libraries to build AI/ML-based models/apps
- Cool demos & apps with novel use cases
- Information on future opportunities with us
Session I – Talks (3.30PM to 5.00PM)
SMU School of Information Systems, Seminar Room B1-1
- Preferred.AI: Preferences and Recommendations from Data & AI
– an overview of our activities and how you can get involved - PCRL: Jointly Modeling User Preferences and Learning Deep Item Features from Auxiliary Data
– a publication at UAI-18 - MRG: Multimodal Review Generation for Recommender Systems
– a publication at WWW-19 - CompareLDA: A Topic Model for Document Comparison
– a publication at AAAI-19 - MP-SimRank: Multiperspective Graph-theoretic Similarity Measure
– a publication at CIKM-18
Click each title above for the respective slides. Video recordings of the talks are available here.
Session II – Posters and Demos (5.00PM to 6.30PM)
SMU School of Information Systems, Concourse opposite OCBC
- Cerebro: Closed-loop recommendation retrieval engine
- Cornac: Multimodal recommender system library
- JioApp: Recommendations for group meetups
- Propedia: Web-mined product encyclopedia
- SentiVec: Sentiment-infused word embeddings
- ThriftCity: Web-sourced price comparisons
- Venom: Focused crawler for the deep Web
- Butler: Conversational recommender system with natural language explanations
- FaceInMotion: Face-based intelligent emotion detection
- MindReader: News recommendation app based on reading history
- Neural Network Lab: Machine learning in your browser
Montage of the Event
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Thanh Binh
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Duy Dung
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Wei Lin
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Xin Rong
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Trung Hoang
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