Nuit Blanche: Overviews: Deep Learning on Reinforcement Learning, Music Generation and Recommender Systems

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Today we have three overviews/review/tutorial on different aspect of Deep Learning. The first one is about Reinforcement Learning, the second is a book on music generation and the third is on recommender systems (as taught in the latest RecSys meeting at Lake Como).

Deep Reinforcement Learning: An Overview by Yuxi Li

We give an overview of recent exciting achievements of deep reinforcement learning (RL). We discuss six core elements, six important mechanisms, and twelve applications. We start with background of machine learning, deep learning and reinforcement learning. Next we discuss core RL elements, including value function, in particular, Deep Q-Network (DQN), policy, reward, model, planning, and exploration. After that, we discuss important mechanisms for RL, including attention and memory, unsupervised learning, transfer learning, multi-agent RL, hierarchical RL, and learning to learn. Then we discuss various applications of RL, including games, in particular, AlphaGo, robotics, natural language processing, including dialogue systems, machine translation, and text generation, computer vision, neural architecture design, business management, finance, healthcare, Industry 4.0, smart grid, intelligent transportation systems, and computer systems. We mention topics not reviewed yet. After listing a collection of RL resources, we present a brief summary, and close with discussions.

Deep Learning Techniques for Music Generation - A Survey by Jean-Pierre Briot, Gaëtan Hadjeres, François Pachet

This book is a survey and an analysis of different ways of using deep learning (deep artificial neural networks) to generate musical content. At first, we propose a methodology based on four dimensions for our analysis: - objective - What musical content is to be generated? (e.g., melody, accompaniment...); - representation - What are the information formats used for the corpus and for the expected generated output? (e.g., MIDI, piano roll, text...); - architecture - What type of deep neural network is to be used? (e.g., recurrent network, autoencoder, generative adversarial networks...); - strategy - How to model and control the process of generation (e.g., direct feedforward, sampling, unit selection...). For each dimension, we conduct a comparative analysis of various models and techniques. For the strategy dimension, we propose some tentative typology of possible approaches and mechanisms. This classification is bottom-up, based on the analysis of many existing deep-learning based systems for music generation, which are described in this book. The last part of the book includes discussion and prospects.

Deep Learning for Recommender Systems RecSys2017 Tutorial

Deep Learning for Recommender Systems RecSys2017 Tutorial from Alexandros Karatzoglou

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