1. Uses of GPUs for Challenges in Machine Learning
Isabelle Guyon

2. ChaLearn ML challenges
Trained
model ?
Answer y
Query x
Crowd
TRAINING
DATA
Challenges in Machine Learning

3. Motivations Learning Fame Prizes Fun Workshop Contributing
Challenges in Machine Learning

4. Longitude prize 1714 Challenges in Machine Learning

5. BIG DATA What’s new? Challenges in Machine Learning

6. Higgs boson challenge (2014)
$13,000
800,000 events provided (BUT hundreds of events per sec.)
Challenges in Machine Learning

7. Looking at People (2012-15) Actions Interactions
Wave Fight Point Clap Shake Hands Hug
Hundreds of hours of video footage
Challenges in Machine Learning

8. Neural connectomics (2014)
1000 neurons => 106 potential connections
100,000 neurons => 1010 potential connections
Challenges in Machine Learning

9. BIG DATA Old paradigm Crowd Results Computers DATA
Challenges in Machine Learning

10. BIG DATA Crowd Results Algorithms Computers SAMPLE DATA
Challenges in Machine Learning

11. AutoML challenge http://automl.chalearn.org (until Oct 2015)
April 22 hackathon/bootcamp: