Hello
Welcome to Tijmen Tieleman's website.
About me
I am a student of artificial intelligence, which is the study of how apparently nonintelligent things (computers) can behave apparently
intelligently. I study at the university of Toronto, under Geoffrey Hinton's excellent supervision.
Research interests:
- Neural networks (details of interest vary) - that's interesting because it's cool and it's my group's specialization.
- The theory and practice of programming (e.g. compilers and interpreters, algorithm design, programming languagues, and programming tricks) - that's interesting because I program a lot.
- Using artificial intelligence as a tool (as opposed to purpose) in programs - that's interesting because it's a useful tool, and sometimes it can do
some of the boring work for me.
Other academic interests:
- The study of logic and the principles of mathematics. I find this very interesting, and I've taken some excellent courses in this field.
- Probability theory - especially its paradoxes (like the paradox of the two envelopes).
Publications
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Training Restricted Boltzmann Machines using Approximations to the Likelihood Gradient
In: International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2008
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Some investigations into energy-based models
Master's thesis
[ps.gz] [pdf] [bibtex]
CV: here
Personal
Some pictures: here
Last updated: 2008-05-23