Wed 9/28 special talk: Twitter's use of deep learning with Nikolai Yakovenko

[Chad DeChant]

Hi Everyone,

We have an exciting talk next week by Nikolai Yakovenko, a Twitter engineer who works on their deep learning systems:

"Personalized engagement prediction at scale"

Nikolai Yakovenko is a Columbia graduate, and currently an engineer on Cortex, Twitter's applied AI team focused on deep learning in production systems. He will be presenting a Torch-based system for predicting social media content engagement, given a tuple {tweet, author, consumer}. The overall system is simple, but flexible. Parts of the model include word (and phrase) vectors fed into LSTMs, character-based text models, follow graph embeddings similar to DeepWalk or Node2Vec, and other independently pre-trained components.

It will be Wednesday, Sept 28 at 2 pm in the Computer Science conference room, which is next to the CS lounge in the Computer Science Building in Mudd.

Chad