From Friday to Monday GHOST attended PLinML―a Polish View on Machine Learning. The conference took part in Warsaw and covered a variety of theoretical and applied topics, presented by speakers form both academia and industry. Our favorite talks included From Pixels to Human-level Performance in Multi-Player First Person Games presented by Wojciech Czarnecki from DeepMind, and Understanding the Early Phase of Training Deep Neural Networks by Stanisław Jastrzębski from the Jagiellonian University. Part of our group also attended an all-day tutorial on Conversational AI.

The conference also included a talk from none other than our own vice-president―Faustyna Krawiec, on Neural Models for Semantic Code Search―work done during her internship at Microsoft Research Cambridge. GHOST’s presence at the conference was further highlighted by two posters―Faustyna’s on the same topic, and Marcin Konieczny’s―about distributed clustering of big datasets, which he worked on over the summer at the University of Ljubljana. Meanwhile Dominik Huss took part in a quiz and won a copy of Christopher Bishop’s Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning!