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Several papers from MLG have won prizes at ICML 2017. Congratulations to everyone involved! Main Conference Track Best Paper Honourable Mention Matej Balog, Nilesh Tripuraneni, Zoubin Ghahramani, Adrian Weller Lost relatives of the Gumbel trick

We are seeking two highly creative and motivated Research Assistants/Associates to join the Machine Learning Group at the University of Cambridge. The positions are for up to 24 months with a possible extension.

Ten papers including authors from the Cambridge Machine Learning Group will appear at the International Conference for Machine Learning (ICML) 2017. They are: Li Y. and Gal Y. Dropout inference in Bayesian neural networks with alpha-divergences.

MLG graduate student Alessandro Ialongo has been selected for the 2017 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship. He was awarded $40,000 for his innovation proposal titled “Learning and Decision-Making for Autonomous Behaviour”. The fellowship also involves the assignment of a Qualcomm researcher as mentor to facilitate close collaboration and interaction with Qualcomm Research & Development .

We wish to highlight three recent papers led by members from the group. The text can be found on the authors’ personal pages. Mark Rowland, Aldo Pacchiano and Adrian Weller. Conditions beyond treewidth for tightness of higher-order LP relaxations International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2017

Prof Sir David MacKay was an amazing man, who until recently was part of our group. David was a terrific researcher and teacher in machine learning, and a passionate campaigner for social good through his work on energy.

The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI; http://lcfi.ac.uk/) and the Machine Learning Group (http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk ) at the University of Cambridge invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the study of trust and transparency in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Shane Gu was involved with a Google shared experience robotics project this summer. The project was written up on Google’s research blog and in the MIT technology review. Shane is the first author on one of the corresponding papers which can be found here.

Zoubin Ghahramani and Adrian Weller are involved with the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence which was launched this week. Professor Stephen Hawking gave a widely reported speech at the launch.

Prof. Zoubin Ghahramani has spoken to the BBC world service Forum radio show on the question: “Do we need artificial intelligence?”. The full show can be found here.