Applications of Variational Autoencoders and Bayesian Optimization with Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato - #510

Published: Aug. 16, 2021, 5:54 p.m.

b'Today we\\u2019re joined by Jos\\xe9 Miguel Hern\\xe1ndez-Lobato, a university lecturer in machine learning at the University of Cambridge. In our conversation with Miguel, we explore his work at the intersection of Bayesian learning and deep learning. We discuss how he\\u2019s been applying this to the field of molecular design and discovery via two different methods, with one paper searching for possible chemical reactions, and the other doing the same, but in 3D and in 3D space. We also discuss the challenges of sample efficiency, creating objective functions, and how those manifest themselves in these experiments, and how he integrated the Bayesian approach to RL problems. We also talk through a handful of other papers that Miguel has presented at recent conferences, which are all linked at twimlai.com/go/510.'