Education in the summer school RAAI-2019

The 4th year student of the Institute of Engineering and Digital Technologies, Valeria Sokolova, was trained at the summer school by the Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence. The school was held on the basis of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with the support of the Department of System Studies, the Institute of Problems of Artificial Intelligence, FITS IU RAS, and the Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence.

Lectures were held by leading experts in the field of artificial intelligence, including Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Nimkug Kim, Konstantin Yakovlev. Summer school participants studied machine learning and data analysis, behavior planning, natural language processing, reasoning modeling.

The school program included a hands-on workshop from the iPavlov research laboratory, which develops the Russian neural network, in which training configuration elements for speech recognition tasks were displayed. A master class from Yandex was also presented on the basics of developing an intelligent robot control system and creating approaches for perceiving space to them, the initial data for which are high-definition maps and a sensor system. Passed master classes to correct typos, to build the cognitive architecture of NPC management in a computer game and others.

Within the school, there was a competition from Huawei for “Learning the similarity functions for face descriptors” on the Kaggle platform and from the laboratory of the Cognitive Dynamic Systems of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with reinforcement training in computer vision tasks.

Partners of the summer school were such companies as: Yandex, Tinkoff, Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works, Huawei, AIM TECH