Background
Niyogi, Partha was born on July 31, 1967 in Calcutta. Son of Ranjit Kumar and Prabhati Niyogi.
(Among other topics, The Informational Complexity of Learn...)
Among other topics, The Informational Complexity of Learning: Perspectives on Neural Networks and Generative Grammar brings together two important but very different learning problems within the same analytical framework. The first concerns the problem of learning functional mappings using neural networks, followed by learning natural language grammars in the principles and parameters tradition of Chomsky. These two learning problems are seemingly very different. Neural networks are real-valued, infinite-dimensional, continuous mappings. On the other hand, grammars are boolean-valued, finite-dimensional, discrete (symbolic) mappings. Furthermore the research communities that work in the two areas almost never overlap. The book's objective is to bridge this gap. It uses the formal techniques developed in statistical learning theory and theoretical computer science over the last decade to analyze both kinds of learning problems. By asking the same question - how much information does it take to learn? - of both problems, it highlights their similarities and differences. Specific results include model selection in neural networks, active learning, language learning and evolutionary models of language change. The Informational Complexity of Learning: Perspectives on Neural Networks and Generative Grammar is a very interdisciplinary work. Anyone interested in the interaction of computer science and cognitive science should enjoy the book. Researchers in artificial intelligence, neural networks, linguistics, theoretical computer science, and statistics will find it particularly relevant.
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Niyogi, Partha was born on July 31, 1967 in Calcutta. Son of Ranjit Kumar and Prabhati Niyogi.
Bachelor of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 1989. Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995.
Research associate Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1995-1996. Member technical staff Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, since 1996. Assistant professor University Chicago, since 2000.
Panelist National Academy of Sciences, 1997. Speaker in field; consultant Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, since 1999.
(Among other topics, The Informational Complexity of Learn...)
Married Parvati Krishnamurty, November 24, 1995.