## 28th

### June 2018

The 4th annual Machine Learning in the Real World workshop (MLiTRW) aims at bringing together people from industry and academia to better understand which machine learning algorithms are used in practice and what we can do to improve them.

This one day track workshop will feature presentations from a host of professors & researchers from leading universities and research institutions with open discussions and end the day with poster sessions.

Event highlight - 3rd annual Machine Learning in the Real World Workshop, Nov. 8th, 2017. - YouTube

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### Meet Our Speakers

**Date:** June 28th, 2018 > 9:00AM-7:00PM  
**Location:** Criteo Paris – Auditorium

**Want to contribute?**  
We are inviting attendees to submit papers for short presentations or posters. Presentations will last between 5 to 10 minutes during the Spotlight session (from 14:45 pm -15:45 pm), and the poster sessions will take place during coffee breaks and networking time. To submit a paper, follow this [link](https://www.inscription-facile.com/form/b1gv5LfZvQ5cdrR0zRyY).

**John Langford**  
Machine Learning Doctor  
 **Alessandro Lazaric**  
Research Scientist  
 **Claire Monteleoni**  
Professor  
 **Randall Lewis**  
Director of economics  
 **Gaël Varoquaux**  
Researcher  
 **Flavian Vasile**  
Senior Staff Researcher

### Agenda

**Date:** June 28th, 2018 > 9:00AM-8:00PM  
**Location:** Criteo Paris – Auditorium

**Presentations:** To download the presentations, click on the speaker’s name in the below agenda

09:00 AM  
Breakfast/registration

09:30 AM  
[Real World Reinforcement Learning by John Langford](http://ailab.criteo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Langford-1.pdf) • Microsoft

11:00 AM  
Coffee Break

11:30 AM  
[Improving Exploration in Reinforcement Learning: Recent Theoretical Insights by Alessandro Lazaric](http://ailab.criteo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Lazaric.pdf) • Facebook

12:15 PM  
Dan Teodosiu • CTO Criteo  
Guest Keynote

12:30 PM  
Lunch break

02:00 PM  
[Incrementality Bidding & Attribution by Randall Lewis](http://ailab.criteo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Lewis.pdf) • Netflix

2:45 PM  
Causality in Recommendation by Flavian Vasile • Criteo AI Lab

3:15 PM  
Coffee break

3:45 PM  
Algorithms for Climate Informatics by Claire Monteleoni • Universite Paris-Saclay / CNRS / G. Washington U

4:30 PM  
Simple representations for learning: factorizations and similarities by Gaël Varoquaux • Inria

5:15 PM  
Spotlight session on contributions

6:00 PM  
Cocktail (with posters sessions)

## Event Location

Criteo Paris  
32 rue Blanche  
75009 Paris France

**Reviews:**  
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## Previous years

[**2017**](http://labs.criteo.com/2017/10/announcing-3rd-annual-machine-learning-real-world-workshop/)  
  
[**2016**](http://labs.criteo.com/2016/11/machine-learning-real-world/)