“AI for Ukraine” is a series of workshops and lectures held by international artificial intelligence experts to support the development of Ukraine’s tech community during the war. The project was opened by the top-notch speaker from AI and ML global niche Yoshua Bengio (Mila/U. Montreal). The next ones lecturers are Alex J. Smola (Amazon Web), Sebastian Bubeck (Microsoft), Gaël Varoquaux (INRIA), and many other well-known specialists have joined the initiative. This is a non-commercial educational project by AI HOUSE – a company focused on building the AI/ML community in Ukraine and is part of the Roosh tech ecosystem. All proceeds collected upon registration will be donated to the biggest Ukrainian charity fund “Come Back Alive”.

The upcoming lecture will be held by co-founder of scikit_learn and Research Director at Inria Gael Varoquaux. He will deliver the topic “Evaluation of machine learning models and their diagnostic value”.
During the talk Gaël will first discuss choosing metric informative for the application, stressing the importance of the class prevalence in classification settings. Then he will discuss procedures to estimate the generalization performance, drawing a distinction between evaluating a learning procedure or a prediction rule, and how to give confidence intervals to the performance estimates.