Sandile Zulu (Colin Richards)

From ZULU to RERS - Lessons Learned in the ZULU Challenge

This paper summarizes our experience with the ZULU challenge on active learning without equivalence queries, presents our winning solution, investigates the character of ZULU’s rating approach, and discusses how this approach can be taken further to establish a framework for the systematic investigation of domain-specific, scalable learning solutions for practically relevant application. In par...

Colin Clifford

(In: Rosenblith, W.A. (Ed.), Sensory Communication, Wiley, New York, pp. 303–317). Based on simple behavioural experiments, Reichardt proposed an elegant computational account of motion processing by the visual system of the Chlorophanus beetle. His proposal has been simplified, elaborated and reinvented on at least one occasion but remains the most influential model of visual motion processing...

Colin Diemer

Tropical Geometry is a rapidly developing field at the interface of algebraic geometry and polyhedral combinatorics. In [14] and [42] tropical geometry was related to constructing compactifications of certain non-compact algebraic varieties. To a subvariety X of an algebraic torus there exist compactifications X with boundaries D = X\X with desirable properties, and such that the structure of D...

Zulu: An Interactive Learning Competition

Active language learning is an interesting task for which theoretical results are known and several applications exist. In order to better understand what the better strategies may be, a new competition called Zulu (http://labh-curien.univ-st-etienne.fr/zulu/) is launched: participants are invited to learn deterministic finite automata from membership queries. The goal is to obtain the best cla...

Language Impairment in Zulu