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# Jacob Louis Hoover

http://jahoo.github.io
Information Theory
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Probabilistic Models
Probabilistic Systems and Languages
Student Ph.D., McGill University

I am member of The Montreal Computational & Quantitative Linguistics Lab, under Tim O’Donnell. I am interested in information theory, mathematical linguistics, and probabilistic models of human language processing.

### Options of Interest: Temporal Abstraction with Interest Functions

### A Story of Two Streams: Reinforcement Learning Models from Human Behavior and Neuropsychiatry

### Learning Nonlinear Brain Dynamics: van der Pol Meets LSTM

### Modeling Psychotherapy Dialogues with Kernelized Hashcode Representations: A Nonparametric Information-Theoretic Approach

### Beyond Backprop: Online Alternating Minimization with Auxiliary Variables

### Learning to Learn without Forgetting by Maximizing Transfer and Minimizing Interference