2nd IFIP International Conference on Machine Learning for Networking (MLN'2019)
Paris, France, December 3-5, 2019
Invited speaker : Jean-Claude Belfiore
Title: From Learning to Reasoning : A topos perspective
Abstract
With the explosion of data, evolution of 5G networks towards 2020-2030 will be mostly based on machine learning techniques. They provide the first era of intelligent networks which we call learning networks. The second era of beyond 5G Intelligent network for the period 2030-2040 are networks which are able to think. This requires new advanced mathematical tools which go beyond the perceptual framework of machine learning now. This can be done by linking the topology of perception and the logic of thinking using category theory and its deeper notion of topos invented by Alexandre Grothendieck at IHES in the 60’s. As a bonus, this intriguing connection makes the notion of semantics appear naturally. Can we finally now start to build the foundations of semantic communication evoked by Shannon and Weaver in the early 50’s?