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Andreea Gane

3 accepted papers

2021

Rethinking Attention with Performers

ICLR 2021oral

We introduce Performers, Transformer architectures which can estimate regular (softmax) full-rank-attention Transformers with provable accuracy, but using only linear (as opposed to quadratic) space and time complexity, without relying on any priors such as sparsity or low-rankness. To approximate s…

2020

Population-Based Black-Box Optimization for Biological Sequence Design

ICML 2020poster

The use of black-box optimization for the design of new biological sequences is an emerging research area with potentially revolutionary impact. The cost and latency of wet-lab experiments requires methods that find good sequences in few experimental rounds of large batches of sequences — a setting…

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2019

Direct Optimization through $\arg \max$ for Discrete Variational Auto-Encoder

NeurIPS 2019poster

Reparameterization of variational auto-encoders with continuous random variables is an effective method for reducing the variance of their gradient estimates. In the discrete case, one can perform reparametrization using the Gumbel-Max trick, but the resulting objective relies on an $\arg \max$ oper…