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Christopher Beckham

6 accepted papers

2023

Parallel-mentoring for Offline Model-based Optimization

NeurIPS 2023poster

We study offline model-based optimization to maximize a black-box objective function with a static dataset of designs and scores. These designs encompass a variety of domains, including materials, robots, DNA sequences, and proteins. A common approach trains a proxy on the static dataset and perform…

2019

Manifold Mixup: Better Representations by Interpolating Hidden States

ICML 2019oral

Deep neural networks excel at learning the training data, but often provide incorrect and confident predictions when evaluated on slightly different test examples. This includes distribution shifts, outliers, and adversarial examples. To address these issues, we propose \manifoldmixup{}, a simple re…

2019

On Adversarial Mixup Resynthesis

NeurIPS 2019poster

In this paper, we explore new approaches to combining information encoded within the learned representations of auto-encoders. We explore models that are capable of combining the attributes of multiple inputs such that a resynthesised output is trained to fool an adversarial discriminator for real v…

2018

Unsupervised Depth Estimation, 3D Face Rotation and Replacement

NeurIPS 2018poster

We present an unsupervised approach for learning to estimate three dimensional (3D) facial structure from a single image while also predicting 3D viewpoint transformations that match a desired pose and facial geometry. We achieve this by inferring the depth of facial keypoints of an input image in a…

2017

ExtremeWeather: A large-scale climate dataset for semi-supervised detection, localization, and understanding of extreme weather events

NeurIPS 2017poster

Then detection and identification of extreme weather events in large-scale climate simulations is an important problem for risk management, informing governmental policy decisions and advancing our basic understanding of the climate system. Recent work has shown that fully supervised convolutional n…

2017

Unimodal Probability Distributions for Deep Ordinal Classification

ICML 2017poster

Probability distributions produced by the cross-entropy loss for ordinal classification problems can possess undesired properties. We propose a straightforward technique to constrain discrete ordinal probability distributions to be unimodal via the use of the Poisson and binomial probability distrib…