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Ghassen Jerfel

7 accepted papers

2026

VL-DPO: Vision-Language-Guided Finetuning for Preference-Aligned Autonomous Driving

ICRA 2026poster

The rapid growth of autonomous driving datasets has enabled the scaling of powerful motion forecasting models. While large-scale pretraining provides strong performance, the standard imitation objective may not fully capture the complex nuances of human driving preferences. Meanwhile, recent advance…

2021

Benchmarking Bayesian Deep Learning on Diabetic Retinopathy Detection Tasks

NeurIPS 2021poster

Bayesian deep learning seeks to equip deep neural networks with the ability to precisely quantify their predictive uncertainty, and has promised to make deep learning more reliable for safety-critical real-world applications. Yet, existing Bayesian deep learning methods fall short of this promise; n…

Cited by 59SourceScholar
2021

Combining Ensembles and Data Augmentation Can Harm Your Calibration

ICLR 2021poster

Ensemble methods which average over multiple neural network predictions are a simple approach to improve a model’s calibration and robustness. Similarly, data augmentation techniques, which encode prior information in the form of invariant feature transformations, are effective for improving calibra…

Cited by 78SourcePDFScholar
2021

Variational refinement for importance sampling using the forward Kullback-Leibler divergence

UAI 2021poster

Variational Inference (VI) is a popular alternative to asymptotically exact sampling in Bayesian inference. Its main workhorse is optimization over a reverse Kullback-Leibler divergence (RKL), which typically underestimates the tail of the posterior leading to miscalibration and potential degeneracy…

Cited by 44SourcePDFScholar
2020

Efficient and Scalable Bayesian Neural Nets with Rank-1 Factors

ICML 2020poster

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) demonstrate promising success in improving the robustness and uncertainty quantification of modern deep learning. However, they generally struggle with underfitting at scale and parameter efficiency. On the other hand, deep ensembles have emerged as alternatives for u…

2019

Reconciling meta-learning and continual learning with online mixtures of tasks

NeurIPS 2019spotlight

Learning-to-learn or meta-learning leverages data-driven inductive bias to increase the efficiency of learning on a novel task. This approach encounters difficulty when transfer is not advantageous, for instance, when tasks are considerably dissimilar or change over time. We use the connection betwe…

Cited by 142SourcePDFScholar
2017

Dynamic Collaborative Filtering With Compound Poisson Factorization

AISTATS 2017poster

Model-based collaborative filtering (CF) analyzes user–item interactions to infer latent factors that represent user preferences and item characteristics in order to predict future interactions. Most CF approaches assume that these latent factors are static; however, in most CF data, user preference…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar