Search Results for author: Adam Foster

Found 17 papers, 14 papers with code

Prediction-Oriented Bayesian Active Learning

1 code implementation17 Apr 2023 Freddie Bickford Smith, Andreas Kirsch, Sebastian Farquhar, Yarin Gal, Adam Foster, Tom Rainforth

Information-theoretic approaches to active learning have traditionally focused on maximising the information gathered about the model parameters, most commonly by optimising the BALD score.

Active Learning

Modern Bayesian Experimental Design

no code implementations28 Feb 2023 Tom Rainforth, Adam Foster, Desi R Ivanova, Freddie Bickford Smith

Bayesian experimental design (BED) provides a powerful and general framework for optimizing the design of experiments.

Experimental Design

CO-BED: Information-Theoretic Contextual Optimization via Bayesian Experimental Design

1 code implementation27 Feb 2023 Desi R. Ivanova, Joel Jennings, Tom Rainforth, Cheng Zhang, Adam Foster

We formalize the problem of contextual optimization through the lens of Bayesian experimental design and propose CO-BED -- a general, model-agnostic framework for designing contextual experiments using information-theoretic principles.

Experimental Design

Differentiable Multi-Target Causal Bayesian Experimental Design

1 code implementation21 Feb 2023 Yashas Annadani, Panagiotis Tigas, Desi R. Ivanova, Andrew Jesson, Yarin Gal, Adam Foster, Stefan Bauer

We introduce a gradient-based approach for the problem of Bayesian optimal experimental design to learn causal models in a batch setting -- a critical component for causal discovery from finite data where interventions can be costly or risky.

Causal Discovery Experimental Design

Efficient Real-world Testing of Causal Decision Making via Bayesian Experimental Design for Contextual Optimisation

no code implementations12 Jul 2022 Desi R. Ivanova, Joel Jennings, Cheng Zhang, Adam Foster

In this paper we introduce a model-agnostic framework for gathering data to evaluate and improve contextual decision making through Bayesian Experimental Design.

Decision Making Experimental Design

Deep End-to-end Causal Inference

1 code implementation4 Feb 2022 Tomas Geffner, Javier Antoran, Adam Foster, Wenbo Gong, Chao Ma, Emre Kiciman, Amit Sharma, Angus Lamb, Martin Kukla, Nick Pawlowski, Miltiadis Allamanis, Cheng Zhang

Causal inference is essential for data-driven decision making across domains such as business engagement, medical treatment and policy making.

Causal Discovery Causal Inference +1

Implicit Deep Adaptive Design: Policy-Based Experimental Design without Likelihoods

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2021 Desi R. Ivanova, Adam Foster, Steven Kleinegesse, Michael U. Gutmann, Tom Rainforth

We introduce implicit Deep Adaptive Design (iDAD), a new method for performing adaptive experiments in real-time with implicit models.

Experimental Design

On Contrastive Representations of Stochastic Processes

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2021 Emile Mathieu, Adam Foster, Yee Whye Teh

Learning representations of stochastic processes is an emerging problem in machine learning with applications from meta-learning to physical object models to time series.

Meta-Learning Time Series +1

Contrastive Mixture of Posteriors for Counterfactual Inference, Data Integration and Fairness

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2021 Adam Foster, Árpi Vezér, Craig A Glastonbury, Páidí Creed, Sam Abujudeh, Aaron Sim

Learning meaningful representations of data that can address challenges such as batch effect correction and counterfactual inference is a central problem in many domains including computational biology.

counterfactual Counterfactual Inference +3

Deep Adaptive Design: Amortizing Sequential Bayesian Experimental Design

1 code implementation3 Mar 2021 Adam Foster, Desi R. Ivanova, Ilyas Malik, Tom Rainforth

We introduce Deep Adaptive Design (DAD), a method for amortizing the cost of adaptive Bayesian experimental design that allows experiments to be run in real-time.

Experimental Design

Unbiased MLMC stochastic gradient-based optimization of Bayesian experimental designs

1 code implementation18 May 2020 Takashi Goda, Tomohiko Hironaka, Wataru Kitade, Adam Foster

In this paper, applying the idea of randomized multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) methods, we introduce an unbiased Monte Carlo estimator for the gradient of the expected information gain with finite expected squared $\ell_2$-norm and finite expected computational cost per sample.

Experimental Design Stochastic Optimization

Sampling and Inference for Beta Neutral-to-the-Left Models of Sparse Networks

1 code implementation9 Jul 2018 Benjamin Bloem-Reddy, Adam Foster, Emile Mathieu, Yee Whye Teh

Empirical evidence suggests that heavy-tailed degree distributions occurring in many real networks are well-approximated by power laws with exponents $\eta$ that may take values either less than and greater than two.

Probabilistic Verb Selection for Data-to-Text Generation

no code implementations TACL 2018 Dell Zhang, Jiahao Yuan, Xiaoling Wang, Adam Foster

In data-to-text Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems, computers need to find the right words to describe phenomena seen in the data.

Data-to-Text Generation

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