no code implementations • 29 Aug 2024 • Abdalwhab Abdalwhab, Giovanni Beltrame, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, David St-Onge
Robotics can help address the growing worker shortage challenge of the manufacturing industry.
no code implementations • 28 Jul 2024 • Aamer Abdul Rahman, Pranav Agarwal, Rita Noumeir, Philippe Jouvet, Vincent Michalski, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
Offline reinforcement learning has shown promise for solving tasks in safety-critical settings, such as clinical decision support.
no code implementations • 3 Jul 2024 • Jithendaraa Subramanian, Shivakanth Sujit, Niloy Irtisam, Umong Sain, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Riashat Islam
Recent advances in protein language models (PLMs) trained on large corpora of protein sequences offer a potential solution to this problem by scoring proteins according to their biological plausibility (such as the TM-score).
no code implementations • 3 Jun 2024 • Pranav Agarwal, Sheldon Andrews, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
We incorporate a transformer-decoder for auto-regressive world modeling and a transformer-encoder for learning behavior by attending to task-relevant cues in the discrete representation of the world model.
no code implementations • 29 May 2024 • Jordi Armengol-Estapé, Vincent Michalski, Ramnath Kumar, Pierre-Luc St-Charles, Doina Precup, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
While the classifier performs the main classification task, the auxiliary network learns to predict language representations from the same input, and the bridge network transforms high-level features of the auxiliary network into modulation parameters for layers of the few-shot classifier using conditional batch normalization.
no code implementations • 1 Dec 2023 • Sacha Morin, Somjit Nath, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Guy Wolf
This work is concerned with the temporal contrastive learning (TCL) setting where the sequential structure of the data is used instead to define positive pairs, which is more commonly used in RL and robotics contexts.
no code implementations • 16 Oct 2023 • Laya Rafiee Sevyeri, Ivaxi Sheth, Farhood Farahnak, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Shirin Abbasinejad Enger
The task of anomaly detection (AD) focuses on finding whether a given sample follows the learned distribution.
1 code implementation • 24 Jul 2023 • Patrik Joslin Kenfack, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Ulrich Aïvodji
Surprisingly, our framework outperforms models trained with constraints on the true sensitive attributes.
no code implementations • 12 Jul 2023 • Pranav Agarwal, Aamer Abdul Rahman, Pierre-Luc St-Charles, Simon J. D. Prince, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
We present a broad overview of how transformers have been adapted for several applications, including robotics, medicine, language modeling, cloud computing, and combinatorial optimization.
1 code implementation • 19 Jun 2023 • Nikunj Gupta, Somjit Nath, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
Before taking actions in an environment with more than one intelligent agent, an autonomous agent may benefit from reasoning about the other agents and utilizing a notion of a guarantee or confidence about the behavior of the system.
1 code implementation • 27 Apr 2023 • Somjit Nath, Gopeshh Raaj Subbaraj, Khimya Khetarpal, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
Deep Reinforcement Learning has shown significant progress in extracting useful representations from high-dimensional inputs albeit using hand-crafted auxiliary tasks and pseudo rewards.
no code implementations • 6 Apr 2023 • Laya Rafiee Sevyeri, Ivaxi Sheth, Farhood Farahnak, Alexandre See, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Thomas Fevens, Mohammad Havaei
In addition, PD is augmented with a weighted MI maximization objective for label distribution shift.
no code implementations • 15 Dec 2022 • Shivakanth Sujit, Pedro H. M. Braga, Jorg Bornschein, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
Offline RL algorithms try to address this issue by bootstrapping the learning process from existing logged data without needing to interact with the environment from the very beginning.
no code implementations • 28 Nov 2022 • Ivaxi Sheth, Aamer Abdul Rahman, Mohammad Havaei, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
Despite the boost in performance observed by using CBN layers, our work reveals that the visual features learned by introducing auxiliary data via CBN deteriorates.
1 code implementation • 15 Nov 2022 • Pranav Agarwal, Marek Teichmann, Sheldon Andrews, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
Training novice users to operate an excavator for learning different skills requires the presence of expert teachers.
no code implementations • 10 Nov 2022 • Mohsen Fayyaz, Ehsan Aghazadeh, Ali Modarressi, Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
In this work, we employ these two metrics for the first time in NLP.
no code implementations • 24 Oct 2022 • Jithendaraa Subramanian, Yashas Annadani, Ivaxi Sheth, Nan Rosemary Ke, Tristan Deleu, Stefan Bauer, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
For linear Gaussian additive noise SCMs, we present a tractable approximate inference method which performs joint inference over the causal variables, structure and parameters of the latent SCM from random, known interventions.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2022 • Somjit Nath, Rushiv Arora, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
This encourages the representations to be driven not only by the value/policy learning but also by an additional loss that constrains the representations from over-fitting to the value loss.
no code implementations • 12 Jul 2022 • Jithendaraa Subramanian, Yashas Annadani, Ivaxi Sheth, Stefan Bauer, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
Learning predictors that do not rely on spurious correlations involves building causal representations.
no code implementations • 31 May 2022 • Fereshteh Shakeri, Malik Boudiaf, Sina Mohammadi, Ivaxi Sheth, Mohammad Havaei, Ismail Ben Ayed, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
We build few-shot tasks and base-training data with various tissue types, different levels of domain shifts stemming from various cancer sites, and different class-granularity levels, thereby reflecting realistic scenarios.
no code implementations • CVPR 2022 • Moslem Yazdanpanah, Aamer Abdul Rahman, Muawiz Chaudhary, Christian Desrosiers, Mohammad Havaei, Eugene Belilovsky, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
Batch Normalization is a staple of computer vision models, including those employed in few-shot learning.
no code implementations • 7 Sep 2021 • David Kanaa, Vikram Voleti, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Christopher Pal
Despite having been studied to a great extent, the task of conditional generation of sequences of frames, or videos, remains extremely challenging.
no code implementations • 1 Mar 2021 • Xavier Bouthillier, Pierre Delaunay, Mirko Bronzi, Assya Trofimov, Brennan Nichyporuk, Justin Szeto, Naz Sepah, Edward Raff, Kanika Madan, Vikram Voleti, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Vincent Michalski, Dmitriy Serdyuk, Tal Arbel, Chris Pal, Gaël Varoquaux, Pascal Vincent
Strong empirical evidence that one machine-learning algorithm A outperforms another one B ideally calls for multiple trials optimizing the learning pipeline over sources of variation such as data sampling, data augmentation, parameter initialization, and hyperparameters choices.
2 code implementations • ICLR 2022 • Roger Girgis, Florian Golemo, Felipe Codevilla, Martin Weiss, Jim Aldon D'Souza, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Felix Heide, Christopher Pal
AutoBots can produce either the trajectory of one ego-agent or a distribution over the future trajectories for all agents in the scene.
no code implementations • 29 Nov 2020 • Hadia Mohmmed Osman Ahmed Samil, Annabelle Martin, Arnav Kumar Jain, Susan Amin, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
Locust infestation of some regions in the world, including Africa, Asia and Middle East has become a concerning issue that can affect the health and the lives of millions of people.
no code implementations • 31 Jul 2019 • Vincent Michalski, Vikram Voleti, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Anthony Ortiz, Pascal Vincent, Chris Pal, Doina Precup
Batch normalization has been widely used to improve optimization in deep neural networks.
2 code implementations • 22 Jan 2019 • Sarath Chandar, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Eugene Vorontsov, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Yoshua Bengio
Modelling long-term dependencies is a challenge for recurrent neural networks.
3 code implementations • ICCV 2019 • Alaaeldin El-Nouby, Shikhar Sharma, Hannes Schulz, Devon Hjelm, Layla El Asri, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Yoshua Bengio, Graham W. Taylor
Conditional text-to-image generation is an active area of research, with many possible applications.
Ranked #2 on Text-to-Image Generation on GeNeVA (i-CLEVR)
no code implementations • 22 Feb 2018 • Shikhar Sharma, Dendi Suhubdy, Vincent Michalski, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Yoshua Bengio
Synthesizing realistic images from text descriptions on a dataset like Microsoft Common Objects in Context (MS COCO), where each image can contain several objects, is a challenging task.
Ranked #24 on Text-to-Image Generation on MS COCO (Inception score metric)
1 code implementation • ICLR 2018 • Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Vincent Michalski, Adam Atkinson, Akos Kadar, Adam Trischler, Yoshua Bengio
To resolve, such questions often require reference to multiple plot elements and synthesis of information distributed spatially throughout a figure.
Ranked #3 on Visual Question Answering (VQA) on FigureQA - test 1
5 code implementations • ICCV 2017 • Raghav Goyal, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Vincent Michalski, Joanna Materzyńska, Susanne Westphal, Heuna Kim, Valentin Haenel, Ingo Fruend, Peter Yianilos, Moritz Mueller-Freitag, Florian Hoppe, Christian Thurau, Ingo Bax, Roland Memisevic
Neural networks trained on datasets such as ImageNet have led to major advances in visual object classification.
Ranked #116 on Action Recognition on Something-Something V2
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2017 • Evan Racah, Christopher Beckham, Tegan Maharaj, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Prabhat, Christopher Pal
We present a dataset, ExtremeWeather, to encourage machine learning research in this area and to help facilitate further work in understanding and mitigating the effects of climate change.
1 code implementation • 9 May 2016 • The Theano Development Team, Rami Al-Rfou, Guillaume Alain, Amjad Almahairi, Christof Angermueller, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Nicolas Ballas, Frédéric Bastien, Justin Bayer, Anatoly Belikov, Alexander Belopolsky, Yoshua Bengio, Arnaud Bergeron, James Bergstra, Valentin Bisson, Josh Bleecher Snyder, Nicolas Bouchard, Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski, Xavier Bouthillier, Alexandre de Brébisson, Olivier Breuleux, Pierre-Luc Carrier, Kyunghyun Cho, Jan Chorowski, Paul Christiano, Tim Cooijmans, Marc-Alexandre Côté, Myriam Côté, Aaron Courville, Yann N. Dauphin, Olivier Delalleau, Julien Demouth, Guillaume Desjardins, Sander Dieleman, Laurent Dinh, Mélanie Ducoffe, Vincent Dumoulin, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Dumitru Erhan, Ziye Fan, Orhan Firat, Mathieu Germain, Xavier Glorot, Ian Goodfellow, Matt Graham, Caglar Gulcehre, Philippe Hamel, Iban Harlouchet, Jean-Philippe Heng, Balázs Hidasi, Sina Honari, Arjun Jain, Sébastien Jean, Kai Jia, Mikhail Korobov, Vivek Kulkarni, Alex Lamb, Pascal Lamblin, Eric Larsen, César Laurent, Sean Lee, Simon Lefrancois, Simon Lemieux, Nicholas Léonard, Zhouhan Lin, Jesse A. Livezey, Cory Lorenz, Jeremiah Lowin, Qianli Ma, Pierre-Antoine Manzagol, Olivier Mastropietro, Robert T. McGibbon, Roland Memisevic, Bart van Merriënboer, Vincent Michalski, Mehdi Mirza, Alberto Orlandi, Christopher Pal, Razvan Pascanu, Mohammad Pezeshki, Colin Raffel, Daniel Renshaw, Matthew Rocklin, Adriana Romero, Markus Roth, Peter Sadowski, John Salvatier, François Savard, Jan Schlüter, John Schulman, Gabriel Schwartz, Iulian Vlad Serban, Dmitriy Serdyuk, Samira Shabanian, Étienne Simon, Sigurd Spieckermann, S. Ramana Subramanyam, Jakub Sygnowski, Jérémie Tanguay, Gijs van Tulder, Joseph Turian, Sebastian Urban, Pascal Vincent, Francesco Visin, Harm de Vries, David Warde-Farley, Dustin J. Webb, Matthew Willson, Kelvin Xu, Lijun Xue, Li Yao, Saizheng Zhang, Ying Zhang
Since its introduction, it has been one of the most used CPU and GPU mathematical compilers - especially in the machine learning community - and has shown steady performance improvements.
no code implementations • 29 Oct 2015 • Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Vincent Michalski, Roland Memisevic
The proposed Recurrent Attentive Tracking Model performs well on all three tasks and can generalize to related but previously unseen sequences from a challenging tracking data set.
no code implementations • 5 Mar 2015 • Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Xavier Bouthillier, Pascal Lamblin, Caglar Gulcehre, Vincent Michalski, Kishore Konda, Sébastien Jean, Pierre Froumenty, Yann Dauphin, Nicolas Boulanger-Lewandowski, Raul Chandias Ferrari, Mehdi Mirza, David Warde-Farley, Aaron Courville, Pascal Vincent, Roland Memisevic, Christopher Pal, Yoshua Bengio
The task of the emotion recognition in the wild (EmotiW) Challenge is to assign one of seven emotions to short video clips extracted from Hollywood style movies.
3 code implementations • 19 Dec 2014 • Adriana Romero, Nicolas Ballas, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Antoine Chassang, Carlo Gatta, Yoshua Bengio
In this paper, we extend this idea to allow the training of a student that is deeper and thinner than the teacher, using not only the outputs but also the intermediate representations learned by the teacher as hints to improve the training process and final performance of the student.