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Taylor W. Killian

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Postdoctoral Research Scientist at , interested in Decision Making & Generalization // @BYU '13; @Harvard '17; @UofT '24

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Taylor W. Killian
6 months
I successfully defended my PhD today (exciting!). I've struggled today balancing feelings of accomplishment+gratitude and anti-climatic disappointment. It's been more than worth it to hear my youngest daughter toddle around saying "Doc-tor Dad!" 🥰
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Taylor W. Killian
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‼️ 🎉🎊🪅🥳 It's been a really long time since I saw the words "Accept" next to a submission of mine. I'm super pumped to be able to publicly share what we've been working on for the last while. Stay tuned!!! #NeurIPS2021
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
I’ve been slowly and surely making my way through @PatrickKidger ’s thesis (it’s remarkable btw): While I’ve been learning a lot I’ve found it hard to know which type of NDE I want to use. Does anyone know of a clear taxonomy between ODEs, SDEs and CDEs?
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Taylor W. Killian
4 months
It's been a great Memorial Day to pause and reflect. It's been a whirlwind season as I defended and formally graduated with my PhD @UofTCompSci + moved my family across the US to California to start a postdoc @Apple ! Lots of exciting things to come!
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
🎉Last week, amid the ICML rush, we were informed that our paper (w/ Sonali Parbhoo and @MarzyehGhassemi ): "Risk Sensitive Dead-end Identification in Safety-Critical Offline Reinforcement Learning" was accepted to @TmlrOrg ! 🎉 Short thread introduction 👇 🧵 (1/7)
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
Today is my first day @GoogleAI as an intern! It's been a little weird to be starting a new job/adventure from my bedroom office, but I'm excited for what's to come!
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Taylor W. Killian
5 years
This summer I'm pumped to be working alongside @MarlosCMachado , @marcgbellemare and @pcastr as a research intern in the Montréal @GoogleAI office! I've admired the work coming out of this office for a long time, I'm looking forward to getting a chance to be a part of it. 👨‍💻
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Taylor W. Killian
1 year
Oooh @lexfridman can you please block me too? I *actually* am doing ML research at MIT.
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1 year
Hey @lexfridman , would you mind blocking me? I'm trying to become an ML researcher.
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
Today I'm handing in my final assignment for my final course as a student. Capping a wild month, semester and pandemic year. After today I'm done with all "in-person" reqs at @UofT and will be joining @MIT_CSAIL and @MIT_IMES as a visiting student for the remainder of my PhD!
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Taylor W. Killian
5 years
You know that it's an important topic during Grad student orientation when @legogradstudent makes an appearance.
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
Our paper investigating the quality of representations learned from healthcare data for use in RL will be published in the proceedings of the coming #ML4H workshop @NeurIPSConf ! w/ H. Zhang, J. Subramanian, @mefatemi and @MarzyehGhassemi Short 🧵 (1/X)
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
I'm humbled and thrilled to have been invited to speak at the upcoming @OfflineRL workshop @NeurIPSConf this year. It's intimidating to be the least qualified but I'll get to share how we're bringing offline RL to bear in new ways for safety-critical problems (e.g. #ML4Health )!
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OFFLINE RL NeurIPS Workshop
2 years
We are back for 3rd Offline RL workshop, which be held in-person at @NeurIPSConf 2022. The theme of the workshop is using "Offline RL as a Launchpad". Call for papers and details at .
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
(Canadian) Thanksgiving gratitude post! 🦃🍂 I'm grateful to be able to share our paper "Medical Dead-ends and Learning to Identify High-risk States and Treatments" (w/ @mefatemi , J. Subramanian and @MarzyehGhassemi ), to appear at #NeurIPS2021 ! 🧵 1/
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
Now that it's public-public... I'm pumped to be moving with @MarzyehGhassemi back "home" to New England while we continue to work toward making ML work within healthcare.
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Marzyeh
4 years
Personal news: After three awesome years at UofT CS/Medicine, my research group will be moving to MIT @MIT_IMES / @MIT_CSAIL in July 2021! Thanks to my UofT chairs and the Vector Institute for their support - excited to continue work in "healthy" machine learning for health!
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Taylor W. Killian
1 year
Presenting this today in Ballroom C at the 10:40a and 4:30p poster sessions! I’m looking forward to talking with folks at #ICML2023 🏝️
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Taylor W. Killian
1 year
🚨 New work, now public 🚨 With Haoran Zhang, @tom_hartvigsen and @avapamini , I'm pleased to share: "Continuous Time Evidential Distributions for Irregular Time Series" which I'll present tomorrow at #ICML23 🏝️ in the IMLH Workshop () 🪡🧵
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Taylor W. Killian
5 years
This summer I'm pumped to be working alongside @MarlosCMachado , @marcgbellemare and @pcastr as a research intern in the Montréal @GoogleAI office! I've admired the work coming out of this office for a long time, I'm looking forward to getting a chance to be a part of it. 👨‍💻
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Taylor W. Killian
1 year
🚨 New work, now public 🚨 With Haoran Zhang, @tom_hartvigsen and @avapamini , I'm pleased to share: "Continuous Time Evidential Distributions for Irregular Time Series" which I'll present tomorrow at #ICML23 🏝️ in the IMLH Workshop () 🪡🧵
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Taylor W. Killian
5 years
I'm thrilled to announce that I have decided to attend @UofT @VectorInst in pursuit of a PhD, working with @MarzyehGhassemi and many other future colleagues and friends!!
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
I am once again honored to be among those named as “Top Reviewers” for #NeurIPS2022 It’s also gratifying to see many names of friends and colleagues also listed. It’s wonderful to see so many people recognized for doing their best job as a reviewer.
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
[**New work**] We've posted a preprint of initial work looking to make transfer learning feasible in offline RL using counterfactual inference. "Counterfactually Guided Policy Transfer in Clinical Settings" with @MarzyehGhassemi and @shalmali_anu [1/10]
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
We were surprised and delighted by this package today from ⁦ @Microsoft ⁩+⁦ @MSFTResearch ⁩ (to borrow from somewhere else). I would’ve never guessed that we’d get something like this as an intern. S/o to the reference about a 4th child.
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
Woke up to a nice email from the @NeurIPSConf chairs informing me that I was named in the top 8% of reviewers which includes free registration to the conference. I’m happy and proud to be recognized. Attentive reviewing is among the most important contributions we can provide
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
As it’s ending, I just wanted to document how delightful Fall has been in Massachusetts this year!
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
It’s been an adventurous few days as we moved from Toronto 🇨🇦 back to Massachusetts 🇺🇸, & rested in Cape Ann 🏖 in preparation for an eventful summer! Today is my first day @Apple where I’ll be working with the Health AI team! I’m excited for what I’ll get to learn and achieve!
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
I’m in Seattle this week to kick off my summer @MSFTResearch ! Excited to be working with @apsoleimany to extend scalable uncertainty estimation techniques to irregular biomedical time series. It’s been 10 years since I was last in the PNW and it’s been delightful so far!
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Taylor W. Killian
1 year
Be the reviewer you’d hope to have #NeurIPS2023 (and all other venues you submit to + review for)
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
Unfortunately ICML “won” this round. Ultimately 2/2 rejections of great papers that I’ve been working on for some time. While disappointed, I’m grateful to have the opportunity to improve them for future submissions.
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Taylor W. Killian
1 year
Hey, a plot accurately depicting the confidence of a PhD student as they progress in their program and start looking for jobs...
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Taylor W. Killian
6 years
@IAmSamFin I'll put some thought into it and will get back to you. I feel like I'm always catching up and relearning everything, a perpetual novice... One resource that I really admire is @dustinvtran 's ml-videos repository that he's been curating:
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
I'm happy to share a blog post I co-authored with @mefatemi and @MarzyehGhassemi for @MSFTResearch , highlighting our ongoing work trying to help experts in safety-critical sequential decision making settings by recommending things to avoid doing.
@MSFTResearch
Microsoft Research
3 years
An AI model trained using offline reinforcement learning could alert human decision-makers when a set of decisions or the situation is potentially high-risk (or both), in safety-critical domains such as in healthcare. Learn more about this research at:
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
Hey @kchonyc , just wanted to let you know that #NeurIPS2022 reviewing is happening while we all wait for fireworks on the Cambridge side of the Charles… #dontstopneverstopping
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Taylor W. Killian
5 months
I got to spend a fun afternoon at Stanford today. Thanks @EmmaBrunskill for the invitation to join your group meeting and get to hang out!
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Taylor W. Killian
1 year
It was such an honor to be invited to speak @NYUDataScience and am thankful to @timrudner , @wald_yoav and Elisha Cohen who made it possible!
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Tim G. J. Rudner
1 year
Shout out to @tw_killian who gave a fantastic talk at @NYUDataScience today!
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
Celebrating 10 years married to my best friend! It’s been a wild year but it’s been made far easier by having her and our little pandemic partners around to hang with. Family is what it’s all about when all is said and done, I’m fortunate to have a happy and healthy one.
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Taylor W. Killian
6 years
I just finished my set of reviews for ICML. It's my first time reviewing for the main conference and I was struck with two major impressions: (1) There's a ton of fascinating work going on and (2) I have a greater appreciation for the helpful reviews I've received in the past 1/x
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
Our paper about Medical Dead-ends is featured on MIT's homepage [] w/ @MSFTResearch @VectorInst @UofT_TCAIREM @UofTCompSci @mefatemi @MarzyehGhassemi #NeurIPS2021 Paper: Code: Data:
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
Parenting is the best example of learning in the presence of distribution shift. Even with moment matching regularization, things can still get a little silly.
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
🛫 On my way to #NeurIPS2022 in New Orleans! 🤓 I’m excited to catch up with people after having been stuck in/on a computer for the past three years. 🤖 I’m looking forward to chatting about all things RL, uncertainty guided decision making, and healthcare. See you there!
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Taylor W. Killian
1 year
I grew up at the foot of these mountains. I took their majesty for granted. Every time I come back to visit, I find myself just staring up at them. Woke up to this view and a chorus of birdsong. Sweet comforts in a particularly tough time.
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Taylor W. Killian
4 months
Eugene helped me find the role that I'm in @Apple and has set the bar exceptionally high for curiosity driven research with potential for major impact. It's been a joy working alongside a friend these 6 months. I can't wait to see what he and his students produce @nyutandon !
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒
4 months
Today's my last day at Apple and have to say, if you're looking for a place that lets you make wildly ambitious research bets, Apple is hard to beat.
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
I’m happy to announce a successful replications of @CSProfKGD ’s recent results. RL agents can indeed generalize when given the right training conditions, time, patience and a cool new 🚲
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Taylor W. Killian
5 years
agent_2's 🚴 policy hasn't exactly stabilized yet. Needs a bit more training.
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
@BlackHC @DeepMind @MetaAI If you're just being rejected now, then you fared much better than I did in the application process... I received rejection notices within 24 hours. You're doing great!
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Taylor W. Killian
10 months
I’ve been aware of these rumblings for the last little while. I am excited for @RL_Conference and am looking forward to supporting it in whatever way I can. It is way past time to have a premier RL-focused venue and I can’t wait to submit my own work here in the future!
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Glen Berseth
10 months
Thrilled to announce the first annual Reinforcement Learning Conference @RL_Conference , which will be held at UMass Amherst August 9-12! RLC is the first strongly peer-reviewed RL venue with proceedings, and our call for papers is now available: .
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Taylor W. Killian
11 months
Having just finished writing my dissertation… this hits a little too close to home. How do you sufficiently encapsulate everything you’ve done in 3-5+ years?! Oh, by skipping all the failed research attempts?
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Steve McCormick
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New meme day
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Taylor W. Killian
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It is hard to encapsulate how great it was to attend @RL_Conference . Having been a part of the launch of 2 new venues ( @CHILconference + @SymposiumML4H ) in the past, it’s remarkable how well RLC went in its first iteration. A real testament to the organizers and the RL community.
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
@jeffbigham IID data
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
I had the opportunity to be interviewed on @TalkRLPodcast and talk about my work in RL applied and motivated by healthcare challenges. We covered a lot of ground during the interview, it was great! I'm interested to hear what people think and if I can further explain things.
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TalkRL Podcast
4 years
Episode 13 @tw_killian on the latest in RL for Health, including Hidden Parameter MDPs, Mimic III and Sepsis, Counterfactually Guided Policy Transfer and lots more!
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Taylor W. Killian
5 years
I'm going to be spending the next week in Vancouver at @NeurIPSConf #NeurIPS2019 !! I'm looking forward to meeting with friends and collaborators as well as learning from my peers and colleagues. It's going to be great! If you want to talk RL x Causal Inf x Health, pls reach out!
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
Running some real world RL experiments today with a few high entropy agents (some observing and one executing). This is as close to robotics that I’ve ever gotten, seems fun. 🐛 + 🧩 = 🥳
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
I'm looking forward to finally getting a chance to present this work tomorrow afternoon in the #ML4H workshop at #NeurIPS2020 ! I'm poster 73, scheduled for Session B () but will be around the workshop all day! I'm looking forward to seeing folks!
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
Our paper investigating the quality of representations learned from healthcare data for use in RL will be published in the proceedings of the coming #ML4H workshop @NeurIPSConf ! w/ H. Zhang, J. Subramanian, @mefatemi and @MarzyehGhassemi Short 🧵 (1/X)
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
I've been extensively impressed with this paper this weekend. After poring over @pcastr 's thread, I knew it was going to be a "must read". This is especially true for those of us looking for ways to make Offline RL plausible. 1/x
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Pablo Samuel Castro
3 years
We know offline RL (e.g. fixed dataset) is hard. What if we train on *identical data* provided by a regular RL agent? Turns out this is also hard! Our #NeurIPS2021 paper proposes "Tandem RL" to explore this. Paper: Blog: 1/🧵
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
Finale introduced me to the research and career path that I've happily pursued over the past few years and (I hope) well into the future. My heartiest congratulations to her well deserved promotion to full professor with tenure!
@hseas
Harvard SEAS
3 years
Congratulations to computer scientist Finale Doshi-Velez, who has been approved for role of full professor with tenure!
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Taylor W. Killian
6 years
For #ReadAcrossAmerica our school encouraged students to come dressed as their favorite character. Our princess obsessed K-grader settled on this look. Thanks @haleshannon and LeUyen Pham for bringing the Princess in Black into our home. (bonus: Bat Baby wanted in on the fun)
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Taylor W. Killian
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It was a nice surprise today to get en email from @TmlrOrg informing me that I’ve received “Expert Reviewer” recognition. I’m glad my efforts have been recognized. I hope that this means that I’ve “made it” within my research community, take that impostor syndrome.
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Taylor W. Killian
3 months
There's nothing quite like deepening one's impostor syndrome by jumping into LLM research, finally getting some fine-tuning experiments running, and discovering that your resulting generations are complete garbage... #fridaysinresearch #feelingtheperplexity
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
I'm really excited to be on my way to #RLDM this week in Providence, RI! I've really missed in-person meetings and chances to catch-up with and meet new friends. I'm looking forward to seeing everyone there!
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
I'm excited to once again be "attending" @NeurIPSConf with an accepted paper! @mefatemi and I will be presenting our "Medical Dead-Ends" work tomorrow in Poster Session 1 and are looking forward to seeing people there! #NeurIPS2021
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
(Canadian) Thanksgiving gratitude post! 🦃🍂 I'm grateful to be able to share our paper "Medical Dead-ends and Learning to Identify High-risk States and Treatments" (w/ @mefatemi , J. Subramanian and @MarzyehGhassemi ), to appear at #NeurIPS2021 ! 🧵 1/
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
New achievement unlocked! My first "NFT"? What a fun prize after submitting a review to @JmlrOrg . With today's announcement of @TmlrOrg being open to submissions, I can only look forward to getting asked to review in hopes of getting another badge!
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
@jpineau1 Oddly suspicious that your first tweet is about an LLM… Are we sure that this is really you? 😉
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
We’re having a great time at #RLDM2022 ! Come in through the Kaspar room in the Brown student center if you’re around. Will be here for another 90 mins or so
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Mehdi Fatemi
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
@animesh_garg Quite literally Hindsight Experience Replay.
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
As a Christmas present, my 8 y.o. and I were gifted a ski day. My first time going in 10 years and his first time ever! Hopefully we get to go again before another 10 years passes!
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Taylor W. Killian
1 year
Ending my work day feeling grateful for remarkable collaborators who went above and beyond over the last month or so. I'm lucky to work with people who are caring and good. #NeurIPS2023
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Taylor W. Killian
8 months
I interned with this team and it was among the most enjoyable periods of my PhD. Everyone involved in @MSRNE 's BioML group is kind, insatiably curious, and supportive. To top it all off, they're at the forefront of exciting advancements and are making things happen!
@KevinKaichuang
Kevin K. Yang 楊凱筌
8 months
Come join the BioML group @MSRNE as an applied scientist! You'll get to work with me, @nfusi @alexijielu @avapamini @SarahAlamdari @lorin_crawford @ntenenz Kristen Severson and others on problems at the intersection of machine learning, biology, and healthcare Also: mochi.
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
This is one of those papers that I wish that I had written. @BenKompa , @latentjasper and @AndrewLBeam do a great job outlining uncertainty quantification methods relevant to prediction in medical ML. There's a lot to build from in this paper, I'm happy that it's been published!
@BenKompa
Ben Kompa
4 years
New perspective in @Nature_NPJ Digital Medicine w/ @latentjasper and @AndrewLBeam ! "Second opinion needed: communicating uncertainty in medical machine learning" 🧵 below! 1/n
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
I've been studying up on SSL methods and approaches this summer and found it difficult to make sense of how each subsequent paper builds on the last, etc. @araffin2 does a really great job to clarify and streamline the developments we've seen over the last couple of years.
@araffin2
Antonin Raffin
3 years
Although not new (Siamese net are from the 90s), Self-Supervised image representation Learning (SSL) is getting a lot of attention recently, as it gets closer to supervised learning performance. ⬇️ A thread trying to summarize recent advances and their challenges ⬇️
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
It was joy to get out for a run this morning on a bright, sunny Saturday after a week of rain. Look at that sky! I was hit with a wave of gratitude to be where I am at this point in my life with a lot to learn and room to grow.
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
There are a lot of things that make research hard and silver linings are sometimes few and far between... But, the satisfaction that comes after squashing a bug in your code and your ideas start to *actually* work is a pretty amazing feeling.
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
Another day at #RLDM2022 and another poster talking about Dead-ends in offline RL! I'm excited to debut some of our initial attempts to ensure more robust risk estimation via distributional RL w/ Sonali Parbhoo and @MarzyehGhassemi
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Taylor W. Killian
1 year
Didn’t pay much thought to the date while accepting my kids eagerness to bring me lunch. Grateful feelings of surprise were quickly replaced with a bunch of mischievous giggles.
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
@mckaycoppins You did a nice job capturing the melancholy that currently characterizes airports. I traveled through O'Hare last week too, albeit through the international terminal (transiting between Toronto and SLC) and it was a ghost town. In Toronto, it was even quieter.
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Taylor W. Killian
5 years
Back to school... Now the party starts in earnest. It's been fun sharing the excitement of the season with these two, all starting at new schools. Starting Kindergarten, Grade 2 (Jackman Ave) and Grade 21 ( @UofT @UofTCompSci ) #phdlife
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Taylor W. Killian
1 year
I’m excited to be visiting @BrownBigAI today. Every time I’m in Providence, visiting Brown, I really enjoy it. It’s going to be a great day!
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Taylor W. Killian
1 year
The HealthyML group is gaining some real exciting momentum right now. It’s going to be a fun week at #ICML2023 . You should 100% seek out @VMSuriyakumar , Haoran + @yang_yuzhe to chat with them about their work!
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Marzyeh
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This #ICML2023 is my first opening keynote! Also excited for @VMSuriyakumar oral on fair use of demographic data with @berkustun , @yang_yuzhe & Haoran poster on shift robustness with @dina_katabi , and Haoran poster on shift attribution with @shalmali_joshi_ & @harvineet_singh .
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Taylor W. Killian
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
This is today! I’m excited to be splitting time between the TS4H (poster) and the @OfflineRL workshops (panel + invited talk). If you’re curious how we’ve developed offline RL sol’ns to identify states+actions to avoid, make your way to Room 291-292 this afternoon!
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
Friday, I’ll be participating on a panel *and* speaking at the @OfflineRL workshop (work w/ @mefatemi , Sonali Parbhoo and @MarzyehGhassemi ) as well as presenting a poster in the “Time Series for Health” workshop (work w/ @avapamini ).
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Taylor W. Killian
1 year
Next week (Sept. 13) I'll be visiting @NYUDataScience to speak at their Lunch Seminar series! I'm looking forward to another chance to share the fun I've been having repurposing Offline RL for data constrained safety-critical settings.
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
MIT HealthyML infiltrating the @MSFTResearch Intern Program! ( @tw_killian , @hammaadadam1 , @NHulkund ) cc: @MarzyehGhassemi
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Taylor W. Killian
2 months
Squashed some bugs, submitted some experiments and am now on my way to Amherst, MA for @RL_Conference ! Being in New England is worth the trip on its own. To partner that with this new conference geared toward the research questions I find most stimulating makes it even better!
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Taylor W. Killian
1 year
@ZacksJerryRig Build a wall! /s
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
@agarwl_ RLIABLE
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Taylor W. Killian
5 years
Seconded. I’m recalibrating my expectations for the Spring but mostly excited to build some more legos and read more picture books. Might get crazy and build a fort for a princess tea party.
@MichelleCardel
Michelle Cardel, PhD, MS, RD
5 years
Stop assuming all academics can be more productive while required to work @ home bc of #COVID19 . The ability to work w young children at home is zero. Yet another example of policies (however needed) having disproportionate impact on early career people (mostly women) w children.
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
Not a great sign for PC expectations when the reviewer invite goes out on a holiday… /s h/t @kchonyc @EmmaBrunskill @BeEngelhardt
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
Some of the best things I've learned from my short time working within Brain has been the astounding quality of Samy's leadership. I quickly saw that the friendly and supportive culture that I observed from the outside seems to derive from his and other senior leader's character.
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Katherine Heller
4 years
Samy Bengio has stood by all of us in Brain Research, and it’s meant so much. Particularly for all the women who speak up. We started to call it “Samyland”, a safe space for the underrepresented and overlooked.
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Taylor W. Killian
5 years
We had a great discussion about the intersection of Causal Inference and RL at PCSOCMLx @MILAMontreal ! Thanks for everyone that came and help cover for my lack of expertise.
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David Madras
5 years
. @tw_killian talking causality and RL!
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
Today’s afternoon activity after a good week of snow ❄️ We ran out of steam as it got hard to keep building higher but had a lot of fun along the way. We’ve got plans to finish if it stays cool enough and we get more snow. 🤞🥶🤞
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
I’ve been anxious for this to be announced since first hearing about the idea. I’m excited about TMLR as I believe that it provides more equitable access to high quality reviewing as well as promoting good and deliberate science. I’m planning to get a paper ready for submission!
@hugo_larochelle
Hugo Larochelle
3 years
Today, @RaiaHadsell , @kchonyc and I are happy to announce the creation of a new journal: Transaction on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) Learn more in our post:
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Taylor W. Killian
5 years
My kids have discovered a new game. They call it "Scare Dad!" It's this fun development where they've learned to sneak up to my desk undetected, due to noise cancelling headphones and some moderate amount of focus, and then they pounce! That's how today's WFH is going... 😲
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Taylor W. Killian
2 months
To add to the overwhelming sense of "there's too much to read/attend to" we've released the accepted papers to our upcoming @RL_Conference workshop. These were all interesting + unique investigations into RL as a conceptual framework. Take a look and we'll see you in Amherst!
@RLFrameWorkshop
Finding The Frame Workshop
2 months
✨We have just released all accepted papers on our website✨ Really amazing work examining the conceptual foundations of RL. Our reviewers tell us that it's the most fun they ever had reviewing. We look forward to seeing you all soon in @RL_Conference ! 🚀
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Taylor W. Killian
5 years
10 years later and after many previous (and current bouts) of impostor syndrome + feeling overwhelmed... I still love research. I've switched from Fluid Dynamics to Radar to finally rest at ML/RL applied to Healthcare #ML4H . It's been fun and I'm just getting started.
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Taylor W. Killian
6 months
New @RL_Conference workshop announcement! I’m excited for this because it’s bringing together really thoughtful and insightful people to discuss ways we can perhaps re-frame RL to contribute functional paradigms to build innovative solutions. Check the thread 👇for more details.
@RLFrameWorkshop
Finding The Frame Workshop
6 months
🚨Announcing 🫸Finding the Frame🫷: an @RL_Conference workshop for examining conceptual frameworks in RL!🚨 Do you want to question formulations or practices in RL? Define new problems, challenge assumptions, or test the limits of RL paradigms? Join us!
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
I'm just finishing up my first year of a PhD and am already getting messages from family + friends about faculty postings at universities near my hometown. Thoughtful, but more than a bit premature... I need to finish my #neurips2020 submissions first... What day is it anyway?
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
I've spent the past couple of days getting up to speed with MIMIC-IV () and have been blown away at how much easier the MIT LCP and PhysioNet teams have made data extraction. Kudos and thanks @tompollard , @alistairewj , and others for the yeoman's effort!
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
I’m looking forward to this year’s CHIL! I’m addition to the great lineup of speakers, I‘LL be presenting some of my work that was accepted for publication w/ @shalmali_joshi_ and @MarzyehGhassemi ! (see linked thread in the replies)
@CHILconference
chilconference
3 years
📢CHIL 2022 is a month away! Join us for 2 days of 1⃣keynotes by @rumichunara , @nuriaoliver , @lorin_crawford , @DaniCMBelg , @jessiet1023 , & @jure 2⃣tutorials by @dhanya_sridhar , @amcrisan , @yindalon , @walthdempsey , & Rui Duan 3⃣spotlight talks 4⃣interactive research roundtables!
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
@_sam_sinha_ @hardmaru You've made it Sam!
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Taylor W. Killian
2 years
@jennietheeditor Love you Jennie, I am so sorry about this and wish I’d been a better support and friend while we were young.
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Taylor W. Killian
3 years
@danijarh @_rockt I think the same could be done by just posting a technical report on your website with accompanying blogpost? Seems like the more appropriate setting rather than posting to a preprint server designated to communicate (rigorous, I hope) scientific findings IMO.
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Taylor W. Killian
1 year
I guess he already did block me, maybe because I liked @pcastr ‘s tweet? I guess I’ve made it into the club too!
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Taylor W. Killian
4 years
@RogerGrosse @yaringal "Dear AC, how do you suggest we LEARN a representation?"
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