no code implementations • 18 Apr 2024 • Ian Char, Youngseog Chung, Joseph Abbate, Egemen Kolemen, Jeff Schneider
Although tokamaks are one of the most promising devices for realizing nuclear fusion as an energy source, there are still key obstacles when it comes to understanding the dynamics of the plasma and controlling it.
no code implementations • 19 Dec 2022 • Xiang Li, Viraj Mehta, Johannes Kirschner, Ian Char, Willie Neiswanger, Jeff Schneider, Andreas Krause, Ilija Bogunovic
Many real-world reinforcement learning tasks require control of complex dynamical systems that involve both costly data acquisition processes and large state spaces.
1 code implementation • 6 Oct 2022 • Viraj Mehta, Ian Char, Joseph Abbate, Rory Conlin, Mark D. Boyer, Stefano Ermon, Jeff Schneider, Willie Neiswanger
In this work, we develop a method that allows us to plan for exploration while taking both the task and the current knowledge about the dynamics into account.
no code implementations • 20 May 2022 • Conor Igoe, Youngseog Chung, Ian Char, Jeff Schneider
One critical challenge in deploying highly performant machine learning models in real-life applications is out of distribution (OOD) detection.
no code implementations • 26 Apr 2022 • Ian Char, Viraj Mehta, Adam Villaflor, John M. Dolan, Jeff Schneider
Past efforts for developing algorithms in this area have revolved around introducing constraints to online reinforcement learning algorithms to ensure the actions of the learned policy are constrained to the logged data.
no code implementations • ICLR 2022 • Ifigeneia Apostolopoulou, Ian Char, Elan Rosenfeld, Artur Dubrawski
Moreover, the architecture for this class of models favors local interactions among the latent variables between neighboring layers when designing the conditioning factors of the involved distributions.
1 code implementation • 21 Sep 2021 • Youngseog Chung, Ian Char, Han Guo, Jeff Schneider, Willie Neiswanger
With increasing deployment of machine learning systems in various real-world tasks, there is a greater need for accurate quantification of predictive uncertainty.
2 code implementations • NeurIPS 2021 • Youngseog Chung, Willie Neiswanger, Ian Char, Jeff Schneider
However, this loss restricts the scope of applicable regression models, limits the ability to target many desirable properties (e. g. calibration, sharpness, centered intervals), and may produce poor conditional quantiles.
no code implementations • 23 Jun 2020 • Viraj Mehta, Ian Char, Willie Neiswanger, Youngseog Chung, Andrew Oakleigh Nelson, Mark D Boyer, Egemen Kolemen, Jeff Schneider
We introduce Neural Dynamical Systems (NDS), a method of learning dynamical models in various gray-box settings which incorporates prior knowledge in the form of systems of ordinary differential equations.
no code implementations • ICLR Workshop DeepDiffEq 2019 • Viraj Mehta, Ian Char, Willie Neiswanger, Youngseog Chung, Andrew Oakleigh Nelson, Mark D Boyer, Egemen Kolemen, Jeff Schneider
We introduce Neural Dynamical Systems (NDS), a method of learning dynamical models which incorporates prior knowledge in the form of systems of ordinary differential equations.
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2020 • Youngseog Chung, Ian Char, Willie Neiswanger, Kirthevasan Kandasamy, Andrew Oakleigh Nelson, Mark D Boyer, Egemen Kolemen, Jeff Schneider
One obstacle in utilizing fusion as a feasible energy source is the stability of the reaction.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2019 • Ian Char, Youngseog Chung, Willie Neiswanger, Kirthevasan Kandasamy, Oak Nelson, Mark Boyer, Egemen Kolemen
In black-box optimization, an agent repeatedly chooses a configuration to test, so as to find an optimal configuration.