Search Results for author: Nick Pawlowski

Found 29 papers, 19 papers with code

The Essential Role of Causality in Foundation World Models for Embodied AI

no code implementations6 Feb 2024 Tarun Gupta, Wenbo Gong, Chao Ma, Nick Pawlowski, Agrin Hilmkil, Meyer Scetbon, Ade Famoti, Ashley Juan Llorens, Jianfeng Gao, Stefan Bauer, Danica Kragic, Bernhard Schölkopf, Cheng Zhang

This paper focuses on the prospects of building foundation world models for the upcoming generation of embodied agents and presents a novel viewpoint on the significance of causality within these.

Misconceptions

BayesDAG: Gradient-Based Posterior Inference for Causal Discovery

1 code implementation NeurIPS 2023 Yashas Annadani, Nick Pawlowski, Joel Jennings, Stefan Bauer, Cheng Zhang, Wenbo Gong

Bayesian causal discovery aims to infer the posterior distribution over causal models from observed data, quantifying epistemic uncertainty and benefiting downstream tasks.

Causal Discovery Variational Inference

High Fidelity Image Counterfactuals with Probabilistic Causal Models

1 code implementation27 Jun 2023 Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro, Tian Xia, Miguel Monteiro, Nick Pawlowski, Ben Glocker

We present a general causal generative modelling framework for accurate estimation of high fidelity image counterfactuals with deep structural causal models.

counterfactual

Improving Image-Based Precision Medicine with Uncertainty-Aware Causal Models

no code implementations5 May 2023 Joshua Durso-Finley, Jean-Pierre Falet, Raghav Mehta, Douglas L. Arnold, Nick Pawlowski, Tal Arbel

We evaluate the correlation of the uncertainty estimate with the factual error, and, given the lack of ground truth counterfactual outcomes, demonstrate how uncertainty for the ITE prediction relates to bounds on the ITE error.

counterfactual Decision Making

Understanding Causality with Large Language Models: Feasibility and Opportunities

no code implementations11 Apr 2023 Cheng Zhang, Stefan Bauer, Paul Bennett, Jiangfeng Gao, Wenbo Gong, Agrin Hilmkil, Joel Jennings, Chao Ma, Tom Minka, Nick Pawlowski, James Vaughan

We assess the ability of large language models (LLMs) to answer causal questions by analyzing their strengths and weaknesses against three types of causal question.

Decision Making

Rhino: Deep Causal Temporal Relationship Learning With History-dependent Noise

no code implementations26 Oct 2022 Wenbo Gong, Joel Jennings, Cheng Zhang, Nick Pawlowski

Given the complexity of real-world relationships and the nature of observations in discrete time, causal discovery methods need to consider non-linear relations between variables, instantaneous effects and history-dependent noise (the change of noise distribution due to past actions).

Causal Discovery Time Series +2

Deep Structural Causal Shape Models

no code implementations23 Aug 2022 Rajat Rasal, Daniel C. Castro, Nick Pawlowski, Ben Glocker

Causal reasoning provides a language to ask important interventional and counterfactual questions beyond purely statistical association.

counterfactual Image Segmentation +1

NeurIPS Competition Instructions and Guide: Causal Insights for Learning Paths in Education

no code implementations17 Aug 2022 Wenbo Gong, Digory Smith, Zichao Wang, Craig Barton, Simon Woodhead, Nick Pawlowski, Joel Jennings, Cheng Zhang

In this competition, participants will address two fundamental causal challenges in machine learning in the context of education using time-series data.

Causal Discovery Selection bias +2

Structured Uncertainty in the Observation Space of Variational Autoencoders

1 code implementation25 May 2022 James Langley, Miguel Monteiro, Charles Jones, Nick Pawlowski, Ben Glocker

In contrast, improving the model for the observational distribution is rarely considered and typically defaults to a pixel-wise independent categorical or normal distribution.

Image Generation

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

Simultaneous Missing Value Imputation and Structure Learning with Groups

1 code implementation15 Oct 2021 Pablo Morales-Alvarez, Wenbo Gong, Angus Lamb, Simon Woodhead, Simon Peyton Jones, Nick Pawlowski, Miltiadis Allamanis, Cheng Zhang

Learning structures between groups of variables from data with missing values is an important task in the real world, yet difficult to solve.

Causal Discovery Imputation

An Explicit Local and Global Representation Disentanglement Framework with Applications in Deep Clustering and Unsupervised Object Detection

1 code implementation24 Jan 2020 Rujikorn Charakorn, Yuttapong Thawornwattana, Sirawaj Itthipuripat, Nick Pawlowski, Poramate Manoonpong, Nat Dilokthanakul

In this work, we propose a framework, called SPLIT, which allows us to disentangle local and global information into two separate sets of latent variables within the variational autoencoder (VAE) framework.

Clustering Deep Clustering +5

Representation Disentanglement for Multi-task Learning with application to Fetal Ultrasound

1 code implementation21 Aug 2019 Qingjie Meng, Nick Pawlowski, Daniel Rueckert, Bernhard Kainz

These entangled image properties lead to a semantically redundant feature encoding for the relevant task and thus lead to poor generalization of deep learning algorithms.

Anatomy Disentanglement +1

Needles in Haystacks: On Classifying Tiny Objects in Large Images

1 code implementation16 Aug 2019 Nick Pawlowski, Suvrat Bhooshan, Nicolas Ballas, Francesco Ciompi, Ben Glocker, Michal Drozdzal

In some important computer vision domains, such as medical or hyperspectral imaging, we care about the classification of tiny objects in large images.

Classification General Classification +2

Is Texture Predictive for Age and Sex in Brain MRI?

1 code implementation25 Jul 2019 Nick Pawlowski, Ben Glocker

Deep learning builds the foundation for many medical image analysis tasks where neuralnetworks are often designed to have a large receptive field to incorporate long spatialdependencies.

Identifying the Best Machine Learning Algorithms for Brain Tumor Segmentation, Progression Assessment, and Overall Survival Prediction in the BRATS Challenge

1 code implementation5 Nov 2018 Spyridon Bakas, Mauricio Reyes, Andras Jakab, Stefan Bauer, Markus Rempfler, Alessandro Crimi, Russell Takeshi Shinohara, Christoph Berger, Sung Min Ha, Martin Rozycki, Marcel Prastawa, Esther Alberts, Jana Lipkova, John Freymann, Justin Kirby, Michel Bilello, Hassan Fathallah-Shaykh, Roland Wiest, Jan Kirschke, Benedikt Wiestler, Rivka Colen, Aikaterini Kotrotsou, Pamela Lamontagne, Daniel Marcus, Mikhail Milchenko, Arash Nazeri, Marc-Andre Weber, Abhishek Mahajan, Ujjwal Baid, Elizabeth Gerstner, Dongjin Kwon, Gagan Acharya, Manu Agarwal, Mahbubul Alam, Alberto Albiol, Antonio Albiol, Francisco J. Albiol, Varghese Alex, Nigel Allinson, Pedro H. A. Amorim, Abhijit Amrutkar, Ganesh Anand, Simon Andermatt, Tal Arbel, Pablo Arbelaez, Aaron Avery, Muneeza Azmat, Pranjal B., W Bai, Subhashis Banerjee, Bill Barth, Thomas Batchelder, Kayhan Batmanghelich, Enzo Battistella, Andrew Beers, Mikhail Belyaev, Martin Bendszus, Eze Benson, Jose Bernal, Halandur Nagaraja Bharath, George Biros, Sotirios Bisdas, James Brown, Mariano Cabezas, Shilei Cao, Jorge M. Cardoso, Eric N Carver, Adrià Casamitjana, Laura Silvana Castillo, Marcel Catà, Philippe Cattin, Albert Cerigues, Vinicius S. Chagas, Siddhartha Chandra, Yi-Ju Chang, Shiyu Chang, Ken Chang, Joseph Chazalon, Shengcong Chen, Wei Chen, Jefferson W. Chen, Zhaolin Chen, Kun Cheng, Ahana Roy Choudhury, Roger Chylla, Albert Clérigues, Steven Colleman, Ramiro German Rodriguez Colmeiro, Marc Combalia, Anthony Costa, Xiaomeng Cui, Zhenzhen Dai, Lutao Dai, Laura Alexandra Daza, Eric Deutsch, Changxing Ding, Chao Dong, Shidu Dong, Wojciech Dudzik, Zach Eaton-Rosen, Gary Egan, Guilherme Escudero, Théo Estienne, Richard Everson, Jonathan Fabrizio, Yong Fan, Longwei Fang, Xue Feng, Enzo Ferrante, Lucas Fidon, Martin Fischer, Andrew P. French, Naomi Fridman, Huan Fu, David Fuentes, Yaozong Gao, Evan Gates, David Gering, Amir Gholami, Willi Gierke, Ben Glocker, Mingming Gong, Sandra González-Villá, T. Grosges, Yuanfang Guan, Sheng Guo, Sudeep Gupta, Woo-Sup Han, Il Song Han, Konstantin Harmuth, Huiguang He, Aura Hernández-Sabaté, Evelyn Herrmann, Naveen Himthani, Winston Hsu, Cheyu Hsu, Xiaojun Hu, Xiaobin Hu, Yan Hu, Yifan Hu, Rui Hua, Teng-Yi Huang, Weilin Huang, Sabine Van Huffel, Quan Huo, Vivek HV, Khan M. Iftekharuddin, Fabian Isensee, Mobarakol Islam, Aaron S. Jackson, Sachin R. Jambawalikar, Andrew Jesson, Weijian Jian, Peter Jin, V Jeya Maria Jose, Alain Jungo, B Kainz, Konstantinos Kamnitsas, Po-Yu Kao, Ayush Karnawat, Thomas Kellermeier, Adel Kermi, Kurt Keutzer, Mohamed Tarek Khadir, Mahendra Khened, Philipp Kickingereder, Geena Kim, Nik King, Haley Knapp, Urspeter Knecht, Lisa Kohli, Deren Kong, Xiangmao Kong, Simon Koppers, Avinash Kori, Ganapathy Krishnamurthi, Egor Krivov, Piyush Kumar, Kaisar Kushibar, Dmitrii Lachinov, Tryphon Lambrou, Joon Lee, Chengen Lee, Yuehchou Lee, M Lee, Szidonia Lefkovits, Laszlo Lefkovits, James Levitt, Tengfei Li, Hongwei Li, Hongyang Li, Xiaochuan Li, Yuexiang Li, Heng Li, Zhenye Li, Xiaoyu Li, Zeju Li, Xiaogang Li, Wenqi Li, Zheng-Shen Lin, Fengming Lin, Pietro Lio, Chang Liu, Boqiang Liu, Xiang Liu, Mingyuan Liu, Ju Liu, Luyan Liu, Xavier Llado, Marc Moreno Lopez, Pablo Ribalta Lorenzo, Zhentai Lu, Lin Luo, Zhigang Luo, Jun Ma, Kai Ma, Thomas Mackie, Anant Madabushi, Issam Mahmoudi, Klaus H. Maier-Hein, Pradipta Maji, CP Mammen, Andreas Mang, B. S. Manjunath, Michal Marcinkiewicz, S McDonagh, Stephen McKenna, Richard McKinley, Miriam Mehl, Sachin Mehta, Raghav Mehta, Raphael Meier, Christoph Meinel, Dorit Merhof, Craig Meyer, Robert Miller, Sushmita Mitra, Aliasgar Moiyadi, David Molina-Garcia, Miguel A. B. Monteiro, Grzegorz Mrukwa, Andriy Myronenko, Jakub Nalepa, Thuyen Ngo, Dong Nie, Holly Ning, Chen Niu, Nicholas K Nuechterlein, Eric Oermann, Arlindo Oliveira, Diego D. C. Oliveira, Arnau Oliver, Alexander F. I. Osman, Yu-Nian Ou, Sebastien Ourselin, Nikos Paragios, Moo Sung Park, Brad Paschke, J. Gregory Pauloski, Kamlesh Pawar, Nick Pawlowski, Linmin Pei, Suting Peng, Silvio M. Pereira, Julian Perez-Beteta, Victor M. Perez-Garcia, Simon Pezold, Bao Pham, Ashish Phophalia, Gemma Piella, G. N. Pillai, Marie Piraud, Maxim Pisov, Anmol Popli, Michael P. Pound, Reza Pourreza, Prateek Prasanna, Vesna Prkovska, Tony P. Pridmore, Santi Puch, Élodie Puybareau, Buyue Qian, Xu Qiao, Martin Rajchl, Swapnil Rane, Michael Rebsamen, Hongliang Ren, Xuhua Ren, Karthik Revanuru, Mina Rezaei, Oliver Rippel, Luis Carlos Rivera, Charlotte Robert, Bruce Rosen, Daniel Rueckert, Mohammed Safwan, Mostafa Salem, Joaquim Salvi, Irina Sanchez, Irina Sánchez, Heitor M. Santos, Emmett Sartor, Dawid Schellingerhout, Klaudius Scheufele, Matthew R. Scott, Artur A. Scussel, Sara Sedlar, Juan Pablo Serrano-Rubio, N. Jon Shah, Nameetha Shah, Mazhar Shaikh, B. Uma Shankar, Zeina Shboul, Haipeng Shen, Dinggang Shen, Linlin Shen, Haocheng Shen, Varun Shenoy, Feng Shi, Hyung Eun Shin, Hai Shu, Diana Sima, M Sinclair, Orjan Smedby, James M. Snyder, Mohammadreza Soltaninejad, Guidong Song, Mehul Soni, Jean Stawiaski, Shashank Subramanian, Li Sun, Roger Sun, Jiawei Sun, Kay Sun, Yu Sun, Guoxia Sun, Shuang Sun, Yannick R Suter, Laszlo Szilagyi, Sanjay Talbar, DaCheng Tao, Zhongzhao Teng, Siddhesh Thakur, Meenakshi H Thakur, Sameer Tharakan, Pallavi Tiwari, Guillaume Tochon, Tuan Tran, Yuhsiang M. Tsai, Kuan-Lun Tseng, Tran Anh Tuan, Vadim Turlapov, Nicholas Tustison, Maria Vakalopoulou, Sergi Valverde, Rami Vanguri, Evgeny Vasiliev, Jonathan Ventura, Luis Vera, Tom Vercauteren, C. A. Verrastro, Lasitha Vidyaratne, Veronica Vilaplana, Ajeet Vivekanandan, Qian Wang, Chiatse J. Wang, Wei-Chung Wang, Duo Wang, Ruixuan Wang, Yuanyuan Wang, Chunliang Wang, Guotai Wang, Ning Wen, Xin Wen, Leon Weninger, Wolfgang Wick, Shaocheng Wu, Qiang Wu, Yihong Wu, Yong Xia, Yanwu Xu, Xiaowen Xu, Peiyuan Xu, Tsai-Ling Yang, Xiaoping Yang, Hao-Yu Yang, Junlin Yang, Haojin Yang, Guang Yang, Hongdou Yao, Xujiong Ye, Changchang Yin, Brett Young-Moxon, Jinhua Yu, Xiangyu Yue, Songtao Zhang, Angela Zhang, Kun Zhang, Xue-jie Zhang, Lichi Zhang, Xiaoyue Zhang, Yazhuo Zhang, Lei Zhang, Jian-Guo Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Tianhao Zhang, Sicheng Zhao, Yu Zhao, Xiaomei Zhao, Liang Zhao, Yefeng Zheng, Liming Zhong, Chenhong Zhou, Xiaobing Zhou, Fan Zhou, Hongtu Zhu, Jin Zhu, Ying Zhuge, Weiwei Zong, Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, Keyvan Farahani, Christos Davatzikos, Koen van Leemput, Bjoern Menze

This study assesses the state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) methods used for brain tumor image analysis in mpMRI scans, during the last seven instances of the International Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenge, i. e., 2012-2018.

Brain Tumor Segmentation Survival Prediction +1

Explicit Information Placement on Latent Variables using Auxiliary Generative Modelling Task

no code implementations27 Sep 2018 Nat Dilokthanakul, Nick Pawlowski, Murray Shanahan

We demonstrate the use of the method in a task of disentangling global structure from local features in images.

Clustering

Deep Generative Models in the Real-World: An Open Challenge from Medical Imaging

no code implementations14 Jun 2018 Xiaoran Chen, Nick Pawlowski, Martin Rajchl, Ben Glocker, Ender Konukoglu

In this paper, we explore the feasibility of using state-of-the-art auto-encoder-based deep generative models, such as variational and adversarial auto-encoders, for one such task: abnormality detection in medical imaging.

Anomaly Detection

NeuroNet: Fast and Robust Reproduction of Multiple Brain Image Segmentation Pipelines

1 code implementation11 Jun 2018 Martin Rajchl, Nick Pawlowski, Daniel Rueckert, Paul M. Matthews, Ben Glocker

NeuroNet is a deep convolutional neural network mimicking multiple popular and state-of-the-art brain segmentation tools including FSL, SPM, and MALPEM.

Brain Image Segmentation Brain Segmentation +3

Rasa: Open Source Language Understanding and Dialogue Management

1 code implementation14 Dec 2017 Tom Bocklisch, Joey Faulkner, Nick Pawlowski, Alan Nichol

We introduce a pair of tools, Rasa NLU and Rasa Core, which are open source python libraries for building conversational software.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Dialogue Management +2

DLTK: State of the Art Reference Implementations for Deep Learning on Medical Images

1 code implementation18 Nov 2017 Nick Pawlowski, Sofia Ira Ktena, Matthew C. H. Lee, Bernhard Kainz, Daniel Rueckert, Ben Glocker, Martin Rajchl

We present DLTK, a toolkit providing baseline implementations for efficient experimentation with deep learning methods on biomedical images.

Image Segmentation Semantic Segmentation

Implicit Weight Uncertainty in Neural Networks

2 code implementations3 Nov 2017 Nick Pawlowski, Andrew Brock, Matthew C. H. Lee, Martin Rajchl, Ben Glocker

Modern neural networks tend to be overconfident on unseen, noisy or incorrectly labelled data and do not produce meaningful uncertainty measures.

Normalising Flows

Feature Control as Intrinsic Motivation for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

1 code implementation18 May 2017 Nat Dilokthanakul, Christos Kaplanis, Nick Pawlowski, Murray Shanahan

We highlight the advantage of our approach in one of the hardest games -- Montezuma's revenge -- for which the ability to handle sparse rewards is key.

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Montezuma's Revenge +2

Efficient variational Bayesian neural network ensembles for outlier detection

1 code implementation20 Mar 2017 Nick Pawlowski, Miguel Jaques, Ben Glocker

In this work we perform outlier detection using ensembles of neural networks obtained by variational approximation of the posterior in a Bayesian neural network setting.

Outlier Detection

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