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Deniz Oktay will present his General Exam "Advances in Automatic Differentiation: Simulation and Randomization" on Friday, April 23, 2021 at 1PM via Zoom.
by jfarquer＠cs.princeton.edu 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

Deniz Oktay will present his General Exam on Friday, April 23, 2021 at 1PM via Zoom. Title: Advances in Automatic Differentiation: Simulation and Randomization Zoom link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/97669936428?pwd=di9CTjgzcVZXbzlWOGxIcGNxREZ1dz09 The members of his committee are as follows: Ryan Adams (adviser), Olga Russakovsky, Szymon Rusinkiewicz Link to Abstract: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kAWwVOKseNe4E3U-UqvsBI-cDSLbOXVHqzDG7h1s cRs/edit Link to Reading List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vgA-FE1yKqSOhzSt_eTa6B7wPRv8DRVj-Mms2Lls F3A/edit Everyone is invited to attend the talk, and those faculty wishing to remain for the oral exam following are welcome to do so.

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Christopher Sciavolino will present his MSE Talk "Shortcomings of Dense Retrievers for Open-domain Question Answering" on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 1:30PM via Zoom.
by jfarquer＠cs.princeton.edu 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

Christopher Sciavolino will present his MSE Talk "Shortcomings of Dense Retrievers for Open-domain Question Answering" on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 1:30PM via Zoom. Zoom Link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99489245546 Committee: Danqi Chen (adviser), Karthik Narasimhan (reader) All are welcome to attend. Abstract: Dense retrieval mechanisms have exploded in popularity for open-domain question answering (QA), usurping sparse retrieval mechanisms like TF-IDF and BM25 as the defacto retrieval method. While dense models do an excellent job of understanding the semantic intent of questions, we empirically observe they lack the ability to capture precise lexical information and generalize to unseen datasets. We construct a QA dataset based on T-REx and observe that dense models underperform sparse models on even simple questions like "Where was [X] born?". We also note that dense models degrade in performance when evaluated on new question distributions not seen during training. We finally perform analyses and experiments aimed at closing this dense model generalization gap.

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Geoffrey Roeder will be presenting his General Exam "A Probabilistic Interpretation of Scale and Location Invariance' on Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 9AM via Zoom.
by jfarquer＠cs.princeton.edu 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

Geoffrey Roeder will be presenting his General Exam "A Probabilistic Interpretation of Scale and Location Invariance' on Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 9AM via Zoom. Zoom link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/9638294920 The members of Geoffrey's committee are as follows: Ryan Adams (adviser), Barbara Engelhardt, Tom Griffiths Link to Abstract: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mQwKDgKT2OljbYB1QlNKvpi1Je17J9IBHXUMskI3 Jlg/edit?usp=sharing Link to Reading List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12EhDJNaMn2Kcxml3UNhZ8YdyvQ5w8_JEzwtssGZy NoQ/edit?usp=sharing Everyone is invited to attend the talk, and those faculty wishing to remain for the oral exam following are welcome to do so.

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Paul Krueger will be presenting his General Exam "Discovering rational heuristics for risky choice" on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 2PM via Zoom.
by jfarquer＠cs.princeton.edu 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

Paul Krueger will be presenting his General Exam on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 2PM via Zoom. Title: "Discovering rational heuristics for risky choice" Zoom Link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/2902028164?pwd=ZHdhZjZKWm4vK0pZai9nbWpkNlo4Zz09 The members of Paul's committee are as follows: Tom Griffiths (adviser), Ryan Adams, Nathaniel Daw (Psychology) Link to Abstract and Reading List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fygOSGn0dYSiZERVOI6mOqWahMxj--kAknCar3Le aS0/edit?usp=sharing Everyone is invited to attend the talk, and those faculty wishing to remain for the oral exam following are welcome to do so.

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Andrew Jones will present his General Exam "Contrastive dimensionality reduction methods for pattern discovery in case-control data" on Monday, May 10, 2021 at 1PM via Zoom.
by jfarquer＠cs.princeton.edu 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

Andrew Jones will present his General Exam on Monday, May 10, 2021 at 1PM via Zoom. Title: "Contrastive dimensionality reduction methods for pattern discovery in case-control data." Zoom Link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99608775994 Committee: Barbara Engelhardt (adviser), Ryan Adams, Ben Raphael Link to Abstract and Reading List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pHFQLdQuDjctdaUfjNvFWEiqCcGQiZXDlUYBKM11 dfs/edit?usp=sharing Everyone is invited to attend the talk, and those faculty wishing to remain for the oral exam following are welcome to do so.

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Yaniv Ovadia will present his General Exam "Gradient-based optimization of CNC toolpaths" on Friday, May 14, 2021 at 1PM via Zoom.
by jfarquer＠cs.princeton.edu 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

Yaniv Ovadia will present his General Exam "Gradient-based optimization of CNC toolpaths" on Friday, May 14, 2021 at 1PM via Zoom. Zoom Link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99011515592 The members of his committee are: Ryan Adams (adviser), Szymon Rusinkiewicz, Tom Griffiths Link to Abstract: <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w7kYPZiQEfAFKQTbn_cfL5r2OhFyOwYzNrhW1GJ o2fo/preview> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w7kYPZiQEfAFKQTbn_cfL5r2OhFyOwYzNrhW1GJo 2fo/preview Link to Reading List: <https://docs.google.com/document/d/15VUt5xehQkYdn0ZS_v3FLQ5VMHwBU-kQBvs2jnL 2GNE/preview> https://docs.google.com/document/d/15VUt5xehQkYdn0ZS_v3FLQ5VMHwBU-kQBvs2jnL2 GNE/preview Everyone is invited to attend the talk, and those faculty wishing to remain for the oral exam following are welcome to do so.

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Fan Yi will present his General Exam "Congestion Control via Endpoint-Centric, Physical-Layer Capacity Measurements" on May 11, 2021 at 2PM via Zoom.
by jfarquer＠cs.princeton.edu 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Fan Yi will present his General Exam "Congestion Control via Endpoint-Centric, Physical-Layer Capacity Measurements" on May 11, 2021 at 2PM via Zoom. Zoom Link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/93929509556 The members of his committee are as follows: Kyle Jamieson (adviser), Michael Freedman, Jennifer Rexford Link to Abstract: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bkRrnFqVtV3nWNLy8kE2u5Y8HnTPwWN0e0Rud93H QOk/edit?usp=sharing Link to Reading List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U9tI6MmaN6dbrzdI0XxYxVqH51bi4kRdHUuemiad lbg/edit?usp=sharing Everyone is invited to attend the talk, and those faculty wishing to remain for the oral exam following are welcome to do so.

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Satadal Sengupta will present his General Exam "Fast and Accurate Passive Round-Trip Time Measurement in the Data Plane" on Monday, May 10, 2021 at 10AM via Zoom.
by jfarquer＠cs.princeton.edu 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Satadal Sengupta will present his General Exam "Fast and Accurate Passive Round-Trip Time Measurement in the Data Plane" on Monday, May 10, 2021 at 10AM via Zoom. Zoom link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/99118451312 The members of his committee are as follows: Jennifer Rexford (adviser), Kyle Jamieson, David Walker Link to Abstract: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S99oHBZpU4VVWI1UiksO4ocXPrThmIqhktmRx9Jn EYQ/edit?usp=sharing Link to Reading List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h4YxsBKFrX30nJTbZ0pFXIichfLQIALVel5jnuZ7 JQk/edit?usp=sharing Everyone is invited to attend the talk, and those faculty wishing to remain for the oral exam following are welcome to do so.

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Samuel Barnett will present his General Exam, "Human-Motivated Human-AI Interaction and Alignment" on April 20, 2021 at 11am via Zoom.
by Nicki Mahler 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Samuel Barnett will present his General Exam, "Human-Motivated Human-AI Interaction and Alignment" on April 20, 2021 at 11am via Zoom. Zoom link: [ https://princeton.zoom.us/j/94756708647?pwd=YnM5N1YvbTN6dkRjSjB1Mk9HVjFmUT09 | https://princeton.zoom.us/j/94756708647?pwd=YnM5N1YvbTN6dkRjSjB1Mk9HVjFmUT09 ] Committee members are as follows: Ryan Adams (adviser), Tom Griffiths, Karthik Narasimhan Link to Abstract and Reading list: [ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IKx15XMw60ArFkXii2aGk33rbWA7-tMcLzFFmTV… | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IKx15XMw60ArFkXii2aGk33rbWA7-tMcLzFFmTV… ] Everyone is invited to attend the talk, and those faculty wishing to remain for the oral exam following are welcome to do so.

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Dmitry Paramonov will present his General Exam "Interactive Coding in Distributed Settings" on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 via Zoom.
by jfarquer＠cs.princeton.edu 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

Dmitry Paramonov will present his General Exam "Interactive Coding in Distributed Settings" on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 via Zoom. Zoom Link: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/97799002469?pwd=aTYva2xnL0tyTG5rTXJBODFMVkloQT09 The members of his committee are as follows: Gillat Kol (adviser), Ran Raz, Mark Braverman Link to Abstract: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VsbCPjZTOTOgd9pN7JCs_yamms5LOECq-iOtJ5zy lGo/edit?usp=sharing Link to Readings: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cfyplTKrDoCERzlSBNKPU1npOqfGEWftqLwFoqRb D54/edit?usp=sharing Everyone is invited to attend the talk, and those faculty wishing to remain for the oral exam following are welcome to do so.

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