Doina Precup

Sumana Basu

Collaborateur·rice alumni - McGill

Co-superviseur⋅e :

Adriana Romero Soriano

Collaborateur·rice alumni - McGill

Lynn Cherif

Collaborateur·rice alumni - McGill

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Doctorat - McGill

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Doctorat - McGill

Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :

David Meger

Jonathan Colaço Carr

Maîtrise recherche - McGill

Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :

Prakash Panangaden

Élodie Coté-Gauthier

Collaborateur·rice de recherche - McGill

Co-superviseur⋅e :

Isabeau Prémont-Schwarz

Franco Del Balso

Collaborateur·rice de recherche - UdeM

Jesse Farebrother

Doctorat - McGill

Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :

Marc Gendron-Bellemare

Doctorat - McGill

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Collaborateur·rice de recherche - Birla Institute of Technology

Howard Huang

Doctorat - McGill

Haque Ishfaq

Collaborateur·rice alumni - McGill

Mohammad Sami Nur Islam Islam

Maîtrise recherche - McGill

Arushi Jain

Collaborateur·rice alumni - McGill

Doctorat - Polytechnique

Doctorat - McGill

Postdoctorat - McGill

Jonathan Lebensold

Collaborateur·rice alumni - McGill

Collaborateur·rice alumni - McGill

Ray Luo

Doctorat - McGill

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G McCracken

Doctorat - McGill

Nazanin Mohammadi Sepahvand

Collaborateur·rice alumni - McGill

Shahrad Mohammadzadeh

Maîtrise recherche - McGill

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Gabriela Moisescu-Pareja

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Irina Rish

Padideh Nouri

Doctorat - UdeM

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Doctorat - McGill

Co-superviseur⋅e :

Nate Rahn

Doctorat - McGill

Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e :

Marc Gendron-Bellemare

Manoosh Samiei

Doctorat - McGill

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Doctorat - McGill

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Doctorat - McGill

Nishanth Anand Vemgal

Doctorat - McGill

Doctorat - McGill

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Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Zihan Wang

Doctorat - McGill

Skipper : combiner l’abstraction spatiale et temporelle afin d’améliorer la généralisation

Guangyuan Wang

Stagiaire de recherche - McGill

Steve Wen

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Gregory Dudek

Zijing Wu

Doctorat - McGill

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Doctorat - McGill

Harry Zhao

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Publications

The Termination Critic

Anna Harutyunyan

Will Dabney

Diana Borsa

Nicolas Heess

Remi Munos

In this work, we consider the problem of autonomously discovering behavioral abstractions, or options, for reinforcement learning agents. We… (voir plus) propose an algorithm that focuses on the termination function, as opposed to - as is common - the policy. The termination function is usually trained to optimize a control objective: an option ought to terminate if another has better value. We offer a different, information-theoretic perspective, and propose that terminations should focus instead on the compressibility of the option’s encoding - arguably a key reason for using abstractions. To achieve this algorithmically, we leverage the classical options framework, and learn the option transition model as a "critic" for the termination function. Using this model, we derive gradients that optimize the desired criteria. We show that the resulting options are non-trivial, intuitively meaningful, and useful for learning.

2019-02-25

ArXiv (prépublication)

proceedings.mlr.press

The Impact of Time Interval between Extubation and Reintubation on Death or Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia in Extremely Preterm Infants

Wissam Shalish

Lara Kanbar

Lajos Kovacs

Sanjay Chawla

Martin Keszler

Smita Rao

Bogdan Panaitescu

Alyse Laliberte

Karen Brown

Robert E. Kearney

Guilherme M. Sant'Anna

2019-01-31

The Journal of Pediatrics (publié)

1. Searching for Big-Oh in the Data: Inferring Asymptotic Complexity from Experiments

Catherine McGeoch

Peter Sanders 0001

Rudolf Fleischer

Paul R. Cohen

2018-12-31

(publié)

www.semanticscholar.org

Avoidance Learning Using Observational Reinforcement Learning

David Venuto

Léonard Boussioux

Junhao Wang

Rola Dali

Jhelum Chakravorty

Yoshua Bengio

Imitation learning seeks to learn an expert policy from sampled demonstrations. However, in the real world, it is often difficult to find a … (voir plus)perfect expert and avoiding dangerous behaviors becomes relevant for safety reasons. We present the idea of \textit{learning to avoid}, an objective opposite to imitation learning in some sense, where an agent learns to avoid a demonstrator policy given an environment. We define avoidance learning as the process of optimizing the agent's reward while avoiding dangerous behaviors given by a demonstrator. In this work we develop a framework of avoidance learning by defining a suitable objective function for these problems which involves the \emph{distance} of state occupancy distributions of the expert and demonstrator policies. We use density estimates for state occupancy measures and use the aforementioned distance as the reward bonus for avoiding the demonstrator. We validate our theory with experiments using a wide range of partially observable environments. Experimental results show that we are able to improve sample efficiency during training compared to state of the art policy optimization and safety methods.

2018-12-31

arXiv (prépublication)

Break the Ceiling: Stronger Multi-scale Deep Graph Convolutional Networks

Sitao Luan

Mingde Zhao

Xiao-Wen Chang

Recently, neural network based approaches have achieved significant improvement for solving large, complex, graph-structured problems. Howev… (voir plus)er, their bottlenecks still need to be addressed, and the advantages of multi-scale information and deep architectures have not been sufficiently exploited. In this paper, we theoretically analyze how existing Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have limited expressive power due to the constraint of the activation functions and their architectures. We generalize spectral graph convolution and deep GCN in block Krylov subspace forms and devise two architectures, both with the potential to be scaled deeper but each making use of the multi-scale information in different ways. We further show that the equivalence of these two architectures can be established under certain conditions. On several node classification tasks, with or without the help of validation, the two new architectures achieve better performance compared to many state-of-the-art methods.

2018-12-31

NeurIPS (publié)

Community size effect in artificial learning systems

Olivier Tieleman

Angeliki Lazaridou

Shibl Mourad

Charles Blundell

Motivated by theories of language and communication that explain why communities with large numbers of speakers have, on average, simpler la… (voir plus)nguages with more regularity, we cast the representation learning problem in terms of learning to communicate . Our starting point sees the traditional autoencoder setup as a single encoder with a ﬁxed decoder partner that must learn to communicate. Generalizing from there, we introduce community -based autoencoders in which multiple encoders and decoders collectively learn representations by being randomly paired up on successive training iterations. We ﬁnd that increasing community sizes reduce idiosyncrasies in the learned codes, resulting in representations that better encode concept categories and correlate with human feature norms.

2018-12-31

ViGIL@NeurIPS (publié)

dblp.uni-trier.de

Connecting Weighted Automata and Recurrent Neural Networks through Spectral Learning ( Supplementary Material ) A Proofs

More precisely, the WFA A = (α, {A}σ∈Σ,Ω) with n states and the linear 2-RNN M = (α,A,Ω) with n hidden units, where A ∈ Rn×Σ×n … (voir plus)is defined by A:,σ,: = A for all σ ∈ Σ, are such that fA(σ1σ2 · · ·σk) = fM (x1,x2, · · · ,xk) for all sequences of input symbols σ1, · · · , σk ∈ Σ, where for each i ∈ [k] the input vector xi ∈ RΣ is the one-hot encoding of the symbol σi. Proof. We first show by induction on k that, for any sequence σ1 · · ·σk ∈ Σ∗, the hidden state hk computed by M (see Eq. (1)) on the corresponding one-hot encoded sequence x1, · · · ,xk ∈ R satisfies hk = (A1 · · ·Ak )>α. The case k = 0 is immediate. Suppose the result true for sequences of length up to k. One can check easily check that A •2 xi = Ai for any index i. Using the induction hypothesis it then follows that hk+1 = A •1 hk •2 xk+1 = Ak+1 •1 hk = (Ak+1)hk = (Aσk+1)>(Aσ1 · · ·Ak )>α = (A1 · · ·Aσk+1)>α.

2018-12-31

(publié)

www.semanticscholar.org

Data-driven Chance Constrained Programming based Electric Vehicle Penetration Analysis

Di Wu

Tracy Can Cui

Benoit Boulet

Transportation electrification has been growing rapidly in recent years. The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) could help to release the d… (voir plus)ependency on oil and reduce greenhouse gas emission. However, the increasing EV adoption will also impose a high demand on the power grid and may jeopardize the grid network infrastructures. For certain high EV penetration areas, the EV charging demand may lead to transformer overloading at peak hours which makes the maximal EV penetration analysis an urgent problem to solve. This paper proposes a data-driven chance constrained programming based framework for maximal EV penetration analysis. Simulation results are presented for a real-world neighborhood level network. The proposed framework could serve as a guidance for utility companies to schedule infrastructure upgrades.

2018-12-31

(publié)

www.semanticscholar.org

An Empirical Study of Batch Normalization and Group Normalization in Conditional Computation

Vincent Michalski

Vikram Voleti

Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Anthony Ortiz

Pascal Vincent

Chris Pal

Batch normalization has been widely used to improve optimization in deep neural networks. While the uncertainty in batch statistics can act … (voir plus)as a regularizer, using these dataset statistics specific to the training set impairs generalization in certain tasks. Recently, alternative methods for normalizing feature activations in neural networks have been proposed. Among them, group normalization has been shown to yield similar, in some domains even superior performance to batch normalization. All these methods utilize a learned affine transformation after the normalization operation to increase representational power. Methods used in conditional computation define the parameters of these transformations as learnable functions of conditioning information. In this work, we study whether and where the conditional formulation of group normalization can improve generalization compared to conditional batch normalization. We evaluate performances on the tasks of visual question answering, few-shot learning, and conditional image generation.

2018-12-31

arXiv (prépublication)

Hindsight Credit Assignment

Anna Harutyunyan

Will Dabney

Thomas Mesnard

Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar

Bilal Piot

Nicolas Heess

Hado van Hasselt

Greg Wayne

Satinder Singh

Remi Munos

2018-12-31

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32 (NeurIPS 2019) (publié)

Learning proposals for sequential importance samplers using reinforced variational inference

Zafarali Ahmed

Arjun Karuvally

Simon Gravel

The problem of inferring unobserved values in a partially observed trajectory from a stochastic process can be considered as a structured pr… (voir plus)ediction problem. Traditionally inference is conducted using heuristic-based Monte Carlo methods. This work considers learning heuristics by leveraging a connection between policy optimization reinforcement learning and approximate inference. In particular, we learn proposal distributions used in importance samplers by casting it as a variational inference problem. We then rewrite the variational lower bound as a policy optimization problem similar to Weber et al. (2015) allowing us to transfer techniques from reinforcement learning. We apply this technique to a simple stochastic process as a proof-of-concept and show that while it is viable, it will require more engineering effort to scale inference for rare observations 1 .

2018-12-31

DeepRLStructPred@ICLR (publié)

openreview.net

Learning Reliable Policies in the Bandit Setting with Application to Adaptive Clinical Trials

Hossein Aboutalebi