Recently, computer science professor Rafail Ostrovsky has been involved in developing technologies which play an integral role in a new piece of legislation aiming to help students make more informed decisions on where they go to college. The new bipartisan bill in...
UCLA computer science professors Miryung Kim and Jens Palsberg, along with UC Irvine computer science professor Harry Xu, were recently awarded a $4.9 million grant from the Office of Naval Research for their project on Synergistic Software Customization. Their...
Election to the academy is among the highest distinctions for an engineer. Three faculty members in the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science – Ann Karagozian, Stanley Osher, and Ali Sayed – have been elected to the National Academy of...
The Computer Science Department congratuates graduate students Tomer Weiss, Alan Litteneker, Chenfanfu Jiang and their advisor Demetri Terzopoulos on a Best Paper Award for “Position-Based Multi-Agent Dynamics for Real-Time Crowd Simulation” from the ACM SIGGRAPH...
Congratulations to computer science Ph.D. students Ruirui Li, Chelsea J-T. Ju, Jyun-Yu Jiang, and their advisor, Professor Wei Wang. These three graduate students recently participated in Round 9 of the Yelp Dataset Challenge. Their paper—“CORALS: Who are My...
ABSTRACT: The success of deep learning is due, to a large extent, to the remarkable effectiveness of gradient-based optimization methods applied to large neural networks. [...]
ABSTRACT: Knowledge distillation introduced in the deep learning context is a method to transfer knowledge from one architecture to another. In particular, when the architectures [...]
ABSTRACT: Recent investigations into deep neural networks that are infinitely wide have given rise to intriguing connections with kernel methods. Specifically, it was found that [...]
ABSTRACT: As machine learning is increasingly deployed, there is a need for reliable and robust methods that go beyond simple test accuracy. In this talk, [...]
ABSTRACT: As Machine Learning systems are increasingly becoming part of user-facing applications, their reliability and robustness are key to building and maintaining trust with users. [...]