About

I am a graduate student at Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA), advised by Aaron Courville. My research is mostly about Deep Latent Variable models and efficient approximate inference. My recent focus is about improving expressivity in doing variational inference (see our ICML18 paper NAF!), the optimization process of inference (our NeuIPS18 paper AVO!), and understanding the training dynamics of generative models in general. I am also interested in meta learning, statistical learning theory and reinforcement learning.

Here’s my one-page CV and google scholar page.

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News

• Our paper Probability Distillation: A Caveat and Alternatives is accepted to UAI 2019
• We organized a workshop on Invertible Neural Nets and Normalizing Flows (INNF) at ICML this year
• Our paper Hierarchical Importance Weighted Autoencoders (H-IWAE) was accepted to ICML 2019
• Our paper PAC Bayes Bound Minimization via Normalizing Flows was accepted to the ICML 2019 workshop on Understanding and Improving Generalization in Deep Learning 

 

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Publications

Conferences

• Probability Distillation: A Caveat and Alternatives
  • Chin-Wei Huang*, Faruk Ahmed*, Kundan Kumar, Alexandre Lacoste, Aaron Courville
  • to be presented at UAI 2019
• Hierarchical Importance Weighted Autoencoders [arXiv]
  • Chin-Wei Huang, Kris Sankaran, Eeshan Dhekane, Alexandre Lacoste, Aaron Courville
  • presented at ICML 2019
• Improving Explorability in Variational Inference with Annealed Variational Objectives [arXiv]
  • Chin-Wei Huang, Shawn Tan, Alexandre Lacoste, Aaron Courville
  • presented at NIPS 2018

• Neural Autoregressive Flows [arXiv] [bib] [slides]
  • Chin-Wei Huang*, David Krueger*, Alexandre Lacoste, Aaron Courville
  • presented at ICML 2018 (LONG TALK!)

• Neural Language Modeling by Jointly Learning Syntax and Lexicon [arXiv] [openreview] [bib]
  • Yikang Shen, Zhouhan Lin, Chin-Wei Huang, Aaron Courville
  • presented at ICLR 2018

Pre-prints

• Generating Contradictory, Neutral, and Entailing Sentences [arXiv]
  • Yikang Shen, Shawn Tan, Chin-Wei Huang, Aaron Courville

• Bayesian Hypernetworks [arXiv] [openreview] [DLRL video] [bib]
  • David Krueger*, Chin-Wei Huang*, Riashat Islam, Ryan Turner, Alexandre Lacoste, Aaron Courville
  • presented in the Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Summer School (17′)
  • presented in the Montreal AI Symposium (17′)
  • presented in the NIPS (’17) workshop on Bayesian Deep Learning (BDL)

Workshops

• PAC Bayes Bound Minimization via Normalizing Flows [Generalization, arXiv]
  • Chin-Wei Huang, Ahmed Touati, Pascal Vincent, Gintare Karolina Dziugaite, Alexandre Lacoste and Aaron Courville
  • presented at the ICML (’19) workshop on Understanding and Improving Generalization in Deep Learning (Generalization)
• Facilitating Multimodality in Normalizing Flows [BDL]
  • Chin-Wei Huang*, David Krueger*, Aaron Courville
  • presented at the NIPS (’17) workshop on Bayesian Deep Learning (BDL)
• Sequentialized Sampling Importance Resampling and Scalable IWAE [BDL] [bib]
  • Chin-Wei Huang, Aaron Courville
  • presented at the NIPS (’17) workshop on Bayesian Deep Learning (BDL)
• Learnable Explicit Density for Continuous Latent Space and Variational Inference [arXiv] [padl] [poster] [bib]
  • Chin-Wei Huang, Ahmed Touati, Laurent Dinh, Michal Drozdzal, Mohammad Havaei, Laurent Charlin, Aaron Courville
  • presented at the ICML (’17)  workshop on Principle Approaches to Deep Learning (padl)

Symposiums

• Deconstructive Defense Against Adversarial Attacks [poster]
  • Chin-Wei Huang*, Nan Rosemary Ke*, Chris Pal
  • presented in the Montreal AI Symposium (17′)
• Data Imputation with Latent Variable Models
  • Michal Drozdzal, Mohammad Havaei, Chin-Wei Huang, Laurent Charlin, Nicolas Chapados, Aaron Courville
  • presented in the Montreal AI Symposium (17′)

 

Technical reports

• Multilabel Topic Model and User-Item Representation for Personalized Display of Review [report]
  • Chin-Wei Huang, Pierre-André Brousseau
  • A final project report for IFT6266 (Probabilistic Graphical Models, 2016A)

 

Talks

• Autoregressive Flows for Image Generation and Density Estimation [slides]
  • Presented at 2018 AI Summer School: Vision and Learning @ NTHU
  • Presented at Speech Processing and Machine Learning Lab @ NTU