Episode 14: Yash Sharma, MPI-IS, on generalizability, causality,

Episode 14: Yash Sharma, MPI-IS, on generalizability, causality, and disentanglement

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Yash Sharma is a Ph.D. student at the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems. He previously studied electrical engineering at Cooper Union and has spent time at Borealis AI and IBM Research. Yash’s early work was on adversarial examples and his current research interests span a variety of topics in representation disentanglement. In this episode, we discuss robustness to adversarial examples, causality vs. correlation in data, and how to make deep learning models generalize better.

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