BlackHC - Overview

I'm currently working at Google DeepMind after a year at the amazing Midjourney. I have recently finished my PhD ("DPhil" with AIMS CDT) in Machine Learning at OATML (at the University of Oxford). Here is my quick online CV πŸ€—

πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬ Research

πŸ“š Publications

Conference Proceedings

[1] J. Mukhoti*, A. Kirsch*, J. van Amersfoort, P. H. Torr, and Y. Gal, "Deterministic Neural Networks with Appropriate Inductive Biases Capture Epistemic and Aleatoric Uncertainty," CVPR 2023, 2023.

[2] F. Bickford Smith*, A. Kirsch*, S. Farquhar, Y. Gal, A. Foster, and T. Rainforth, "Prediction-Oriented Bayesian Active Learning," AISTATS, 2023.

[3] S. Mindermann*, J. M. Brauner*, M. T. Razzak*, A. Kirsch, et al., "Prioritized Training on Points that are Learnable, Worth Learning, and not yet Learnt," ICML, 2022.

[4] A. Jesson*, P. Tigas*, J. van Amersfoort, A. Kirsch, U. Shalit, and Y. Gal, "Causal-BALD: Deep Bayesian Active Learning of Outcomes to Infer Treatment-Effects from Observational Data," NeurIPS, 2021.

[5] A. Kirsch*, J. van Amersfoort*, and Y. Gal, "BatchBALD: Efficient and Diverse Batch Acquisition for Deep Bayesian Active Learning," NeurIPS, 2019.

Journal Articles

[6] A. Kirsch, "Black-Box Batch Active Learning for Regression", TMLR, 2023.

[7] A. Kirsch, "Does β€˜Deep Learning on a Data Diet’ reproduce? Overall yes, but GraNd at Initialization does not", TMLR, 2023.

[8] A. Kirsch*, S. Farquhar*, P. Atighehchian, A. Jesson, F. Branchaud-Charron, Y. Gal, "Stochastic Batch Acquisition: A Simple Baseline for Deep Active Learning", TMLR, 2023.

[9] A. Kirsch and Y. Gal, "A Note on "Assessing Generalization of SGD via Disagreement"," TMLR, 2022.

[10] A. Kirsch and Y. Gal, "Unifying Approaches in Data Subset Selection via Fisher Information and Information-Theoretic Quantities," TMLR, 2022.

Workshop Papers

[11] D. Tran, J. Liu, M. W. Dusenberry, et al., "Plex: Towards Reliability using Pretrained Large Model Extensions," Principles of Distribution Shifts & First Workshop on Pre-training: Perspectives, Pitfalls, and Paths Forward, ICML 2022.

[12] A. Kirsch, J. Kossen, and Y. Gal, "Marginal and Joint Cross-Entropies & Predictives for Online Bayesian Inference, Active Learning, and Active Sampling," Updatable Machine Learning, ICML 2022, 2022.

[13] A. Kirsch, J. Mukhoti, J. van Amersfoort, P. H. Torr, and Y. Gal, "On Pitfalls in OoD Detection: Entropy Considered Harmful," Uncertainty in Deep Learning, 2021.

[14] A. Kirsch, T. Rainforth, and Y. Gal, "Active Learning under Pool Set Distribution Shift and Noisy Data," SubSetML, 2021.

[15] A. Kirsch*, S. Farquhar*, and Y. Gal, "A Simple Baseline for Batch Active Learning with Stochastic Acquisition Functions," SubSetML, 2021.

[16] A. Kirsch and Y. Gal, "A Practical & Unified Notation for Information-Theoretic Quantities in ML," SubSetML, 2021.

[17] A. Kirsch, C. Lyle, and Y. Gal, "Scalable Training with Information Bottleneck Objectives," Uncertainty in Deep Learning,

[18] A. Kirsch, C. Lyle, and Y. Gal, "Learning CIFAR-10 with a Simple Entropy Estimator Using Information Bottleneck Objectives," Uncertainty in Deep Learning, 2020.


πŸ“ Reviewing

NeurIPS 2019 (Top Reviewer), AAAI 2020, AAAI 2021, ICLR 2021, NeurIPS 2021 (Outstanding Reviewer), NeurIPS 2022, NeurIPS 2022, TMLR, CVPR 2023.

Active Learning, Subset Selection, Information Theory, Information Bottlenecks, Uncertainty Quantification, Python, PyTorch, Jax, C++, CUDA, TensorFlow.