Paul G. Allen School Courses

A Data-Centric View on Robustness - IFDS 2022

Explore data-centric approaches to robustness in machine learning, examining strategies to enhance model reliability and performance across diverse scenarios.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Tracking Significant Changes in Bandit - IFDS 2022

Explores significant changes in bandit algorithms, focusing on adaptive procedures and random replays for tracking environmental shifts in reward and context distributions.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Distributionally Robust Hypothesis Tests - IFDS 2022

Explore distributionally robust hypothesis tests with Yao Xie, delving into advanced statistical methods for robust decision-making under uncertainty.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Adaptive Attention: Bringing Active Vision into the Camera

Explore innovative camera designs and vision algorithms that mimic animal eyes, enabling adaptive and selective active vision for enhanced imaging capabilities and scene understanding.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Interactive Imitation Learning - Planning Alongside Humans

Explore interactive imitation learning for robots to adapt to human preferences, focusing on challenges beyond dataset collection and enabling seamless human-robot collaboration in real-world scenarios.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

A Decade of Machine Learning Accelerators: Lessons Learned and Carbon Footprint

Exploring a decade of machine learning accelerators, lessons learned, and strategies to reduce the carbon footprint of deep neural networks through optimizing models, machines, mechanisms, and mapping.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Towards Long-Horizon Robot Task Learning

Explore cutting-edge research on complex robot task learning, including simulation environments, hierarchical decomposition, and skill chaining for long-horizon tasks in robotics and AI.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Wildlab: Addressing Communication Barriers in Online Science Communication

Exploring innovative approaches to enhance online science communication and data visualization accessibility through automated tools and user-centric design.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Integrating AI and Machine Learning in Life Sciences - Allen School Colloquia

Exploring AI integration in life sciences, covering explainable AI, COVID-19 detection, cancer precision medicine, and biological discovery through advanced machine learning techniques.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

ModElec and Advanced Fabrication Techniques - Allen School Colloquia

Explore innovative digital fabrication techniques and tools for prototyping interactive devices, generative design, and programmable materials. Gain insights into novel workflows and approaches in 3D printing and laser cutting.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Bridging Safety and Learning in Human-Robot Interaction

Exploring safe human-robot interaction through Bayesian monitoring, control theory, and adaptive motion planning. Discusses challenges in ensuring safety while robots learn from human data.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Towards Understanding Animal and Robot Locomotion in Complex 3-D Terrain

Explore animal and robot locomotion in complex 3-D terrain, focusing on physical interactions, transitions between modes, and strategies for robust movement in challenging environments.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Towards Robust Human-Robot Interaction: A Quality Diversity Approach

Exploring diverse human-robot interaction scenarios using quality diversity algorithms to improve robustness and avoid failures in real-world settings. Applications in shared autonomy and preference learning.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Communication Complexity of Private Simultaneous Messages Protocols - 2021 ITC Conference

Exploring communication complexity in private simultaneous messages protocols, examining quantum advantages and demonstrating gaps between classical and quantum models in secure multiparty computation.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Post-Compromise Security in Self-Encryption - 2021 ITC Conference

Explores post-compromise security in self-encryption, proving its implications for state size in cloud storage, 0-RTT session resumption, and secure messaging. Presents a secure scheme matching the derived bound.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video