Hi! I’m Vincent Dutordoir, a PhD candidate in Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge, working with professor Zoubin Ghahramani and Carl Henrik Ek.
Prior to my PhD, I was a senior Research Scientist at Secondmind, a position I continued in a part-time capacity during my PhD.
My research focuses on the intersection of statistical methods and deep learning, with applications in generative modelling and sequential decision making. Recently, I have been excited about defining stochastic processes using score-based diffusion models [1], [2].
Feel free to reach out on dutordoirv@gmail.com.
News
- Jan 22, 2024. Starting a new job at DeepMind in London. I’ll be working on AI for science.
- Dec 8, 2023. The event NeurIPS@Cambridge 2023 is taking place on December 8th. I’m helping organizing it.
- Sep 1, 2023. Our work on Geometric Neural Diffusion Processes was accepted at NeurIPS 2023.
- Jun 1, 2023. Very happy to have three papers accepted at ICML 2023 on Neural Diffusion Processes, Memory-based Meta-Learning and Spherical-Orthogonal features.
- Sep 1, 2022. Start internship at DeepMind. I’ll be spending the fall in London working on technical analysis of transformer models.
Research
Highlighted research papers. A complete list can be found on my Google scholar.
Geometric Neural Diffusion Processes
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023)
Score-based diffusion models that can be used to learn a generative model of functions.
Neural Diffusion Processes
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023)
Generative models that define a probabilistic model over functions via their finite marginals using probabilistic diffusion models.
Deep neural networks as point estimates for deep Gaussian processes
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021)
Shows the equivalence between the forward propogation of the mean in a Deep Gaussian process (GP) and a fully-connected neural network layer. Method can be used to better initialise deep GPs and understand the uncertainty in DNNs.
Sparse Gaussian Processes with Spherical Harmonic Features
Internation Conference of Machine Learning (ICML 2020)
We derive the Reproducing Kernel Hilbert space for spherical kernels allowing us to design linear time Gausian processes (GPs).
You can find some of my work on Github and a list of all my publications on Google scholar. I’m very happy to connect on Twitter or via e-mail on
dutordoirv@gmail.com.