From jieshic at andrew.cmu.edu Thu Sep 1 11:53:01 2022 From: jieshic at andrew.cmu.edu (Jieshi Chen) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 11:53:01 -0400 Subject: ****** Auton Lab's 29th Annual Picnic: Saturday, September 11th at NSH Patio ****** Message-ID: Dear Autonians, We would like to invite you and your family to celebrate the *29th *birthday of the Auton Lab. Pls save the date for our annual lab picnic at *NSH Patio on the 1st floor of Newell Simon Hall* on *Saturday, September 24th**.* Pls RSVP through the web form below so that we could plan resources properly. https://forms.gle/4LtmyXYGtyx3NsNM6 Looking forward to seeing all of you! Best, Jessie -- Jieshi Chen Senior Research Analyst Auton Lab, Robotics Insitute, School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Email: jieshic at andrew.cmu.edu Office: Newell Simon Hall Room 3115 Address: 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best, Jessie -- Jieshi Chen Senior Research Analyst Auton Lab, Robotics Insitute, School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Email: jieshic at andrew.cmu.edu Office: Newell Simon Hall Room 3115 Address: 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awd at cs.cmu.edu Fri Sep 2 13:25:05 2022 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 13:25:05 -0400 Subject: Auton Lab Walk in the Park: TODAY, 6pm start In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We will have another traditional Auton Lab Walk in Schenley Park today. Let's meet at the 3rd floor entryway to Newell-Simon Hall at 6pm tonight as usual. Looking forward to seeing you there, Artur -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best, Jessie -- Jieshi Chen Senior Research Analyst Auton Lab, Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Email: jieshic at andrew.cmu.edu Office: Newell Simon Hall Room 3115 Address: 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From iapostol at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Sep 2 18:46:18 2022 From: iapostol at andrew.cmu.edu (Ifigeneia Apostolopoulou) Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2022 18:46:18 -0400 Subject: Auton Lab Walk in the Park: TODAY, 6pm start In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We are on the Steve faloon trail. Any chances to meet you at the barlett playground? On Friday, September 2, 2022, Ifigeneia Apostolopoulou < iapostol at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Have you left? We could catch you > > On Friday, September 2, 2022, Ifigeneia Apostolopoulou < > iapostol at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > >> The bus is a little bit late. Hope we will be there by 6:15 >> >> On Friday, September 2, 2022, Artur Dubrawski wrote: >> >>> We will have another traditional Auton Lab Walk in Schenley Park today. >>> Let's meet at the 3rd floor entryway to Newell-Simon Hall at 6pm tonight >>> as usual. >>> >>> Looking forward to seeing you there, >>> Artur >>> >>> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jieshic at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Sep 6 17:13:24 2022 From: jieshic at andrew.cmu.edu (Jieshi Chen) Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2022 17:13:24 -0400 Subject: ****** (NEW DATE) Auton Lab's 29th Annual Picnic: Saturday, September 10th at NSH Patio ****** In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Just a reminder for those who have not registered yet. Pls RSVP through the following link: https://forms.gle/4LtmyXYGtyx3NsNM6 Best, Jessie On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 4:54 PM Jieshi Chen wrote: > Dear Autonians, > > Due to scheduling conflicts, we will have our picnic *Next Saturday, > September 10th.* > > For those who have registered, I'll reach out to check your availability. > Sorry about the inconvenience. > > For people who have not registered yet, we would like to invite you and > your family to celebrate the *29th *birthday of the Auton Lab. Pls save > the date for our annual lab picnic at *NSH Patio on the 1st floor of > Newell Simon Hall* on *Saturday, September 10th**.* > Pls RSVP through the web form below so that we could plan resources > properly. > https://forms.gle/4LtmyXYGtyx3NsNM6 > Looking forward to seeing all of you! > > > Best, > Jessie > > -- > > Jieshi Chen > Senior Research Analyst > Auton Lab, Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science > Carnegie Mellon University > Email: jieshic at andrew.cmu.edu > Office: Newell Simon Hall Room 3115 > Address: 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Cheers, Jessie -- Jieshi Chen Senior Research Analyst Auton Lab, Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Email: jieshic at andrew.cmu.edu Office: Newell Simon Hall Room 3115 Address: 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Baker Tent Map and Photo.png Type: image/png Size: 988301 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jieshic at andrew.cmu.edu Fri Sep 9 18:02:08 2022 From: jieshic at andrew.cmu.edu (Jieshi Chen) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 18:02:08 -0400 Subject: ****** (New LOCATION) Auton Lab Picnic: 12:30pm this Saturday September 10th at Baker Tent (in front of Baker Hall)****** In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Autonians, Just a reminder of the picnic tomorrow at the* Baker Tent*! Look forward to seeing you there! Best, Jessie On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 6:03 PM Jieshi Chen wrote: > Hi Autonians, > > Our picnic will start around *12:30pm this Saturday, September 10th.* > The picnic location will change to* the Baker Tent *(a white tent in > front of Baker Hall). Attached is the map of the tent location (Google map > pin here ). Pls feel free to > contact me if you could not find the tent. > > The closest parking will be the Frew Street Meter Parking. 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The seminar will be held in person in NSH 3305 with food provided, and it will also be available on Zoom. To learn more about the seminar series or to see the future schedule, please visit the seminar website . On 9/13, *Zico Kolter *(CMU) will be giving a talk titled *"New approaches to detecting and adapting to domain shifts in machine learning**" *to share work on evaluating and adapting machine learning models under distribution shift. *Title*: New approaches to detecting and adapting to domain shifts in machine learning *Talk Abstract*: Machine learning systems, in virtually every deployed system, encounter data from a qualitatively different distribution than what they were trained upon. Effectively dealing with this problem, known as domain shift, is thus perhaps the key challenge in deploying machine learning methods in practice. In this talk, I will motivate some of these challenges in domain shift, and highlight some of our recent work on two topics. First, I will present our work on determining if we can even just evaluate the performance of machine learning models under distribution shift, without access to labelled data. And second, I will present work on how we can better adapt our classifiers to new data distributions, again assuming access only to unlabelled data in the new domain. *Speaker Bio*: Zico Kolter is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, and also serves as chief scientist of AI research for the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence. His work spans the intersection of machine learning and optimization, with a large focus on developing more robust and rigorous methods in deep learning. In addition, he has worked in a number of application areas, highlighted by work on sustainability and smart energy systems. He is a recipient of the DARPA Young Faculty Award, a Sloan Fellowship, and best paper awards at NeurIPS, ICML (honorable mention), IJCAI, KDD, and PESGM. *In person: *NSH 3305 *Zoom Link*: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/99510233317?pwd=ZGx4aExNZ1FNaGY4SHI3Qlh0YjNWUT09 Thanks, Asher Trockman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From chiragn at cs.cmu.edu Thu Sep 15 16:17:24 2022 From: chiragn at cs.cmu.edu (Chirag Nagpal) Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:17:24 -0400 Subject: Massive Intake of NIH Atherosclerotic Risk Data Message-ID: Hello All We have recently executed an agreement with the NIH's National Heart Lung and Blood Institute to access some of the largest clinical trials and observational studies in the NHLBI's BioLINCC repository. Access to these cohorts puts us at an equal footing with some of the top medical schools and biostatistics departments in the world. We now would be able to frame a design complex epidemiological studies including, but not limited to: - Assessment of demographic disparities in cardiovascular health - Causal and subgroup identification of heterogeneous benefit to the said interventions. The availability of these datasets would allow us to answer fundamental questions including: - Effect of Lipid Lowering Therapies - Effect of Glycemic Control - Hypertension Management - Optimal Surgical Intervention (CABG/PCI, Delayed or Proactive) The availability of these data also now gives us the ability of pooling data from multiple studies to create larger cohorts to answer questions that were previously not possible with just a single study. The studies also make for good "real world" datasets for generic machine learning methodology papers. *Our access includes baseline and follow up data from the following studies: * *ALLHAT*: https://biolincc.nhlbi.nih.gov/studies/allhat/ *ACCORD*: https://biolincc.nhlbi.nih.gov/studies/accord/ *SPRINT*: Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial *BARI2D*: https://biolincc.nhlbi.nih.gov/studies/bari2d/ *AMIS*: https://biolincc.nhlbi.nih.gov/studies/amis/ *OAT*: https://biolincc.nhlbi.nih.gov/studies/oat/ *ROC-CCC*: Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) Trial Of Continuous Compressions Versus Standard CPR In Patients With Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (CCC) *ROC-ALPS*: Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) Amiodarone, Lidocaine or Neither for Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Due to Ventricular Fibrillation or Ventricular Tachycardia *PROMISE*: Prospective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of Chest Pain *PEACE*: Prevention of Events With Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor Therapy *AIMHIGH*: Atherothrombosis Intervention in Metabolic Syndrome with Low HDL/High Triglyceride and Impact on Global Health Outcomes (AIM-HIGH) *AMIS*: Aspirin-Myocardial Infarction Study *BEST*: Beta-Blocker Evaluation in Survival Trial *ENRICHD*: Enhancing Recovery in Coronary Heart Disease Patients *SOLVD*: Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction *STICH*: Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure *Observational Cohorts:* *ARIC*: Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study *MESA*: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis *CARDIA*: Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults *SHEP*: Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly Program *SHHS*: Sleep Heart Health Study *In case any of this is of interest, please reach out. * -- *Chirag Nagpal* PhD Candidate, Auton Lab School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University cs.cmu.edu/~chiragn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Jeff. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: RI Ph.D. Thesis Proposal: Adam Villaflor Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2022 13:58:33 -0400 From: Suzanne Muth To: ri-people at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Date: 16 September 2022 Time: 1:00 p.m. (ET) Location: GHC 4405 Zoom Link: https://cmu.zoom.us/j/95581369179?pwd=THdjUnVkQnBaUUFlNDdOcDBMcVhNQT09 Type: Ph.D. Thesis Proposal Who: Adam Villaflor Title: Combining Offline Reinforcement Learning with Stochastic Multi-Agent Planning for Autonomous Driving Abstract: Fully autonomous vehicles have the potential to greatly reduce vehicular accidents and revolutionize how people travel and how we transport goods. Many of the major challenges for autonomous driving systems emerge from the numerous traffic situations that require complex interactions with other agents. For the foreseeable future, autonomous vehicles will have to share the road with human-drivers and pedestrians, and thus cannot rely on centralized communication to address these interactive scenarios. Therefore, autonomous driving systems need to be able to negotiate and respond to unknown agents that exhibit uncertain behavior. To tackle these problems, most commercial autonomous driving stacks use a modular approach that splits perception, agent forecasting, and planning into separately engineered modules. By decomposing autonomous driving into smaller modules, it allows for simplifying abstractions and greater parallelization of the engineering effort. However, fully separating prediction and planning makes it difficult to reason about how other vehicles will respond to the planned trajectory for the controlled ego-vehicle. Thus to maintain safety, many modular approaches have to be overly conservative when interacting with other agents. Ideally, we want autonomous vehicles to drive in a natural and confident manner, while still maintaining safety. We believe that to achieve this behavior we need 3 major components. First, we need an approach that unifies prediction and planning in a single probabilistic closed-loop planning framework. Second, we need to use a multi-agent formulation in combination with deep learning models that can scale to the complexities of real-world driving and effectively model the interactive multi-modal distributions of real-world traffic. Finally, we need approaches that can effectively search the space of potential multi-agent interactions across time efficiently in order to produce a suitable planned behavior. In this proposal, we will show our current progress in applying deep offline reinforcement learning to autonomous driving, and present future work to continue scaling deep learning approaches to more complicated and interactive autonomous driving problems. Thesis Committee Members: Jeff Schneider, Chair John Dolan, Co-Chair David Held Philipp Kr?henb?hl?(UT Austin) A draft of the thesis proposal document is available at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14DoKABsNlCx9AKK9O1ZY77Roau4ugEmG?usp=sharing -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ ri-people mailing list ri-people at lists.andrew.cmu.edu https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/ri-people From awd at cs.cmu.edu Fri Sep 23 14:59:58 2022 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:59:58 -0400 Subject: Auton Lab Walk in the Park: TODAY, 6pm start In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Team, Let me know if you are up for a walk tonight. I will only go if I see other people interested. 6pm, start from the corner of Tech and Frew streets, up the hill from the Westinghouse Memorial and pond. Cheers, Artur On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 1:25 PM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > We will have another traditional Auton Lab Walk in Schenley Park today. > Let's meet at the 3rd floor entryway to Newell-Simon Hall at 6pm tonight > as usual. > > Looking forward to seeing you there, > Artur > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awd at cs.cmu.edu Fri Sep 23 15:14:05 2022 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:14:05 -0400 Subject: MEETNIG POINT: FREW & TECH STREETS Re: Auton Lab Walk in the Park: TODAY, 6pm start In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 2:59 PM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > Team, > > Let me know if you are up for a walk tonight. I will only go if I see > other people interested. > > 6pm, start from the corner of Tech and Frew streets, up the hill from the > Westinghouse Memorial and pond. > > Cheers, > Artur > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 1:25 PM Artur Dubrawski wrote: > >> We will have another traditional Auton Lab Walk in Schenley Park today. >> Let's meet at the 3rd floor entryway to Newell-Simon Hall at 6pm tonight >> as usual. >> >> Looking forward to seeing you there, >> Artur >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From predragp at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Sep 27 20:46:46 2022 From: predragp at andrew.cmu.edu (Predrag Punosevac) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 20:46:46 -0400 Subject: RedHat 9.0 & GPU14 heads up Message-ID: Dear Autonians, The short version of this email is that I am planning to offline gpu14 this Thursday in order to upgrade from RHEL 7.9 to recently released RHEL 9.0. The GPU node is currently idle. Please don't start jobs as you will lose them. If you have 10 minutes, the long version of this email reads: It has been brought to my attention that some lab members are running into a problem with glibc library version 2.28 shipped with RHEL 8.6. Currently, about 50% of our computing nodes run an even older version of RHEL 7.9 which is shipped with 2.17. RHEL 9.0 was released less than half a year ago. It is shipped with glibc 2.34. GCC 11.2.1 and binutils 2.35.2. The default Python version is 3.9. The common wisdom is to hold any upgrades until 9.1 release. Due to my personal connection with the Springdale community (Princeton university), which provides us with a free clone of RHEL, I know that 9.0 us production ready. I have already checked the NVidia/CUDA stack and RPMs are built. Therefore, I decided to schedule an experiment and to try to upgrade gpu14 to RHEL 9.0. If the experiment is successful, Piotr Bartosiewicz and I will upgrade all computing nodes currently running RHEL 7.9 to 9.0 release. Computing nodes and all workstations currently running 8.6 will not be touched to maintain the usability of the system. Ubuntu fans should be aware that 22.04 is shipped with glibc 2.35 but GCC and many other things a minor point releases behind RHEL 9.0. The last time I looked, CS CMU facilities were upgrading all desktops to Ubuntu 20.04 from 18.04 and earlier. CMU CS facilities don't run Ubuntu on servers and they are still in crisis mode due to unanticipated termination of the CentOS clone of RHEL 8.xxx. The last time I talked to Ed Walter they were running Cent/RHEL 7.9 and thinking about what to do next (Alma Linux, Rocky Linux as well as what to do with obsolete ROCKS clusters). I did my best to spare you from those things. Cheers, Predrag -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: