Xuechen Li

University of Toronto

Biography

I am a fourth-year undergrad at the University of Toronto. I am interested in Bayesian inference and Monte Carlo methods. I was fortunate to have worked on research related to these topics with Roger Grosse and David Duvenaud. Additionally, I am also excited about building better tools and infrastructure to ease research.

Interests

Bayesian Inference
Monte Carlo Methods
Information Theory
Numerical Optimization

Education

BSc in Computer Science, 2019 (expected)

University of Toronto

Publications

Ricky T. Q. Chen, Xuechen Li, Roger Grosse, David Duvenaud. Isolating Sources of Disentanglement in Variational Autoencoders. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) (Oral), 2018.

Preprint

Chris Cremer, Xuechen Li, David Duvenaud. Inference Suboptimality in Variational Autoencoders. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2018.