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Natasha Jaques
@natashajaques
Assistant Professor leading the Social RL Lab socialrl.cs.washington.edu @uwcse and Staff Research Scientist at @GoogleAI.
Seattle, WA
natashajaques.ai
Joined June 2009
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    Natasha Jaques
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    Mar 20
    The paper I’ve been most obsessed with lately is finally out: nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…! Check out this beautiful plot: it shows how much LLMs distort human writing when making edits, compared to how humans would revise the same content. We take a dataset of human-written essays
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    Natasha Jaques
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    Apr 29, 2021
    I couldn't resist. With contributions from @maxhkw
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    Natasha Jaques
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    Aug 28, 2018
    Too real...
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    Natasha Jaques
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    Apr 1, 2020
    It's not every day you get to troll your friends and family using deep learning. I tried using GAN-generated images to convince them I'd died my hair blonde. My mom was horrified 😂 A+ April Fool's day!
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    Natasha Jaques
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    Nov 19, 2019
    I handed in my thesis today!! So uh, I guess I have a PhD now?
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    Natasha Jaques
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    Nov 18, 2022
    I am delighted to announce that I will be joining UW @uwcse as an assistant professor starting next year! If you're interested in joining my lab, please consider applying to UW and mentioning me in your application. For more on my research agenda, see natashajaques.ai
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    Natasha Jaques
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    Jan 4, 2022
    Pedro’s comments are so damaging. I’m applying for faculty jobs now and it feels like even if I get a good position, whether I *deserve* to hold that position will always be in question. I will continually have to re-prove that I am as qualified as my male colleagues.
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    Natasha Jaques
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    Oct 1, 2021
    I am incredibly honoured to receive the Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award from the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing. Thank you Roz, you’ve been a wonderful PhD mentor and advisor!
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    Rosalind Picard
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    Oct 1, 2021
    Congratulations to the Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award winner of AAAC: Natasha Jaques from @mit @medialab for her thesis "Social and Affective Machine Learning" just announced at @acii_conf. Excellent advances by @natashajaques !
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    Natasha Jaques
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    Jun 11, 2019
    Incredibly honoured to have received an honourable mention for best paper at ICML this year 😊
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    Natasha Jaques
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    May 20, 2020
    Pretty impressive automatic code generation demo at 28:28 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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    Natasha Jaques
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    Nov 20, 2019
    In case you're interested, here's a link to my thesis: media.mit.edu/publications/s…, and a video of the thesis defense: media.mit.edu/videos/ac-nata…
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    Social and Affective Machine Learning – MIT Media Lab
    Social learning is a crucial component of human intelligence, allowing us to rapidly adapt to new scenarios, learn new tasks, and communicate knowledge that ca…
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    Natasha Jaques
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    Jul 31, 2019
    I’m defending my thesis tomorrow! 😮
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    MIT Media Lab
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    Jul 30, 2019
    Towards Social and Affective Artificial Intelligence: Affective Computing student @natashajaques defends her dissertation on 7/31 at 12pm. mitsha.re/GeBx30pftD6
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    Natasha Jaques
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    Oct 24, 2018
    Excited to release our new multi-agent RL paper showing that when agents receive a social reward for having causal influence over other agents, it leads to enhanced cooperation and emergent communication
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    Social Influence as Intrinsic Motivation for Multi-Agent Deep...
    We propose a unified mechanism for achieving coordination and communication in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), through rewarding agents for having causal influence over other agents'...
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    Natasha Jaques
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    Dec 3, 2019
    Super happy to announce I’ll be starting a joint post-doc with @douglas_eck at Google Brain and @svlevine at Berkeley in 2020. Hmu if you’re in the bay and want to discuss research ideas!