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  • user avatar
    billy bubba bingus-drumpfus
    @wgrathwohl
    Sep 30, 2021
    Not a bad view from the new apartment! Excited to start work at @DeepMind this Monday!!
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    billy bubba bingus-drumpfus
    @wgrathwohl
    Oct 9, 2023
    My team at Google Deepmind in NYC is hiring research engineers! If you're interested in helping add new capabilities to large-scale generative models, please apply: boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/jobs/… Feel free to reach out if you have questions :)
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    billy bubba bingus-drumpfus
    @wgrathwohl
    Nov 19, 2024
    First day at @AnthropicAI tmr! Very excited
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    billy bubba bingus-drumpfus
    @wgrathwohl
    Apr 28, 2021
    Hi everyone! I'm very pleased to announce that I'll be starting work as a research scientist at @DeepMind in their New York office with @rob_fergus, Ishita Dasgupta, Arun Ahuja, and @kaeserchen Just gotta finish dat Ph.D. and we're off! I'm so excited!
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    billy bubba bingus-drumpfus
    @wgrathwohl
    May 10, 2021
    Hi all! Very pleased to share that my latest paper: "Oops I Took A Gradient: Scalable Sampling for Discrete Distributions" (arxiv.org/abs/2102.04509) has been accepted to ICML for a long presentation. Energy-Based Models have seen amazing progress in the last few years...
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    billy bubba bingus-drumpfus
    @wgrathwohl
    Nov 7, 2024
    Tomorrow’s my last day at google deepmind. It’s been over 5 years since I started working at GDM as a student researcher. Getting there was a literal dream come true and in the time since, larger-than-life heroes have turned into close personal friends.
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    billy bubba bingus-drumpfus
    @wgrathwohl
    Aug 3, 2022
    Very happy to see such rapid progress in gradient-based samplers for discrete distributions! Some recent highlights include: arxiv.org/abs/2206.09914 arxiv.org/abs/2206.14897 arxiv.org/pdf/2208.00040… Very nice, elegant, and simple ideas all!
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    A Langevin-like Sampler for Discrete Distributions
    We propose discrete Langevin proposal (DLP), a simple and scalable gradient-based proposal for sampling complex high-dimensional discrete distributions. In contrast to Gibbs sampling-based...
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    billy bubba bingus-drumpfus
    @wgrathwohl
    Sep 9, 2021
    Finally made it to New York! It’s been real Canada. Thanks for the PhD (and the love of my life). Taking them both with me!
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    billy bubba bingus-drumpfus
    @wgrathwohl
    Jul 19, 2021
    So this happened! Yay
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    ICML Conference
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    Jul 19, 2021
    Replying to @icmlconf
    ICML 2021 Outstanding Paper Award Honorable Mentions: 2/4. Will Grathwohl, Kevin Swersky, Milad Hashemi, David Duvenaud, and Chris Maddison 📜Oops I Took A Gradient: Scalable Sampling for Discrete Distributions (Tuesday 9am US Eastern)
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    billy bubba bingus-drumpfus
    @wgrathwohl
    Aug 17, 2021
    excuse me, that's Dr. Dumbass to you
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    billy bubba bingus-drumpfus
    @wgrathwohl
    Nov 19, 2021
    Ye
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    billy bubba bingus-drumpfus
    @wgrathwohl
    Apr 25, 2023
    Thrilled that our paper "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" arxiv.org/abs/2302.11552 has been accepted to ICML 2023!
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    billy bubba bingus-drumpfus
    @wgrathwohl
    Nov 16, 2023
    Really excited for people to see why my publication output has been diminished over the last year or so. Many thanks to everyone involved blasting out our eardrums to make this happen!
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    Demis Hassabis
    @demishassabis
    Nov 16, 2023
    Thrilled to share #Lyria, the world's most sophisticated AI music generation system. From just a text prompt Lyria produces compelling music & vocals. Also: building new Music AI tools for artists to amplify creativity in partnership w/YT & music industry deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
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    billy bubba bingus-drumpfus
    @wgrathwohl
    Feb 23, 2023
    Super proud of this work with the amazing @du_yilun and my great colleagues and friends from Deepmind, Google, MIT, and INRIA @jaschasd @conormdurkan @sedielem @rob_fergus @robinstrudel @ArnaudDoucet1 Josh Tenenbaum. More info to follow soon.
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    Feb 23, 2023
    Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Compositional Generation with Energy-Based Diffusion Models and MCMC abs: arxiv.org/abs/2302.11552 project page: energy-based-model.github.io/reduce-reuse-r…
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