Katrina Drozdov (Evtimova)

Deep Learning Researcher

News

  • Oct 2024. My reserach on emergent communication with adaptive compute at inference time was featured in the CDS Blog: "From Academia to Industry: How a 2018 Paper Foreshadowed OpenAI’s Latest Innovation".
  • Jul 2024. Excited to share that I defended my thesis: "Representation Learning with Regularized Energy-Based Models"! I am currently on the job market, looking for ML research roles. Open to discuss various kinds of opportunities!
  • Feb 2024. Serving as a reviewer at ICML 2024.
  • Nov 2023. Serving as a reviewer at AISTATS 2024.
  • Oct 2023. Serving as a reviewer at ICLR 2024.
  • Mar 2023. Serving as a reviewer at ICML 2023.
  • Jan 2023. Gave an invited talk on self-supervised learning at Prof. Leif Weatherby's course "Theory of the Digital".
  • Nov 2022. I'll be at NeurIPS 2022. Would love to chat about self-supervised learning, regularization, latent variable models, etc. If you're also around, do reach out.
  • Aug 2022. Sparse Coding with Multi-Layer Decoders using Variance Regularization is now published at TMLR!
  • Apr 2022. Selected as one of the Highlighted Reviewers at ICLR 2022.
  • Apr 2022. Serving as a reviewer at ICML 2022.
  • Oct 2021. Serving as a reviewer at ICLR 2022.
  • Sep 2021. Excited to be an organizer of the 2022 NYU AI School.
  • Jul 2021. Serving as a reviewer at NeurIPS 2021.
  • Mar 2021. Serving as a reviewer at ICML 2021.
  • Feb 2021. Serving as a reviewer at the Energy-based Models workshop at ICLR 2021.
  • Apr 2020. Happy to share that I passed my Depth Qualification Exam on the topic of "Energy based Learning & Regularized Latent Variable Models" with committee members Joan Bruna, Kyunghyun Cho, and Yann LeCun.
  • Jan 2020. Gave a talk at the CILVR seminar entitled "Self-supervised Learning & Sparse Overcomplete Representations of Visual Data".
  • Jan 2020. Looking forward to being a teaching assistant for Introduction to Machine Learning at Courant over the spring.
  • Feb 2019. Excited to share that I'll be interning at FAIR this summer.
  • Jan 2019. Happy to be a section leader for NYU's Deep Learning class this spring.

Publications

  • Evtimova, K., Shwartz-Ziv, R. and LeCun, Y. Video Representation Learning with Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures. In progress.
  • Zhu, J., Evtimova, K., Chen, Y., Shwartz-Ziv, R. and LeCun, Y. Variance-Covariance Regularization Improves Representation Learning. In submission, 2024. pdf
  • Evtimova, K. and LeCun, Y. Sparse Coding with Multi-Layer Decoders using Variance Regularization. Published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research, Aug 2022. pdf code
  • Evtimova, K., Drozdov, A., Kiela, D. and Cho, K. Emergent Communication in a Multi-Modal, Multi-Step Referential Game. Accepted as a poster at ICLR 2018. pdf code

Unpublished Work

  • Katrina Evtimova, 2020. Sparse and Overcomplete Image Representations. pdf
  • Katrina Evtimova, Andrew Drozdov, 2016. Understanding Mutual Information and its Use in InfoGAN. pdf code (won Best Deep Learning Project Award at the CDS Student Awards Ceremony in February 2017)