Publications by Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

Planning for a Changing Climate without Accurate Predictions

Simulation is an informative tool to plan the design and renovation of engineering systems, but its use requires accurate inputs from the users. Inputs such as the unknown future operating conditions might be expected in a system’s lifetime, e.g., the futu ...

Taylor & Francis Group2021

SLANG: Fast Structured Covariance Approximations for Bayesian Deep Learning with Natural Gradient

Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

Uncertainty estimation in large deep-learning models is a computationally challenging task, where it is difficult to form even a Gaussian approximation to the posterior distribution. In such situations, existing methods usually resort to a diagonal approxi ...

NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS (NIPS)2018

SmarPer: Context-Aware and Automatic Runtime-Permissions for Mobile Devices

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan, Joana Catarina Soares Machado, Katarzyna Lucja Olejnik, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli

Permission systems are the main defense that mobile platforms, such as Android and iOS, offer to users to protect their private data from prying apps. However, due to the tension between usability and control, such systems have several limitations that oft ...

IEEE2017

Gaussian-Process-Based Emulators for Building Performance Simulation

Marilyne Andersen, Parag Rastogi, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

In this paper we present a novel emulator of a building simulator for the simulation-assisted design of high performance buildings. Our emulator is based on Gaussian-Process (GP) regression models. Such non-linear models are better suited than linear model ...

International Building Performance Simulation Association2017

Online Collaborative Prediction of Regional Vote Results

Patrick Thiran, Matthias Grossglauser, Vincent Etter, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

We consider online predictions of vote results, where regions across a country vote on an issue under discussion. Such online predictions before and during the day of the vote are useful to media agencies, polling institutes, and political parties, e.g., t ...

IEEE2016

Scalable Collaborative Bayesian Preference Learning

Young Jun Ko, Matthias Seeger, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

Learning about users’ utilities from preference, discrete choice or implicit feedback data is of integral importance in e-commerce, targeted advertising and web search. Due to the sparsity and diffuse nature of data, Bayesian approaches hold much promise, ...

2014

Variational Gaussian Inference for Bilinear Models of Count Data

Young Jun Ko, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

Bilinear models of count data with Poisson distribution are popular in applications such as matrix factorization for recommendation systems, modeling of receptive fields of sensory neurons, and modeling of neural-spike trains. Bayesian inference in such mo ...

2014

Fast Dual Variational Inference for Non-Conjugate Latent Gaussian Models

Matthias Seeger, Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

Latent Gaussian models (LGMs) are widely used in statistics and machine learning. Bayesian inference in non-conjugate LGMs is difficult due to intractable integrals in- volving the Gaussian prior and non-conjugate likelihoods. Algorithms based on variation ...

Omni Press2013