My Learning Progress as a PhD Student @RPI

I started my PhD journey from September 2024 at RPI under the advise of Prof. Qiang Ji. During the first few months, my mainly topics will be Uncertainty in Deep Learning.

Weekly Report

I present weekly report and discuss questions with Prof. Ji, and I will upload my material (mainly presentation slides) here.

2024 Fall

1. 2024/09/06: A Small Step into Bayeisan Deep Learning and Uncertainty
2. 2024/09/13: Read Hanjing's Work about UQ, UA
3. 2024/09/20: Hands-on | Deep Ensemble, MC Drop-out
4. 2024/09/27: Hands-on | UA via Vanilla Gradient and FullGrad
5. 2024/10/04: UA hands-on & Readings on Uncertianty❌Generative Models
6. 2024/10/11: Results about Uncertainy-guided Denoising & DAG-GFlowNet: understand paper and run the code & More Readings on Uncertainty
7. 2024/10/18: Readings about Diffusion Models❌Causal Discovery
8. 2024/11/18: Readings on Evidential Deep Learning and Reproduciton
9. 2024/12/09: Readings on Uncertainty Quantification for LLM: Input Clarification
10. 2024/12/16: Readings on Uncertainty Quantification for Single Models and Pre-trained Models
11. 2024/12/31: Readings about Credal Ensemble
12. 2025/01/17: Some Derivation and Experiments on Previous Readings

2025 Spring

13. 2025/01/25: A Derivation for the PNC-Predictor for UQ
14. 2025/02/04: Readings: UQ for Diffusion; Experiments for ICCV project; Experiments on Credal Ensemble (this has some problems)
15. 2025/02/11: UQ for Generative Models; Experimental Attempt on UQ for Diffusion Models
16. 2025/02/18: Reandings on Last-layer UQ; Credal Wrapper; UQ for Pretrained Models
17. 2025/02/25: Readings on Analysis of UQ methods; Reproducing Credal Ensemble
18. 2025/03/04: Experiments on Credal Ensemble and Credal Wrapper; Experiments about UQ on Corrupted Images
19. 2025/03/11: Readings about Uncertainty Disentanglement; Experimental Results about Ensemble Size analysis; Analysis of Choosing the p in a Credal Net
20. 2025/03/18: Analysis of Choosing the p in a Credal Net; Ensemble of Saliency Maps and Feature Maps to do OOD detection ; Some experiments on exploring AU/EU relationship
21. 2025/03/25: Continuing Expermients about AU/EU wrt corruptions ; A simple experiments on disentangle features and uncertainty (failed) ; Paper about "uncertainty of thoughts"
22. 2025/04/01: A Tree which summarizes Uncertainty Quantification Methods from my perspective.
23. 2025/04/01: Reading about Uncertainty Disentanglement
24. 2025/04/08: An Experimental Design for Uncertianty Disentanglement and Some Results