Aditya Grover

I am a research scientist in the Core ML team at Facebook AI Research. I also collaborate with Pieter Abbeel at UC Berkeley as a visiting postdoctoral researcher. In Fall 2021, I will join UCLA as an assistant professor of computer science.

My research is centered around the following question: How do we develop artificial agents that can effectively reason under statistical and computational constraints in the real world? To this end, I focus on machine learning for probabilistic and causal inference, representation learning in high dimensions, and decision making under uncertainty. I am also interested in grounding this research in real-world applications in science and sustainability.

Previously, I completed my PhD at Stanford University (2020) and my bachelors at IIT Delhi (2015), both in computer science. During my PhD, I spent wonderful summers interning at Google Brain, Microsoft Research, and OpenAI. At Stanford, I created and taught a new course on Deep Generative Models with my advisor Stefano Ermon.

Contact: aditya.grover1 at gmail.com

Selected Awards

• Google-Simons Institute Research Fellowship (2020) [Press]
• Gores Award (2020) [Press 1, 2]
  Stanford's highest award for teaching excellence for faculty and students. Given to 1-2 students in the entire university.
• Stanford Centennial Award (2020) [Press]
• Lieberman Fellowship (2019-20) [Press]
• Stanford Data Science Scholarship (2018-20) [Press]
• Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship (2017-19) [Press]
• Best Paper Award at the International Workshop on Statistical Relational AI held at IJCAI (2016) [Press]
• Best Undergraduate Thesis Award at IIT Delhi (2015)

Preprints

• Pretrained Transformers as Universal Computation Engines
  Kevin Lu, Aditya Grover, Pieter Abbeel, Igor Mordatch
  [paper][code][blog][press][video (courtesy: Yannic Kilcher)]


• PiRank: Learning To Rank via Differentiable Sorting
  Robin Swezey, Aditya Grover, Bruno Charron, Stefano Ermon
  [paper][code]

Journal and Conference Publications

• Reset-Free Lifelong Learning with Skill-Space Planning
  Kevin Lu, Aditya Grover, Pieter Abbeel, Igor Mordatch
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021.
  [paper][code][website]


• Anytime Sampling for Autoregressive Models via Ordered Autoencoding
  Yilun Xu, Yang Song, Sahaj Garg, Linyuan Gong, Rui Shu, Aditya Grover, Stefano Ermon
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021.
  [paper][code]


• Closed-loop optimization of fast-charging protocols for batteries with machine learning
  Peter Attia*, Aditya Grover*, Norman Jin, Kristen Severson, Todor Markov, Yang-Hung Liao, Michael Chen, Bryan Cheong, Nicholas Perkins, Zi Yang, Patrick Herring, Muratahan Aykol, Stephen Harris, Richard Braatz, Stefano Ermon, William Chueh
  Nature, 2020.
  [paper][code][press release][selected media]


• Fair Generative Modeling via Weak Supervision
  Kristy Choi*, Aditya Grover*, Trisha Singh, Rui Shu, Stefano Ermon
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2020.
  [paper][code][press]


• Permutation Invariant Graph Generation via Score-Based Generative Modeling
  Chenhao Niu, Yang Song, Jiaming Song, Shengjia Zhao, Aditya Grover, Stefano Ermon
  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2020.
  [paper][code]


• AlignFlow: Cycle Consistent Learning from Multiple Domains via Normalizing Flows
  Aditya Grover*, Christopher Chute*, Rui Shu, Zhangjie Cao, Stefano Ermon
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020.
  [paper][code]


• Bias Correction of Learned Generative Models using Likelihood-free Importance Weighting
  Aditya Grover, Jiaming Song, Alekh Agarwal, Kenneth Tran, Ashish Kapoor, Eric Horvitz, Stefano Ermon
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2019.
  [paper][code][blog]


• Graphite: Iterative Generative Modeling of Graphs
  Aditya Grover, Aaron Zweig, Stefano Ermon
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2019.
  [paper][code]
  


• Stochastic Optimization of Sorting Networks via Continuous Relaxations
  Aditya Grover*, Eric Wang*, Aaron Zweig, Stefano Ermon
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2019.
  [paper][code]
  


• Uncertainty Autoencoders: Learning Compressed Representations via Variational Information Maximization
  Aditya Grover, Stefano Ermon
  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2019.
  [paper][code][blog]
  


• Learning Controllable Fair Representations
  Jiaming Song, Pratyusha Kalluri, Aditya Grover, Shengjia Zhao, Stefano Ermon
  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2019.
  [paper][code][blog]
  


• Neural Joint Source-Channel Coding
  Kristy Choi, Kedar Tatwawadi, Aditya Grover, Tsachy Weissman, Stefano Ermon
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2019.
  [paper][code]
  Full Oral Presentation


• Streamlining Variational Inference for Constraint Satisfaction Problems
  Aditya Grover, Tudor Achim, Stefano Ermon
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2018.
  Extended version appears as invited paper in the special issue of Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment on Machine Learning, 2019.
  [paper][code]
  


• Learning Policy Representations in Multiagent Systems
  Aditya Grover, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Jayesh K. Gupta, Yura Burda, Harrison Edwards
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2018.
  [paper]
  Full Oral Presentation [acceptance rate: 212/2473 (8.6%)]


• Modeling Sparse Deviations for Compressed Sensing using Generative Models
  Manik Dhar, Aditya Grover, Stefano Ermon
  International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2018.
  [paper] [code]
  Full Oral Presentation [acceptance rate: 212/2473 (8.6%)]


• Evaluating Generalization in Multiagent Systems using Agent-Interaction Graphs (short)
  Aditya Grover, Maruan Al-Shedivat, Jayesh K. Gupta, Yura Burda, Harrison Edwards
  International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2018.
  [paper]


• Variational Rejection Sampling
  Aditya Grover*, Ramki Gummadi*, Miguel Lazaro-Gredilla, Dale Schuurmans, Stefano Ermon
  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2018.
  [paper][blog]


• Best arm identification in multi-armed bandits with delayed feedback
  Aditya Grover, Todor Markov, Peter Attia, Norman Jin, Nicholas Perkins, Bryan Cheong, Michael Chen, Zi Yang, Stephen Harris, William Chueh, Stefano Ermon
  International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2018.
  [paper][code]


• Flow-GAN: Combining Maximum Likelihood and Adversarial Learning in Generative Models
  Aditya Grover, Manik Dhar, Stefano Ermon
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2018.
  [paper][code][blog]
  Full Oral Presentation [acceptance rate: 417/3800 (10.9%)]


• Boosted Generative Models
  Aditya Grover, Stefano Ermon
  AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2018.
  [paper][code]


• Variational Bayes on Monte Carlo Steroids
  Aditya Grover, Stefano Ermon
  Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2016.
  [paper][spotlight video]


• node2vec: Scalable Feature Learning for Networks
  Aditya Grover, Jure Leskovec
  Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2016.
  [paper][code]
  Oral Plenary Presentation [acceptance rate: 70/784 (8.9%)]


• Contextual Symmetries in Probabilistic Graphical Models
  Ankit Anand, Aditya Grover, Mausam, Parag Singla
  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2016.
  [paper][code]
  Best Paper Award at the International Workshop on Statistical Relational AI (StarAI), 2016.


• A Deep Hybrid Model for Weather Forecasting
  Aditya Grover, Ashish Kapoor, Eric Horvitz
  Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2015.
  [paper][press Microsoft , Gizmodo]


• ASAP-UCT: Abstraction of State-Action Pairs in UCT
  Ankit Anand, Aditya Grover, Mausam, Parag Singla
  International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2015.
  [paper][code]


• A Novel Abstraction Framework for Online Planning (short)
  Ankit Anand, Aditya Grover, Mausam, Parag Singla
  International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2015.
  [paper]
  

Teaching

• Fall 2019: Instructor for CS 236: Deep Generative Models at Stanford
  
• Fall 2018: Instructor for CS 236: Deep Generative Models at Stanford
  
• Winter 2017: Head Teaching Assistant for CS 228: Probabilistic Graphical Models at Stanford
  
• Spring 2015: Teaching Assistant for CSL 333: Artificial Intelligence at IIT Delhi

Outreach

• At Deep Learning for Science School 2020, I presented a tutorial on Deep Generative Models. [slides][video]
• At NeurIPS 2018, Paroma Varma and I led the organization for a workshop on Relational Representation Learning.
• At IJCAI-ECAI 2018, Stefano Ermon and I presented a tutorial on Deep Generative Models.

Service

• Journal Reviewer: Nature, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Machine Learning Journal, Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, Transactions on Networking, Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
• Conference Senior Program Committee: AAAI (2021)
• Conference Program Committee: AAAI (2020, 2019), KDD (2019), UAI (2021, 2020, 2019)
• Conference Reviewer: AISTATS (2021, 2020), ICML (2020, 2019), ICLR (2021, 2020, 2019), NeurIPS (2020, 2019, 2018, 2016)
• Dean's Committee on Research in the Stanford University Academic Council (2016-17)