David Buchman

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Laboratory of Computational Intelligence (LCI) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (UBC). My academic supervisor is David Poole. I can be reached at davidbuc (at) cs (dot) ubc (dot) ca.

Publications

In Conferences:

David Buchman, David Poole.
Negation Without Negation in Probabilistic Logic Programming. [pdf] [long version coming soon]
Short paper in Proc. 15th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2016).

David Buchman, David Poole.
Representing Aggregators in Relational Probabilistic Models. [pdf] [pdf+appendix] [poster]
29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2015).

David Poole, David Buchman, Seyed Mehran Kazemi, Kristian Kersting, Sriraam Natarajan.
Population Size Extrapolation in Relational Probabilistic Modelling. [pdf]
8th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management (SUM 2014).

Seyed Mehran Kazemi, David Buchman, Kristian Kersting, Sriraam Natarajan, David Poole.
Relational Logistic Regression. [pdf]
14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2014).

Chia-Li Kuo, David Buchman, Arzoo Katiyar, David Poole.
Probabilistic Reasoning with Undefined Properties in Ontologically-Based Belief Networks. [pdf]
23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013).

David Buchman, Mark Schmidt, Shakir Mohamed, David Poole, Nando de Freitas.
On Sparse, Spectral and Other Parameterizations of Binary Probabilistic Models. [pdf] [poster] [BibTex]
15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AI-STATS 2012).

Kevin Swersky, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, David Buchman, Benjamin M. Marlin, Nando de Freitas.
On Autoencoders and Score Matching for Energy Based Models. [link] [BibTex]
28th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2011).

In Workshops:

Seyed Mehran Kazemi, David Buchman, Kristian Kersting, Sriraam Natarajan, David Poole.
Relational Logistic Regression: the Directed Analog of Markov Logic Networks. [pdf]
4th International Workshop on Statistical Relational AI (StarAI 2014), held at the 28th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2014).

David Poole, David Buchman, Sriraam Natarajan, Kristian Kersting.
Aggregation and Population Growth: The Relational Logistic Regression and Markov Logic Cases. [pdf]
2nd International Workshop on Statistical Relational AI (StarAI 2012), held at the 28th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2012).