Me
Khurram Javed

Pronounced Coup - Rum

mail (at) khurramjaved (dot) com

I am a PhD student at the RLAI lab advised by Prof. Rich Sutton. I'm interested in building algorithms for real-time continual learning for achieving goals in big worlds. In the past, I did my M.Sc with Prof. Martha White on Meta-learning representations for Continual learning, worked at MILA with Prof. Yoshua Bengio on Causality and at TUKL-SEECS with Prof. Faisal Shafait on document analysis and continual learning. I also represented my home country at 55th International Mathematical Olympiad , and XXVI Asian Pacific Mathematical Olympiad, receiving an honorable-mention and a bronze medal respectively.


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Papers

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SwiftTD: A Fast and Robust Algorithm for Temporal Difference Learning
K. Javed, A. Sharifnassab, R. Sutton

We propose a new algorithm for temporal difference learning that learns faster, and is more stable.

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Under Review

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Scalable Real-Time Recurrent Learning Using Columnar-Constructive Networks
K. Javed, H. Shah, R. Sutton, M. White

We propose an algorithm for scalable recurrent learning, and evaluate it on prediction problems on the Arcade Learning Environment (ALE).

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Scalable Online Recurrent Learning Using Columnar Neural Networks
K. Javed, M. White, R. Sutton

We propose an algorithm to approximates the gradient in for recurrent state learning, and meta-learning in O(n) operations and memory.

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Pre-print

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Learning Causal Models Online
K. Javed, M. White, Y.Bengio

We propose a method for learning models that do not rely on spurious correlations. Our work builds on IRM (M Arjovsky, 2019) except unlike IRM, it can be implemented online to (1) detect spurious features for a set of given features and (2) learn non-spurious features from sensory data.

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Pre-print

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Meta-Learning Representations for Continual Learning
K. Javed and M. White

We propose OML, an objective for learning representations by using catastrophic interference as a training signal. Resultant representations are naturally sparse, accelerate future learning and are robust to forgetting under online updates in continual learning.

Paper / Code / Talk / Poster
NeurIPS19

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Simultaneous Prediction Intervals for Patient-Specific Survival Curves
S. Sokota, R. D'Orazio, K. Javed, H. Haider and R. Greiner.

We propose a simple drop-in procedure for approximating the Bayesian credible regions of patient-specific survival functions that can be applied to many ISD models.

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IJCAI19

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Revisiting Distillation and Incremental Classifier Learning
K. Javed and F. Shafait

We isolate the truly effective existing ideas for incremental classifier learning from those that only work under certain conditions. Moreover, we propose a dynamic threshold moving algorithm that can successfully remove bias from an incrementally learned classifier when learning by knowledge distillation.

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ACCV18

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Real-Time Document Localization in Natural Images by Recursive Application of a CNN (Oral)
K. Javed and F. Shafait

We propose a computationally efficient document segmentation algorithm that recursively uses convolutional neural networks to precisely localize a document in a natural image in real-time.

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ICDAR17

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