Adam Wierman

Glad to have written on @HarvardBiz Too often we focus on easily measurable metrics like the total water & carbon. But, AI's environmental impacts disproportionately affect communities. We need equity for environmentally responsible AI. @AdamWierman hbr.org/2024/07/the-un…

Excited to share that "Online Policy Optimization in Unknown Nonlinear Systems" is accepted to #COLT2024! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.13009 This work introduces a new bridge between online learning and adaptive control. An important finding in adaptive control is that one often doesn't need to converge to the correct model in order to perform well. In contrast, online learning for control generally requires knowing or converging to the correct model. This work develops a meta-framework that can bridge this divide. The resulting algorithms enjoy regret guarantees that do not depend on converging to the correct model, and are also very practical to implement (we have follow-up work that uses the approach for real-time agile robotic control). We hope it's a significant step towards unifying the foundations of adaptive control and online learning. This work was led by Yiheng Lin (yihenglin97.github.io) and James Preiss (jamespreiss.com), with also contributions from Fengze Xie, Emile Anand, @SoonJoChung, myself, and @AdamWierman.

Excited to be a part of this team!

🧵 Thrilled to announce the #ICML RL workshop 'Aligning RL Experimentalists and Theorists'! We will have several talks and a panel delivered by a super lineup of speakers: @white_martha, @ShamKakade6, @yayitsamyzhang, Dylan Foster, Niao He, @svlevine, and @MengdiWang10. 1/3

Graduate and undergraduate students (even w/o a paper at the conference) wishing to attend ACM SIGMETRICS / IFIP Performance 2024 (June 10-14, 2024 in Venice, Italy) can apply for a student grant until April 29, 2024 at: sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2024… #sigmetrics #performance #students

Registration is open for ACM SIGMETRICS / IFIP Performance 2024 (June 10-14, 2024 in Venice, Italy) at sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2024… The early registration deadline is May 15. #sigmetrics #performance #analysis #measurement

One teaser @umutsimsekli gave, see also the Neurips talk of @AdamWierman in link below, is the following: suppose A,B are normally distributed and you want to maximize E[Ax^2+Bx] with stochastic gradient descent, unit batch size 1/4

So excited to finally be able to share a project I have been helping to launch over the past few years... It's a fantastic team tackling an ambitious and important goal techcrunch.com/2024/03/11/sip…

California recognizes the need of environmentally equitable AI in the State of CA Report! @AdamWierman "... stakeholders also highlighted the need for reducing environmental impacts of GenAI use and ensuring environmental costs are equitably distributed." govops.ca.gov/wp-content/upl…

@Caltech invites faculty applications in all areas related to Information, Systems and Computing (including AI and AI-adjacent fields). applications.caltech.edu/job/systems Deadline for full consideration is December 15, 2023

Data centers should schedule their energy use, looking beyond batch jobs and bitcoin mining, which offer flexibility but not at scales needed to align large datacenter demand with intermittent carbon-free supply. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/art…

Glad to see our work is starting to influence tech policies, incl curation by many think tanks & the more recent inclusion by experts in their written evidence to the UK Parliament House of Lords as a potential way to mitigate AI’s environmental toll & inequity! @AdamWierman

[SNAPP Seminar] SNAPP Seminar Series Fall 2023 schedule: Isaac Grosof, October 9; Emina Soljanin, October 23; Lei Ying, November 6; Shane Henderson, November 20; Hongseok Namkoong, December 4; Lightning Talks, December 11; For more details, please visit: sites.google.com/view/snappsemi…

The ACM SIGMETRICS / IFIP Performance 2024 conference will be held June 10-14, 2024 in Venice, Italy. Fall submission deadlines are Oct 4 (abstract) and Oct 11 (paper): bit.ly/3NP9k7N #sigmetrics #performance #analysis #measurement

Congrats @SunghoShinSS

First AIM workshop in our new location, and the spectacular views seem to be working some kind of magic. We put out the happy hour wine at 5pm as usual, but closing in on 6pm this group was still going...

How to distribute AI’s environmental cost equitably across different regions and make AI truly responsible? ⁦⁦@DavidDanelski⁩ ⁦@AdamWierman⁩ ⁦@UCRiverside⁩ AI creates new environmental injustices, but there’s a fix | News news.ucr.edu/articles/2023/…

You’ve heard of AI’s algorithmic inequity. But what about its environmental inequity? @renshaolei explains how AI’s environmental costs are not evenly distributed and can be disproportionately higher in certain regions than in others. themarkup.org/hello-world/20…

Really excited about this new line of work with Pengfei Li, Jianyi Yang, and @renshaolei

ACM SIGMETRICS 2023: the conference starts on June 19 in Orlando, please check out the exciting program this year: sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2023…