Abner

My PhD work is in the area of Statistical Machine Learning. I study Structured Prediction models — e.g., Markov Random Fields or MRFs, Structured Support Vector Machines or Structured SVMs — with an emphasis on inference and learning algorithms for producing diverse predictions.

My advisor is Rob Rutenbar and I currently collaborate with Dhruv Batra and Pushmeet Kohli.

In my previous life I worked as a Hardware Engineer at National Instruments and Guet.

Publications

Abner Guzman-Rivera, Pushmeet Kohli and Dhruv Batra. DivMCuts: Faster Training of Structural SVMs with Diverse M-Best Cutting-Planes. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2013.
Abner Guzman-Rivera, Dhruv Batra and Pushmeet Kohli. Multiple Choice Learning: Learning to Produce Multiple Structured Outputs. In Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2012.
Abner Guzman-Rivera, Pushmeet Kohli and Dhruv Batra. Faster Training of Structural SVMs with Diverse M-Best Cutting-Planes. In Discrete Optimization in Machine Learning Workshop (DISCML-NIPS), 2012.
Dhruv Batra, Payman Yadollahpour, Abner Guzman-Rivera and Greg Shakhnarovich. Diverse M-Best Solutions in Markov Random Fields. In European Conference in Computer Vision (ECCV), 2012.
Jaesik Choi, Abner Guzman-Rivera and Eyal Amir. Lifted Relational Kalman Filtering. In International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2011.