Max Torop

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I am a fifth year PhD candidate in Prof. Jennifer Dy’s Machine Learning (ML) Lab at Northeastern University. I’m broadly interested in interpretable ML, self-supervised learning and large-language models (LLMs). I also collaborate with scientists at MSKCC, developing applications of ML to dermatology. I was a research intern at Apple during the summer of 2024, focusing on data valuation methods for LLMs.

Before coming to Northeastern I did my Masters in CS at WUSTL, where I developed deep learning methods for MRI processing as a member of Prof. Ulugbek Kamilov’s Computational Imaging Group. I recieved a B.S. in Data Science from the University of Rochester in 2018.

Outside of research I love to watch anime and read. Some favorites are One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist, Dororo, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Stormlight Archive, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and East of Eden.

News

Oct 24, 2024 Gave a talk on our work SmoothHess to Prof. Doshi-Velez’s DtAK lab at Harvard.
Apr 22, 2024 I’ll be joining Apple as an ML Research Intern this Summer!
Jan 19, 2024 Our work Boundary-Aware Uncertainty for Feature Attribution Explainers was accepted to AISTATS 2024!
Sep 22, 2023 Our work SmoothHess: ReLU Network Feature Interactions via Stein’s Lemma was accepted to NeurIPS 2023!
May 13, 2022 Our work using contrastive learning for spirometry accepted to ATS 2022 as an oral presentation.

Selected Publications

2024

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    Boundary-Aware Uncertainty for Feature Attribution Explainers
    Davin Hill, Aria Masoomi, Max Torop, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of The 27th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 02–04 may 2024

2023

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    SmoothHess: ReLU Network Feature Interactions via Stein’s Lemma
    Max Torop, Aria Masoomi, Davin Hill, and 3 more authors
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 02–04 may 2023

2021

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    Unsupervised Approaches for Out-Of-Distribution Dermoscopic Lesion Detection
    Max Torop, Sandesh Ghimire, Wenqian Liu, and 5 more authors
    NeurIPS Medical Imaging Meets NeurIPS Workshop, 02–04 may 2021

2020

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    Deep learning using a biophysical model for robust and accelerated reconstruction of quantitative, artifact-free and denoised images
    Max Torop, Satya VVN Kothapalli, Yu Sun, and 4 more authors
    Magnetic resonance in medicine, 02–04 may 2020