Jonathan Wilder Lavington

Researcher, Amazon

Joined

September 2020

Names

Jonathan Wilder Lavington (Preferred)

Emails

****@cs.ubc.ca (Confirmed)

****@colorado.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@amazon.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Homepage

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Amazon (amazon.com)

2024 – 2026

PhD student

Computer Science, University of British Columbia (ubc.ca)

2018 – 2024

MS student

Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder (colorado.edu)

2017 – 2018

Undergrad student

Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder (colorado.edu)

2013 – 2017

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Mark Schmidt

2018 – Present

PhD Advisor

Frank Wood

2018 – Present

Expertise

Reinforcement Learning

Present

Optimization for Machine Learning

Present

Generative Modeling

Present

Publications

Semantically Consistent Video Inpainting with Conditional Diffusion Models
Dylan Green, William Harvey, Saeid Naderiparizi, Matthew Niedoba, Yunpeng Liu, Xiaoxuan Liang, Jonathan Wilder Lavington, Ke Zhang, Vasileios Lioutas, Setareh Dabiri, Adam Scibior, Berend Zwartsenberg, Frank Wood
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Nearest Neighbour Score Estimators for Diffusion Generative Models
Matthew Niedoba, Dylan Green, Saeid Naderiparizi, Vasileios Lioutas, Jonathan Wilder Lavington, Xiaoxuan Liang, Yunpeng Liu, Ke Zhang, Setareh Dabiri, Adam Scibior, Berend Zwartsenberg, Frank Wood
- ICML 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
A Diffusion-Model of Joint Interactive Navigation
Matthew Niedoba, Jonathan Wilder Lavington, Yunpeng Liu, Vasileios Lioutas, Justice Sefas, Xiaoxuan Liang, Dylan Green, Setareh Dabiri, Berend Zwartsenberg, Adam Scibior, Frank Wood
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Analyzing and Improving Greedy 2-Coordinate Updates For Equality-Constrained Optimization via Steepest Descent in the 1-Norm
Amrutha Varshini Ramesh, Aaron Mishkin, Mark Schmidt, Yihan Zhou, Jonathan Wilder Lavington, Jennifer She
- Submitted to NeurIPS 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Vehicle Type Specific Waypoint Generation
Yunpeng Liu, Jonathan Wilder Lavington, Adam Scibior, Frank Wood
- 12 Apr 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Conditional Permutation Invariant Flows
Berend Zwartsenberg, Adam Scibior, Matthew Niedoba, Vasileios Lioutas, Justice Sefas, Yunpeng Liu, Setareh Dabiri, Jonathan Wilder Lavington, Trevor Campbell, Frank Wood
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Target-based Surrogates for Stochastic Optimization
Jonathan Wilder Lavington, Sharan Vaswani, Reza Babanezhad Harikandeh, Mark Schmidt, Nicolas Le Roux
- ICML 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Noise Is Not the Main Factor Behind the Gap Between SGD and Adam on Transformers, but Sign Descent Might Be
Frederik Kunstner, Jacques Chen, Jonathan Wilder Lavington, Mark Schmidt
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 16 May 2023
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Target-based Surrogates for Stochastic Optimization
Jonathan Wilder Lavington, Sharan Vaswani, Reza Babanezhad, Mark Schmidt, Nicolas Le Roux
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 16 May 2023
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Target-based Surrogates for Stochastic Optimization
Jonathan Wilder Lavington, Sharan Vaswani, Reza Babanezhad Harikandeh, Mark Schmidt, Nicolas Le Roux
- Published: 23 Nov 2022, Last Modified: 15 Feb 2026
- OPT 2022 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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