Spencer Szabados

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, ON, Canada

I am currently working full time (2024.08 - Present) at hum.ai as a Machine Learning Engineer using diffusion models for remote satellite sensing and climate science.

My research interests are centered around generative modeling with an emphasis on diffusion models; I’m also interested in a variety of topics within optimization, probabilistic modeling, and rendering methods.

I hold a Master’s of Mathematics in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, where I was supervised by Yao-liang Yu working on Machine Learning Generative Models. I am a alumnus of the Vector Institute. Before this, I completed a undergraduate degree at the University of Manitoba in Applied Mathematics with Computer Science; where I was a member of the GADA Lab studying notions of Data Depth, supervised by Stephane Durocher.

Outside of research I enjoy cycling, camping, and some amateur photography. I am also an avid reader, biased towards hard sci-fi that provide interesting social political commentary.

Latest posts

Aug 20, 2022	Bayer Dithering
Jul 20, 2022	Perlin Worms

May 26, 2024	Fine-Tune Stable Diffusion Auto-Encoder

Selected publications

Diffusion Models with Group Equivariance

Haoye Lu , Spencer Szabados, and Yaoliang Yu

In ICML Workshop SPIGM , 2024

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@incollection{LuSY:2024,
  author = {Lu, Haoye and Szabados, Spencer and Yu, Yaoliang},
  title = {Diffusion Models with Group Equivariance},
  booktitle = {ICML Workshop SPIGM},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=65XylEuDLB},
}

CM-GAN: Stabilizing GAN Training with Consistency Models

Haoye Lu , Yiwei Lu , Dihong Jiang , and 3 more authors

In ICML 2023 Workshop on Structured Probabilistic Inference & Generative Modeling , 2023

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@inproceedings{LuLJSSY:2023,
  author = {Lu, Haoye and Lu, Yiwei and Jiang, Dihong and Szabados, Spencer and Sun, Sun and Yu, Yaoliang},
  title = {{CM}-{GAN}: Stabilizing {GAN} Training with Consistency Models},
  booktitle = {ICML 2023 Workshop on Structured Probabilistic Inference {\&} Generative Modeling},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=Uh2WwUyiAv},
}

Curve Stabbing Depth: Data Depth for Plane Curves

Stephane Durocher , and Spencer Szabados

In 34th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG 2022) , 2022

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@inproceedings{DurocherS:2022,
  author = {Durocher, Stephane and Szabados, Spencer},
  title = {Curve Stabbing Depth: Data Depth for Plane Curves},
  booktitle = {34th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG 2022)},
  year = {2022},
  pages = {121--128},
  url = {https://cccg.ca/proceedings/2022/CCCG2022.pdf},
}