Nicholas Carolan

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I'm an engineer and researcher working on machine learning and AI safety. My interests lie in both building and understanding models that can solve fundamental problems. I currently train machine learning models at Google.

Previously, I have done AI alignment research through a fellowship at the Constellation Institute and completed a 20% project at Google that won a CVPR best paper award. I studied computer science at Amherst College.

Publications

Rich Human Feedback for Text-to-Image Generation. Youwei Liang*, Junfeng He*, Gang Li*, Peizhao Li, Arseniy Klimovskiy, Nicholas Carolan, Jiao Sun, Jordi Pont-Tuset, Sarah Young, Feng Yang, Junjie Ke, Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham, Katie Collins, Yiwen Luo, Yang Li, Kai J Kohlhoff, Deepak Ramachandran, Vidhya Navalpakkam. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 2024.
[ArXiv] [Blog]

• Winner of best paper award, oral presentation.

Projects

COS302

• Self-studied Princeton's COS 302 (Mathematics for Machine Learning) using publicly available lectures and materials. Repository contains all my problem sets and programming assignments.

These Places Do Not Exist

• Fake census tracts for NeurIPS 2021 Workshop on ML for Creativity and Design.