Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem

Hello there, welcome to my website! I work as a senior machine learning research scientist at Layer 6 AI in Toronto, where I split my time performing fundamental AI research, as well as building and deploying machine learning models in the context of financial time series. I hold a PhD in Statistics from Columbia University, and a BSc in Applied Mathematics from ITAM in Mexico City.

My research focuses on deep learning, generative models, probabilistic methods, and manifold learning. I aim to bridge the gap between theory and practice by developing principled methods that are actually useful in the real world. Some highlights of my research include:

1. Studying the interplay between deep generative models and the manifold hypothesis. Among other benefits, viewing generative models through this lens: 

   • • • Reveals that as commonly used, maximum-likelihood lacks statistical consistency.

       • Elucidates why some generative models work better than others.

       • Explains why models sometimes assign higher likelihoods to out-of-distribution data than they do to training data, while also allowing to circumvent this problem for outlier detection.

       •  Allows to detect and alleviate memorization in generative models.

2. Showing that FID — the most popular metric for evaluating generative models of images — does not correlate with human assessments of realism, and that replacing the Inception network used to compute FID with DINOv2 addresses the issue.

3. Inventing a new exponential family of distributions, with both the univariate and multivariate versions having practical applications in deep learning.

I can be contacted at f"{my_first_name}.{my_last_name_before_the_dash}.{my_last_name_after_the_dash}@gmail.com".

Last updated on January 26, 2025

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