Phillip E. Pope

PhD Student
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park
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I am a PhD Student advised by David Jacobs, part of the Center for Machine Learning and the Institute for Advanced Computed Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

My research is on machine learning for quantum chemistry. Currently I am working on hybrid numerical/learning methods for solving the Kohn-Sham equations, which are of foundational importance in the search for new materials such as catalysts.

My work has spanned a number of other machine learning topics including robustness, data manifolds, explanability, and generative models.

Select Publications


Towards Combinatorial Generalization for Catalysts: A Kohn-Sham Charge-Density Approach
Pope P., Jacobs, D.
To Appear at the Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (Neurips 2023)
The Intrinsic Dimension of Images and Its Impact on Learning
Pope P., Zhu C., Abdelkader, A., Goldblum, M., Goldstein, T.
Published at The Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021)
Awarded Spotlight Presentation (3.8% overall acceptance rate), VIDEO
A Comprehensive Study of Image Classification Model Sensitivity to Foregrounds, Backgrounds, and Visual Attributes
Moayeri, M., Pope, P., Balaji, Y., and Feizi, S.
Published at the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2022)
Awarded Oral Presentation (4.2% overall acceptance rate)
Explainability Methods for Graph Convolutional Neural Networks
Pope, P.*, Kolouri, S.*, Rostrami, M., Martin, C., Hoffman, H.
Published at the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019)
Awarded Oral Presentation (5.5% overall acceptance rate)
Stochastic Training is Not Necessary for Generalization
Geiping, J., Goldblum, M., Pope, P., Moeller, M., and Goldstein, T.
Published at The Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2022)
Influence Functions in Deep Learning Are Fragile
Basu, S.*, Pope, P.*, Feizi, S.
Published at The Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2021)
Adversarial Robustness of Flow-Based Generative Models
Pope, P.*, Balaji, Y.*, Feizi, S.
Published at The 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2020)
Sliced-Wasserstein Autoencoders
Kolouri, S., Pope, P., Martin, C., Rohde, G.
Published at The Eighth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2019)
Learning Airfoil Manifolds with Optimal Transport
Chen, Q., Pope, P., and Fuge, M.
Published at the 2022 AIAA SciTech Forum (AIAA 2022)