Seth Pate

Seth Pate

Teaching

NLP for Robotics (Fall, Spring 2022) -- I taught two semesters of an undergraduate research seminar, "Natural Language Processing for Robotics." Our curriculum was brazenly stolen from based heavily on Stanford's CS224N, but with applications in robotics. My students seemed happy enough, and I didn't make anyone learn the Viterbi algorithm. I received the department's "Outstanding PhD Teacher" award that year.

students in a robot lab

Projects

ppo_mol (2023) -- De novo generation of small molecules with transformers and reinforcement learning. Work done at Eli Lilly & co.

An overview graphic showing the pretraining and finetuning stages of ppo_mol.

“The wallpaper is ugly” (2023) -- Indoor localization using vision and language in the Matterport3D environment. Finetuned CLIP using related datasets, collected human validation data.

The overview diagram for the 'Wallpaper' project.

Publications