Yannic Kilcher

Channel and publications

Yannic Kilcher's YouTube channel describes its videos as covering machine learning research papers, programming, issues in the AI community, and the broader impact of AI on society. The homepage highlights paper analyses, project videos and the ML News series, and lists a second channel, Yannic Out Of Distribution, for less formal content.²¹

Alongside the videos, Kilcher runs a Community Paper Feed, where anyone can submit an arXiv paper for manual review and sharing, and a Discord server that hosts regular paper discussions in voice chat.¹

Research and open-source work

Kilcher's homepage lists academic publications from 2016 to 2021, many co-authored with Thomas Hofmann, on generative models, adversarial robustness and neural search. They include The Odds are Odd (2019), a statistical test for detecting adversarial examples, written with Kevin Roth and Hofmann.¹³

Kilcher was a code owner of the LAION-AI Open-Assistant repository, a project to give everyone access to a chat-based large language model, which its README now marks as completed. Kilcher is second author of the OpenAssistant Conversations paper, which released a crowd-sourced, human-annotated assistant-style conversation corpus and was published in the NeurIPS 2023 Datasets and Benchmarks track.⁴⁵⁶⁷¹

Work and contributions

• Yannic Kilcher YouTube channel Show, channel or publication

  Videos about recent developments in machine learning research, including paper analyses, projects, and the ML News series.¹²

• OpenAssistant Open-source code

  Code owner across the Open-Assistant repository and second author of the OpenAssistant Conversations paper (2023), which released a crowd-sourced assistant conversation corpus.⁴⁵⁷

• The Odds are Odd: A Statistical Test for Detecting Adversarial Examples Published research

  Co-author, with Kevin Roth and Thomas Hofmann, of the 2019 paper proposing test statistics to detect adversarially manipulated inputs.³

Timeline

1. Nov 18, 2013Opened the Yannic Kilcher YouTube channel, according to the channel's about page.²
2. 2016Co-authored early papers on scalable stochastic optimization and audio-based bird species identification.¹
3. Feb 13, 2019Released The Odds are Odd, a statistical test for detecting adversarial examples, with Kevin Roth and Thomas Hofmann.³
4. 2021Co-authored Boosting Search Engines with Interactive Agents and other papers on neural search.¹
5. Apr 14, 2023Released the OpenAssistant Conversations paper and corpus as second author.⁷

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