February 5, 2020
Maryam Aliakbarpour (CSAIL)
In this talk, we consider the sample complexity required for testing the monotonicity of distributions over partial orders. A distribution p over a poset is monotone if, for any pair of domain elements x and y such that x \preceq y, p(x) \leq p(y)....
February 12, 2020
Alp Yurtsever (LIDS)
Semidefinite programming is a powerful framework from convex optimization that has striking potential for data science applications. Even so, practitioners often critique this approach by asserting that it is not possible to solve semidefinite...
February 19, 2020
Muhammed Sayin (LIDS)
In this talk, we will analyze the interaction between intelligent and selfish agents in non-cooperative environments with a specific focus on the transmission of some private information among them. We will seek to quantify the ability of informed...
February 26, 2020
Jean Baptiste Seby (IDSS)
Building on the theory of causal discovery from observational data, we study interactions between multiple (sets of) random variables in a linear structural equation model with non-Gaussian error terms. We give a correspondence between the structure...
March 4, 2020
Anish Agarwal (LIDS)
A major bottleneck of the current Machine Learning workflow is the time consuming and error-prone engineering required to get data from a DB/warehouse so that an appropriately chosen prediction method can be applied to it. To address this challenge...
April 1, 2020
Kwangjun Ahn (LIDS)
Graph matrices are a type of random matrix which has the following properties: (i) The entries of the matrix depend on random input. Moreover, this dependence can be described by a small graph. (ii) The matrix (as a function of the input) is...
April 8, 2020
Benjamin Zhang (Center for Computational Science & Engineering and AeroAstro)
We propose a general framework to construct efficient sampling methods for stochastic differential equations (SDEs) using eigenfunctions of the system’s Koopman operator. Importance sampling for SDEs is typically done by adding a control term in the...
April 15, 2020
Jason Altschuler (LIDS)
We revisit Matrix Balancing, a pre-conditioning task used ubiquitously for computing eigenvalues and matrix exponentials. Since 1960, Osborne's algorithm has been the practitioners' algorithm of choice, and is now implemented in most numerical...
April 22, 2020
Jason Cheuk Nam Liang (LIDS & ORC)
Motivated by the availability of the massive amount of real-time data in online advertising markets, we study a dynamic pricing problem for repeated contextual second-price auctions with strategic buyers whose goals are to maximize their long-term...
April 29, 2020
Mehdi Jafari (LIDS)
Redox flow battery (RFB) is one of the emerging technologies in the energy storage systems area. Different chemistries of this technology shows promising performance and lifetime features that can potentially compete with Li-ion batteries in...
May 6, 2020
Rajat Talak (LIDS)
Rajat will discuss a new framework of uncertainty variables to model uncertainty. An uncertainty variable is characterized by a set in which its realization is bound to lie. Conditional uncertainty, on the other hand, is characterized by a set-map,...
