February 8, 2017
Speaker: Victor-Emmanuel Brunel (Math)
Determinantal point processes (DPPs) are a very useful and elegant tool to model repulsive interactions, hence they have become very popular in data science and machine learning, among other fields. In a learning prospective, many estimators...
February 15, 2017
Speaker: Jehangir Amjad (LIDS)
Our goal is to estimate the true demand of a product at a given store location and time period in the retail environment based on a single noisy and potentially censored observation. We introduce a framework to make inference from multiple...
February 22, 2017
Speaker: Peter Krafft - talk canceled (Media Lab)
Today's LIDS & Stats Tea talk has been canceled - our apologies for any inconvenience.
March 1, 2017
Speaker: Shalev Ben-David (CSAIL)
I'll talk about some recent developments in the field of communication complexity. Specifically, I'll explain the concept of a lifting theorem, which connects the communication complexity model to the more tractable query complexity model...
March 8, 2017
Speaker: Alan Malek (IDSS)
Consider the following game-theoretic model of sequential prediction: at every round 1 through T, the learner plays an action, the opponent observes this action and plays a response, and the learner incurs the square difference as a loss....
March 22, 2017
Speaker: Jonas Mueller (CSAIL)
I will introduce principal differences analysis (PDA), a method for analyzing differences between high-dimensional distributions which operates by finding the projection that maximizes the statistical divergence between the resulting...
April 5, 2017
Speaker: Ilias Zadik (ORC)
In this talk we will focus on the sparse high dimensional regression Y=X\beta^{*}+W where X is a n\times pmatrix with i.i.d. standard normal entries, W is a n\times 1 vector with i.i.d. N(0,\sigma^{2}) entries and \beta^{*} is a p\times 1...
April 12, 2017
Speaker: Santiago Segarra (IDSS)
Advancing a holistic theory of networks necessitates fundamental breakthroughs in modeling, identification, and controllability of distributed network processes – often conceptualized as signals defined on the vertices of a graph. Under the...
April 19, 2017
Speaker: Ludwig Schmidt (CSAIL)
April 26, 2017
Speaker: Peter Krafft (Media Lab)
May 3, 2017
Speaker: Igor Kadota (LIDS)
May 10, 2017
Speaker: Diego Cifuentes (LIDS)
May 17, 2017
Speaker: Christos Thrampoulidis (LIDS)
