Previous Conferences & Workshops

Mar
17
2020

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Sharp Thresholds and Extremal Combinatorics
Dor Minzer
10:30am|https://theias.zoom.us/j/360043913

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Mar
16
2020

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Feature purification: How adversarial training can perform robust deep learning
Yuanzhi Li
11:00am|https://theias.zoom.us/j/360043913

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Mar
11
2020

Mathematical Conversations

Gauge theory and low-dimensional topology
Boyu Zhang
6:00pm|Dilworth Room

Gauge theory studies partial differential equations with a large group of local symmetries, and it is the geometric language to formulate many fundamental physical phenomena. Starting in the 1980s, mathematicians began to unravel surprising...

Mar
11
2020

Theoretical Machine Learning Seminar

Improved Bounds on Minimax Regret under Logarithmic Loss via Self-Concordance
Blair Bilodaeu
4:00pm|Simonyi 101

We study sequential probabilistic prediction on data sequences which are not i.i.d., and even potentially generated by an adversary. At each round, the player assigns a probability distribution to possible outcomes and incurs the log-likelihood of...

Mar
10
2020

Theoretical Machine Learning Seminar

Your Brain on Energy-Based Models: Applying and Scaling EBMs to Problems of Interest to the Machine Learning Community Today
Will Grathwohl
12:00pm|Dilworth Room

In this talk, I will discuss my two recent works on Energy-Based Models. In the first work, I discuss how we can reinterpret standard classification architectures as class conditional energy-based models and train them using recently proposed...

Mar
10
2020

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Introduction to high dimensional expanders
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101

 

High dimensional expansion generalizes edge and spectral expansion in graphs to hypergraphs (viewed as higher dimensional simplicial complexes). It is a tool that allows analysis of PCP agreement rests, mixing of Markov chains, and construction...