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Date:29 April 2025, Tuesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Exploring Data Quality Challenges with a Quick Tour of Statistical Inference and Machine Learning

In today’s data-driven landscape, harnessing vast and varied datasets provides unparalleled opportunities for knowledge extraction and informed decision-making. Yet, within…

Professor Grace YiUniversity of Western Ontario

Date:23 April 2025, Wednesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Controlling the False Discovery Rate in Transformational Sparsity: Split Knockoffs

Controlling the False Discovery Rate (FDR) with finite sample guarantee in a variable selection procedure is important for trustworthy and…

Professor Yao YuanHong Kong University of Science and Technology

Date:23 April 2025, Wednesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:11am, Singapore

Understanding the success of modern energy-based modelling

Energy-based probabilistic models are enjoying renewed popularity, given their success in applications to language and image processing. Modern methods for…

Postdoctoral Researcher Omar Chehab ENSAE Paris and CREST

Date:23 April 2025, Wednesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:10am, Singapore

Gaussian Approximation and Multiplier Bootstrap for Polyak-Ruppert Averaged stochastic approximation

We derive a Berry-Esseen bound for the multivariate normal approximation of the Polyak-Ruppert averaged iterates in the linear stochastic approximation…

Professor Alexey NaumovHSE University

Date:9 April 2025, Wednesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Propagation of Chaos for Mean-Field Langevin Dynamics and its Application to Model Ensemble

Mean-field Langevin dynamics (MFLD) is an optimization method derived by taking the mean-field limit of noisy gradient descent for two-layer…

Associate Professor Atsushi Nitanda Nanyang Technological University

Date:27 March 2025, Thursday

Location:S16-03-06

Time:2pm, Singapore

Model Averaging for Time–Varying Vector Autoregressions

This paper proposes a novel time-varying model averaging (TVMA) approach to enhancing forecast accuracy for multivariate time series subject to…

Associate Professor Yuying Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences

Date:26 March 2025, Wednesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Inference for Changing Periodicity, Smooth Trend and Covariate Effects in Time Series

Traditional analysis of a periodic time series assumes its pattern remains the same. However, some recent empirical studies in climatology…

Professor Cheng Ming-yen Hong Kong Baptist University

Date:19 March 2025, Wednesday

Location:S16-05-21

Time:3pm, Singapore

Current Status and Challenges of Statistical Literacy in Japanese Primary, Secondary, and High Schools

Subtitle: From the Perspective of Statistical Education Required at Universities In recent years, the importance of data science education at…

Specially Appointed Professor Seiji Maki Tokyo University of Science

Date:10 February 2025, Monday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Distributional learning: from methodology to applications

Estimating the full (conditional) distribution is crucial to many applications. However, existing methods such as quantile regression typically struggle with…

Postdoctoral Researcher Xinwei Shen ETH Zürich

Date:21 January 2025, Tuesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Modern Algorithmic Statistics: Reliability with Minimal Resources

Modern data science pipelines are often severely constrained in resources, both statistical (e.g., poor-quality input data due to outliers) as…

Research Fellow Ankit Pensia University of California, Berkeley
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