Date:10 February 2025, Monday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:3pm, Singapore
Distributional learning: from methodology to applicationsEstimating the full (conditional) distribution is crucial to many applications. However, existing methods such as quantile regression typically struggle with…
Date:21 January 2025, Tuesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:3pm, Singapore
Modern Algorithmic Statistics: Reliability with Minimal ResourcesModern data science pipelines are often severely constrained in resources, both statistical (e.g., poor-quality input data due to outliers) as…
Date:16 January 2025, Thursday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:3pm, Singapore
Genome-wide genetic models for association, heritability analyses and predictionGenome-wide genetic models for outcomes of interest such as a disease state have been widely used, and have led to…
Date:15 January 2025, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:3pm, Singapore
Data Science: Where Statistics Meets OptimizationModern data science spans various parts of computer science, mathematics, and applications. This talk will bring a sharp focus on…
Date:14 January 2025, Tuesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:3pm, Singapore
Recent advances in Bayesian optimization for the physical sciencesWith advances in scientific computing, computer simulations are increasingly used for investigating complex physical phenomena. For many such applications, scientific…
Date:9 January 2025, Thursday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:3pm, Singapore
Root Cause DiscoveryAlthough the statistical literature on causality is more focused on forward causal questions about the effects of causes, reverse causal…
Date:19 December 2024, Thursday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:10am, Singapore
Flat minima generalize for low-rank matrix recoveryEmpirical evidence suggests that for a variety of overparameterized nonlinear models, most notably in neural network training, the growth of…
Date:9 December 2024, Monday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:3pm, Singapore
Posterior Conformal PredictionConformal prediction is a popular technique for constructing prediction intervals with distribution-free coverage guarantees. The coverage is marginal, holding on…
Date:4 December 2024, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:3.15 pm, Singapore
Sampling meets machine learning: from Sequential Monte Carlo to generative modelsSampling is one of the most fundamental problems in computational inference. Beyond Bayesian statistics, it has numerous applications in modern…
Date:6 December 2024, Friday
Location:S16-05-21
Time:2.30pm, Singapore
Towards modern datasets: laying mathematical foundations to streamline machine learningDatasets are central to the development of statistical learning theory, and the evolution of models. The burgeoning success of modern…