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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

Date:16 January 2025, Thursday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Genome-wide genetic models for association, heritability analyses and prediction

Genome-wide genetic models for outcomes of interest such as a disease state have been widely used, and have led to…

Professor David BaldingUniversity of Melbourne

Date:15 January 2025, Wednesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Data Science: Where Statistics Meets Optimization

Modern data science spans various parts of computer science, mathematics, and applications. This talk will bring a sharp focus on…

Professor Johannes Lederer University of Hamburg

Date:14 January 2025, Tuesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Recent advances in Bayesian optimization for the physical sciences

With advances in scientific computing, computer simulations are increasingly used for investigating complex physical phenomena. For many such applications, scientific…

Assistant Professor Simon Mak Duke University

Date:9 January 2025, Thursday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Root Cause Discovery

Although the statistical literature on causality is more focused on forward causal questions about the effects of causes, reverse causal…

Postdoctoral Researcher Jinzhou Li Stanford University

Date:19 December 2024, Thursday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:10am, Singapore

Flat minima generalize for low-rank matrix recovery

Empirical evidence suggests that for a variety of overparameterized nonlinear models, most notably in neural network training, the growth of…

Assistant Professor Lijun Ding University of California San Diego

Date:9 December 2024, Monday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:3pm, Singapore

Posterior Conformal Prediction

Conformal prediction is a popular technique for constructing prediction intervals with distribution-free coverage guarantees. The coverage is marginal, holding on…

Postdoctoral Researcher Yao Zhang Stanford University

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 models

Sampling is one of the most fundamental problems in computational inference. Beyond Bayesian statistics, it has numerous applications in modern…

Dau Hai Dang National University of Singapore

Date:6 December 2024, Friday

Location:S16-05-21

Time:2.30pm, Singapore

Towards modern datasets: laying mathematical foundations to streamline machine learning

Datasets are central to the development of statistical learning theory, and the evolution of models. The burgeoning success of modern…

PhD Candidate Chen ChengStanford University
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