Date:23 April 2025, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:11am, Singapore
Understanding the success of modern energy-based modellingEnergy-based probabilistic models are enjoying renewed popularity, given their success in applications to language and image processing. Modern methods for…
Date:23 April 2025, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:10am, Singapore
Gaussian Approximation and Multiplier Bootstrap for Polyak-Ruppert Averaged stochastic approximationWe derive a Berry-Esseen bound for the multivariate normal approximation of the Polyak-Ruppert averaged iterates in the linear stochastic approximation…
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 EnsembleMean-field Langevin dynamics (MFLD) is an optimization method derived by taking the mean-field limit of noisy gradient descent for two-layer…
Date:27 March 2025, Thursday
Location:S16-03-06
Time:2pm, Singapore
Model Averaging for Time–Varying Vector AutoregressionsThis paper proposes a novel time-varying model averaging (TVMA) approach to enhancing forecast accuracy for multivariate time series subject to…
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 SeriesTraditional analysis of a periodic time series assumes its pattern remains the same. However, some recent empirical studies in climatology…
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 SchoolsSubtitle: From the Perspective of Statistical Education Required at Universities In recent years, the importance of data science education at…
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…