Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm exceptionally Date: 24th of January 2022 Place: en visio Roman Vershynin (University of California, Irvine) - "Mathematics of synthetic data and its privacy " Abstract: An emerging way to protect privacy is to replace true data by synthetic data. Medical records of artificial […]
Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Date: 31th of January 2022 Place: en visio Yihong Wu (Yale University) - "Self-regularizing Property of Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimator in Mixture Models" Abstract: Introduced by Kiefer and Wolfowitz 1956, the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator (NPMLE) is a widely used methodology for learning […]
Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Date: 14th of February 2022 Place: salle 3001 Francis BACH (INRIA & ENS) - "Statistics, Machine Learning, and Optimization with Kernel Sums-of-Squares" Abstract: In this talk, I will present recent work on representing non-negative functions with infinite-dimensional sums of squares, with applications to […]
Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Date: 14th of March 2022 Place: salle 3001 Tim Cannings (University of Edinburgh) - "Adaptive transfer learning" Abstract: In transfer learning, we wish to make inference about a target population when we have access to data both from the distribution itself, and from […]
Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Date: 21th of March 2022 Place: Amphi 200 Azadeh Khaleghi (Lancaster University) - "Inferring the mixing properties of an ergodic process" Abstract: In this talk I will introduce some of our recent results on the estimation of mixing coefficients from stationary ergodic sample […]
Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Date: 28th of March 2022 Place: Amphi 200 Julien CHHOR et Flore SENTENAC (ENSAE-CREST) - "Robust estimation of discrete distributions under local differential privacy" Abstract: Although robust learning and local differential privacy are both widely studied fields of research, combining the two settings […]
Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Date: 4th of April 2022 Place: Amphi 200 Mohamed (Simo) NDAOUD (ESSEC-CREST) - "Variable selection, monotone likelihood ratio and group sparsity " Abstract: In the pivotal variable selection problem, we derive the ex- act non-asymptotic minimax selector over the class of all s-sparse […]
Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Date: 2nd of May 2022 Place: salle 3001 Guillaume LECUÉ (CREST) - "A geometrical viewpoint on the benign overfitting property of the minimum l_2-norm interpolant estimator" Abstract: Practitioners have observed that some deep learning models generalize well even with a perfect fit to […]
Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Date: 9th of May 2022 Place: Amphi 200 Philippe RIGOLLET (MIT) - "Variational inference via Wasserstein gradient flows" Abstract: Bayesian methodology typically generates a high-dimensional posterior distribution that is known only up to normalizing constants, making the computation even of simple summary statistics […]
The Economics and Statistics Seminar: Time: 14:00 pm - 15.15 pm Date: 12 th of May 2022 Room 3001 Jannis KUECK (Universität Hamburg) "Estimation and Inference of Treatment Effects with L2-Boosting in High-Dimensional Settings" Abstract : Empirical researchers are increasingly faced with rich data sets containing many controls or instrumental variables, making it essential to […]
Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Date: 23th of May 2022 Place: salle 3001 Maxim Panov (Skoltech) - "Optimal estimation in Mixed-Membership Stochastic Block Models" Abstract: Community detection is one of the central problems in modern network science. It has numerous applications in the analysis of social and biological […]
Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Date: 30th of May 2022 Place: Amphi 200 Subhro GHOSH (National University of Singapore ) - "The unreasonable effectiveness of determinantal processes" Abstract: In 1960, Wigner published an article famously titled "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences”. In this talk […]