Fall 2020 Talks & Workshops
- October 1st, 11:30 am Central: Seminar – Babak Hassibi (California Institute of Technology) 
 Watch the Recording of Babak Hassibi’s Talk
 Title: “The Blind Men and the Elephant: The Mysteries of Deep Learning”
- October 6th, 4:00 pm Central: Seminar – Julia Gaudio (MIT)
 Watch the Recording of Julia Gaudio’s Talk
 Title: “Regression Under Sparsity”
- October 8th, 11:30 am Central: Seminar – Jason Lee (Princeton University)
 Watch the Recording of Jason Lee’s Talk
 Title: “Beyond Linearization in Deep Learning: Hierarchical Learning and the Benefit of Representation”
- October 13th, 4:00 pm Central: Seminar – Daniel Hsu (Columbia University)
 Watch the Recording of Daniel Hsu’s Talk
 Title: “Contrastive learning, multi-view redundancy, and linear models”
- October 15th, 11:30 am Central: Seminar – Quanquan Gu (UCLA)
 Watch the Recording of Quanquan Gu’s Talk
 Title: Learning Wide Neural Networks: Polylogarithmic Over-parameterization and A Mean Field Perspective
- October 29th, 11:30 am Central: Seminar – Francis Bach (INRIA)
 Watch the Recording of Francis Bach’s Talk
 Title: “On the Convergence of Gradient Descent for Wide Two-Layer Neural Networks”
- November 5th, 11:30 am Central: Seminar -Matus Telgarsky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
 Watch the Recording of Matus Telgarsky’s Talk
 Title: The dual of the margin: improved analyses and rates of gradient descent’s implicit bias
- November 10th, 4:00 pm Central: Seminar – Surbhi Goel (MSR NYC)
 Watch the Recording of Surbhi Goel’s Talk
 Title: Computational Complexity of Learning Neural Networks over Gaussian Marginals
- November 12th, 11:30 am Central: Seminar – Emmanuel Abbe (EPFL)
 Watch the Recording of Emmanuel Abbe’s Talk
 Title: Learning monomials and separation between deep learning and SQ
- November 19th, 11:30 am Central: Seminar – Rayadurgam Srikant (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
 Watch the Recording of R. Srikant’s Talk
 Title: The Role of Explicit Regularization in Overparameterized Neural Networks
- December 1st, 11:30 am Central: Seminar – Edgar Dobriban (UPenn)
 Watch the Recording of Edgar Dobriban’s Talk
 Title: On the statistical foundations of adversarially robust learning
- December 3rd, 11:30 am Central: Seminar – Andrea Montanari (Stanford University)
 Watch the Recording of Andrea Montanari’s Talk
 Title: The generalization error of random feature and neural tangent models
 
					