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