Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Date: 27th November 2023 Place: 3001   Zacharie Naulet (Université Paris-Saclay) "Frontiers to the learning (and clustering) of Hidden Markov Models" Abstract: Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are flexible tools for clustering dependent data coming from unknown populations, allowing nonparametric identifiability of the population […]

Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Date: 4th December 2023 Place: ZOOM   Anindya De (University of Pennsylvania) "Testing convex truncation"  Abstract: We study the basic statistical problem of testing whether normally distributed n-dimensional data has been truncated, i.e. altered by only retaining points that lie in some unknown truncation […]

Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Date: 22th January 2024 Place: 3001   Eugène NDIAYE (Apple Research) "Finite Sample Confidence Sets with "Minimal" Assumptions on the Distribution"    Abstract: If you predict a label y of a new object with $hat{y}$, how confident are you that ”y = $hat{y}$”? The […]

Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Date: 25th March 2024 Place : 3001   Vincent DIVOL (Université Paris Dauphine) -"Entropic estimation of optimal transport maps in the semi-discrete case"   Abstract: We study the question of estimating the optimal transport map T between two distributions P and Q, based on […]

Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Date: 28th March 2024 Place : 3001   Antoine MAILLARD (ETH Zurich) - From the theory of disordered systems to the mathematics of data science   Abstract: I will introduce a connection between statistical learning or high-dimensional inference, and models of statistical mechanics […]

Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Date: 3rd April 2024 Place : 3001   Baptiste Goujaud (Ecole Polytechnique) - t.b.a   Abstract:      Organizers: Jaouad MOURTADA (CREST), Anna KORBA (CREST), Karim LOUNICI (CMAP)   Sponsors: CREST-CMAP

Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Date: 27th May 2024 Place: Room 3001   Nicolas Schreuder (CNRS, Université Gustave Eiffel) - Efficient estimation of kernel mean embeddings   Abstract: Kernel mean embeddings are a powerful tool to represent probability distributions over arbitrary spaces as single points in a Hilbert […]

Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Date: 09th September 2024 Place: 3001   Etienne BOURSIER (INRIA) "Early alignment in two-layer networks training is a two-edged sword"    Abstract: Training neural networks with first order optimisation methods is at the core of the empirical success of deep learning. The scale of […]

Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Date: 16th September 2024 Place: 3001   Gil KUR (Université de Zurich) - TBA    Abstract:    Organizers: Anna KORBA (CREST), Karim LOUNICI (CMAP) , Jaouad MOURTADA (CREST) Sponsors: CREST-CMAP

Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Date: 7th octobre 2024 Place: 3001   Damien GARREAU (Université de Wuerzburg) - Are Ensembles Getting Better all the Time ?    Abstract:  Ensemble methods combine the predictions of several base models. We study whether or not including more models always improves their […]

Statistical Seminar: Every Monday at 2:00 pm. Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Date: 4th November 2024 Place: 3001   Marc HAUFFMANN (Université Paris-Dauphine) - TBA    Abstract:      Organizers: Anna KORBA (CREST), Karim LOUNICI (CMAP) , Jaouad MOURTADA (CREST) Sponsors: CREST-CMAP