Statistical Machine Learning Reading Group

Carnegie Mellon University

Room: see below

Time: Wednesday 2:00 - 3:00pm


SCHEDULE:

Nov 20 Presenter: Aaditya Ramdas
Paper: Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing for High-Dimensional Regression (link)
Authors: Adel Javanmard, Andrea Montanari
Time/Location: 2-3pm, GHC 8102
Nov 13 Sum of Squares Graphical Models
Presenter: Zico Kolter
Time/Location: 2-3pm, GHC 2109
Nov 6 Mean-shift algorithms for clustering and manifold denoising (slides)
Presenter: Miguel Carreira-Perpiñán
Papers: see http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/mcarreira-perpinan/papers.html (search "shift")
Time/Location: 2-3pm, GHC 2109
Oct 30 Presenter: Jing Lei
Paper: Fantope Projection and Selection: Near-Optimal Convex Relaxation of Sparse PCA
Authors: Vincent Q. Vu, Juhee Cho, Jing Lei, and Karl Rohe
Time/Location: 2-3pm, GHC 2109
Oct 23 Presenter: Rob Tibshirani
Time/Location: 2-3pm, GHC 2109
Oct 16 A bandit tour of sequential decision making
Presenter: Remi Munos
Time/Location: 2-3pm, GHC 2109
Oct 9 Normal Means over Planted Clique Graphs
Presenter: Akshay Krishnamurthy
Papers: On Combinatorial Testing Problems (Addario-Berry et al.) (link)
Finding a Large Hidden Clique in a Random Graph (Alon et. al.) (link)
Time/Location: 2-3pm, GHC 2109
Oct 2 High-dimensional bootstrap
Presenter: Larry Wasserman
Paper: Central Limit Theorems and Multiplier Bootstrap when p is much larger than n (link)
Authors: Victor Chernozhukov, Denis Chetverikov, Kengo Kato
Time/Location: 2-3pm, GHC 2109
Sep 25 Uniform rates of convergence for k-means and (some) Gaussian mixtures
Presenter: Matus Telgarsky
Authors: Matus Telgarsky, Sanjoy Dasgupta
Paper: Moment-based Uniform Deviation Bounds for k-means and Friends
Time/Location: 2-3pm, GHC 2109
Sep 18 Presenter/author: Karolos Korkas
Paper: Breakpoint Detection of Nonstationary Time Series Using Wild Binary Segmentation (related reading)
Time/Location: 2-3pm, GHC 2109
Sep 11 Persistence stability for geometric complexes
Presenter: Frederic Chazal
Time/Location: 2-3pm, GHC 2109
Sep 4 Introductions, scheduling presenters, format discussion
Time/Location: 2-3pm, GHC 2109



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