Weekly Reading Group
Upcoming
Seminar. Talk by Andrew Foong and David Burt: “On the Expressiveness of Approximate Inference in Bayesian Neural Networks”. [Paper]
Well-being chat.
Seminar. Talk by Blair Bilodeau and Jeffrey Negrea: “Relaxing the I.I.D. Assumption: Adaptively Minimax Optimal Regret via Root-Entropic Regularization”. [Paper]
Mutual feedback on ICML papers.
Catch up meeting.
Past Meetings
Seminar, unusual day! Erik.
Reading group. Qi Qian, Hao Li, Juhua Hu: “Efficient Kernel Transfer in Knowledge Distillation”. [Paper]
Seminar. Peter, Thomas. Uncertainty estimation for Bayesian Neural Networks using infinite-width nets.
Pre-ICLR paper discussion.
Reading group. Ben Recht: “A Tour of Reinforcement Learning: The View from Continuous Control”. [Paper]
Team work review for the past 4 months. Siddarth’s talk on functional regularization on the memorable past. [Paper]
Unusual day and time! Dimitri Meunier: “Meta Learning meets Variational Inference. Learning priors with guarantees”.
Feedback discussion on the new team webpage.
Talk by Benjamin Guedj: “A (condensed) primer on PAC-Bayesian Learning”. [Slides]
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Talk by François-Xavier Briol: “Stein’s Method for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning”. [Slides]
Research chat and virtual breakfast/lunch/dinner in gather.town.
Siddharth Swaroop: A survey on federated learning.
Happy Buzaaba and Fariz Ikhwantri: A survey on transfer learning. [Slides]
Lab members project overview and discussion.
Pierre’s grant presentation rehearsal and feedback.
Reading group. “Gradient descent for wide two-layer neural networks”. [Blog post]
Reading group. “Generalized Variational Inference: Three arguments for deriving new posteriors”. [Paper]
Reading group. “On the measure of intelligence”. [Paper]
Whole week: comments on ICML tutorials and talks.
Pre-ICML paper discussion.
Talk by Evgenii Egorov. “Involutive MCMC: one way to derive them all”. [Paper]
Talk by Giulia Denevi on Efficient Lifelong Learning Algorithms: Regret Bounds and Statistical Guarantees.
Internal kickoff meeting.
Talk by Peter Nickl on “Variational Bayes for Infinite Mixtures of Local Regressors with Robotics Applications”. [Thesis]
Talk by Gian Maria Marconi on Manifold Regression by Structured Prediction: methodology and applications. [Paper]
Feedback discussion on our NeurIPS submissions.
Talk by Thomas Möllenhoff on Flat Metric Minimization with Applications in Generative Modeling. [Paper]
Talk by Evgenii Egorov on MaxEntropy Pursuit Variational Inference. [Paper]
Reading Group. “Continual Deep Learning by Functional Regularisation of the Memorable Past”. [Paper]
Reading Group. Shalev-Shwartz: “Introduction to online learning”, Chapter 2 (end). [Paper]
Reading Group. Shalev-Shwartz: “Introduction to online learning”, Chapter 2. [Paper]
Reading Group. Shalev-Shwartz: “Introduction to online learning”, Chapter 1. [Paper]