IFDS Ideas Forum
2023-04-17 12:30 - 13:30, 2023-04-24 12:30 - 13:30, 2023-05-08 12:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)
Current research

SILO Seminar Series
2023-04-19 14:00, 2023-04-26 14:00, 2023-05-03 14:00, 2023-05-10 14:00
This semester we will be holding hybrid seminars, with both in-person and virtual (Zoom) participation. Pizza will be served for the in-person attendees.

IFDS Ideas Forum
2023-05-01 12:30 - 13:30

IFDS Annual Meeting
2023-08-01 - 2023-08-02 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Program Booklet
August 1

StartEndSpeakerTitle/Activity

9:309:45Welcome and Introduction

Faculty 30 Minute Talks

9:4510:15Ilias DiakonikolasProvably learning neural networks

10:1510:45Qin LiNN-training and ODE-constrained optimization

10:4511:00Break

11:0011:30Kevin JamiesonTowards Instance-Optimal Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning

11:3012:00Sebastien RochInverting random trees

12:001:45Lunch

1:452:15Ramya VinayakLearning from Diverse Data in Metric and Preference Learning

2:152:45Rina Foygel-Barber

2:453:00Break

3:003:30Ludwig SchmidtDataComp: In search of the next generation of multimodal datasets

3:304:00Break

4:006:00Poster Session

August 2

StartEndSpeakerTitle/Activity

Faculty 30 Minute Talks

9:009:30Rebecca WillettMathematical foundations of machine learning

9:3010:00Abel RodriguezSparsity and model selection:a unified perspective

10:0010:15 Break

10:1510:45Lise GetoorFoundations for Neuro-Symbolic Systems

10:4511:15Dmitriy DrusvyatskiyAiming towards minimizers: fast convergence of SGD for overparameterized problems

11:1511:30 Break

11:30 1:30Lunch

Postdoc 15 Minute Talks

1:301:45 Ahmet AlacaogluImproving the complexity of primal-dual coordinate algorithms

1:452:00Jeongyeol Kwon RL in latent environments via moment-exploration

2:002:15 Break

2:152:30Lijun DingFlat minima generalize for low-rank matrix recovery

2:302:45Jake SoloffBagging provides assumption-free stability

2:453:00Break

3:003:15David ClancyReconstructing mutation rates on binary trees

3:153:30Jasper LeeBeyond Worst-Case Optimality in Mean Estimation

3:303:45Break

3:454:00Steve MussmannExploratory set cover for data subset selection

4:004:15Ruhui JinOptimal experimental design via gradient flow

4:154:30Break

4:305:30Steve, Becca, Lise, MaryamPanel Discussion

SILO: Scalable Gaussian-Process Inference via Sparse Inverse Cholesky Factorization
2023-09-06 12:30 - 13:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Matthias Katzfuss

IFDS Ideas Forum
2023-09-11 12:30
The Deceptive Green Flamingos: a thought experiment on the complexities of AI alignment
Speakers: Dimitris Papailiopoulos / Nayoung Lee

SILO: A Statistical Framework for Private Personalized Federated Learning and Estimation
2023-09-13 12:30 - 13:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Suhas Diggavi, UCLA

IFDS Ideas Forum
2023-09-18 12:30
Peer diffusions over uncertain networks
Speaker: Alex Hayes

SILO: Detecting equivalence between iterative algorithms for optimization
2023-09-20 12:30 - 13:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Madeleine Udell, Stanford

IFDS Ideas Forum
2023-09-25 12:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Accelerating optimization over the probability measure space
Speaker: Shi Chen

SILO
2023-09-27 12:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Toward a grand unified theory of accelerations in optimization and machine learning
Speaker: Ernest Ryu

SILO: Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Accelerations in Optimization and Machine Learning
2023-09-27 12:30 - 13:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Ernest Ryu, SNU

IFDS Ideas Forum
2023-10-02 12:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Clustered Federated Learning from the Perspective of Interacting Particle System/The Expressive Power of Low-Rank Adaptation
Speakers: Sixu Li/Yuchen Zeng

SILO: Connections Between Replicability, Privacy, and Perfect Generalization
2023-10-04 12:30 - 13:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Jessica Sorrell, UPenn

IFDS Ideas Forum
2023-10-09 12:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Geometry-Aware Adaptation for Pretrained Models
Speaker: Nicholas Roberts

SILO: Distributional Shifts Problems and Distributionally Robust Solutions
2023-10-12 16:00 | Researchers’ Link, 330 N Orchard St, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
U Wash, Zaid Harchaoui

IFDS Ideas Forum
2023-10-16 12:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Stochastic Regularized Majorization-Minimization / Variance Reduction Beyond Minimization
Speaker: Hanbaek Lyu / Ahmet Alacaoglu

SILO: Example Selection and Post-Training Quantization
2023-10-18 12:30 - 13:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Christopher De Sa, Cornell

NSF TRIPODS GRAPFiCs Workshop
2023-10-19 - 2023-10-20

IFDS Ideas Forum
2023-10-23 12:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
A Theoretical Analysis of In-context Task Retrieval and Learning/On Squared-Variable Formulations (and LP)
Speakers: Ziqian Lin/ Lijun Ding

SILO: Understanding Deep Learning through Optimization Bias
2023-10-25 12:30 - 13:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Nati Srebro, TTIC

IFDS Ideas Forum
2023-10-30 12:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Human-in-the-Loop Out of Distribution Detection with False Positive Rate Guarantees
Speakers: Harit Vishwakarma/Ramya Vinayak

SILO: Balanced Filtering via Disclosure-Controlled Proxies
2023-11-01 12:30 - 13:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Emily Diana, TTIC

IFDS Ideas Forum
2023-11-06 12:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
TBD
Speakers: Joe Shenouda/Matthew Zurek

SILO: Leveraging Reviews: Learning to Price with Buyer and Seller Uncertainty
2023-11-08 12:30 - 13:30 | Orchard View Room, 330 N. Orchard Street, 3rd Floor NE, Madison, Wisconsin, 53715, United States
Ellen Vitercik, Stanford
