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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220502T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220502T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T200633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T162949Z
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SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum: RA Talk
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Liu Yang \n  \nSpeaker: Nayoung Lee
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-05022022/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:IFDS Ideas Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220427T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220427T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T203534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220119T210205Z
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SUMMARY:SILO: Dan Roy
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ifds.info/event/dan-roy/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:SILO
ORGANIZER;CN="Rob%20Nowak":MAILTO:rdnowak@wisc.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220425T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220425T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20230313T142207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T142207Z
UID:2437-1650895200-1650895200@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum
DESCRIPTION:IFDS RA talk
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-17/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220425T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220425T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T200633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T162700Z
UID:1765-1650889800-1650893400@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum: RA Talk
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sijia Fang \n  \nSpeaker: Shubham Bharti
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-04252022/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:IFDS Ideas Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220420T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220420T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T203534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220119T210107Z
UID:1798-1650457800-1650461400@ifds.info
SUMMARY:SILO: Misha Belkin
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ifds.info/event/misha-belkin/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:SILO
ORGANIZER;CN="Rob%20Nowak":MAILTO:rdnowak@wisc.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220418T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220418T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20230313T142207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T142207Z
UID:2436-1650290400-1650290400@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum
DESCRIPTION:IFDS RA talk
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-16/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220418T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220418T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T200633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T162353Z
UID:1764-1650285000-1650288600@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum: RA talk
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jiaxin Hu \n  \nSpeaker: Yuchen Zeng
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-04182022/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:IFDS Ideas Forum
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220413T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220413T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T203534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220119T205958Z
UID:1797-1649853000-1649856600@ifds.info
SUMMARY:SILO: Mihaela van der Schaar
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ifds.info/event/mihaela-van-der-schaar/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:SILO
ORGANIZER;CN="Rob%20Nowak":MAILTO:rdnowak@wisc.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220411T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220411T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20230313T142207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T142207Z
UID:2435-1649685600-1649685600@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum
DESCRIPTION:Not sure yet\, but I will come up with something
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-15/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220411T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220411T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T200633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T162129Z
UID:1763-1649680200-1649683800@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum:
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Vivak Patel
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-04112022/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:IFDS Ideas Forum
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220406T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220406T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T203520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220119T205834Z
UID:1796-1649248200-1649251800@ifds.info
SUMMARY:SILO: Jessi Cisewski-Kehe
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ifds.info/event/jessi-cisewski-kehe/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:SILO
ORGANIZER;CN="Rob%20Nowak":MAILTO:rdnowak@wisc.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220404T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220404T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20230313T142152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T142152Z
UID:2434-1649080800-1649080800@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum
DESCRIPTION:GALAXY: Graph-based Active Learning at the Extreme
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-14/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220404T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220404T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T200619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T162018Z
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SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum: GALAXY: Graph-based Active Learning at the Extreme
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jifan Xhang
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-04042022/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:IFDS Ideas Forum
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220330T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220330T123000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T203520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220325T192730Z
UID:1795-1648643400-1648643400@ifds.info
SUMMARY:SILO: Yong Jae Lee
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ifds.info/event/yong-jae-lee/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:SILO
ORGANIZER;CN="Rob%20Nowak":MAILTO:rdnowak@wisc.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220328T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220328T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20230313T142152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T142152Z
UID:2433-1648476000-1648476000@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum
DESCRIPTION:A Review of Neural Collapse
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-13/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220328T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220328T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T200618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T163036Z
UID:1761-1648470600-1648474200@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum: A Review of Neural Collapse
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Greg Canal \nAbstract: Neural Collapse is a recently discovered phenomenon in deep neural network training that describes class separation in the final network layers. When a classification network is trained past the point of zero training error\, it has been observed that the penultimate layer activations collapse to their respective class means\, the means themselves form a simplex equiangular tight frame\, and the final layer linear classifiers align with each respective mean. Neural collapse has been demonstrated both empirically on deep networks as well as theoretically on simplified models\, and has inspired new questions on generalization\, robustness\, and architecture design. In this talk I will review the original discovery of neural collapse\, as well as recent literature that expands on related questions.
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-03282022/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:IFDS Ideas Forum
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220323T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220323T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T203519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220119T205625Z
UID:1794-1648038600-1648042200@ifds.info
SUMMARY:SILO: Gitta Kutyniok
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ifds.info/event/gitta-kutyniok/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:SILO
ORGANIZER;CN="Rob%20Nowak":MAILTO:rdnowak@wisc.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220321T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220321T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20230313T142152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T142152Z
UID:2432-1647871200-1647871200@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum
DESCRIPTION:How to Make the Gradients Small in Convex and Min-Max Optimization
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-12/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220321T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220321T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T200618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T161728Z
UID:1760-1647865800-1647869400@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum: How to Make the Gradients Small in Convex and Min-Max Optimization
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jelena Diakonikolas
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-03212022/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:IFDS Ideas Forum
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220314T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220314T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20230313T142152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T142152Z
UID:2431-1647266400-1647266400@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-11/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220311T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220311T143000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220325T193738Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220325T194845Z
UID:1893-1647005400-1647009000@ifds.info
SUMMARY:ML-Opt @ UWash: Sean Welleck
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sean Welleck \nTitle: Constrained text generation through discrete and continuous inference \nAbstract: Neural text generation has shifted to generating text with large-scale\, general-purpose models coupled with generic inference algorithms. An important open question is how to efficiently offer control over generated text. We describe two algorithms for enabling control through inference-time constraints: (i) A*-Neurologic\, a discrete search algorithm for incorporating logical constraints through estimates of the future\, and (ii) COLD decoding\, which treats generation as continuous gradient-based sampling from an energy function that captures task-relevant constraints. Our algorithms can be applied directly to off-the-shelf models without the need for task-specific finetuning\, and result in strong performance on a variety of generation tasks.  
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ml-opt-uwash-sean-welleck/
CATEGORIES:MLOpt@UWash
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220309T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220309T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T203519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220119T205458Z
UID:1792-1646829000-1646832600@ifds.info
SUMMARY:SILO: Ulugbek Kamilov
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ulugbek-kamilov/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:SILO
ORGANIZER;CN="Rob%20Nowak":MAILTO:rdnowak@wisc.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220307T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220307T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20230313T142151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T142151Z
UID:2430-1646661600-1646661600@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum
DESCRIPTION:Multiscale inverse problem\, from Schroedinger to Newton to Boltzmann
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-10/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220307T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220307T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T200618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T155114Z
UID:1758-1646656200-1646659800@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum: Multiscale inverse problem\, from Schroedinger to Newton to Boltzmann
DESCRIPTION:Title: Multiscale inverse problem\, from Schroedinger to Newton to Boltzmann \nSpeaker: Qin Li\, Department of Mathematics \nDate + Location: 7 March (Monday)\, Orchard View Room \nAbstract: Inverse problems are ubiquitous. People probe the media with sources and measure the outputs. At the scale of quantum\, classical\, statistical and fluid\, these are inverse Schroedinger\, inverse Newton’s second law\, inverse Boltzmann problem\, and inverse diffusion respectively. The universe\, however\, should have a universal mathematical description\, as Hilbert proposed in 1900. In this talk\, we present a line of research results that unify all these inverse problems. Facing the IFDS crowd\, I’d like to ask the following question: how to integrate the mathematical equivalence into the optimization formulation for a more efficient algorithmic pipeline than the traditional PDE-constrained optimization? \nBio: Qin Li is an associate professor of mathematics at UW-Madison. Her research lies between scientific computing and PDE-constrained optimization.
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-some-ill-conditioned-and-well-conditioned-inverse-problems/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:IFDS Ideas Forum
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220325T194131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220325T200316Z
UID:1904-1646397000-1646400600@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS All-Hands: Zaid Harchaoui
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-all-hands-zaid-harchaoui-2/
CATEGORIES:Monthly All-Hands
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220302T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220302T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T203515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220119T205403Z
UID:1791-1646224200-1646227800@ifds.info
SUMMARY:SILO: Mario Figueiredo
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ifds.info/event/mario-figueiredo/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:SILO
ORGANIZER;CN="Rob%20Nowak":MAILTO:rdnowak@wisc.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220228T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220228T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20230313T142147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230313T142147Z
UID:2429-1646056800-1646056800@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum
DESCRIPTION:A Review of Iterate Retraction in First Order Optimization
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-9/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220228T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220228T000000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T200613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220119T201515Z
UID:1757-1646006400-1646006400@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum: RA Talk
DESCRIPTION:Jiaxin Hu & Yuchen Zeng
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-ra-talk/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:IFDS Ideas Forum
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220225T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220225T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220325T193820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220325T194938Z
UID:1896-1645792200-1645795800@ifds.info
SUMMARY:ML-Opt @ UWash: Krishna Pillutla
DESCRIPTION:Title: MAUVE: Measuring the Gap Between Neural Text and Human Text using Divergence Frontiers \nAbstract: As major progress is made in open-ended text generation\, measuring how close machine-generated text is to human language remains a critical open problem. We introduce MAUVE\, a comparison measure for open-ended text generation\, which directly compares the learnt distribution from a text generation model to the distribution of human-written text using divergence frontiers. MAUVE scales up to modern text generation models by computing information divergences in a quantized embedding space. Through an extensive empirical study on three open-ended generation tasks\, we find that MAUVE identifies known properties of generated text\, scales naturally with model size\, and correlates with human judgments\, with fewer restrictions than existing distributional evaluation metrics.
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ml-opt-uwash-zaid-harchaoui/
CATEGORIES:MLOpt@UWash
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220223T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220223T133000
DTSTAMP:20260418T101629
CREATED:20220119T203515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220119T205253Z
UID:1790-1645619400-1645623000@ifds.info
SUMMARY:SILO: Mengdi Wang
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://ifds.info/event/mengdi-wang/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
CATEGORIES:SILO
ORGANIZER;CN="Rob%20Nowak":MAILTO:rdnowak@wisc.edu
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