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SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum-Hanbaek Lyu
DESCRIPTION:UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: Seminars are hybrid in-person and via zoom.
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-11012021/
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:20211103T123000
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SUMMARY:SILO-Sebastien Roch
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URL:https://ifds.info/event/silo-sebastien-roch/
LOCATION:WI
CATEGORIES:SILO
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211105T133000
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SUMMARY:IFDS All-Hands: Kevin Jamieson
DESCRIPTION:Title: Instance Dependent Sample Complexity Bounds for Interactive Learning \n\n\n\nAbstract: The sample complexity of an interactive learning problem\, such as multi-armed bandits or reinforcement learning\, is the number of interactions with nature required to output an answer (e.g.\, a recommended arm or policy) that is approximately close to optimal with high probability. While minimax guarantees can be useful rules of thumb to gauge the difficulty of a problem class\, algorithms optimized for this worst-case metric often fail to adapt to “easy” instances where fewer samples suffice. In this talk\, I will highlight some of my group’s work on algorithms that obtain optimal\, finite time\, instance dependent sample complexities that scale with the true difficulty of the particular instance\, versus just the worst-case. In particular\, I will describe a unifying experimental design based approach used to obtain such algorithms for best-arm identification for linear bandits\, contextual bandits with arbitrary policy classes\, and smooth losses for linear dynamical systems. \n\n\n\nKevin’s website: https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jamieson/about.html \n\n\nZoom link:  contact organizer \n\n\n(The talk will not be recorded\, we hope you can join us live!)
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-all-hands-kevin-jamieson/
LOCATION:WI
CATEGORIES:Monthly All-Hands
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211108T123000
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CREATED:20210909T193019Z
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UID:1641-1636374600-1636376400@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum-Sushrut Karmalkar
DESCRIPTION:UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: Seminars are hybrid in-person and via zoom.
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-11082021/
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:20211110T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211110T123000
DTSTAMP:20260516T012650
CREATED:20210909T195350Z
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UID:1667-1636547400-1636547400@ifds.info
SUMMARY:SILO-Qiaomin Xie
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URL:https://ifds.info/event/silo-qiaomin-xie/
LOCATION:WI
CATEGORIES:SILO
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211115T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211115T130000
DTSTAMP:20260516T012650
CREATED:20210909T193127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211025T191740Z
UID:1643-1636979400-1636981200@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum-Jeffrey Covington
DESCRIPTION:UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: Seminars are hybrid in-person and via zoom.
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-11152021/
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/Los_Angeles:20211117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211117T130000
DTSTAMP:20260516T012650
CREATED:20210921T202912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210921T202912Z
UID:1680-1637150400-1637154000@ifds.info
SUMMARY:E & A SIG:
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URL:https://ifds.info/event/e-a-sig-2/
LOCATION:WI
CATEGORIES:E & A SIG
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211117T123000
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DTSTAMP:20260516T012650
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SUMMARY:SILO-Keith Levin
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URL:https://ifds.info/event/silo-keith-levin/
LOCATION:WI
CATEGORIES:SILO
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211122T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211122T130000
DTSTAMP:20260516T012650
CREATED:20210909T193245Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211025T191806Z
UID:1645-1637584200-1637586000@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum-Yuchen Zeng & Liu Yang
DESCRIPTION:UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: Seminars are hybrid in-person and via zoom.
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-11222021/
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:20211124T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211124T123000
DTSTAMP:20260516T012650
CREATED:20210909T195404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210909T195404Z
UID:1669-1637757000-1637757000@ifds.info
SUMMARY:SILO-Yudong Chen
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URL:https://ifds.info/event/silo-yudong-chen/
LOCATION:WI
CATEGORIES:SILO
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211129T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211129T130000
DTSTAMP:20260516T012650
CREATED:20210909T193353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211025T191831Z
UID:1647-1638189000-1638190800@ifds.info
SUMMARY:IFDS Ideas Forum-Sijia Fang & Yuetian Luo
DESCRIPTION:UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: Seminars are hybrid in-person and via zoom.
URL:https://ifds.info/event/ifds-ideas-forum-11292021/
LOCATION:Orchard View Room\, 330 N. Orchard Street\, 3rd Floor NE\, Madison\, Wisconsin\, 53715\, United States
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