Upcoming Events
Many events are currently organized online. Information on how to access these events can be found by clicking “more” below the respective entry.
- Tuesday, 10.08.2021, 15:00 (Online Event)
- Seminar Modern Methods in Applied Stochastics and Nonparametric Statistics
Darina Dvinskikh, WIAS Berlin:
Decentralized algorithms for Wasserstein barycenters (online talk)
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Online Event
Abstract
We consider the Wasserstein barycenter problem of discrete probability measures from computational and statistical sides in two scenarios: (i) the measures are given and we need to compute their Wasserstein barycenter, and (ii) the measures are generated from a probability distribution and we need to calculate the population barycenter of the distribution defined by the notion of Fréchet mean. The statistical focus is estimating the sample size of measures necessary to calculate an approximation for Fréchet mean (barycenter) of a probability distribution with a given precision. For empirical risk minimization approaches, the question of the regularization is also studied together with proposing a new regularization which contributes to the better complexity bounds in comparison with quadratic regularization. The computational focus is developing algorithms for calculating Wasserstein barycenters: both primal and dual algorithms which can be executed in a decentralized manner.
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Seminar Modern Methods in Applied Stochastics and Nonparametric Statistics
Host
WIAS Berlin
- August 23 – 27, 2021 (Schloss Dagstuhl)
- Workshop/Konferenz: Leibniz MMS Summer School
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Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Schloss Dagstuhl
Abstract
Fundamental and advanced aspects of ML methods are presented with the aim to enable the participants to apply such methods to their specific research problems. The topics that will be discussed include kernel methods and Gaussian processes, stochastic and robust optimization, deep Neural Networks. In addition to daily lectures, the participants will get the opportunity to become familiar with the presented methods in accompanying practical lab sessions.
Host
WIAS Berlin
- Wednesday, 15.09.2021, 11:30 (Online Event)
- Seminar Interacting Random Systems
Alexander Zass, WIAS Berlin:
Gibbs point processes on path space: existence, cluster expansion and uniqueness (online talk)
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Online Event
Abstract
In this talk we present a class of infinite-dimensional diffusions under Gibbsian interactions, viewed in the context of marked point configurations: the starting points belong to R^d, and the marks are the paths of Langevin diffusions. We use the entropy method to prove existence of an infinite-volume Gibbs point process and use cluster expansion tools to provide an explicit activity domain in which uniqueness holds.
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Seminar Interacting Random Systems (Online Event)
Host
WIAS Berlin