Talks
Fall 2021

Generative Models for Sampling on Supports Inspired by Observed Data
Thursday, Sep. 30, 2021 4:00 pm – 4:40 pm PDT
Speaker:
Susan Holmes (Stanford)
Location:
Calvin Lab Auditorium and Zoom
Statisticians often use Markov chains to generate points that have a similar support to observed data. This poses several challenges: - the data themselves are discrete and are dense on the underlying manifolds and complex structures. - the data are not uniformly distributed on the manifolds. I will discuss these issues and some solutions provided that can be useful in applied problems.