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Modern Paradigms in Generalization Boot Camp

Program
Modern Paradigms in Generalization
Location

Calvin Lab Auditorium

Date
Tuesday, Aug. 27 – Friday, Aug. 30, 2024
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8:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
8:45 – 10 a.m.
Modern paradigms of generalization, the heliocentric model of Aristarchus, gradient descent is a lazy scientist, and other stories
Matus Telgarsky (Courant Institute, NYU)
10 – 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 – 11:30 a.m.
Towards Understanding Generalization Properties of Score-Based Losses
Andrej Risteski (Carnegie Mellon University)
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Overview of Statistical Learning Theory Part 1
Nati Srebro (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)
2:45 – 3 p.m.
Break
3 – 4:15 p.m.
Generalization in natural language processing
Alane Suhr (University of California, Berkeley)
4:15 – 5 p.m.
Reception
8:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
8:45 – 10 a.m.
Prediction, Generalization, Complexity: Revisiting the Classical View from Statistics Part 1
Ryan Tibshirani (University of California, Berkeley)
10 – 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 – 11:30 a.m.
Robust Optimization and Generalization
John Duchi (Stanford University)
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
1 – 2:15 p.m.
An overview of classical robust statistics and generalizations to the future
Po-Ling Loh (University of Cambridge)
2:15 – 2:30 p.m.
Break
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Prediction, Generalization, Complexity: Revisiting the Classical View from Statistics Part 2
Ryan Tibshirani (University of California, Berkeley)
3:30 – 3:45 p.m.
Break
3:45 – 4:45 p.m.
Overview of Statistical Learning Theory Part 2
Nati Srebro (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)
8:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
8:45 – 10 a.m.
Statistical Limits of Causal Inference
Sivaraman Balakrishnan (Carnegie Mellon University)
10 – 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 – 11:30 a.m.
TBD
Zico Kolter (CMU Bosch)
11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
12:45 – 2 p.m.
Learning probability distributions; what can, what can't be done (virtual)
Shai Ben-David (University of Waterloo)
2 – 2:15 p.m.
Break
2:15 – 3:30 p.m.
Understanding Generalization from Pre-training Loss to Downstream Tasks
Tengyu Ma (Stanford University)
3:30 – 3:45 p.m.
Break
3:45 – 5 p.m.
A Theory of Multi-objective Machine Learning
Nika Haghtalab (University of California, Berkeley)
8:30 – 8:45 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
8:45 – 10 a.m.
Reconsidering Overfitting in the Age of Overparameterized Models (virtual)
Fanny Yang (ETH Zurich)
10 – 10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15 – 11:30 a.m.
The elusive generalization: classical bounds to double descent to grokking
Misha Belkin (University of California, San Diego)
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
1:30 – 2:45 p.m.
Measures of relatedness in domain adaptation and related problems.
Samory Kpotufe (Columbia University)
2:45 – 3 p.m.
Break
3 – 4:45 p.m.
Above Average-Case Analysis
Ankur Moitra (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
4:45 – 5 p.m.
Closing
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