Machine-learning-nederland March 2022

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NeurIPS Debriefing - Scheduling Change
by Jack Mayo 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Dear all, Due to one of the speakers falling ill, we have had to reschedule some of the talks for today's NeurIPS debriefing. The new schedule is: Today, 14h00-16h30 This year’s meeting will be online, via zoom: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/84087666831<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuva-live.…> 14:00-14:30 Julia Olkhovskaya (VU) Efficient First-Order Contextual Bandits: Prediction, Allocation, and Triangular Discrimination<https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/9d684c589d67031a627ad33d59db…> by Foster, Krishnamurthy 14:30-15:00 Ahmad Hammoudeh (University of Mons, ISIA Lab & MAIA artificial intelligence Lab) On the Frequency Bias of Generative Models<https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2021/hash/96bf57c6ff19504ff145e2a32991ea96-Abs…> by Schwarz, Liao, Geiger 15:00-15:15 Break 15:15-15:45 Hidde Fokkema (UvA) Framing RNN as a kernel method: A neural ODE approach<https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/18a9042b3fc5b02fe3d57fea87d6…> by Fermanian, Marion, Vert, Biau Note that we are still allowing for 30 mins extra 'overflow time' on top of the schedule. For up to date information and an overview of past meetings, see www.timvanerven.nl/neurips-debriefing/<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timvan…> Best regards, Jack J. Mayo<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fjackjmayo.…> (j.j.mayo(a)uva.nl<mailto:j.j.mayo@uva.nl>) Tim van Erven<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timvan…> (tim(a)timvanerven.nl<mailto:tim@timvanerven.nl>)

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Reminder: NeurIPS 2021 debriefing, Tue March 15, 14h00-17h00
by Tim van Erven 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Dear all, This is a reminder fortomorrow's NeurIPS debriefing, wherein PhD students and/or senior researchers will briefly present the paper they found the most interesting atNeurIPS2021. The program will be entirely online, via zoom. *Tue March 15, 2022**, 14h00-17h00** ***This year’s meeting will be online, via *zoom*: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/84087666831 14:00-14:30 Mustafa Celikok (TU Delft) Bayesian Bellman Operators <https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/7180cffd6a8e829dacfc2a31b3f7…> by Fellows, Hartikainen, Whiteson 14:30-15:00 Julia Olkhovskaya (VU) Efficient First-Order Contextual Bandits: Prediction, Allocation, and Triangular Discrimination <https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/9d684c589d67031a627ad33d59db…> by Foster, Krishnamurthy 15:00-15:30 Break 15:30-16:00 Ahmad Hammoudeh (University of Mons, ISIA Lab & MAIA artificial intelligence Lab) On the Frequency Bias of Generative Models <https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2021/hash/96bf57c6ff19504ff145e2a32991ea96-Abs…> by Schwarz, Liao, Geiger 16:00-16:30 Hidde Fokkema (UvA) Framing RNN as a kernel method: A neural ODE approach <https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/18a9042b3fc5b02fe3d57fea87d6…> by Fermanian, Marion, Vert, Biau Note that we are allowing for 30 mins extra 'overflow time' on top of the schedule. The format is to have 2.5 hours of short talks (in English). It is not required to have attendedNeurIPS, and presenters would usually not present their own papers. Talks are generally quite informal, and we like to keep a friendly atmosphere, so this is an ideal opportunity for PhD students to gain experience in presenting. For up to date information and an overview of past meetings, see www.timvanerven.nl/neurips-debriefing/ <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timvan…> Best regards, Jack J. Mayo <http://jackjmayo.nl> (j.j.mayo(a)uva.nl) Tim van Erven <http://www.timvanerven.nl/> (tim(a)timvanerven.nl) -- Tim van Erven<tim(a)timvanerven.nl> www.timvanerven.nl

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Reminder: Thematic seminar: Tomer Koren, Fri March 11, 16h00
by Tim van Erven 11 Mar '22

11 Mar '22

Dear all, This Friday we have Tomer Koren from Tel Aviv University in the thematic seminar: *Tomer Koren *(Tel Aviv University, https://tomerkoren.github.io/) *Friday March 11*, 16h00-17h00 Online on Zoom: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/85690850169 Meeting ID: 856 9085 0169 Please also join for online drinks after the talk. * Benign Underfitting of Stochastic Gradient Descent* We study to what extent may stochastic gradient descent (SGD) be understood as a ``conventional'' learning rule that achieves generalization performance by obtaining a good fit to training data. We consider the fundamental stochastic convex optimization framework, where SGD is classically known to minimize the population risk at an optimal rate, and prove that, surprisingly, there exist problem instances where the SGD solution exhibits both empirical risk and generalization gap lower bounded by a universal constant. Consequently, it turns out that SGD is not algorithmically stable in any sense, and its generalization ability cannot be explained by uniform convergence or any other currently known generalization bound technique for that matter (other than that of its classical analysis). Time permitting, we will discuss related results for with-replacement SGD, multi-epoch SGD, and full-batch gradient descent. Based on joint works with Idan Amir, Roi Livni, Yishay Mansour and Uri Sherman. Seminar organizers: Tim van Erven Botond Szabo https://mschauer.github.io/StructuresSeminar/ *Upcoming talks: *Mar. 25, *Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi <https://mschauer.github.io/StructuresSeminar/#CesaBianchi>**, *Università degli Studi di Milano Apr. 22, *Tor Lattimore <https://mschauer.github.io/StructuresSeminar/#Lattimore>*, DeepMind Jun. 10,***Julia Olkhovskaya <https://sites.google.com/view/julia-olkhovskaya/home>*, Vrije Universiteit -- Tim van Erven<tim(a)timvanerven.nl> www.timvanerven.nl

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NeurIPS 2021 debriefing, March 15, 14h00-17h00
by Tim van Erven 02 Mar '22

02 Mar '22

Dear all, We have set a date and preliminary program for this year's (online)NeurIPS debriefing, wherein PhD students and/or senior researchers will briefly present the paper they found the most interesting atNeurIPS2021. *Tue March 15, 2022**, 14h00-17h00** ***This year’s meeting will be online, via *zoom*: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/84087666831 14:00-14:30 Mustafa Celikok (TU Delft) Bayesian Bellman Operators <https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/7180cffd6a8e829dacfc2a31b3f7…> by Fellows, Hartikainen, Whiteson 14:30-15:00 Julia Olkhovskaya (VU) Efficient First-Order Contextual Bandits: Prediction, Allocation, and Triangular Discrimination <https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/9d684c589d67031a627ad33d59db…> by Foster, Krishnamurthy 15:00-15:30 Break 15:30-16:00 Ahmad Hammoudeh (University of Mons, ISIA Lab & MAIA artificial intelligence Lab) On the Frequency Bias of Generative Models <https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2021/hash/96bf57c6ff19504ff145e2a32991ea96-Abs…> by Schwarz, Liao, Geiger 16:00-16:30 Hidde Fokkema (UvA) Framing RNN as a kernel method: A neural ODE approach <https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/18a9042b3fc5b02fe3d57fea87d6…> by Fermanian, Marion, Vert, Biau The format is to have 2.5 hours of short talks (in English). It is not required to have attendedNeurIPS, and presenters would usually not present their own papers. Talks are generally quite informal, and we like to keep a friendly atmosphere, so this is an ideal opportunity for PhD students to gain experience in presenting. For up to date information and an overview of past meetings, see www.timvanerven.nl/neurips-debriefing/ <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timvan…> Best regards, Jack J. Mayo <http://jackjmayo.nl> (j.j.mayo(a)uva.nl) Tim van Erven <http://www.timvanerven.nl/> (tim(a)timvanerven.nl) -- Tim van Erven<tim(a)timvanerven.nl> www.timvanerven.nl

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