2020 - 2021

Past Talks

Date : 21 June, 2021
Speaker : Aryeh Kontorovich (Ben-Gurion University)
Title : "Functions with average smoothness: structure, algorithms, and learning" [paper]
Date : 14 June, 2021
Speaker: Francesco Orabona (Boston University, Boston, MA)
Title : "Parameter-free Stochastic Optimization of Variationally Coherent Functions" [paper]
Date : 7 June, 2021
Speaker : Anders Jonsson (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Title : "Planning in Markov Decision Processes with Gap-Dependent Sample Complexity" [paper]
Date : 10 May, 2021
Speaker : Omar Rivasplata (University College London)
Topic : "PAC-Bayes Analysis Beyond the Usual Bounds" [paper]
Date : 3 May, 2021
Speaker : Yijie Zhang (University of Copenhagen)
Topic : "On the Inconsistency of Bayesian Inference for Misspecified Neural Networks" [paper]
Date : 26 April, 2021
Speaker : Yijie Zhang (University of Copenhagen)
Topic : "Deep Coherent Exploration for Continuous Control" [paper]
Date : 19 April, 2021
Speaker : Omar Darwiche Domingues (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)
Topic : "A Kernel-Based Approach to Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning in Metric Spaces" [paper]
Date : 29 March, 2021
Speaker : Mohammad Sadegh Talebi (University of Copenhagen)
Topic : "Improved Exploration in Factored Average-Reward MDPs" [paper]
Date : 15 March, 2021
Speaker : Nikita Zhivotovskiy (ETH, Zürich)
Topic : "Distribution-Free Robust Linear Regression" [paper]
Date : 1 March, 2021
Speaker : Saeed Masoudian (University of Copenhagen)
Topic : "Improved Analysis of Robustness of the Tsallis-INF Algorithm to Adversarial Corruptions in Stochastic Multiarmed Bandits" [paper]
Date : 22 Feb, 2021
Speaker : Chloé Rouyer (University of Copenhagen)
Topic : "An Algorithm for Stochastic and Adversarial Bandits with Switching Costs" [paper]
Date : 15 Feb, 2021
Speaker : Yi-Shan Wu (University of Copenhagen)
Topic : "Prediction with Expert Advice with Branching Experts"