[Colloquium] Research at TTIC! Talk Announcement for Friday, May 24th

[Dawn Ellis]

When:     Friday, May 24th at Noon

Where:    TTIC, 6045 S Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room #526

Who:      David McAllester,  Professor at TTIC

Title:      The State of PAC-Bayesian Theory

Abstract:  This talk will present a summary of the current state of the art
in PAC-Bayesian theory. The most fundamental PAC-Bayesian (frequentist)
theorems will be reviewed.  With these theorems in mind, it will be argued
that there is a free lunch --- there are meaningful universal priors. Some
of Catoni's PAC-Bayesian theorems will also be reviewed.  These theorems
govern the generalization power of the discriminative PAC-Bayesian
posterior. Finally a PAC-Bayesian approach to the analysis of deep learning
dropouts will be presented.

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Research at TTIC Seminar Series

TTIC is hosting a weekly seminar series presenting the research currently
underway at the Institute. Every week a different TTIC faculty member will
present their research.  The lectures are intended both for students
seeking research topics and adviser, and for the general TTIC and
University of Chicago communities interested in hearing what their
colleagues are up to.

To receive announcements about the seminar series, please subscribe to the
mailing list: https://groups.google.com/a/ttic.edu/group/talks/subscribe

Speaker details can be found at: http://www.ttic.edu/tticseminar.php.

For additional questions, please contact Nati Srebro at nati at ttic.edu.

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*Dawn Ellis*
Administrative Assistant
773-834-1757
dellis at ttic.edu

TTIC
6045 S. Kenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL. 60637
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