<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b>    </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">    Friday, September 29th at <b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">10:30am CT</b></font></font><br></font></div></div><div><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font face="georgia, serif" style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><br></span></b></font></font></font></p><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Where:       </b>Talk will be given <font style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font>at</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">                       TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                       5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Virtually:</b><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">  via Panopto </span>(<a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d64bd335-5220-4013-a0fe-b0810020e815" target="_blank">livestream</a><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">)</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b>         </font></font>David Iseri Inouye, Purdue University </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></p><div><p style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><b>Title:</b>   </span></font><span style="letter-spacing:normal">Towards Trustworthy ML via Distribution Alignment</span></font></p><div><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#000000"><b>Abstract:  </b></font>Distribution alignment has emerged as a cornerstone of trustworthy machine learning, finding application in fairness, robustness, causality, and explainability. Intuitively, distribution alignment is the natural complement of classification: while classification labels define what is important, alignment labels define what is not important. Although substantial progress has been made by extending deep generative models such as GANs, VAEs, flows, or diffusion models to distribution alignment, research often remains fragmented, scattered across specific applications and methods. By unifying alignment research along multiple dimensions, I aim to provide a cohesive perspective, present ongoing work, and outline future directions. Just as classification was the cornerstone of current ML, the unification and advancement of distribution alignment could become a critical tool for enabling the next generation of trustworthy ML.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><p style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><font face="georgia, serif" style="letter-spacing:normal"><font color="#000000"><b>Bio:</b> </font>Prof. David I. Inouye is an assistant professor in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. His lab focuses on trustworthy ML with a focus on distribution alignment, localized learning, and explainable AI. Currently, he is interested in advancing distribution alignment theory, algorithms, and applications such as causality, domain generalization, and distribution shift explanations. He is also interested in highly robust distributed learning algorithms on networks of devices, called Internet Learning. His research is funded by ARL, ONR, and NSF. Previously, he was a postdoc at Carnegie Mellon University working with Prof. Pradeep Ravikumar. He completed his Computer Science PhD at The University of Texas at Austin in 2017 advised by Prof. Inderjit Dhillon and Prof. Pradeep Ravikumar. He was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP).</font><br></p><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div></div><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif"><b>Host: </b><b><a href="mailto:saeed@ttic.edu" target="_blank">Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi</a></b></font></div></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">--<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span></span><br style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#3d85c6">Brandie Jones </font></b><div><div><div><font color="#3d85c6"><b><i>Executive </i></b></font><b style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><i>Administrative Assistant</i></b></div></div><div><font color="#3d85c6">Toyota Technological Institute</font></div><div><font color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></div><div><font color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></div></div><div><font color="#3d85c6"><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/" target="_blank">www.ttic.edu</a> </font></div><div><font color="#3d85c6"><div style="background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><span style="color:rgb(61,133,198)">Working Remotely on Tuesdays</span></div></div></font></div></div></div></div></div>