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Kamesh Munagala - Group Fairness in Combinatorial Optimization

Consider the following classical network design…

From  Katie Gentilello November 17th, 2021 2 plays 0  

Vidya Muthukumar - Surprises in overparameterized linear classification

Seemingly counter-intuitive phenomena in deep…

From  Katie Gentilello November 1st, 2021 11 plays 0  

Anupam Gupta - Finding and Counting k-cuts in Graphs

For an undirected graph with edge weights, a…

From  Katie Gentilello October 21st, 2021 17 plays 0  

Aaron Sidford - Recent Advances on the Maximum Flow Problem

The maximum flow problem is an incredibly…

From  Katie Gentilello October 9th, 2021 21 plays 0  

Maryam Aliakbarpour - Distribution testing: Classical and new paradigms

One of the most fundamental problems in learning…

From  Katie Gentilello March 9th, 2020 31 plays 0  

Vedat Levi Alev - Improved Analysis of Higher Order Random Walks and Applications

Local spectral expansion is a very useful method…

From  Katie Gentilello February 18th, 2020 73 plays 0  

Kuikui Liu - Spectral Independence in High-Dimensional Expanders and Applications to the Hardcore Model

We say a probability distribution µ is…

From  Katie Gentilello February 3rd, 2020 28 plays 0  

Samuel Hopkins - Robust Mean Estimation in Nearly-Linear Time

Robust mean estimation is the following basic…

From  Katie Gentilello December 6th, 2019 17 plays 0  

Jelani Nelson - Some new approaches to the heavy hitters problem

In the 'frequent items' problem one…

From  Katie Gentilello December 3rd, 2019 22 plays 0  

Yuhao Yi - Fast Approximation Algorithms and Complexity Analysis for Design of Networked Systems

This talk focuses on network design algorithms

From  Katie Gentilello December 3rd, 2019 15 plays 0  

Nima Anari - Rapidly Mixing Random Walks via Log-Concave Polynomials (Part 2)

(This is Part 2, continuation of Tuesday's…

From  Katie Gentilello November 13th, 2019 38 plays 0  

Nima Anari - Rapidly Mixing Random Walks via Log-Concave Polynomials (Part 1)

A fundamental tool used in sampling, counting,…

From  Katie Gentilello November 13th, 2019 57 plays 0  

Ravi Kumar - Algorithmic Discrete Choice

In this talk we consider random utility models…

From  Katie Gentilello November 13th, 2019 16 plays 0  

Rong Ge - What 2-layer neural nets can we optimize?

Optimizing neural networks is a highly nonconvex…

From  Katie Gentilello November 12th, 2019 31 plays 0  

Umang Bhaskar - Partial Function Extension with Applications to Learning and Property Testing

In partial function extension, we are given a…

From  Katie Gentilello October 30th, 2019 2 plays 0  

Thomas Rothvoss - Linear Size Sparsifier and the Geometry of the Operator Norm Ball

The Matrix Spencer Conjecture asks whether given…

From  Katie Gentilello October 17th, 2019 45 plays 0