ML Tea


Christina Ji, CSAIL MIT
Large-Scale Study of Temporal Shift in Health Insurance Claims
Speaker(s): Christina Ji
Date: Friday, September 15, 2023
Time: 4:30 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G882
Contact: Thien Le, thienle@csail.mit.edu

Matthew Levine,
Machine learning of model errors in dynamical systems
Speaker(s): Matthew Levine
Date: Friday, September 22, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: Room 32-370
Contact: Behrooz Tahmasebi, bzt@csail.mit.edu

Kwangjun Ahn, LIDS & EECS
Linear Attention Is (maybe) All You Need (to understand Transformer optimization)
Speaker(s): Kwangjun Ahn
Date: Friday, September 29, 2023
Time: 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Location: Room 32-882(Hewlett)
Contact: Thien Le, thienle@csail.mit.edu

Abhin Shah, CSAIL and LIDS
On counterfactual inference with unobserved confounding
Speaker(s): Abhin Shah
Date: Friday, October 06, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: Room 32-370
Contact: Sharut Gupta, sharut@mit.edu

Aldo Pacchiano, LIDS and CSAIL
The Dissimilarity Dimension: Sharper Bounds for Optimistic Algorithms
Speaker(s): Aldo Pacchiano
Date: Friday, October 13, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: 32-370
Contact: Sharut Gupta, sharut@csail.mit.edu

Xiangxiang Xu, CSAIL and LIDS
Feature Geometry and Multivariate Dependence Learning
Speaker(s): Xiangxiang Xu
Date: Friday, October 20, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: 32-370
Contact: Sharut Gupta, sharut@mit.edu

Lukas Schmid, CSAIL and LIDS
Semantics and Learning for Active Robot Perception in Dynamic Environments
Speaker(s): Lukas Schmid
Date: Friday, October 27, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: 32-G882 (Hewlett Room)
Contact: Sharut Gupta, sharut@mit.edu

Jongha Ryu, EECS/RLE, MIT
Operator SVD with Neural Networks via Nested Low-Rank Approximation
Speaker(s): Jongha Ryu
Date: Friday, November 03, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: Room 32-G882 (Hewlett Room)
Contact: Sharut Gupta, sharut@csail.mit.edu

Josh Vendrow, CSAIL MIT
The Journey, not the Destination: How Data Guides Diffusion Models
Speaker(s): Josh Vendrow
Date: Tuesday, November 07, 2023
Time: 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Location: Room 32-G882 (Hewlett Room)
Contact: Sharut Gupta, sharut@mit.edu

Sarah Cen, MIT LIDS
A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Trustworthy Algorithms
Speaker(s): Sarah Cen
Date: Friday, November 17, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: 32-G882 (Hewlett Room)
Contact: Behrooz Tahmasebi, bzt@csail.mit.edu

Vivek Gopalakrishnan, CSAIL MIT
Intraoperative 2D/3D Image Registration via Differentiable X-ray Rendering
Speaker(s): Vivek Gopalakrishnan
Date: Friday, December 01, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: 32-G882 (Hewlett Room)
Contact: Thien Le, thienle@csail.mit.edu

Yuzhe Yang, CSAIL MIT
Learning to Assess Disease and Health In Your Home
Speaker(s): Yuzhe Yang
Date: Friday, December 08, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: Room 32-G882 (Hewlett Room)
Contact: Thien Le, thienle@csail.mit.edu

Sandeep Silwal, CSAIL MIT
Efficiently Searching for Distributions
Speaker(s): Sandeep Silwal
Date: Thursday, February 15, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location:
Contact: Thien Le, thienle@csail.mit.edu

Benjamin Cohen-Wang, CSAIL MIT
Ask Your Distribution Shift if Pre-Training is Right for You
Speaker(s): Benjamin Cohen-Wang
Date: Thursday, February 22, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Location:
Contact: Thien Le, thienle@csail.mit.edu

Sharut Gupta, MIT CSAIL
Context is Environment
Speaker(s): Sharut Gupta
Date: Thursday, February 29, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Location: Room 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva Seminar Room)
Contact: Behrooz Tahmasebi, bzt@csail.mit.edu

This event has been cancelled. Rohan Alur, CSAIL and LIDS
Human Expertise in Algorithmic Prediction
Speaker(s): Rohan Alur
Date: Thursday, March 07, 2024
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
Location:
Contact: Sharut Gupta, sharut@csail.mit.edu

Rohan Alur, LIDS
Human Expertise in Algorithmic Prediction
Speaker(s): Rohan Alur
Date: Thursday, March 07, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: Room 32-370 and on Zoom
Contact: Thien Le, thienle@csail.mit.edu

Peter Holderrieth, CSAIL MIT
What's the Erdős number of an LLM? Mathematical and algorithmic discovery via machine learning
Speaker(s): Peter Holderrieth
Date: Thursday, March 14, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: 32-370
Contact: Sharut Gupta, sharut@csail.mit.edu

Zeyu Jia, LIDS MIT
When is Agnostic Reinforcement Learning Statistically Tractable?
Speaker(s): Zeyu Jia
Date: Thursday, March 21, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: 32-370
Contact: Sharut Gupta, sharut@csail.mit.edu

Qinyi Chen, LIDS, EECS, ORC
Interpolating Item and User Fairness in Multi-Sided Recommendations
Speaker(s): Qinyi Chen
Date: Thursday, April 04, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: 32-370
Contact: Thien Le, thienle@csail.mit.edu

Chenyu Wang, EECS MIT
Removing Biases from Molecular Representations via Information Maximization
Speaker(s): Chenyu Wang
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: Room 32-370
Contact: Thien Le, thienle@csail.mit.edu

Hao-Shu Fang, CSAIL MIT
Improving data efficiency and accessibility for general robotic manipulation
Speaker(s): Hao-Shu Fang
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: Room 32-370
Contact: Thien Le, thienle@csail.mit.edu

Zheng Dai, MIT CSAIL
ML-Tea: Ablation Based Counterfactuals
Speaker(s): Zheng Dai
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: 32-370
Contact: Behrooz Tahmasebi, bzt@csail.mit.edu

Harshay Shah, MIT CSAIL
Decomposing Predictions by Modeling Model Computation
Speaker(s): Harshay Shah
Date: Thursday, May 02, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: Room 32-G449 (Patil/Kiva)
Contact: Behrooz Tahmasebi, bzt@csail.mit.edu

Anna Min, CSAIL
Multi-sensory perception from top to down
Speaker(s): Anna Min
Date: Monday, September 16, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: 32-G882, Hewlett Room
Contact: Thien Le, thienle@csail.mit.edu

Shannon Shen, MIT CSAIL
Learning to Decode Collaboratively with Multiple Language Models
Speaker(s): Shannon Shen
Date: Monday, September 23, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: 32-G882, Hewlett Room
Contact: Sharut Gupta, sharut@csail.mit.edu

Yifei Wang, CSAIL
Contextualizing Self-Supervised Learning: A New Path Ahead
Speaker(s): Yifei Wang
Date: Monday, October 07, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location: 32-G882 (Hewlett Room)
Contact: Thien Le, thienle@csail.mit.edu

Suproteem Sarkar, Harvard University
Economic Representations
Speaker(s): Suproteem Sarkar
Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G882
Contact: Behrooz Tahmasebi, bzt@csail.mit.edu

Yuexing Hao,
Objective Approaches in a Subjective Medical World
Speaker(s): Yuexing Hao
Date: Monday, October 21, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G882
Contact: Behrooz Tahmasebi, bzt@csail.mit.edu

Hannes Stärk and Bowen Jing, MIT CSAIL
Generative Models for Biomolecular Prediction, Dynamics, and Design
Speaker(s): Hannes Stärk and Bowen Jing
Date: Monday, October 28, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: 32-G882 (Hewlett)
Contact: Behrooz Tahmasebi, yifei_w@mit.edu

Benjamin Cohen Wang, MIT CSAIL
ContextCite: Attributing Model Generation to Context
Speaker(s): Benjamin Cohen Wang
Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location:
Contact: Sharut Gupta, sharut@mit.edu

Xiangxiang Xu, EECS/RLE, MIT
Dependence Induced Representation Learning
Speaker(s): Xiangxiang Xu
Date: Monday, November 18, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location:
Contact: Sharut Gupta, sharut@mit.edu

Yosuke Tanigawa, MIT CSAIL
Power of inclusion: Enhancing polygenic prediction with admixed individuals
Speaker(s): Yosuke Tanigawa
Date: Monday, November 25, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location:
Contact: Sharut Gupta, sharut@csail.mit.edu

Mingda Qiao , MIT CSAIL
Truthfulness of Calibration Measures
Speaker(s): Mingda Qiao
Date: Monday, December 02, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Location:
Contact: Sharut Gupta, sharut@mit.edu