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Title
The four pillars of machine learning
Abstract
I will present a unified perspective on the field of machine learning research, following the structure of my recent book, "Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics" (https://probml.github.io/book2). In particular, I will discuss various models and algorithms for tackling the following four key tasks, which I call the "pillars of ML": prediction, control, discovery and generation. For each of these tasks, I will also briefly summarize a few of my own contributions, including methods for robust prediction under distribution shift, statistically efficient online decision making, discovering hidden regimes in high-dimensional time series data, and for generating high-resolution images.
van Eeden speakers
Dr. Kevin Patrick Murphy has been invited by our department's graduate students to be this year's van Eeden speaker. A van Eeden speaker is a prominent statistician who is chosen by our graduate students each year to give a lecture, supported by the Constance van Eeden Fund.
This seminar is sponsored by Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI).