AI Ethics Roundtable

Virtual

The TILOS Ethics and Early Career Committee invites you to an upcoming round table discussion on AI Ethics. This will take place virtually through Zoom on Friday, June 2, 2023 at 9am Pacific / 11am Central / Noon Eastern. Please join Dr. Nisheeth Vishnoi from Yale, Dr. David Danks from UC San Diego, and Dr. […]

TILOS Seminar: Machine Learning from Weak, Noisy, and Biased Supervision

Virtual

Masashi Sugiyama, University of Tokyo and RIKEN Abstract: In statistical inference and machine learning, we face a variety of uncertainties such as training data with insufficient information, label noise, and bias. In this talk, I will give an overview of our research on reliable machine learning, including weakly supervised classification (positive unlabeled classification, positive confidence classification, […]

TILOS Fireside Chat on Theory in the Age of Modern AI

Virtual

The first TILOS Fireside Chat of Fall 2023 will be a conversation about theory in the age of modern AI led by TILOS members Nisheeth Vishnoi, Tara Javidi, Misha Belkin, and Arya Mazumdar (moderator). This will be a great opportunity to discuss implications of AI and roles of theory (especially with the recent development in […]

TILOS Seminar: Towards Foundation Models for Graph Reasoning and AI 4 Science

HDSI 123 and Virtual 3234 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA, United States

Michael Galkin, Research Scientist, Intel AI Lab Abstract: Foundation models in graph learning are hard to design due to the lack of common invariances that transfer across different structures and domains. In this talk, I will give an overview of the two main tracks of my research at Intel AI: creating foundation models for knowledge […]

TILOS Seminar: Building Personalized Decision Models with Federated Human Preferences

HDSI 123 and Virtual 3234 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA, United States

Aadirupa Saha, Research Scientist, Apple Abstract: Customer statistics collected in several real-world systems have reflected that users often prefer eliciting their liking for a given pair of items, say (A,B), in terms of relative queries like: “Do you prefer Item A over B?”, rather than their absolute counterparts: “How much do you score items A […]

Boston Symmetry Day 2023

MIT

TILOS is a sponsor of Boston Symmetry Day, a meeting of symmetry-minded folks in the Boston area. It is the largest event on symmetry and machine learning in the United States. Registration is free for all who would like to attend, subject to space constraints.

TILOS-OPTML++ Seminar: Optimization, Robustness and Privacy in Deep Neural Networks: Insights from the Neural Tangent Kernel

Virtual

Marco Mondelli, Institute of Science and Technology Austria Abstract: A recent line of work has analyzed the properties of deep over-parameterized neural networks through the lens of the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK). In this talk, I will show how concentration bounds on the NTK (and, specifically, on its smallest eigenvalue) provide insights on (i) the […]

Overview of the Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence

HDSI 123 and Virtual 3234 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA, United States

UC San Diego Professor of Data Science and Philosophy and TILOS affiliate David Danks will present an introduction to the U.S. Government’s Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for TILOS members. David Danks currently serves on the National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC), which is tasked with advising the President and the National […]

TILOS Seminar: The Dissimilarity Dimension: Sharper Bounds for Optimistic Algorithms

HDSI 123 and Virtual 3234 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA, United States

Aldo Pacchiano, Assistant Professor, Boston University Center for Computing and Data Sciences Abstract: The principle of Optimism in the Face of Uncertainty (OFU) is one of the foundational algorithmic design choices in Reinforcement Learning and Bandits. Optimistic algorithms balance exploration and exploitation by deploying data collection strategies that maximize expected rewards in plausible models. This […]

TILOS-HDSI Distinguished Colloquium: The Synergy between Machine Learning and the Natural Sciences

HDSI 123 and Virtual 3234 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA, United States

Max Welling, Research Chair in Machine Learning, University of Amsterdam Abstract: Traditionally machine learning has been heavily influenced by neuroscience (hence the name artificial neural networks) and physics (e.g. MCMC, Belief Propagation, and Diffusion based Generative AI). We have recently witnessed that the flow of information has also reversed, with new tools developed in the […]