Laplace's Demon: A Seminar Series about Bayesian Machine Learning at Scale - Criteo AI Lab
Laplace’s Demon: A Seminar Series about Bayesian Machine Learning at Scale
Machine learning is changing the world we live in at a break neck pace. From image recognition and generation, to the deployment of recommender systems, it seems to be breaking new ground constantly and influencing almost every aspect of our lives. In this seminar series we ask distinguished speakers to comment on what role Bayesian statistics and Bayesian machine learning have in this rapidly changing landscape. Do we need to optimally process information or borrow strength in the big data era? Are philosophical concepts such as coherence and the likelihood principle relevant when you are running a large scale recommender system? Are variational approximations, MCMC or EP appropriate in a production environment? Can I use the propensity score and call myself a Bayesian? How can I elicit a prior over a massive dataset? Is Bayes a reasonable theory of how to be perfect but a hopeless theory of how to be good? Do we need Bayes when we can just A/B test? What combinations of pragmatism and idealism can be used to deploy Bayesian machine learning in a large scale live system? We ask Bayesian believers, Bayesian pragmatists and Bayesian sceptics to comment on all of these subjects and more.
The audience is machine learning practitioners and statisticians from academia and industry.
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Full schedule
We have great speakers over the whole year so please check out the full schedule below.
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Past talks can be found hereafter.
| Date | Time UTC | Time Paris | Time New York | Speaker | Title | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 April 2022 | 15.00 | 17.00 | 11.00 | Eric Moulines | NEO: Non Equilibrium Sampling on the Orbits of a Deterministic Transform | |
| 19 April 2022 | 15.00 | 17.00 | 11.00 | Arnaud Doucet | Diffusion Schrodinger Bridges – From Generative Modeling to Posterior Simulation | Video |
| 17 May 2022 | 15.00 | 17.00 | 11.00 | Darren Wilkinson | Compositional approaches to scalable Bayesian computation | Video |
| 23 May 2022 | 15.00 | 17.00 | 11.00 | Alexandre Gilotte | Learning From Aggregated Data | Video |
| 12 July 2022 | 15.00 | 17.00 | 11.00 | Mingyuan Zhou | Adaptive Diffusion-based Deep Generative Models | Video |
Organisers
Scientific Committee
Nicolas Chopin (ENSAE)
Mike Gartrell (Criteo)
Alberto Lumbreras (Criteo)
David Rohde (Criteo)
Otmane Sakhi (Criteo)
Maxime Vono (Criteo)
Organising Committee
Tatiana Podgorbunschih (Criteo)