Seminars

Dec
11
2018

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

An invitation to tensor networks
Michael Walter
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101

Tensor networks describe high-dimensional tensors as the contraction of a network (or graph) of low-dimensional tensors. Many interesting tensor can be succinctly represented in this fashion -- from many-body ground states in quantum physics to the...

Dec
10
2018

Theoretical Machine Learning Seminar

On Expressiveness and Optimization in Deep Learning
12:15pm|White Levy Room

Understanding deep learning calls for addressing three fundamental questions: expressiveness, optimization and generalization. Expressiveness refers to the ability of compactly sized deep neural networks to represent functions capable of solving...

Dec
10
2018

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

A matrix expander Chernoff bound
Ankit Garg
11:15am|Simonyi Hall 101

Chernoff-type bounds study concentration of sums of independent random variables and are extremely useful in various settings. In many settings, the random variables may not be completely independent but only have limited independence. One such...

Nov
27
2018

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Monotone Circuit Lower Bounds from Resolution
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101

For any unsatisfiable CNF formula F that is hard to refute in the Resolution proof system, we show that a gadget-composed version of F is hard to refute in any proof system whose lines are computed by efficient communication protocols---or...