Workshop on MCMC, VI, measure transport, and diffusions

America/New_York
3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute (162 5th Avenue)

3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

162 5th Avenue

40
Description

Please join us  for a workshop on MCMC, VI, measure transport, and diffusions organized by Bob Carpenter and Michael Samuel Albergo

 

This workshop aims to foster discussions in machine learning
underlying modern generative models and their role in MCMC-like
sampling algorithms as well as explore how viewpoints arising in
adjacent fields can be used to refine and approach remaining open
challenges in the contexts of probabilistic modeling and
high-dimensional sampling. The past decade has seen a surge of
progress in the empirical performance of techniques such as diffusion
models and normalizing flows, but much of the success of these
techniques amounts to careful consideration of how to define a map
between distributions. This topic has a substantial history in the
fields of optimal transport, stochastic processes, and variational
inference. By bringing together theorists and practitioners from these
camps, we hope to clarify the perspectives of recent advances across
their respective communities.

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      Welcome Reception 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Flatiron 3rd Floor Lounge

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      Intro Talk 1: Eric Vanden-Eijnden 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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    • 10:00 AM
      Discussion and Break 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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    • 3
      Longer Talk: Brandon Amos 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Longer Talk: Esteban Tabak 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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    • 12:00 PM
      Lunch
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      Lightning talks 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Christian Robert - Universite Paris Dauphine
      Grant Rotskoff - Stanford University
      Chirag Modi - Flatiron Institute
      Christopher Jarzynski - University of Maryland

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      Longer Talk: Jonathan Niles-Weed 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Longer Talk: Michael Lindsey 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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    • 4:00 PM
      Break 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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    • 6:00 PM
      Dinner 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Intro Talk 2: Marylou Gabrié 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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    • 10:00 AM
      Discussion and Break 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Longer Talk: Qiang Liu 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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    • 10
      Lightning Talks 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Jonathan Weare - New York University
      Semon Rezchikov - Princeton University
      Julian Urban - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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      Longer Talk: Uroš Seljak 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Lightning talks 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Samuel Livingstone - UCL
      Charles Margossian - Flatiron Institute
      Lu Zhang - USC

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      Longer Talk: Dan Hackett 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Longer Talk: Miranda Holmes-Cerfon 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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    • 4:30 PM
      Break 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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    • 6:00 PM
      Dinner 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Intro Talk 3: Yang Song 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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    • 10:00 AM
      Discussion and Break 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Longer Talk: Arnaud Doucet 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Lightning Talks 5 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Mark Goldstein - New York University, Apple Research
      Ellen Zhong - Princeton University
      Qijia Jiang - Berkeley

    • 12:00 PM
      Lunch 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Longer Talk: Kristy Choi 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Longer Talk: Nick Boffi 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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    • 2:45 PM
      Break 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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      Party at Bob's! 3rd Floor Classroom/3-Flatiron Institute

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