Machine Learning Coffee seminar: "Here Be Dragons: High-Dimensional Spaces and Statistical Computation" Michael Betancourt, Columbia University

Weekly seminars held jointly by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki.

Helsinki region machine learning researchers will start our week by an exciting machine learning talk. The aim is to gather people from different fields of science with interest in machine learning. Porridge and coffee is served at 9:00 and the talk will begin at 9:15. The venue for this talk is seminar room T5, CS building.

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Here Be Dragons: High-Dimensional Spaces and Statistical Computation

Michael Betancourt
Columbia University

Abstract:

With consistently growing data sets and increasingly complex models, the frontiers of applied statistics is found in high-dimensional spaces. Unfortunately most of the intuitions that we take for granted in our low-dimensional, routine experiences don’t persist to these high-dimensional spaces which makes the development of scalable computational methodologies and algorithms all the more challenging. In this talk I will discuss the counter-intuitive behavior of high-dimensional spaces and the consequences for statistical computation.

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