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THE
FIELDS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
Thematic
Program on Statistical Inference, Learning, and Models
for Big Data, January to June, 2015
February 9 – 11 , 2015
Workshop on Optimization and Matrix Methods in
Big Data |
Organizing
Committee |
Stephen
Vavasis (Chair),Anima Anandkumar,
Petros Drineas, Michael Friedlander,
Nancy Reid, Martin Wainwright
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Program
Tentative Schedule
Monday
February 9 |
8:00
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Coffee and Registration |
9:15-9:30
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Welcoming Remarks |
9:30-10:30
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Petros Drineas (via WebEx), Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
RandNLA: Randomization in Numerical
Linear Algebra |
10:30-11:00
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Coffee |
11:00-12:00
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Alexandre d'Aspremont, École Normale
Supérieure |
12:00-2:00
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Lunch |
2:00-3:00
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Inderjit S. Dhillon, University of Texas
Sparse inverse covariance estimation
for a million variables |
3:00-3:30
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Tea
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3:30-4:30
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Maryam Fazel, University of Washington
Convex regularization with the Diversity norm: properties and algorithms
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4:30-5:30
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Michael Friedlander, University of California,
Davis |
5:30
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Cash Bar Reception |
Tuesday February 10 |
9:30-10:30
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Animashree Anandkumar, University of
California, Irvine
Spectral Methods for Generative and Discriminative
Learning with Latent Variables |
10:30-11:00
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Coffee break |
11:00-12:00
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Lin Xiao, Microsoft
Research
Communication-Efficient Distributed Optimization
of Self-Concordant Empirical Loss |
12:00-2:00
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Lunch break |
2:00-3:00
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Ben Recht (via WebEx), University of California, Berkeley
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3:00-3:30
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Tea
break |
3:30-4:30
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Tamara Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories
Computing the Largest Entries in a Matrix
Product via Sampling |
4:30-5:30
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Yaniv Plan, University of British Columbia
The generalized lasso with non-linear
measurements |
Wednesday
February 11 |
9:30-10:30
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Michael Mahoney, University of California,
Berkeley
Eigenvector localization, implicit
regularization, and algorithmic anti-differentiation for large-scale graphs
and matrix data |
10:30-11:00
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Coffee break |
11:00-12:00
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Quentin Berthet, California
Institute of Technology
Statistical and Computational Tradeoffs
for Sparse Principal Component Analysis |
12:00-1:00
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Lunch break (On-site lunch) |
1:00-2:00
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Po-Ling Loh, University of Pennsylvania
PDW methods for support recovery in nonconvex
high-dimensional problems |
2:00-3:00
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Jakub Marecek, IBM Research
Coordinate Descent and Challenges therein |
3:00-3:30
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Tea break |
3:30 -4:30
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Stephen A. Vavasis, University of Waterloo |
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