2023 van Eeden seminar

This year, the Constance van Eeden speaker was Dr. Kevin Murphy of Google. Dr. Murphy gave a talk on Thursday, February 2, 2023 on a unified perspective of machine learning research.

The recording of Dr. Murphy’s van Eeden seminar is available here!

Title: A Probabilistic Perspective on the Field of Machine Learning

Abstract: I will present a unified perspective on the field of machine learning research, following the structure of my recent book, Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics. In particular, I will discuss various models and algorithms for tackling the following key tasks: prediction, generation, discovery, and control. For each of these tasks, I will also briefly summarize a few of my own contributions, including methods for robust prediction under distribution shift, methods for generating high-resolution images, methods for discovering hidden regimes in high-dimensional time series data, and methods for statistically efficient online decision making.

Last updated: December 11, 2023