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YINS Visiting Lecturer: Yaron Singer (Harvard)

Weekly Seminar
Event time: 
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Yale Institute for Network Science See map
17 Hillhouse Avenue, 3rd floor
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

“Algorithms in the Era of Machine Learning: An Inconvenient Truth”

Speaker: Yaron Singer
Assistant Professor of Computer Science,
Harvard University

Abstract: The traditional approach in computer science assumes that there is an underlying objective that is known to the algorithm designer and focuses on efficiently optimizing that objective.  In many applications however, the objectives we aim to optimize are not known but rather learned from data.  So what are the guarantees of the algorithms we develop and teach when the input is learned from data?  In this talk we will address this question and discuss challenges at the intersection of machine learning and algorithms. We will present some stark impossibility results and argue for new algorithmic paradigms.

Bio: Yaron Singer is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University.  He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at Google Research and obtained his PhD from UC Berkeley.  He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the Sloan fellowship, Facebook faculty award, Google faculty award, 2012 Best Student Paper Award at the ACM conference on Web Search and Data Mining, the 2010 Facebook Graduate Fellowship, the 2009 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship.

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