Birs- 21w5070: Mathematical Statistics and Learning

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    The Sum-of-Squares Algorithmic Paradigm in Statistics

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    Provable Recovery of Boolean Interactions based on Random Forests

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    The contact process over a switching random d-regular graph

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    Non-Gaussian Component Analysis: Statistical Query Hardness and its Applications

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    Efficient Mean Estimation with Pure Differential Privacy via a Sum-of-Squares Exponential Mechanism

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    Variational Inference and Robustness

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    The Sum-of-Squares Algorithmic Paradigm in Statistics

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    Estimation of Stationary Optimal Transport Plans

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    Rates of convergence of Gaussian smoothed empirical measures in Wasserstein and KL distances

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    Self-regularization of nonparametric maximum likelihood in mixture models

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    On Using Graph Distances to Estimate Euclidean and Related Distances

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    Some recent results on Algorithmic Stability

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    Confident Off-Policy Evaluation and Selection through Self-Normalized Importance Weighting

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    The Sum-of-Squares Algorithmic Paradigm in Statistics

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    Communication-efficient hypothesis testing

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    Non-parametric exploration in multi-armed bandits

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    Fundamental models of statistical learning and their combinatorial characterizations - negative results and implied open problems

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    Adversarial examples in deep networks

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