BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251121T162542EST-1135ILU79p@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251121T212542Z DESCRIPTION:Title: Learn then Test: Calibrating Predictive Algorithms to Ac hieve Risk Control.\n\n\n Abstract:\n\n\nWe introduce Learn then Test\, a f ramework for calibrating machine learning models so that their predictions satisfy explicit\, finite-sample statistical guarantees regardless of the underlying model and (unknown) data-generating distribution. The framewor k addresses\, among other examples\, false discovery rate control in multi -label classification\, intersection-over-union control in instance segmen tation\, and the simultaneous control of the type-1 error of outlier detec tion and confidence set coverage in classification or regression. To accom plish this\, we solve a key technical challenge: the control of arbitrary risks that are not necessarily monotonic. Our main insight is to reframe t he risk-control problem as multiple hypothesis testing\, enabling techniqu es and mathematical arguments different from those in the previous literat ure. We use our framework to provide new calibration methods for several c ore machine learning tasks with detailed worked examples in computer visio n.\n\nThis is joint work with Anastasios Angelopoulos\, Emmanuel Candès\, Michael I. Jordan\, and Lihua Lei.\n\n\n Speaker\n\n\nDr. Bates is a postdo ctoral researcher with Michael I. Jordan in the Statistics and EECS depart ments at UC Berkeley. He works on developing methods to analyze modern sci entific data sets\, leveraging sophisticated black box models while provid ing rigorous statistical guarantees. Specifically\, he works on problems i n high-dimensional statistics (especially false discovery rate control)\, statistical machine learning\, conformal prediction and causal inference. \n\nPreviously\, he completed his Ph.D. in the Stanford Department of Stat istics advised by Emmanuel Candes. His thesis introduced methods for condi tional independence testing and false discovery rate control in genomics\, and he was honored to receive the Ric Weiland Graduate Fellowship and the Theodore W. Anderson Theory of Statistics Dissertation Award for this wor k. Before his Ph.D.\, he studied statistics and mathematics at Harvard Uni versity\, and spent a year teaching mathematics at NYU Shanghai. Outside r esearch\, I enjoy triathlons\, sailing\, hiking\, and reading speculative fiction novels.\n\nhttps://mcgill.zoom.us/j/83436686293?pwd=b0RmWmlXRXE3OW R6NlNIcWF5d0dJQT09\n\nMeeting ID: 834 3668 6293\n\nPasscode: 12345\n\n \n \n \n DTSTART:20220401T193000Z DTEND:20220401T203000Z SUMMARY:Stephen Bates (UC Berkeley) URL:/mathstat/channels/event/stephen-bates-uc-berkeley -338799 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR