Research Seminar "Machine Learning Theory"

This is the research seminar by Ulrike's group.

When and where

Each thursday 14:00 - 15:00, Seminar room 2rd floor, MvL6.

What

Most sessions take place in form of a reading group: everybody reads the assigned paper before the meeting. Then we jointly discuss the paper in the meeting. Sometimes we also have talks by guests or members of the group.

Who

PhD students and researchers of the University of Tübingen. We do not mind people dropping in and out depending on whether they find the current session interesting or not.

Upcoming meetings

• 6.3.2025 Paper discussion (Moritz) Occam’s Razor for Self Supervised Learning: What is Sufficient to Learn Good Representations? pdf
• 13.3.2025 Paper discussion (who?) Why do random forests work? Understanding tree ensembles as self-regularizing adaptive smoothers. pdf
• 20.3.2025 Paper discussion (who?) GLEAMS: Bridging the Gap Between Local and Global Explanations Giorgio Visani, Vincenzo Stanzione, Damien Garreau, 2024. pdf
• Paper discussion (who?) Chain of Log-Concave Markov Chains, Saeed Saremi, Ji Won Park, Francis Bach, 2024 pdf

Past meetings

Listed here.

Suggested papers for future meetings

Feel free to make suggestions!
If you do, please (i) try to select short conference papers rather than 40-page-journal papers; (ii) please put your name when entering suggestions; it does not mean that you need to present it, but then we can judge where it comes from; (iii) Please provide a link, not just a title.

• Trade-off Between Efficiency and Consistency for Removal-based Explanations, Neurips 2023 link (Ulrike)
• Robust Explanation for Free or At the Cost of Faithfulness. ICML 2023. link (Ulrike)
• Locally Invariant Explanations: Towards Stable and Unidirectional Explanations through Local Invariant Learning link (Ulrike)
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