Previous Seminars
Adversarial Training Should Be Cast as a Non-Zero-Sum Game
Volkan Cevher - Associate Prof. EPFL, Switzerland
Apr 26, 2024 at 1:00pm 
MS building, MB0.07 
Spectral Methods and Generative Modeling: A Unifying Perspective
Jiaxin Shi - Research Scientist, DeepMind, UK
May 24, 2024 at 2:00pm MS building, MB0.07 
Robust and Conjugate Gaussian Process Regression
François-Xavier Briol - Associate Prof., UCL, UK
May 31, 2024 at 2:00pm Mathematical Sciences Building, MB0.07 
Non-linear Latent Force Models
Mauricio Álvarez - Senior Lecturer, Univ. of Manchester, UK
Jun 07, 2024 at 3:00PM MB0.07 
Addressing Bias and Copyright in Generative AI: Preference Matching and Fair Compensation
Weijie Su - Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Jun 10, 2024 at 2:00 pm Mathematical Sciences Building, MB0.08 
Conservation Laws for Gradient Flows
Gabriel Peyré - CNRS researcher| DMA/ENS, France
Jun 14, 2024 at 2:00pm Mathematical Sciences Building, MB0.07 
Physics-informed machine learning as a kernel method
Francis Bach - Researcher at Inria
Jun 18, 2024 at 11:00am Mathematical Sciences Building, MB0.07 
Learning Dynamics of Overparametrized Neural Networks
René Vidal - Rachleff University Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Jun 19, 2024 at 3:00PM Compute Science Bulding,CS1.04 
Causal Effect Estimation with Context and Confounders
Arthur Gretton - Professor, UCL, UK
Oct 15, 2024 at 2:00pm Zeeman building, MS.03, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Robust and Efficient AI Alignment
Ilija Bogunovic - Assistant Professor, UCL, UK
Oct 22, 2024 at 2:00PM Department of Computer Science, CS1.04, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Multi-objective optimization with societal considerations: a study of RCTs in the presence of competing treatments
Ana-Andreea Stoica - Research Group Leader in the Social Foundations of Computation Department, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Nov 12, 2024 at 12:00PM Zeeman building, MS.03, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Resurrecting Recurrent Neural Networks
Razvan Pascanu - Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, UK
Nov 26, 2024 at 12:00PM Computer Science building, CS1.04, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Models That Prove Their Own Correctness
Orr Paradise - PhD student at the Theory of Computation group at UC Berkeley, UK
Jan 14, 2025 at 2:00PM Department of Computer Science, CS1.04, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Theoretical Foundations Of Self Consuming Generative Models
Josey Bose - Postodoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford, UK
Feb 13, 2025 at 2:00PM MSB 0.01, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Subtractive Mixture Models: Representation, Learning and Inference
Dr. Antonio Vergari - Reader (Associate Professor), University of Edinburgh
Feb 18, 2025 at 14:00PM Mathematical Sciences Building, MB0.08, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Optimal Tuning of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo on ReLU-based Neural Networks
Dr. Cuong V. Nguyen - Assistant Professor, Durham University
Feb 25, 2025 at 14:00PM Department of Computer Science, CS1.01, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Beyond the curse of dimensionality with hyper-kernel ridge regression
Prof. Lorenzo Rosasco - Professor, Universita' di Genova/MIT
Mar 03, 2025 at 14:00PM Zeeman Building, A1.01, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Quantifying and Estimating Epistemic Uncertainty in LLMs through Iterative Prompting
Ilja Kuzborskij - Research Scientist, Google DeepMind
Mar 04, 2025 at 14:00PM Department of Computer Science, CS1.04, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Feature Learning and computational limitations in learning with multi-index models
Dr. Bruno Loureiro - ENS/CNRS
Mar 11, 2025 at 14:00PM Department of Computer Science, CS1.04, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Learning Dynamics in Multiplayer Games
Tatjana Chavdarova - Visiting Professor in the Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering (DEIB) at Politecnico di Milano (Polimi)
Apr 01, 2025 at 14:00PM Mathematical Science Building, MSB0.01, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Generalization for Diffusion Models: An Algorithmic-Dependent Framework Based on Stability
Patrick Rebeschini - Professor of Statistics and Machine Learning, University of Oxford, UK
May 06, 2025 at 2pm - 3pm Mathematical Science Building, MB0.01, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Robust Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback for Large Language Models Fine-Tuning
Changchun Chi - Associate professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
May 20, 2025 at 14:00PM Mathematical Science Building, MB0.08, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Variational Uncertainty Decomposition for In-Context Learning
Yingzen Li - Senior Lecturer, Imperial College, UK
May 27, 2025 at 14:00PM Mathematical Sciences Building, MB0.08, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Differentially private M-estimation via noisy optimization
Po-Ling Loh - Professor, University of Cambridge UK
May 28, 2025 at 14:00PM Mathematical Science Building, MB0.08, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Learning in the Age of LLMs: Theoretical Insights into Knowledge Distillation and Test-Time-Training
Marco Mondelli - Professor, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Jun 03, 2025 at 14:00PM Mathematical Science Building, MB0.07, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Learning with Nonlinear Expectations
Dr. Krikamol Muandet - Chief scientist and Tenure-track Faculty (fast track) at CISPA
Jun 17, 2025 at 14:00PM Department of Computer Science, CS1.01, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Learning a Stackelberg Leader's Incentives from Optimal Commitments
Dr. Yurong Chen - Postdoc at INRIA, Paris
Sep 23, 2025 at 14:00PM Department of Computer Science CS1.04, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
Imprecise Probabilistic Machine Learning -- Being Precise about Imprecision
Dr. Michele Caprio - Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at The University of Manchester
Nov 05, 2025 at 11:00AM Department of Computer Science CS1.01, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 
What Goes Wrong in Quantum Machine Learning (and How to Make it Right)
Dr. Eric Anschuetz - Burke Fellow at Caltech
Jan 22, 2026 at 11:00AM Department of Computer Science CS1.04, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK