Scalable statistical computing and optimization

Tue, Aug 8, 2:00 PM

Somak DuttaChair

Section on Statistical Computing

6 Presentations

A Majorization-Minimization Gauss-Newton Method for 1-Bit Matrix Completion

2:05 PM - 2:20 PM

Eric Chi (Rice University)

Co-authors: Xiaoqian Liu (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center), Xu Han (North Carolina State University), Boaz Nadler (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Large-scale Confidence Region Detection Using Tile Low-Rank Approximation With Application to Wind Power Prediction

2:20 PM - 2:35 PM

Xiran Zhang

Co-authors: Jian Cao (TAMU), Sameh Abdulah (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), Hatem Ltaief (KAUST), Ying Sun (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), David E. Keyes (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), Marc Genton (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

PFJAX: A Python Particle Filter Just Attacks

2:35 PM - 2:50 PM

Martin Lysy (University of Waterloo)

Scalable Probability Vector Machines

2:50 PM - 3:05 PM

Pedro Silva

Stochastic gradient Langevin dynamics for generalized linear mixed models

3:05 PM - 3:20 PM

Samuel Berchuck

Co-authors: Andrea Agazzi (Universita di Pisa), Felipe Medeiros, Sayan Mukherjee

Tldr: Quick Documentation in the R Console

3:20 PM - 3:35 PM

James Otto

Co-authors: David Kahle (Baylor University)

Session participants

Kun Chen (University of Connecticut)

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