Novel Theory in Statistical Inference

Sun, Aug 3, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM Room CC-Davidson Ballroom A2 Music City Center

Tate JacobsonChair

IMS

6 Presentations

A Statistical Theory of Contrastive Learning via Approximate Sufficient Statistics

2:05 PM - 2:20 PM

Co-authors: Licong Lin, Song Mei (UC Berkeley), Licong Lin

Contrastive learning SimCLR data augmentation approximate sufficient statistics

WITHDRAWN Bridging Root-n and Non-standard Asymptotics: Dimension-agnostic Adaptive Inference in M-Estimation

2:20 PM - 2:35 PM

Co-authors: Kenta Takatsu (Carnegie Mellon University), Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla (Carnegie Mellon University)

Honest inference Adaptive inference Irregular M-estimation Non-standard asymptotics Extremum estimators

Computational and statistical guarantees for star-structured variational inference

2:35 PM - 2:50 PM

Co-authors: Shunan Sheng, Bohan Wu (Columbia University), Bohan Wu (Columbia University), Binghe Zhu (Columbia University), Aram Pooladian (New York University), Sinho Chewi (Yale University)

structured variational inference log-concavity Bayesian regression approximate Bayesian inference Knothe–Rosenblatt (KR) maps

Controlling the false discovery rate under non-parametric graphical dependencies

2:50 PM - 3:05 PM

Co-authors: Andrew Nguyen (University Of California Berkeley), William Fithian (University of California-Berkeley), Andrew Nguyen (University Of California Berkeley)

false discovery rate Benjamini-Hochberg dependence non-parametric graphs

Efficient Analysis of Latent Spaces in Heterogeneous Networks

3:05 PM - 3:20 PM

Co-authors: Jiajin Sun, Jiajin Sun, Yuang Tian (Fudan University), Yinqiu He (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Network Latent space model Data integration Low rank Heterogeneity

On the Asymptotics of Exchangeable Sequences of Clusters

3:20 PM - 3:35 PM

Co-authors: Nathan Aviles (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Nathan Aviles (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Keith Levin (University of Wisconsin)

clustering random partitions micorclustering Renewal Theory Regular Variations Bell polynomials