Seminar of Mathematical Statistics Group: Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods

Organizers

• prof. dr hab. Wojciech Niemiro

Information

List of talks

• Dec. 14, 2020, 2:15 p.m.
  Wojciech Niemiro (MIM UW)
  Graphs arising from exchangeable random measures
  Talk based on: (2015) The class of random graphs arising from exchangeable random measures, Victor Veitch and Daniel M. Roy (2015) Sparse graphs using exchangeable random measures, by François Caron and Emily B. Fox.

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• Dec. 7, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
  Stanisław Cichomski (MIM UW)
  Pitman's "Combinatorial stochastic processes" continued
  

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• Nov. 23, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
  John Noble (MIM UW)
  Pitman's Combinatorial Stochastic Processes 2
  

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• March 9, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
  Łukasz Rajkowski (MIM)
  "Yet another characterization of the Pitman-Yor process"
  based on the paper "Characterizations of exchangeable partitions and random discrete distributions by deletion properties." by Alexander Gnedin, Chris Haulk and Jim Pitman

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• March 2, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
  John Noble (MIM)
  "Distribution Free Properties of Isotonic Regression"
  

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• Feb. 24, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
  Szymon Majewski (MIM)
  `Double Descent Phenomena in Machine Learning and Statistics'.
  

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• Jan. 27, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
  John Noble (MIM)
  2014) 1929-298 Srivastava, N.; Hinton, G.; Krizhevsky, A.; Sutskever, I.; Salakhutdinov, R ("Dropout: A simple way to prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting" Journal of Machine Learning Research 15)
  

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• Jan. 20, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
  Lukasz Rajkowski (MIM)
  Presentation of the paper "Deep Learning: A Bayesian Perspective" by Nicholas Polson and Vadim Sokolov
  

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• Jan. 13, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
  Wojciech Niemiro (MIM)
  Kingman's paintboxes and invariance under size-biased permutations
  

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• Dec. 16, 2019, 2:30 p.m.
  John Noble (MIM)
  Random weighted averages, partition structures and generalized arcsine laws', based on the recent preprint by Jim Pitman with that title
  

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• Dec. 9, 2019, 2:30 p.m.
  Łukasz Rajkowski (MIM)
  Bayesowska analiza skupień na podstawie artykułu "Bayesian Cluster Analysis: Point Estimation and Credible Balls" Wade i Ghahramaniego
  

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• Oct. 22, 2018, 2:30 p.m.
  John Noble (Uniwersytet Warszawski (MIM))
  Thomas Kaijser's contribution to Hidden Markov Models
  I plan to give two seminars on the contribution Thomas Kaijser (14th August 1942 - 28th August 2018), one of my colleagues from my time in Sweden, to the subject of Hidden Markov Models. Consider …

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• Oct. 15, 2018, 2:30 p.m.
  Łukasz Rajkowski (Uniwersytet Warszawski (MIM))
  Some progress on the analysis of the MAP estimator of partition in standard BNP mixture models
  I am going to present progress in the research regarding the maximal a posteriori estimator (MAP) in a given standard Bayesian Non-Parametric (BNP) mixture models. The question originates from [1] where authors investigated the consistency …

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• Oct. 15, 2018, 2:30 p.m.
  Wojciech Niemiro (Uniwersytet Warszawski (MIM))
  Estymacja ze stala wzgledna precyzja "parametru wzrostu" dla zlozonych procesow Poissona i procesow Levy'ego
  

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• May 21, 2018, 2:30 p.m.
  Patrick Tardivel (Uniwersytet Wrocławski)
  Sign estimation in high-dimensional linear model
  

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