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Spring Semester 2024

Date / Time Speaker Title Location
21 March 2024
16:15-17:15
Bryon Aragam
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
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ETH-FDS seminar

Title Research Seminar on Statistics - FDS Seminar joint talk: Statistical aspects of nonparametric latent variable models and causal representation learning
Speaker, Affiliation Bryon Aragam, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Date, Time 21 March 2024, 16:15-17:15
Location HG D 1.2
Abstract One of the key paradigm shifts in statistical machine learning over the past decade has been the transition from handcrafted features to automated, data-driven representation learning. A crucial step in this pipeline is to identify latent representations from observational data along with their causal structure. In many applications, the causal variables are not directly observed, and must be learned from data, often using flexible, nonparametric models such as deep neural networks. These settings present new statistical and computational challenges that will be focus of this talk. We will re-visit the statistical foundations of nonparametric latent variable models as a lens into the problem of causal representation learning. We discuss our recent work on developing methods for identifying and learning causal representations from data with rigourous guarantees, and discuss how even basic statistical properties are surprisingly subtle. Along the way, we will explore the connections between causal graphical models, deep generative models, and nonparametric mixture models, and how these connections lead to a useful new theory for causal representation learning.
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HG D 1.2

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