The system they developed eliminates a source of bias in simulations, leading to improved algorithms that can boost the performance of applications.
Yuzhou Gu Abstract:Initially driven by channel coding, information theory has developed alarge collection of tools for measuring and comparing effectiveness ofinformation channels. These tools have found applications in…
In the award announcement, SIAM noted that Uhler is being honored for her “fundamental contributions at the interface of statistics, machine learning, and biology”.
Tiancheng Yu Abstract: In the presence of multiple learning agents, sequential decision making problems become sequential games. Instead of finding an optimal policy as in single agent setting,…
Six distinguished scientists with ties to MIT were recognized “for significant contributions in areas including cybersecurity, human-computer interaction, mobile computing, and recommender systems among many other areas.”
Aviv Adler Abstract: The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a foundational problem in the fields of theoretical computer science and optimization in which an agent is tasked with…
Title: Lessons from AlphaZero for Control System Design and Discrete Optimization Speaker: Dimitri Bertsekas (MIT) Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM Location: Stata Center, 32-155 Zoom Link: TBA Abstract:…
Guy Bresler builds mathematical models to understand multifaceted, interdisciplinary engineering problems that have far-reaching applications.
Lei Xu Abstract: Classification has been studied for decades as a fundamental task in natural language processing. In this dissertation, we aim to develop more deployable and robust…