Fall 2021 calendar

Date Topic/Paper Presenter
9/13 Organizational Meeting
9/20 The geometry of optimal transportation Shoaib Bin Masud
9/27 Learning Fast Approximations of Sparse Coding Sam Polk
10/4 A variational approach to the consistency of spectral clustering Martin Buck
10/11 Indigenous People’s Day (University Holiday)
10/18 Recovering low-rank matrices from few coefficients in any basis: PART 1 Ahmed Ali Abbasi
10/25 Recovering low-rank matrices from few coefficients in any basis: PART 2 Ahmed Ali Abbasi
11/1 Exact recovery in the Stochastic Block Model Natasa Dragovic
11/8 Consistency of spectral clustering Ian McPherson
11/15 Optimally sparse representation in general (nonorthogonal) dictionaries via l1 minimization Chandler Smith
11/22 Sample Complexity of Sinkhorn Divergences Matt Werenski
11/29
12/6 Wasserstein Dictionary Learning: Optimal Transport-based unsupervised non-linear dictionary learning Marshall Mueller
12/13