Theory of Machine Learning Group University of Tübingen

Research Seminar "Machine Learning Theory"

This is the research seminar by Ulrike's group.

When and where

Each thursday 14:00 - 15:00, Seminar room 3rd floor, MvL6.

What

Most sessions take place in form of a reading group: everybody reads the assigned paper before the meeting. Then we jointly discuss the paper in the meeting. Sometimes we also have talks by guests or members of the group.

Who

Everybody who is interested in machine learning theory: Students, PhD students and researchers of the University of Tübingen. We do not mind people dropping in and out depending on whether they find the current session interesting or not.

Upcoming meetings

  • 16.9.2022 (Friday!), 9:00, seminar room 3rd floor: Master thesis presentation by Johannes Hölscher.
    9:30 am: Bachelor thesis presentation by Amelie Schaefer.
  • 06.10.2022 at 13:00 : Master thesis presentation by Alexander Conzelmann
  • 13.10.2022 (paper discussion, who?) Attribution-based Explanations that Provide Recourse Cannot be Robust, Hidde Fokkema, Rianne de Heide, Tim van Erven, 2022
  • Talk by Gyorgy Turan, , University of Illinois at Chicago
  • 27.10.2022 (paper discussion, who?) Label-Free Explainability for Unsupervised Models ICML 2022
  • 27.10.2022 (paper discussion, who?) Robustness Implies Generalization via Data-Dependent Generalization Bounds ICML 2022

    • Past meetings

    Listed here.

    Suggested papers for future meetings

    Feel free to make suggestions!
    If you do, please (i) try to select short conference papers rather than 40-page-journal papers; (ii) please put your name when entering suggestions; it does not mean that you need to present it, but then we can judge where it comes from; (iii) Please provide a link, not just a title.