Learning Theory Reading Group

This is the official website for Scool Learning Theory reading group.

 

General information:

Welcome to theLearning Theory Reading Group at Scool, Inria Lille.

  • Who: Everyone is welcome.

  • When: Every Wednesday, 2:00-3:00 UTC +2 (subject to micro-adjustments which will be displayed if any), (If you want to attend, but the time does not suit you, please let me know)

  • Where: Batiment A, Salle A00.

  • Operation mode: Discussing papers. Some papers may go out of the scope of RL and we may include topics in a much broader sense.

 

Organizers:

Ayoub Ajarra PhD Student (Scool)

Debabrota Basu Professor (Scool).

 

Reading materials:

Main reading Material:

  1. Mohri book
  2. Francis Bach book
  3. Shai Shalev-Shwartz and Shai Ben-David book (It will be less used due to different notations with other books)
  4. Concentration inequality book

Possible reading materials for future:

  1. Foundations of Machine Learning

  2. Stability and Generalization

  3. Learning Abound: Quickly When Irrelevant Attributes A New Linear-threshold Algorithm.

  4. Average-Case Information Complexity of Learning

 

Scheduled planning:

Title Presenter Location Date Materials
PAC learning & ERM Ayoub Salle A00 Thur, Nov 09 Slides Video Recording
Rademacher Complexity Cyrille Salle A00 Thur, Nov 09 Slides Video Recording
VC dimension & Suprema of empirical processes Ayoub Salle A00 Wed, Feb 06  
Applications to multivariate mean estimate        
Stability        
PAC-Bayes        
Littlestone dimension and Online learning theory        
Double descent, Neural Tangent Kernel        
Universal learning        

 

Contact

If you are interested in presenting your work in the reading group, please reach out to one of the organizers listed above.