Events
A behavioural model for exploration vs exploitation: Theoretical framework and experimental evidence
ESD Research Seminar by Yifan Feng – How do people navigate the exploration-exploitation (EE) trade-off when making repeated choices with unknown rewards? We study this question through the lens of multi-armed bandit problems and introduce a novel behavioural model, Quantal Choice with Adaptive Reduction of Exploration (QCARE).
What can quantum AI learn from biological intelligence?
ESD Research Seminar by Thiparat Chotibut – Designing scalable quantum machine learning (QML) models with potential quantum advantage on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices remains a major challenge.
A brief history of weak dependencies
ESD Research Seminar by Paul Doukhan – More than a purely formal exposition, the aim is to demonstrate the advantages and disadvantages of each of the most commonly used concepts, depending on the intended purpose and the types of models involved.
From applications to structure and back
ESD Research Seminar by Antonio Frangioni – Professor Antonio Frangioni will summarise some of the main lines of his research in this seminar, emphasising how he is primarily driven by the desire of solving real-world, difficult optimisation problems.
Sum of squares submodularity
ESD Research Seminar by Georgina Hall – This talk will demonstrate the usefulness of t-sos submodularity through three applications: (i) a new convex approach to submodular regression, involving minimal manual tuning; (ii) a systematic procedure to derive lower bounds on the submodularity ratio in approximate submodular maximisation, and (iii) improved difference-of-submodular decompositions for difference-of-submodular optimisation.
Regression analysis of semiparametric Cox–Aalen transformation models with application to a randomised HIV/AIDS trial
ESD Research Seminar by Xi Ning – This talk will study a class of the semiparametric Cox-Aalen transformation models for regression analysis.
Zoning in emerging logistics systems: New theory and practice
ESD Research Seminar by Sheng Liu – New zoning methods and their applications to manage emerging logistics systems in retail and last-mile delivery will be discussed in this talk.
From prevention to treatment: Designing personalised healthcare operations through analytics
ESD Research Seminar by Wang Xiaodong (Frank) – Healthcare extends beyond the clinical setting; it is a complex system where patients navigate interconnected stages of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. In this talk, Frank provides an overview of his research, which examines healthcare systems through the lens of the patient journey.
Adaptive and robust optimisation algorithms for large scale machine learning
ESD Research Seminar by Ali Kavis – This seminar will investigate the shortcomings of classical approaches and explore how data-driven, adaptive mechanisms could help in theory and application.
Self-creating random walks for decentralised learning under Pac-Man attacks
ESD Research Seminar by Xingran Chen – In this seminar, we investigate an adversarial threat termed the “Pac-Man” attack, in which a malicious node probabilistically terminates any random walk (RW) that visits it.
