Events
Two-sided pricing and learning with inventory constraints
ESD Research Seminar by Meichun Lin – Motivated by online used-car platforms, this seminar will study pricing decisions for purchasing and selling a product in a two-sided market.
Efficient and adaptive AI for time series data analytics
ESD Research Seminar by Zhenghua Chen – Time Series Data Analytics (TSDA) is essential for a wide range of applications, including machine fault diagnosis and prognosis, and healthcare informatics.
Flight trajectory planning
ESD Research Seminar by Ralf Borndörfer – This talk discusses the developments of and the application in one of the leading flight planning systems.
How to collaboratively add new knowledge to an LLM
ESD Research Seminar by Laura Wynter – We show what happens when an LLM is successively tuned and then show how to avoid the forgetting of old knowledge whilst benefiting from recent knowledge acquisition.
Tensor networks and the Belief Propagation algorithm
ESD Research Seminar by Itai Arad – Belief-propagation (BP) is a well-known message-passing algorithm from the world of classical physics and machine learning. It can be used to approximate the local marginals on multivariate probability distributions that are described by graphical models.
Bayesian design principles for frequentist sequential learning
ESD Research Seminar by Yunbei Xu – We develop a general theory to optimise the frequentist regret for sequential learning problems, where efficient bandit and reinforcement learning algorithms can be derived from unified Bayesian principles.
Need to relax – but perhaps later? Reflections on modelling sparsity and mixed-binary nonconvex optimisation problems
ESD Research Seminar by Immanuel M. Bomze – This talk will advocate the necessity of research efforts in the quest for global solutions and strong rigorous bounds for quality guarantees, showcased on one of the nowadays most popular domains – cardinality-constrained models.
Quantum machine learning: What’s happening, what’s hard, and what’s next
ESD Research Seminar by Kishor Bharti – This talk will provide an introduction to quantum machine learning, a summary of its current status, the challenges it faces, and what lies ahead.
Exploration and optimisation of black-box functions with safety guarantees
ESD Research Seminar by Jonathan Scarlett – The exploration and optimisation of black-box functions is of broad interest in domains such as hyperparameter tuning, robotics, scientific discovery, and more.
Quantum algorithms and their applications in finance
ESD Research Seminar by Alessandro Luongo – This talk will explore new quantum algorithms and the challenges they face in real-world applications of quantum computing.
