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Joint ORIE/Statistics Seminar Speaker Sahand Negahban, 2/20/13 @ 4:15

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Wednesday Feb 20 2013

Joint ORIE/Statistics Seminar Speaker Sahand Negahban, 2/20/13 @ 4:15

4:15pm @ 253 Rhodes Hall
In Statistics Seminars

This week's Joint ORIE and Statistics Seminar Speaker is Sahand Negahban from MIT.

Talk Title: Structured Estimation in High-Dimensions

Modern techniques in data accumulation and sensing have led to an explosion in both the volume and variety of data. These advancements have presented us with a tremendous opportunity to perform more sophisticated inference and decision making tasks. Such problems arise in: genomics, rank aggregation, and recommendation systems. Many of the resulting estimation problems are high-dimensional, meaning that the number of parameters to estimate can be far greater than the number of examples. The high-dimensionality and volume of the data leads to substantial challenges, both statistical and computational.

A major focus of my work has been developing an understanding of how hidden low- complexity structure in large datasets can be used to develop computationally efficient estimation methods. I will introduce a unified framework for establishing the error behavior of a broad class of estimators under high-dimensional scaling. I will then discuss how to compute these estimates and draw connections between the statistical and computational properties of our methods. Interestingly, the same tools used to establish good high-dimensional estimation performance have a direct impact for optimization: better conditioned statistical problems lead to more efficient computational methods.

This is joint work with Alekh Agarwal, Sewoong Oh, Pradeep Ravikumar, Devavrat Shah, Martin Wainwright and Bin Yu.

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