Boosting, bagging and other weak-learner ensemble methods A selection of randomly stopped clocks is never far from wrong 2015-09-23 – 2020-03-21

Optimal transport metrics Wasserstein distances, Monge-Kantorovich metrics, Earthmover distances 2019-05-30 – 2020-03-06

Gradient descent, first-order, stochastic a.k.a. SGD, as seen in deep learning 2020-01-30 – 2020-02-07

Gradient descent, Newton-like, stochastic 2020-01-23

Tensorflow the framework to use for deep learning if you groupthink like Google 2016-07-11 – 2019-11-23

Automatic differentiation 2016-07-27 – 2019-11-22

Phase retrieval I’ve got the power. / Like the crack of the whip/ I snap attack/ Front to back 2017-01-16 – 2019-11-07

Sparse coding How to make big things out of short lists of small things. 2014-11-17 – 2019-11-05

Variational autoencoders 2019-11-04

Optimal control 2015-06-22 – 2019-11-01

Matrix calculus 2018-07-09 – 2019-10-31

Gradient descent, Higher order 2019-10-26

Reparameterization tricks in inference Normalizing flows, invertible density models, inference by measure transport, low-dimensional coupling… 2018-04-04 – 2019-10-26

Variational inference On fitting the best model one can be bothered to 2016-03-22 – 2019-10-21

Statistical learning theory for time series 2016-11-03 – 2019-10-01

Wiener-Khintchine representation Now with bonus Bochner! 2019-05-08 – 2019-09-23

Wirtinger calculus It’s not complicated / It’s complex 2019-05-08 – 2019-09-10

Large sample theory 2015-02-15 – 2019-09-09

Gradient descent, Newton-like 2019-02-05 – 2019-09-03

Optimisation of model functions for experiment design Surrogate optimisation methods for optimising optimisations 2017-04-11 – 2019-07-18

Semidefinite proramming 2019-06-29

Optimisation 2014-10-04 – 2019-06-27

(Weighted) least squares fits 2016-09-22 – 2019-05-22

Gradient descent First order of business 2014-10-04 – 2019-02-05

Data summarization On maps drawn at smaller than 1:1 scale 2019-01-14

Nearly sufficient statistics How about “Sufficient sufficiency”? – is that taken? 2018-03-13 – 2019-01-14

Variational state filtering 2018-03-19 – 2018-12-07

Online estimation 2018-09-30

Voice fakes 2018-09-06

Optimisation, combinatorial 2018-08-11

Submodular functions, maximizing 2018-07-09

AutoML hyperparameter selection with the use of yet more hyperparameters 2017-07-17 – 2017-08-30

Gradient descent, continuous, primal/dual formulations. 2017-08-07

Robust statistics 2014-11-25 – 2017-08-07

Lagrangian mechanics 2015-02-11 – 2017-06-18

Maximum likelihood inference 2015-02-15 – 2016-10-13

Distributed optimization for regression 2016-10-11

M-estimation 2016-07-11 – 2016-10-10

Generalised linear models 2016-03-24 – 2016-08-31

Statistical learning theory Eventually including structural risk minimisation, risk bounds, hopefully-uniform convergence rates, VC-dimension, generalisation-and-stability framings etc 2016-07-06 – 2016-08-16

Probably Approximately Correct 2014-11-24 – 2016-05-29

Expectation maximisation 2014-08-17 – 2016-04-17

Biomimetic algorithms 2015-12-22

Geometry of fitness landscapes 2011-07-27 – 2015-06-17

Evolution 2014-11-04 – 2015-01-12