Stanford AI Lab Papers and Talks at AISTATS 2021

The International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2021 is being hosted virtually from April 13th – April 15th. We’re excited to share all the work from SAIL that’s being presented, and you’ll find links to papers, videos and blogs below. Feel free to reach out to the contact authors directly to learn more about the work that’s happening at Stanford!

List of Accepted Papers

Active Online Learning with Hidden Shifting Domains


Authors: Yining Chen, Haipeng Luo, Tengyu Ma, Chicheng Zhang

Contact: cynnjjs@stanford.edu

Links: Paper

Keywords: online learning, active learning, domain adaptation


A Constrained Risk Inequality for General Losses


Authors: Feng Ruan

Contact: fengruan@stanford.edu

Keywords: constrained risk inequality; super-efficiency


Comparing the Value of Labeled and Unlabeled Data in Method-of-Moments Latent Variable Estimation


Authors: Mayee F. Chen, Benjamin Cohen-Wang, Stephen Mussmann, Frederic Sala, Christopher Ré

Contact: mfchen@stanford.edu

Links: Paper

Keywords: latent variable graphical model, method-of-moments, semi-supervised learning, model misspecification


Efficient computation and analysis of distributional Shapley values


Authors: Yongchan Kwon, Manuel A. Rivas, James Zou

Contact: yckwon@stanford.edu

Links: Paper | Website

Keywords: data valuation, distributional shapley value


Improving Adversarial Robustness via Unlabeled Out-of-Domain Data


Authors: Zhun Deng, Linjun Zhang, Amirata Ghorbani, James Zou

Contact: jamesz@stanford.edu

Links: Paper

Keywords: adversarial robustness, deep learning, out of domain data


Misspecification in Prediction Problems and Robustness via Improper Learning


Authors: Annie Marsden, John Duchi, Gregory Valiant

Contact: marsden@stanford.edu

Award nominations: Oral Presentation

Links: Paper

Keywords: machine learning, probabilistic forecasting, statistical learning theory


Online Model Selection for Reinforcement Learning with Function Approximation


Authors: Jonathan Lee, Aldo Pacchiano, Vidya Muthukumar, Weihao Kong, Emma Brunskill

Contact: jnl@stanford.edu

Links: Paper

Keywords: reinforcement learning, model selection


Right Decisions from Wrong Predictions: A Mechanism Design Alternative to Individual Calibration


Authors: Shengjia Zhao, Stefano Ermon

Contact: sjzhao@stanford.edu

Award nominations: Oral

Links: Paper | Blog Post

Keywords: uncertainty, trustworthiness, reliability


We look forward to seeing you virtually at AISTATS!

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