Rate optimal bandit LQG/LQR with semi-adversarial noise, w. students Jennifer Sun Jennifer Sun and Stephen Newman: arxiv.org/abs/2305.15352

I'll be teaching AI alignment & safety this fall sites.google.com/view/cos598ais… despite being a "graduate seminar", Princeton undergrads: you are very welcome!! Glad to see other new academic courses, i.e. at Toronto U by Roger Grosse

Fun collaboration w. Vlad Feinberg , Xinyi Chen Jennifer Sun and rohan anil on the use of frequent directions sketching for optimization, check it out in NeurIPS and Vlad's blog post!!

Jennifer Sun the poster team, w/o Varun who couldn't make it

Group dinner at NOLA, joined by some of our amazing alumni:

most exciting paper *ever* from our Google AI lab at Princeton University: naman agarwal danielsuo Xinyi Chen arxiv.org/abs/2312.06837 *** Convolutional filters predetermined by the theory, no learning needed! ***

All in due time... 20 years after "Online Newton Step", comes "Bandit Newton Step" :-) work with my fantastic student Jennifer Sun and my colleagues in Google India, Arun Suggala and Praneeth Netrapalli arxiv.org/abs/2402.08929

A new technical blog post by Nataly Brukhim and Chirag Pabbaraju (chirag), covering some of their breakthrough works on characterizing multiclass PAC learning. Check it out! let-all.com/blog/2024/04/2…

🧵1/3: population dynamics are important for the study of epidemiology, i.e. spread of infectious diseases, and controlling hospital flows. Recent work with @Golowich, Zhou Lu, Dhruv Rohatgi and Jennifer Sun, on online control in population dynamics: arxiv.org/abs/2406.01799

Fantastic defense today by my student Nataly Brukhim, who deeply thought about new directions in boosting for the last 6 years, excellent talk & thesis, highly recommend the papers!: cs.princeton.edu/~nbrukhim/ (Rob Schapire, one of the founders of boosting, joined the committee)

My talk on spectral transformers, given at Princeton workshop on learning in dynamical systems, is now online: youtube.com/watch?v=D_NwH5…

My student Jennifer Sun successfully defended her (excellent) thesis “Limited Feedback Models in Online Control" yesterday, it is available at: dropbox.com/scl/fi/owgieu8… Congrats Dr. Sun!!