Stochastic Control (and Related Fields) Seminar: 2024-2025
Date Speaker Title
2024-09-09 Serdar Yüksel Stochastic Control with Partial Information
2024-09-16 Yunus Emre Demirci Refined bounds on near optimality of finite window policies in POMDPs
2024-09-23 Curtis McDonald (Yale Univ.)
Log Concave Coupling for Rapid Bayesian Neural Network Sampling
2024-10-01
Omar Mrani-Zentar
Decentralized Stochastic Control in Standard Borel Spaces: Centralized MDP Reductions and Near Optimality of Finite Window Local Agent Information
2024-10-07
Omar Mrani-Zentar Decentralized Stochastic Control in Standard Borel Spaces: Centralized MDP Reductions and Near Optimality of Finite Window Local Agent Information
2024-10-21
Connor Braun
Synthesis of Decentralized Stochastic Control Models for Neuronal Networks
2024-10-28
Yunus Emre Demirci Application of the Birkhoff-Hopf Contraction Theorem:  Stability of Nonlinear Filters
2024-11-05
Omar Mrani-Zentar
Data-Driven Non-Parametric Model Learning and Adaptive Control of MDPs with Borel spaces: Identifiability and Near Optimal Design
2024-11-11
Sinan Gezici (Bilkent Univ.)
Optimal Decision Rules for Hypothesis Testing Problems and Benefits of Detector Randomization
2024-11-18
Thomas Emo
Optimal Zero Delay Coding of Markov Sources and Reinforcement Learning for Near Optimality
2024-11-25 Sinan Gezici (Bilkent Univ.) Prospect Theory based Hypothesis Testing and Optimal Decision Rules under General Criteria Involving Error Probabilities
2025-01-17
Omar Mrani-Zentar Topologies on Kernels, their Approximations and Learning, and Optimal Adaptive Control
2025-01-31
Osman Biçer
Finite Model Approximations in Standard Borel MDPs via Non-Uniform Quantization: Continuity of Discounted Cost in Policy and Implications for Error Analysis
2025-02-06
Thomas Emo
Optimality of Stationary Policies for Zero Delay Coding under Infinite Horizon Average Cost Criteria
2025-02-13
Connor Braun
Introduction to Mean Field Games and their Graphon Generalizations
2024-02-27
Sina Sanjari
Introduction to Generative Learning
2024-03-07
Yunus Emre Demirci
Robustness to Incorrect Models in Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes via Wasserstein Regularity of Filter Dynamics
2024-03-14
Spencer Hill
Mathematical Introduction to Deep Learning
2024-03-21
Hilaire Epstein Nonhou Zogo
































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