Michael Jordan Keynote Lecture Isba World Meeting 2018

Summary

On Gradient-Based Optimization: Accelerated, Stochastic and Nonconvex. Dimension reduction in structured experimental data. Gaussian Process Approximations. Uncertainty, Asymmetry of Information, and Statistical Contract Theory Speaker Adaptive Bayesian Intelligence: the Road to Sustainable AI. Causal conclusions from a cut-off: Bayesian regression discontinuity designs Discussants: Jennifer Hill & Guido Consonni Predictive Densities Based on Information Geometry Bayesian Inference and the Fair Administration of Justice. Adventures in Bayesian clustering. Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC): advances and questions. Model Comparisons at Scale: Using Marginal Likelihoods and Orbits for Discovery. Assessing Sensitivity to the Stick-Breaking Prior in Bayesian Nonparametrics Upcoming and previous webinars: ... Skew-symmetric representations of posterior densities Discussants: David Rossell & David Nott. World Brain Health Forum 2026 - January 15, 2026 - Main Conference gg Moderator : Lisa Burke SESSION 3 : AI & DATA SCIENCE ...