SDS Seminar Series – Adam Klivans, University of Texas at Austin
Oct
16
2026
Oct
16
2026
Description
The Fall 2026 SDS Seminar Series continues on October 16th from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. with Adam Klivans (Director of AI Initiatives, School of Computing, University of Texas at Austin). This event is in-person in the Avaya Room (POB 2.302).
Title: Efficient Algorithms for Reliable Machine Learning
Abstract: Algorithms for supervised learning typically require some sort of distributional assumption (e.g., Gaussianity), in contrast to the traditional worst-case analysis paradigm from theoretical computer science. This leads to algorithms that succeed only under hard-to-verify assumptions, undermining the very notion of provable correctness. In this talk, I will describe new learning models where an algorithm either certifies the accuracy of its output classifier or abstains when a distributional assumption has been violated. We will show how this framework leads to the first provably efficient algorithms for learning with distribution shift (with no assumptions on the target domain) and also introduces new techniques that resolve longstanding open problems in supervised learning with contamination.
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