Talks and presentations

Sharpness-Aware Minimization

January 07, 2023

Weekly Talk, CUHKSZ, Shenzhen, China

Introduce the Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) and its applications to model robustness. Slides are available here.

Loss Surfaces, Mode Connectivity and Model Robustness

October 07, 2022

Weekly Talk, CUHKSZ, Shenzhen, China

Introduce the loss landscape of the machine learning model and its application to improve model robustness. Specifically, we discuss the mode connectivity, the loss landscape property of the poisoned model, and the existence of the Trojan model. Slides are available here.

Distributionally Robust Learning

July 15, 2022

Weekly Talk, CUHKSZ, Shenzhen, China

Introduce the background, formulation, methods and applications of Distributionally Robust Learning. Slides are available here.

Generative Models

November 13, 2021

Weekly Talk, CUHKSZ, Shenzhen, China

Introduce the background, formulations, methods and applications of generative models, including VAE and variants of GAN. Slides are available here.