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SUMMARY:Lifting F-split surfaces to the Witt vectors
DESCRIPTION:Member Seminar \nSpeaker: Iacopo Brivio\, CMSA \nTitle: Lifting F-split surfaces to the Witt vectors\n\nAbstract: Algebraic varieties in positive characteristic are ill behaved compared to characteristic zero ones. Several important tools available over the complex numbers\, such as the Hodge decomposition theorem\, are either not available or straight-away false. There are two important classes of positive characteristic varieties which have better behavior: Witt liftable varieties and Frobenius split varieties. A folklore conjecture predicts that the latter class is contained in the former. In a joint work with Bernasconi\, Kawakami and Witaszek we proved that this is the case for surfaces. I will give an overview of this result as well as some applications thereof.\n  \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/member-seminar-5126/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Member Seminar
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SUMMARY:Twisted D-branes and TQFTs valued in Calabi-Yau categories
DESCRIPTION:Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar \nSpeaker: Surya Raghavendran\, Yale University \nTitle: Twisted D-branes and TQFTs valued in Calabi-Yau categories \nAbstract: Recently\, Bozec–Calaque–Scherotzke have articulated a noncommutative version of the AKSZ construction\, which associates to a smooth Calabi–Yau category a fully extended TQFT valued in a category of iterated Calabi–Yau cospans. In this talk\, I will study a class of examples of such theories which arise in the context of conjectures of Costello and Li\, which describe Type II strings in certain Ramond–Ramond backgrounds as topological strings. These TQFTs capture structural features of the BPS physics of D-branes that are universal in Chan–Paton factors. Conjecturally commutative limits of the values of such theories on closed manifolds can sometimes be geometrically quantized to yield algebraic structures with Hall-type products. Examples of this paradigm include CoHAs associated to complex 3-folds\, CoHAs attached to local systems on 3-manifolds\, and the categorified Hall algebras of Porta–Sala.
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qft_5426/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics
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SUMMARY:Dynamics as intersection problem
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium \nSpeaker: Nikita Nekrasov\, Simons Center \nTitle: Dynamics as intersection problem \nAbstract: Most classical and quantum field theories are based on an action principle. However\, there are important exceptions to this — hydrodynamics and the theory of self-dual fields. In this talk we formulate the covariant relativistic fluid dynamics\, with or without magnetic fields\, as well as the theory of chiral boson in 1+1 dimensions\, self-dual tensor in 1+5 dimensions\, and self-dual four-form of IIB supergravity\, in terms of intersection theory of an auxiliary phase space. This provides a common covariant geometric framework for systems without a conventional action\, while at the same time laying the groundwork for quantization via the Kontsevich approach. Joint work with Paul Wiegmann. \n  \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-5426/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:New directions in synthetic data
DESCRIPTION:New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar \nSpeaker: Tatsunori Hashimoto\, Stanford \nTitle: New directions in synthetic data \nAbstract: Synthetic data has been an effective\, if boring set of techniques: prompt some language model to restructure your corpus to match some downstream task\, with occasionally some distillation. In this talk\, we will take a more expansive view of synthetic data as a general algorithmic tool for generative modeling\, arguing that the design space and possibilities of synthetic data are much bigger than it might seem. Through a few recent works\, we will show that synthetic data has major benefits beyond transforming the data – improving in-domain perplexities\, and enabling unique algorithmic primitives\, such as neighborhood smoothing and concatenated ‘mega’ documents. With this broader view\, we will point towards a nascent but interesting possibility of treating data itself as an algorithmic object to be engineered and optimized end-to-end. \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/newtech_5626/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar
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SUMMARY:From Poincaré/Koszul duality to (twisted) AdS/CFT correspondence
DESCRIPTION:Member Seminar \nSpeaker: Keyou Zeng \nTitle: From Poincaré/Koszul duality to (twisted) AdS/CFT correspondence \nAbstract: Poincaré duality is a fundamental result in the (co)homology theory of manifolds. It has many applications in topology and vast generalizations to other types of “spaces\,” such as singular/stratified spaces and schemes. In this talk\, I will discuss a variant of Poincaré duality for factorization algebras\, also known as Koszul duality. At the end of the talk\, I will relate this notion to a mathematical formulation of what physicists call the AdS/CFT correspondence\, as proposed by Costello and Li. \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/member-seminar-5826/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Member Seminar
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SUMMARY:When do anomalous finite symmetries in (3+1)d enforce gaplessness?
DESCRIPTION:Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar \nSpeaker: Matthew Yu (University of Oxford) \nTitle: When do anomalous finite symmetries in (3+1)d enforce gaplessness? \nAbstract: I will explain a comprehensive framework for characterizing the infrared (IR) phases of a fermionic QFTs in (3+1)d\, based on their quantum anomalies associated with a finite symmetry. We uncover a fundamental dichotomy among these anomalies: the first class of anomalies can always be realized by symmetric gapped states\, while the second class can never be realized by gapped states without breaking the given symmetry\, establishing the phenomenon of symmetry-enforced gaplessness in these settings. Using the construction of symmetry extension afforded to us by new developments in fusion 2-categories\, we construct the candidate gapped states that theories with the first class of anomalies can flow to in the IR. As an application\, I will provide examples of concrete predictions for the candidate IR phases of (3+1)d gauge theories based on our results. \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qft_51126/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics
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SUMMARY:Statistical Shape Analysis of Complex Natural Structures
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium \nSpeaker: Anuj Srivastava\, Johns Hopkins University \nTitle: Statistical Shape Analysis of Complex Natural Structures \nAbstract: Statistical modeling and analysis of structured data is a fast-growing field in Statistics and Data Science. Rapid advances in imaging techniques have led to tremendous amounts of data for analyzing imaged objects across several scientific disciplines. Examples include shapes of cancer cells\, botanical trees\, human biometrics\, 3D genome\, brain anatomical structures\, crowd videos\, nano-manufacturing\, and so on. Shapes are relevant even in non-imaging data contexts\, e.g.\, the shapes of COVID rate curves or the shapes of activity cycles in lifestyle data. Imposing statistical models and inferences on shapes seems daunting because the shape is an abstract notion and one requires precise mathematical representations to quantify shapes. This talk has two parts. In the first part\, I will present some recent developments in “elastic representations” of structures such as functions\, curves\, surfaces\, and graphs. In the second part\, I will focus on statistical analyses: computing shape summaries\, estimation under shape constraints\, hypothesis testing\, time-series models\, and regression models involving shapes. \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/colloquium-51126/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Polynomial invariants of conjugation over finite fields
DESCRIPTION:Algebra Seminar \nSpeaker: Aryaman Maithani\, University of Utah \nTitle: Polynomial invariants of conjugation over finite fields\n\nAbstract: Consider the conjugation action of GL₂(K) on the polynomial ring K[X₂ₓ₂].\nWhen K is an infinite field\, the ring of invariants is a polynomial ring generated by the trace and the determinant.\nWe describe the ring of invariants when K is a finite field\, and show that it is a hypersurface.\n  \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/algebra-seminar_51426/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G10\, CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Algebra Seminar
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SUMMARY:Workshop on Calabi-Yau metrics and optimal transport
DESCRIPTION:Workshop on Calabi-Yau metrics and optimal transport \nDates: May 18–22\, 2026 \nLocation: Harvard CMSA\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge MA \nRecent advances in the study of Calabi-Yau metrics have revealed an interesting connection with optimal transport\, and the regularity theory for optimal transport is expected to play an increasingly important role in the study of Kähler geometry. The goal of this workshop is to bring together the optimal transport and complex geometry communities to investigate problems arising from these exciting developments. \nMinicourse Speakers \n\nRobert McCann\, University of Toronto\nYang Li\, Cambridge University\n\nWorkshop Speakers \n\nRolf Andreasson\, Chalmers University\, Sweden\nBenjy Firester\, MIT\nJakob Hultgren\, Umea University\, Sweden\nYoung-Heon Kim\, University of British Columbia\nNam Le\, Indiana University\nJiakun Liu\, University of Sydney\nArghya Rakshit\, University of Toronto\nGabor Szekelyhidi\, Northwestern University\nYueqiao Wu\, Johns Hopkins University\n\nOrganizers: \n\nTristan Collins\, University of Toronto\nMattias Jonsson\, University of Michigan\nConnor Mooney\, University of California\, Irvine\nFreid Tong\, University of Toronto\n\n  \nVideos of selected talks are now available on the  Youtube Playlist \n  \nSchedule (pdf) \nMonday\, May 18\, 2026 \n9:00–9:30 am\nBreakfast \n9:30–10:45 am\nTutorial: Yang Li\, Cambridge University (via Zoom Webinar)\nTitle: On the metric SYZ conjecture\nAbstract: For a polarised degeneration family of Calabi-Yau manifolds near the large complex structure limit\, the metric SYZ conjecture asks for a special Lagrangian torus fibration on the generic region of the Calabi-Yau manifolds. I will summarize the progress on the metric SYZ conjecture so far\, emphasizing on some more recent progress. \n10:45–11:15 am\nBreak \n11:15 am–12:30 pm\nTutorial: Robert McCann\, University of Toronto\nTitle: A geometric approach to apriori estimates for optimal transport maps\nAbstract: A key inequality which underpins the regularity theory of optimal transport for costs satisfying the Ma-Trudinger-Wang condition is the Pogorelov second derivative bound. This translates to an a priori interior modulus of the differential estimate for smooth optimal maps. We describe a new derivation of this estimate with Brendle\, Leger and Rankin which relies in part on Kim\, McCann\, and Warren’s observation that the graph of an optimal map becomes a volume maximizing non-timelike submanifold when the product of the source and target domains is endowed with a suitable pseudo-Riemannian geometry that combines both the marginal densities and the cost. This unexpected links optimal transport to the plateau problem in geometry with split signature\, and shows the key difficulty is showing the maximizing non-timelike submanifold is in fact (uniformly) spacelike. J. Reine Angew. Math. 817 (2024) 251-266 doi.org/10.1515/crelle-2024-0071 arXiv 2311.10208 \n12:30–2:00 pm\nLunch (catered) \n2:00–3:15 pm\nTalk: Nam Le\, Indiana University\nTitle: Variational approach to degenerate Monge-Ampère equations with mixed measures and monotonicity\nAbstract: In this talk\, we will discuss the solvability and uniqueness for several degenerate Monge-Ampère equations including the Monge-Ampère eigenvalue problem in real Euclidean spaces that involve singular Borel measures. Our approach systematically analyzes the Monge-Ampère energy from the variational point of view and appropriately exploits monotonicity arguments. We will examine several essential tools: the mixed Monge-Ampère measure\, Aleksandrov-Blocki-Jerison type maximum principles\, convex envelope\, comparison principles for subcritical equations\, and integration by parts whose failure leads to symmetry breaking and nonuniqueness phenomena. \n3:15–3:45 pm\nBreak \n3:45–5:00 pm\nTalk: Yueqiao Wu\, Johns Hopkins University\nTitle: Valuative aspects of complete Calabi-Yau metrics of Euclidean volume growth\nAbstract: The search of a complete Calabi-Yau metric on an affine variety X amounts to solving a complex Monge-Ampère equation subject to nice “boundary conditions” at infinity. In the case where X is the complement of an SNC anticanonical divisor on a Fano manifold\, generalizing the work of Tian-Yau\, Collins-Li showed that such boundary data can be extracted from solutions to certain real Monge-Ampère equations. If we require the metric to have Euclidean volume growth\, however\, it is understood that the boundary conditions should come from prescribing a Calabi-Yau asymptotic cone at infinity. This is the same as giving the algebro-geometric data of a valuation which induces a degeneration of X to a K-stable affine cone. In this talk\, we will explain that such valuations in fact always come from Fano type compactifications of X\, similar to the ones considered by Tian-Yau and Collins-Li. In addition\, K-semistability of the affine cone can be characterized intrinsically by a valuative criterion on X. Based on joint work with Mattias Jonsson. \n  \nTuesday\, May 19\, 2026 \n9:00–9:30 am\nBreakfast \n9:30–10:45 am\nTutorial: Robert McCann\, University of Toronto\nTitle: Trading linearity for ellipticity: A low regularity Lorentzian splitting theorem\nAbstract: While Einstein’s theory of gravity is formulated in a smooth setting\, the celebrated singularity theorems of Hawking and Penrose describe many physical situations in which this smoothness must eventually breakdown. It is thus of great interest to study the theory in low regularity settings. In the lecture\, we establish a low regularity splitting theorem by sacrificing linearity of the d’Alembertian to recover ellipticity. We exploit a negative homogeneity $p$-d’Alembert operator for this purpose. The same technique yields a simplified proof of Eschenberg (1988) Galloway (1989) and Newman’s (1990) confirmation of Yau’s (1982) conjecture\, bringing all three Lorentzian splitting results into a framework closer to the Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem from Riemannian geometry. Based on joint work with Mathias Braun\, Nicola Gigli\, Argam Ohanyan\, and Clemens Saemann: 1) arXiv 2501.00702 2) arXiv 2408.15968 3) arXiv 2410.12632 4) arXiv 2507.06836 \n10:45–11:15 am\nBreak \n11:15 am–12:30 pm\nTutorial: Yang Li\, Cambridge University (via Zoom Webinar)\nTitle: On the metric SYZ conjecture\nAbstract: For a polarised degeneration family of Calabi-Yau manifolds near the large complex structure limit\, the metric SYZ conjecture asks for a special Lagrangian torus fibration on the generic region of the Calabi-Yau manifolds. I will summarize the progress on the metric SYZ conjecture so far\, emphasizing on some more recent progress. \n12:30–2:00 pm\nLunch Break \n2:00–3:15 pm\nTalk: Young-Heon Kim\, University of British Columbia\nTitle: Trajectory Inference via Multi-marginal Schrödinger Bridges\nAbstract: Trajectory inference arises in important scientific problems. In particular\, biological development can be interpreted as a curve in the space of gene-expression distributions\, and the goal is to infer this trajectory from observed data. There has been progress by using optimal transport (OT) as a way to interpolate between distributions. More recently\, Schrödinger bridges\, a stochastic generalization of OT\, have been considered. In this talk\, we discuss stability of such OT-based methods. This is joint work with Geoffrey Schiebinger and Rentian Yao. \n3:15\nBreak \n6:30 pm\nDinner \n  \nWednesday\, May 20\, 2026 \n9:00–9:30 am\nBreakfast \n9:30–10:45 am\nTutorial: Yang Li\, Cambridge University (via Zoom Webinar)\nTitle: On the metric SYZ conjecture\nAbstract: For a polarised degeneration family of Calabi-Yau manifolds near the large complex structure limit\, the metric SYZ conjecture asks for a special Lagrangian torus fibration on the generic region of the Calabi-Yau manifolds. I will summarize the progress on the metric SYZ conjecture so far\, emphasizing on some more recent progress. \n10:45–11:15 am\nBreak \n11:15 am–12:30 pm\nTutorial: Robert McCann\, University of Toronto\nTitle: The monopolist’s free boundary problem in the plane: an excursion into the economic value of private information\nAbstract: The principal-agent problem is an important paradigm in economic theory for studying the value of private information: the nonlinear pricing problem faced by a monopolist is one example; others include optimal taxation and auction design. For multidimensional spaces of consumers (i.e. agents) and products\, Rochet and Chone (1998) reformulated this problem as a concave maximization over the set of convex functions\, by assuming agent preferences are bilinear in the product and agent parameters. This optimization corresponds mathematically to a convexity-constrained obstacle problem. The solution is divided into multiple regions\, according to the rank of the Hessian of the optimizer.\nIf the monopolists costs grow quadratically with the product type we show that a partially smooth free boundary delineates the region where it becomes efficient to customize products for individual buyers. We give the first complete solution of the problem on square domains\, and discover new transitions from unbunched to targeted and from targeted to blunt bunching as market conditions become more and more favorable to the seller.\nBased on works with Kelvin Shuangjian Zhang\, Cale Rankin\, and Lucas O’Brien in various combinations:\n1) Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 34 (2024) 2351-2394; 2) J. Convex Anal. (Rockafellar 90 Issue)\, 32 (2) (2025) 579-584; 3) arXiv 2303.04937; 4) arxiv 2412.15505; 5) arXiv 2603.14100. \n  \nThursday\, May 21\, 2026 \n9:00–9:30 am\nBreakfast \n9:30–10:45 am\nTalk: Gabor Szekelyhidi\, Northwestern University\nTitle: Nondegenerate Neck Pinches along the 2d Lagrangian mean curvature flow\nAbstract: The Thomas-Yau-Joyce conjecture predicts that the mean curvature flow can be used to decompose Lagrangian submanifolds in Calabi-Yau manifolds into special Lagrangian building blocks. The basic mechanism for this decomposition is given by neck pinches. I will discuss work on the behavior of such neck-pinch singularities\, in particular the class of nondegenerate neck pinches\, which satisfy certain properties conjectured by Joyce. The construction also relates to work of Neves on finite time singularity formation. \n10:45–11:15 am\nBreak \n11:15 am–12:30 pm\nTalk: Rolf Andreasson\, Chalmers University\, Sweden\nTitle: Optimal transport between boundaries of dual reflexive polytope\nAbstract: I will present an optimal transport problem between the boundaries of a pair of reflexive polytopes. Under a certain structural condition on its solution\, this problem is related the study of metric degenerations of families of Calabi–Yau hypersurfaces in the corresponding toric Fano variety. A better understanding of such solutions and their regularity would shed light on several aspects of the degeneration and conjectural Gromov–Hausdorff limit\, and I will present some open directions of research. This is based on joint work with Jakob Hultgren\, Mattias Jonsson\, Enrica Mazzon and Nicholas McCleerey. \n12:30–2:00 pm\nLunch Break \n2:00–3:15 pm\nTalk: Jakob Hultgren\, Umea University\, Sweden\nTitle: Affine mondoromy\, cost functions and real Monge-Ampère equations\nAbstract: Recent results of Blum-Liu and Y. Li show that the metric SYZ conjecture holds. The solution hinges on the existence of valuatively independent bases for spaces of sections of the polarising bundle. These bases induce a cost function\, providing a link between the non-Archimedean Monge-Ampère equation and optimal transport. The resulting SYZ-fibration is constructed on a large but non-explicit set. In order to better understand this set\, more information about the cost function is arguably needed. We propose a cost function explicitly computable from the monodromy of an affine structure on the essential skeleton. In the case of the Fermat family of cubic curves\, this cost function (as opposed to the one attained from the ambient projective space) can be shown to agree with the one attained from a valuatively independent basis. We conjecture that this equality of cost functions holds in general\, and demonstrate in examples how the explicit cost function can be used to directly produce solutions to real Monge-Ampère equations on the essential skeleton. Joint work with Sohaib Khalid. \n3:15–3:45 pm\nBreak \n3:45–5:00 pm\nTalk: Benjy Firester\, MIT\nTitle: Free boundary Monge-Ampere equations with applications to optimal transport and Calabi-Yau geometry\nAbstract: I will present a variational framework to solve a general class of free-boundary Monge-Ampère equations. This approach combines the classical first and second boundary value problems by imposing both the boundary data and the gradient image of the solution. I will explore applications to the Monge-Ampère eigenvalue problem\, convex reconstruction theorems\, and geometric problems including a hemispherical Minkowski problem\, Calabi-Yau metrics\, and free boundary toric Kähler–Einstein/Kähler-Ricci soliton metrics. I will also discuss the connection to the boundary regularity of optimal transport. \n  \nFriday\, May 22\, 2026 \n9:00–9:30 am\nBreakfast \n9:30–10:45 am\nTalk: Jiakun Liu\, University of Sydney\nTitle: Free boundary problems in optimal transportation\nAbstract: In this talk\, I will present some recent results on the regularity of free boundaries in optimal transportation\, including higher-order regularity\, global regularity\, and a model case involving multiple targets. These results are based on a series of joint works with Shibing Chen\, Xianduo Wang\, and Xu-Jia Wang. \n10:45–11:15 am\nBreak \n11:15 am–12:30 pm\nTalk: Arghya Rakshit\, University of Toronto\nTitle: Solutions to the Monge–Ampère equation with singular structures\nAbstract: We construct examples of solutions to the Monge–Ampère equation with point masses exhibiting polyhedral singular structures. We further analyze the stability of these singular sets under small perturbations of the data. In addition\, we construct solutions whose Monge–Ampère measure contains a singular component supported on lower-dimensional sets and we study the regularity of such solutions. \n  \n\n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/cymetrics/
LOCATION:CMSA 20 Garden Street Cambridge\, Massachusetts 02138 United States
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SUMMARY:Abelian duality via derived geometry
DESCRIPTION:Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics Seminar \nSpeaker: Owen Gwilliam\, UMass Amherst \nTitle: Abelian duality via derived geometry \nAbstract: We discuss how to synthesize differential cohomology and the BV formalism to describe generalized Maxwell theories (or abelian p-form gauge theories)\, and how this framework allows a succinct formulation of abelian duality. Given time\, we will discuss how these methods apply to the 6d self-dual 2-form gauge theory that appears as part of the 6d N=(1\,0) and (2\,0) superconformal theories known as abelian tensor multiplets. This is joint work in progress with Chris Elliott\, Ingmar Saberi\, and Brian Williams. \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/qft_51826/
LOCATION:CMSA Room G02\, 20 Garden Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Quantum Field Theory and Physical Mathematics
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SUMMARY:Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Joint Math/CMSA Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar \nSpeaker: Vasily Krylov\, Harvard
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/quantumgeo_51926/
LOCATION:Science Center 507\, 1 Oxford Street\, Cambridge\, 02138
CATEGORIES:Geometry and Quantum Theory Seminar
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SUMMARY:Separation of timescales controls feature learning and overfitting in large neural networks
DESCRIPTION:New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar \nSpeaker: Pierfrancesco Urbani\, Universite Paris-Saclay\, CNRS\, CEA\, Institut de physique theorique \nTitle: Separation of timescales controls feature learning and overfitting in large neural networks \nAbstract: To understand the inductive bias and generalization capabilities of large\, overparameterized machine learning models\, it is essential to analyze the dynamics of their training algorithms. Using dynamical mean field theory we investigate the learning dynamics of large two-layer neural networks. Our findings reveal that\, for networks with a large width\, the training process exhibits a separation of timescales phenomenon. This leads to several key observations:\n1. The emergence of a slow timescale linked to the growth in Gaussian/Rademacher complexity of the network;\n2. An inductive bias favoring low complexity when the initial model complexity is sufficiently small;\n3. A dynamical decoupling between feature learning and overfitting phases;\n4. A non-monotonic trend in test error\, characterized by a “feature unlearning” regime at later stages of training.\nJoint work with Andrea Montanari. \n  \n 
URL:https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/newtech_52026/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:New Technologies in Mathematics Seminar
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