14:00 – 15:00 – Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (Bocconi University)
Title: Bilinear mixed models and variational inference
Abstract: The talk relates to a book I am currently writing with a political scientist, Max Goplerud (Austin), and deals with variational inference and its applications to large scale inference for generalized bilinear mixed models. This model structure is pervasive throughout applied sciences and includes as special cases generalized linear mixed models, matrix factorization models and item response theory. I will provide a synthesis of our methodological, theoretical and software work in this framework and link to other works and results in the field.
Refreshments available between 15:00 – 15:30, Huxley Common Room (HXLY 549)