📢 We are pleased to announce the 7th edition of Youth in High Dimensions, taking place on July 20th-23rd at ITCP in Trieste. Apply via our website by April 18th for financial and/or visa support, and by May 9th for all participants: indico.ictp.it/event/11153.

Fun new theory paper on data reuse: 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟-𝗕𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 𝗚𝗗 can beat 𝗢𝗡𝗘-𝗣𝗔𝗦𝗦 𝗦𝗚𝗗 by a log-factor in samples. Same single-index model, same data: → 𝗚𝗗 recovers with n ≈ d → 𝗦𝗚𝗗 needs n ≳ d log d arxiv.org/abs/2602.02431

✨️📢 Best paper award: Spurious Correlations in High Dimensional Regression: The Roles of Regularization, Simplicity Bias and Over-Parameterization 🎉👏 @MMondelli @simone_bombari

Interested in theory for high-dimensional statistical problems? The workshop "Youth in High Dimensions" in #Trieste July 7-9 has an amazing speaker lineup and offers great networking opportunities indico.ictp.it/event/10849 - co-organized w/ @MMondelli @sebastiangoldt JeanBarbier

Congratulations @simone_bombari, very well deserved!

We invite expository articles on generative models for the IEEE BITS magazine: itsoc.org/sites/default/file… Feel free to reach out to me or other guest editors @abeirami, @MMondelli , @sametoymac, Vatsal Sharan if you have any questions.

Grateful to @ERC_Research and excited to start the project. This would not have been possible without my group at @ISTAustria and my collaborators, thank you! Multiple open positions (postdocs, PhDs, interns), strong candidates encouraged to reach out. marcomondelli.com

We are excited to announce the 5th edition of “Youth in high dimensions” to take place May 20-24 2024 at ICTP Trieste, Italy. Check the list of amazing speakers and register by March 31 at indico.ictp.it/event/10478 .