An informal discussion of robust mean estimation

May 07, 3pm, GHC 8102

Speaker: Sivaraman Balakrishnan

Abstract: I will informally discuss some new, old and (very) partial results on robust mean estimation. Particularly, I will discuss my thoughts on model-misspecification versus robustness, some results on Hellinger robustness and on adapting to unknown parameters and unknown perturbation models in robust estimation. This is based on joint work/discussions with Adarsh.