• From ICON to GenICON: In-Context Operator Learning with Uncertainty Quantification (Siting Liu, UCR)

    Emmy Noether Room, Estella 1021, Pomona College, 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    Abstract: I will introduce In-Context Operator Networks (ICON), a framework in which a single neural network learns solution operators for differential equations directly from a few prompted input-output examples at inference time, without any weight updates. ICON acts as a few-shot learner across forward and inverse problems for ODEs, PDEs, and mean-field control. I will […]

  • Adaptive Experimental Design using Shrinkage Estimators (Evan Rosenman, Claremont McKenna College)

    Emmy Noether Room, Estella 1021, Pomona College, 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    In multi-armed trials, adaptive designs are a popular way to increase estimation efficiency or identify optimal treatments. Many recent papers have proposed adaptive methods for minimizing the error of unbiased estimators that consider each treatment arm in isolation. This approach may be inefficient, because it fails to borrow shared information across the treatment arms. We […]

  • If a Statistical Model Predicts That Common Events Should Occur Only Once in 10,000 Elections, Maybe it’s the Wrong Model (Danny Ebanks, Cal Tech)

    Emmy Noether Room, Estella 1021, Pomona College, 610 N. College Ave., Claremont, CA, United States

    Political scientists forecast elections, not primarily to satisfy public interest, but to validate statistical models used for estimating quantities of scholarly interest. Although scholars have learned a great deal from […]

  • Initial Conditions and the Big Push (Daniel Velasquez, CMC)

    Estella 1021 (Emmy Noether Room), Pomona College Claremont, CA, United States

    This paper examines how initial conditions shape the long-run impact of large temporary shocks on economic geography. Using WWII supply contracts in the United States, we show that temporary spending […]

  • In-Context Kernel Ridge Regression with Transformers (Mingsong Yan, UCSB)

    Estella 1021 (Emmy Noether Room), Pomona College Claremont, CA, United States

    Large language models (LLMs) can use examples provided in a prompt to make predictions for new queries without updating their parameters, a capability known as in-context learning. In this talk, […]