ASCAI MEETING
Orsay - June 19-20, 2025
- The interface between statistical physics and learning.
- Computational barriers in statistical learning.
Organized at Institut de Mathématiques d'Orsay by the franco-german research group ASCAI.
The two days will be structured around two mini-courses and two advanced lectures. They will be preceded by a satellite workshop presenting some recent achievements of the ASCAI group.

Speakers / Schedule
Wednesday, June 18, Satellite meeting of ASCAI group.
Presentation of some recent achievements of the ASCAI research group. Room 3L15.
9h30 - 10h30 -- Debarghya Ghoshdastidar (TUM) Statistical Guarantees for Gradient-based Optimisation: Transformers and Projection Pursuit.
Break
11h00 - 11h35 -- Romain Périer (Orsay) Post hoc methods for heterogeneous tests.
11h35 - 12h10 -- Ulysse Gazin (Paris) Selection of informative conformal prediction regions.
Lunch
14h00 - 14h35 -- Maximilian Graf (Potsdam) Statistical Inference for Paired Spatial Poisson Processes with Missing Data.
14h35 - 15h10 -- Bertrand Even (Orsay) Low-degree Lower Bounds for models with Latent Variables; Application to Clustering, Sparse Clustering and Bi-clustering.
15h10 - 15h45 -- Victor Thuot (INRAE) Clustering Items through Bandit Feedback: Finding the Right Feature out of Many.
15h45 - 16h20 -- Sebastian Vogt (TUM) Non-Parametric Active Bandit Clustering.
Break
17h00 - 18h00 -- Alexandra Carpentier (Potsdam) A simple algorithm for noisy, zeroth-order convex optimisation.
18h00 - … : discussion time
Thursday, June 19
09h30-11h00 -- Antoine Maillard. Interplay between statistical physics and learning (I)
11h30-12h30 -- Pierfrancesco Urbani. Generalization and overfitting in large overparametrized two-layer neural networks.
14h00-15h30 -- Antoine Maillard. Interplay between statistical physics and learning (II)
16h00-17h30 -- Alex Wein. Computational barriers in statistical learning (I)
Friday, June 20
09h30-10h30 -- Elisabetta Cornacchia. Learning with neural networks: Complexity and Data Structure
11h00-12h30 -- Alex Wein. Computational barriers in statistical learning (II)
Venue
Institut de Mathématique d'Orsay, université Paris Saclay (how to get there?)
Room 3L15, Bâtiment 307, 307 Rue Michel Magat, 91400 Orsay.
Registration
Registration is closed.
Organizers / Sponsors
Local organizers: Gilles Blanchard, Elisabeth Gassiat, and Christophe Giraud.
Fundings: ASCAI DFG-ANR research group, IUF, DataIA.