Kawano, S. (STAT) – Model Validation and Dependent Shrinkage Priors for Small Area Estimation
Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz
Hybrid Event
7 events found.
Week of Events
Monday, October 19, 2026
-
Hybrid EventOctober 19, 2026Kawano, S. (STAT) – Model Validation and Dependent Shrinkage Priors for Small Area Estimation
Hybrid Event
Kawano, S. (STAT) – Model Validation and Dependent Shrinkage Priors for Small Area Estimation
This dissertation addresses two questions in survey methodology: How can we produce granular, reliable estimates? And how can we validate them without ground truth? We develop three methods: (1) Gaussian data thinning enables out-of-sample model validation using only direct survey estimates and their sampling variances. We characterize its bias–variance tradeoff to guide model comparison. — […]
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
No events on this day.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
-
Virtual EventOctober 21, 2026Zhang, R. (CSE) – Towards next-generation infrastructure for agentic AI
Virtual Event
Zhang, R. (CSE) – Towards next-generation infrastructure for agentic AI
LLM workloads are shifting from chat to agents: one task becomes tens of model calls, dispatched along a graph the harness holds and repeating the same instructions. This execution is structured and predictable, yet the serving stack discards that structure at every boundary it crosses. I argue that agent infrastructure should treat execution semantics and […]
Thursday, October 22, 2026
No events on this day.
Friday, October 23, 2026
No events on this day.
Saturday, October 24, 2026
No events on this day.
Sunday, October 25, 2026
No events on this day.