Spring 2006 Seminar

 
 
       
  Machine Learning Seminar Series
 
 
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Date: April 3, 2006
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: 1305 Newell-Simon Hall
Speaker: Rakesh Vohra, Northwestern University
Title: Calibration, Regret and Learning in Games
Abstract: This talk will be a survey of the connections between calibration (a measure of the accuracy of a probability forecast), regret (a measure of how well a decision rule performs which in Wodsworth's words: `looks before and after and pines for what is not') and the question of learning in games (will boundedly rational players in repeated play of a game converge to ones favorite equilibrium of the game?).