PSC reading group
The sessions are on Friday afternoons, usually at 15:00. The rooms are indicated in the Direction page.
Salle 03, 3PM Friday
The Sample Complexity of Approximate Rejection Sampling with Applications to Smoothed Online Learning by Adam Block, Yury Polyanskiy arxiv:2302.04658 and some more recent works presented by Pierre
Possible future reads
Attention Is All You Need by Vaswani et al.
Hypothesis Testing with E-values by Ramdas and Wang
Generalized universal inference on risk minimizers by Dey, Martin, and Williams
Time-uniform central limit theory with applications to anytime-valid causal inference by Waudby-Smith et al.
Reflection couplings and contraction rates for diffusions by Eberle and/or earlier work on couplings by Mu-Fa Chen, Feng-Yu Wang and company
Previous sessions
2nd October presented by Shiva
Meyn and Tweedie (1992) “Criteria for stability of Markovian processes I: Discrete time chains” (available on Sean Meyn’s website)
25th September Special session: Talk by Leo Duan University of Florida
Last spring’s reading group Spring 2026