BU CS Distinguished Lecture Series: Alex Madry (MIT)

Alex Madry of MIT will be presenting for the Distinguished Lecture Series. Title: Towards ML You Can Rely On Abstract: Machine learning has made a significant progress over the last decade. In fact, many believe now that ML techniques are a “silver bullet”, capable of making progress on any real-world problem they are applied to. But can we truly rely on this toolkit? In this talk, I will discuss one of the key challenges to making ML be dependable and secure: the widespread vulnerability of state-of-the-art classifiers to adversarial misclassification (aka adversarial examples). I will then describe a framework that enables us to reason about this vulnerability in a principled manner as well as develop methods for alleviating the problem it poses. Sign up for lunch with him/see his schedule with the below link.