Information theory and machine learning have long been related in fruitful ways.
LITH is expected to be biennal at EPFL, before or after the Zurich Seminar (IZS).
The LITH workshop brings together researchers working in these areas, identifying directions and tools that can lead to new fundamental advancements in each field.
Program 2026
Monday, February 23 from 9:00-17:30 and Tuesday, February 24 from 9:00-12:30
Confirmed Speakers
Morgane Austern, Harvard University
Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti, University of Pennsylvania
Gautam Dasarathy, Arizona State University
Meir Feder, Tel Aviv University
Varun Jog, University of Cambridge
Samory Kpotufe, Columbia University
Yury Polyanskiy, MIT
David Steurer, ETHZ
Vincent Tan, NUS
Marco Tomamichel, NUS
Ramji Venkataramanan, University of Cambridge
Monday February 23
| 9:00-9:45 | BC410 | Yury Polyanskiy | |
| 9:45-10:30 | BC410 | Vincent Tan | Best Arm Identification with Minimal Regret |
| Break | |||
| 11-11:45 | BC410 | Ramji Venkataramanan | Error Propagation and Model Collapse in Recursively Trained Diffusion Models |
| 11:45-12:30 | BC410 | Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti | Toward rate-distortion-perception optimality with lattice transform coding |
| Lunch | |||
| 14:00-14:45 | BC420 | Samory Kpotufe | A Complex Picture of Multi-task Learning |
| 14:45-15:30 | BC420 | Marco Tomamichel | Conditional Mutual Information Testing |
| Break | |||
| 16:00-16:45 | BC420 | David Steurer | |
| Discussions | |||
| ~7pm | Dinner |
Tuesday February 24
| 9:00-9:45 | BC420 | Varun Jog | Information Complexity of the Coin Problem |
| 9:45-10:30 | BC420 | Meir Feder | Understanding Modern ML: Architecture Based Complexity |
| Break | |||
| 11-11:45 | BC420 | Gautam Dasarathy | Can you hear the shape of gossip? Learning Gaussian Graphical Models from Glauber Dynamics |
| 11:45-12:30 | Discussions | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Program 2024
Monday March 4
| 9:00-9:40 | Marco Mondelli |
| 9:40-10:20 | Afonso S. Bandeira |
| Break | |
| 10:50-11:30 | Fanny Yang |
| 11:30-12:10 | Jaouad Mourtada |
| Lunch | |
| 14:00-14:40 | Lenka Zdeborova |
| 14:40-15:20 | Laurent Massoulie |
| Break | |
| 15:50-16:30 | Surprise Speaker |
| Discussions | |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
Tuesday March 5
| 9:00-9:40 | Yihong Wu |
| 9:40-10:20 | Cynthia G. Rush |
| Break | |
| 10:50-11:30 | Jean Barbier |
| 11:30-12:10 | Ziv Goldfeld |
