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Bayesian Adversarial Privacy [v2]

Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 11, 2026 by xi'an

We have just reposted our paper Bayesian Adversarial Privacy on arXiv to reflect the revision we wrote in the past months, to address the (quite sensible) comments from the reviewers. Interestingly the discussants of my Akaike lecture made similar points. The main changes are in explaining more clearly the nature of the combined loss, with Antoine coming up with the use of illuminating R-U map representations, in enlarging the references to other approaches, in stressing that Eve was an Alice’s construct rather than a genuine adversary, but still integrating the case of “multiple Eves”, in mellowing our criticisms of DP, and in expanding the conclusion with limitations and extensions subsections.

Bayesian Privacy [Akaike Lecture slides]

Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 10, 2026 by xi'an

プレナリーセッション(赤池メモリアルレクチャー)

Posted in Statistics, Travel, University life with tags , , , , , , , , , on September 7, 2026 by xi'an

プレナリーセッション(赤池メモリアルレクチャー)

「赤池メモリアルレクチャー賞」は2016年5月に統計数理研究所と日本統計学会により共同で設立されました。統計科学の分野において多大な功績を残し,その発展に大きな影響を及ぼした故赤池弘次博士の功績を記念したものです。今年度の第6回受賞者は Christian P. Robert 博士(Université Paris-Dauphine-PSL,University of Warwick)に決定し,2026年度統計関連学会連合大会のプレナリーセッションにおいて記念講演を行います。講演は英語で行われます。(ハイブリッド形式での開催予定)

  • 日時:2026年9月7日(月) 10時00分~12時00分
  • 場所:横浜市立大学 金沢八景キャンパス カメリアホール
  • オーガナイザー:鎌谷研吾(統計数理研究所)
  • 司会:青嶋誠(統計関連学会連合 理事長)
  • 座長:山下智志(統計数理研究所 所長)
  • 講演者:Prof. Christian P. Robert (Université Paris-Dauphine-PSL, University of Warwick)
  • 指定討論者: 矢野恵佑(統計数理研究所),菅澤翔之助(慶応義塾大学)
  • 講演は現地 (ハイブリッド参加可) にて英語で行われます。

off to Yokohama

Posted in pictures, Travel, University life with tags , , , , , , , , , , on September 5, 2026 by xi'an

Nature tidbits

Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 29, 2026 by xi'an

On the 25 June edition, an editorial calling Europe to lead on free and open science, while boosting industrial consequences. (By the way, Japan just joined Horizon Europe! While the UK will rejoin Erasmus in 2027, under the headline “Brexit tore apart European science — now the research rifts are healing“, mentioning the financial and visa unsolved issues.) A news article continuing the investigation of how AI impacts or will impact mathematical research, with a FirstProof test evaluating AIs solving new, research-level, maths problems. (But missing Claude Mythos and Google’s Aletheia.) A “comment” from a Chinese academic that science needs humanities, at a time when universities in the UK are closing some humanities departments. And a discussion of the exceptional discovery of a whale necropolis, 7km deep, with fossil remains dating back to 5M years mixed with recent ones. Plus another exciting 10 page paper about genetic sleuthing on population changes at the collapse of the Roman empire, in the Danube-Isar and Rhein-Main areas of present-day Germany. (The attached picture representing posterior estimates of life expectancies of some individuals, obtained by MCMC.) In the Carreers section, a story from a  geography researcher whose job offer was rescinded at the last moment, a scary thing that is alas not so rare.