Statistical Foundations of Latent Structure and Representation Learning

November 4–5, 2026

Columbia University New York City

About

Modern statistical and machine learning problems increasingly rely on uncovering latent structure and learning informative representations from complex, high-dimensional data. Fundamental questions concerning identifiability, statistical efficiency, uncertainty quantification, computation, causality, and interpretability arise across latent variable models, high-dimensional statistics, networks, and modern representation learning.

This two-day workshop brings together researchers from statistics, machine learning, data science, and related fields to discuss recent advances and emerging connections in the statistical foundations of latent structure and representation learning.

Speakers

Program

Program forthcoming.

The detailed program and talk titles will be posted closer to the workshop.

Location

Columbia University, New York City.

The exact venue and logistical details will be posted here when finalized.

Organizer

Yuqi Gu
Department of Statistics, Columbia University

Questions about the workshop: yuqi.gu@columbia.edu