BART and Posterior Summarization Reading Group at UT Austin
Below is the schedule of topics (papers / presentations) in the Fall 2023 iteration of the BART and Posterior Summarization Reading Group
| Date | Presenter | Topic | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8/31/2023 | Drew Herren | Kickoff and introductory meeting | N/A |
| 9/14/2023 | Nevena Gligic | The original BART paper (Chipman, George, McCulloch 2010) | Paper |
| 9/21/2023 | Pedro Lima | BAVART (Huber and Rossini 2022) | Paper |
| 9/28/2023 | Jared Murray | Posterior Summarization | JCGS Paper and DSS Paper |
| 10/5/2023 | Anna Morgan | Bayesian Causal Forests (BCF) and Ordinal-Outcome BCF | Paper |
| 10/12/2023 | Drew Herren | Accelerated BART (XBART) | Paper |
| 10/19/2023 | Sameer Deshpande | BART with Categorical Features and Oblique Decision Rules | Paper and Slides |
| 10/26/2023 | Giacomo Petrillo | BART as a Gaussian Process | Slides |
| 11/2/2023 | Rafael Alcantara | BART for Regression Discontinuity Design | |
| 11/9/2023 | Tony Linero | Some Problems on BART and Posterior Summarization | Slides |
| 11/16/2023 | Richard Hahn | XBART for Survival Analysis | |
| 11/30/2023 | Rob McCulloch | Searching for Dusty Corners: Understanding the Prediction of the Cross Section of Returns |