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New York, NY 10010, United States
In this lecture, Vladimir Vapnik will discuss how the LUPI learning model can take the form of comments, descriptions, metaphoric reasoning and other teaching tactics. He will describe the goal of the model — to develop good decision rules even when only a small number of examples is provided.
If this lecture is videotaped, it will be posted here after production.
October 12–14, 2026
October 14, 2026
6–7 p.m. ET
Speaker
Shep Doeleman
October 15–16, 2026