Sílvia Casacuberta

Sílvia Casacuberta

@sicapu.bsky.social

Computer Science PhD student & Knight-Hennessy scholar at @stanford.edu. Prev.: @ox.ac.uk with @rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk, @harvard.edu '23, @maxplanck.de, @ethz.ch, IBM Research. Theory CS for Trustworthy AI https://silviacasacuberta.com

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In recent years, connections to multiaccuracy and multicalibration have led to a surge of work on regularity lemmas, with new results and applications in complexity theory, cryptography, learning theory, information theory, and communication complexity, among other areas.

Regularity lemmas show how to approximate complex objects by simpler ones that cannot be distinguished from them by a class of tests. Originating in graph theory and brought to complexity theory by Trevisan, Tulsiani, and Vadhan (2009), they have become powerful tools in TCS.

How can theoretical computer science help us think about the interaction between algorithms and society? I wrote some personal reflections about my path into this area and the research community working on these questions knight-hennessy.stanford.edu/news/mathema...

knight-hennessy.stanford.eduThe mathematics of a better worldSílvia Casacuberta Puig (2025 cohort) reflects on how a childhood love of mathematics grew into a mission: to improve the impact of algorithms on people’s lives.

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We have a new online boosting algorithm which is very efficient and effective. Unlike prior algorithms which maintain many weak learners and ensemble them, we operationalize the "dual view" of boosting. We don't maintain an ensemble. We try to construct an online hard core distribution.

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On Monday @ncollina.bsky.social @iraglobusharris.bsky.social and I are giving a tutorial at ICML on (multi)calibration and its applications. You can find slides and an annotated bibliography on the website: calibration-tutorial.github.io as well as an interactive demo of online calibration algs.

calibration-tutorial.github.ioCalibration, Decisions, and Collaboration in Learning | ICML 2026An ICML 2026 tutorial on making probabilistic predictions trustworthy for downstream decision-making and collaboration.

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Check out our #FAccT2026 tutorial tomorrow on Bridging Predictions and Interventions in Social Systems! We're going to be building a predictions - interventions index to track ADS systems, evaluations, and gaps therein. Bring a device; I'll try to bring worksheets too :)

It was great to attend @forcconf.bsky.social at Harvard this past week! I gave a talk on our paper “How Global Calibration Strengthens Multiaccuracy” (joint work with Parikshit Gopalan, Varun Kanade, and Omer Reingold), which we presented at FOCS this past December. arxiv.org/abs/2504.15206

arxiv.orgHow Global Calibration Strengthens MultiaccuracyMultiaccuracy and multicalibration are multigroup fairness notions for prediction that have found numerous applications in learning and computational complexity. They can be achieved from a single lea...
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It was great to attend @forcconf.bsky.social at Harvard this past week! I gave a talk on our paper “How Global Calibration Strengthens Multiaccuracy” (joint work with Parikshit Gopalan, Varun Kanade, and Omer Reingold), which we presented at FOCS this past December. arxiv.org/abs/2504.15206

arxiv.orgHow Global Calibration Strengthens MultiaccuracyMultiaccuracy and multicalibration are multigroup fairness notions for prediction that have found numerous applications in learning and computational complexity. They can be achieved from a single lea...
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In this new paper, we show that we can obtain hardcore measures with optimal density from the weaker notion of calibrated multiaccuracy. In both the learning and complexity settings, our proofs demonstrate the complementary roles played by multiaccuracy and calibration.

They shed light on why multiaccuracy and global calibration, although not particularly powerful by themselves, together yield considerably stronger notions. Moreover, the primitive of calibrated multiaccuracy (which is quite cheap and easy to obtain, compared to...

It was great to attend @forcconf.bsky.social at Harvard this past week! I gave a talk on our paper “How Global Calibration Strengthens Multiaccuracy” (joint work with Parikshit Gopalan, Varun Kanade, and Omer Reingold), which we presented at FOCS this past December. arxiv.org/abs/2504.15206

arxiv.orgHow Global Calibration Strengthens MultiaccuracyMultiaccuracy and multicalibration are multigroup fairness notions for prediction that have found numerous applications in learning and computational complexity. They can be achieved from a single lea...
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A similar picture emerges in the setting of complexity theory. We know, from the work of Trevisan, Tulsiani, and Vadhan, that from the Regularity Lemma (= multiaccuracy theorem) we can prove Impagliazzo’s Hardcore Lemma, albeit with suboptimal density delta.

In a previous work with Cynthia Dwork and Salil Vadhan (arxiv.org/abs/2312.17223, presented at STOC 2024), we showed that from multicalibration we get a stronger and more general Hardcore Lemma, from which we derive the original Hardcore Lemma with optimal density 2*delta.

arxiv.orgComplexity-Theoretic Implications of MulticalibrationWe present connections between the recent literature on multigroup fairness for prediction algorithms and classical results in computational complexity. Multiaccurate predictors are correct in expecta...

It was great to attend @forcconf.bsky.social at Harvard this past week! I gave a talk on our paper “How Global Calibration Strengthens Multiaccuracy” (joint work with Parikshit Gopalan, Varun Kanade, and Omer Reingold), which we presented at FOCS this past December. arxiv.org/abs/2504.15206

arxiv.orgHow Global Calibration Strengthens MultiaccuracyMultiaccuracy and multicalibration are multigroup fairness notions for prediction that have found numerous applications in learning and computational complexity. They can be achieved from a single lea...
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We show that for many classes C we can construct a predictor p that is perfectly C-multiaccurate, yet p is completely uncorrelated with the labels (even though some concepts in C do have high correlation with the labels).

That is, in certain cases there is no way to post-process a multiaccurate predictor to get a weak learner, even assuming the best hypothesis in C has high correlation. However, when we also require p to be calibrated, we recover not just weak, but strong agnostic learning.

It was great to attend @forcconf.bsky.social at Harvard this past week! I gave a talk on our paper “How Global Calibration Strengthens Multiaccuracy” (joint work with Parikshit Gopalan, Varun Kanade, and Omer Reingold), which we presented at FOCS this past December. arxiv.org/abs/2504.15206

arxiv.orgHow Global Calibration Strengthens MultiaccuracyMultiaccuracy and multicalibration are multigroup fairness notions for prediction that have found numerous applications in learning and computational complexity. They can be achieved from a single lea...

We know that we can construct multiaccurate and multicalibrated predictors from weak agnostic learning, and also that a C-multicalibrated predictor is a strong agnostic learner for the class C. But what learning guarantees does multiaccuracy (= computational indistinguishability) offer?

If you’re interested in prediction vs downstream decision-making, calibration (in the predictive or generative setting), uncertainty quantification, multigroup learning, or any related problems, I would love to chat!

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Reminder that this is today at 7 pm! Please join us if you are at #NeurIPS2025

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At #NeurIPS2025? Join us for a Social on Wednesday at 7 PM, featuring a fireside chat with Jon Kleinberg and mentoring tables. Ft. mentors @djfoster.bsky.social @surbhigoel.bsky.social @aifi.bsky.social @gautamkamath.com and more!

If you are interested in learning with abstentions (in the predictive or generative setting), calibration, multigroup fairness, uncertainty quantification, conformal prediction, or any other related topics, I would love to chat! I’ll be in Exhibit Hall C,D,E #3013 this Thursday 11 am - 2 pm PST.

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