Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species II (co-hosted with Project CETI)

Location

Calvin Lab Auditorium

Date

Monday, June 12 – Tuesday, June 13, 2023

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Schedule subject to change. All times listed in Pacific Time.

9 – 9:25 a.m.

Coffee & Check In

9:25 – 9:30 a.m.

Opening Remarks

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

Explanatory Learning: Unleashing New Knowledge in Unknown Languages

Antonio Norelli (Sapienza University of Rome),
Emanuele Rodolà (Sapienza University of Rome)

10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Music Generation via Masked Acoustic Token Modeling

Bryan Pardo (Northwestern)

11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Break

12 – 1 p.m.

Structural Transfer Learning: Exploring Neural Models and Language Structure Through Understanding Transfer

Isabel Papadimitriou (Stanford University)

1 – 2:30 p.m.

Lunch (on your own)

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Individual Discrimination of Bottlenose Dolphin Signature Whistles Using Deep Learning

Frants Jensen (Syracuse University/Sarasota Dolphin Research Program)

3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Cetacean Cognition

Diana Reiss (Hunter College)

4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Light Reception

9 – 9:30 a.m.

Coffee & Check In

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

Deep Emergent Communication: How It Started and How It’s Going

Roberto Dessi (UPF)

10:30 – 11:30 a.m.

GPT-Whale Language Models at Tools for Structure Discovery and Hypothesis Generation

Pratyusha Sharma (MIT),
Jacob Andreas (MIT)

11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Break

12 – 1 p.m.

Generative AI and What Is Meaningful Sperm Whale Communication

Gašper Beguš (UC Berkeley)

1 – 2:30 p.m.

Lunch (on your own)

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

Do Elephants Have Names? Vocal Labeling of Individual Conspecifics in African Elephants + virtual discussion with Joyce Poole (ElephantVoices)

Michael Pardo (Colorado State)

3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Communication in the Service of Coordinated Action by Spotted Hyenas

Kay Holekamp (Michigan State University)

4:30 – 4:45 p.m.

Break

4:45 – 5:45 p.m.

Computer Vision After the Victory of Data

Alexei Efros (UC Berkeley)