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

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Coffee & Check In
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Opening Remarks
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Explanatory Learning: Unleashing New Knowledge in Unknown Languages
Antonio Norelli (Sapienza University of Rome), Emanuele Rodolà (Sapienza University of Rome)
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Music Generation via Masked Acoustic Token Modeling
Bryan Pardo (Northwestern)
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Break
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Structural Transfer Learning: Exploring Neural Models and Language Structure Through Understanding Transfer
Isabel Papadimitriou (Stanford University)
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Lunch (on your own)
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Individual Discrimination of Bottlenose Dolphin Signature Whistles Using Deep Learning
Frants Jensen (Syracuse University/Sarasota Dolphin Research Program)
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Cetacean Cognition
Diana Reiss (Hunter College)
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Light Reception
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Coffee & Check In
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Deep Emergent Communication: How It Started and How It’s Going
Roberto Dessi (UPF)
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GPT-Whale Language Models at Tools for Structure Discovery and Hypothesis Generation
Pratyusha Sharma (MIT), Jacob Andreas (MIT)
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Break
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Generative AI and What Is Meaningful Sperm Whale Communication
Gašper Beguš (UC Berkeley)
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Lunch (on your own)
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Do Elephants Have Names? Vocal Labeling of Individual Conspecifics in African Elephants + virtual discussion with Joyce Poole (ElephantVoices)
Michael Pardo (Colorado State)
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Communication in the Service of Coordinated Action by Spotted Hyenas
Kay Holekamp (Michigan State University)
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Break
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Computer Vision After the Victory of Data
Alexei Efros (UC Berkeley)