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Domain Adaptation and Related Areas

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Modern Paradigms in Generalization
Location

Calvin Lab Auditorium

Date
Tuesday, Nov. 12 – Friday, Nov. 15, 2024
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8:45 – 9:15 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:15 – 9:20 a.m.
Opening Remarks
9:20 – 10 a.m.
A Discrepancy-Based Theory of Adaptation

Mehryar Mohri (Google Research & NYU)
Video
10 – 10:40 a.m.
Label Noise: Ignorance is Bliss

Clayton Scott (University of Michigan)
Video
10:40 – 11 a.m.
Break
11 – 11:40 a.m.
Does Distribution Shift Matter In the Era of Pre-trained Language Models?

Robin Jia (University of Southern California)
Video
11:40 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
The Data Addition Dilemma

Irene Y Chen (UC Berkeley)
Video
12:20 – 2:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
2:30 – 3:10 p.m.
How Transformers Learn Causal Structure with Gradient Descent

Jason Lee (Princeton University)
Video
3:10 – 3:50 p.m.
Pseudo-Labeling for Covariate Shift Adaptation

Kaizheng Wang (Columbia University)
Video
3:50 – 5 p.m.
Poster Session and Reception
8:45 – 9:20 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:20 – 10 a.m.
TBD

Nika Haghtalab (UC Berkeley)
10 – 10:40 a.m.
Transfer learning for weak-to-strong generalization

Yuekai Sun (University of Michigan)
Video
10:40 – 11 a.m.
Break
11 – 11:40 a.m.
Distribution shift in ecological data: generalization vs. specialization,

Sara Beery (MIT)
Video
11:40 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Transfer learning via local convergence rates of the nonparametric least squares estimator

Johannes Schmidt-Hieber (University of Twente)
Video
12:20 – 2:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own) and Lunchtime Activity
2:30 – 3:10 p.m.
The Modulus of Transfer

Steve Hanneke (Purdue University)
3:10 – 3:50 p.m.
User-level and federated local differential privacy

Yi Yu (University of Warwick)
Video
4 – 5:30 p.m.
Optional Sunset Hike
8:45 – 9:20 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:20 – 10 a.m.
On Spurious Associations and LLM Alignment

Victor Veitch (University of Chicago)
Video
10 – 10:40 a.m.
TBD

Zachary Lipton (Carnegie Mellon University)
Video
10:40 – 11 a.m.
Break
11 – 11:40 a.m.
Causally motivated robustness to shortcut learning

Maggie Makar (University of Michigan)
Video
11:40 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own) and Table Discussions (click for sign up sheet)

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2:30 – 3:10 p.m.
TBD

Emma Brunskill (Stanford University)
3:10 – 3:50 p.m.
Toward Understanding the Extrapolation of Nonlinear Models to Unseen Domains or the Whole Domain

Tengyu Ma (Stanford University)
Video
3:50 – 4:10 p.m.
Break
4:10 – 5 p.m.
Language-guided Adaptation

Trevor Darrrell (UC Berkeley)
Video
8:45 – 9:20 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:20 – 10 a.m.
Distributional Shifts and Spectral Risks

Zaid Harchaoui (University of Washington)
10 – 10:40 a.m.
Adaptive Data Collection via Autoregressive Generation

Hongseok Namkoong (Columbia University)
Video
10:40 – 11 a.m.
Break
11 – 11:40 a.m.
Scalably Understanding AI with AI

Jacob Steinhardt (UC Berkeley)
Video
11:40 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
TBD

Kamalika Chaudhuri (UC San Diego)
Video
12:20 – 2:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
2:30 – 3:10 p.m.
Open-Source and Science in the Era of Foundation Models

Percy Liang (Stanford University)
Video
3:10 – 3:50 p.m.
Domain Adaptation-- 20 years of theory chasing practice

Shai Ben-David (University of Waterloo)
Video
3:50 – 4:10 p.m.
Break
4:10 – 5 p.m.
Panel Discussion

Rich Zemel (Columbia University),
Shai Ben-David (University of Waterloo and Vector Institute ),
Kamalika Chaudhuri (UC San Diego),
Percy Liang,
Hongseok Namkoong (Columbia University)
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