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Emerging Generalization Settings
Program
Modern Paradigms in Generalization
Location
Calvin Lab Auditorium
Date
Monday, Sept. 9
–
Friday, Sept. 13, 2024
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Monday, Sept. 9, 2024
8:30
–
8:45 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
8:45
–
9 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions
9
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10 a.m.
Propositions as Parameters
Jason Eisner (Johns Hopkins University)
10
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10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15
–
11:15 a.m.
LLM Generalization in Social Context
Diyi Yang (Stanford University)
11:15 a.m.
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1 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
1
–
2 p.m.
In-Context Principle Learning from Mistakes
Uri Alon (Google DeepMind)
2
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2:15 p.m.
Break
2:15
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3:15 p.m.
LLM Metacognition: Understanding and leveraging "Thinking about Thinking"
Sanjeev Arora (Princeton University)
3:15
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3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30
–
4:15 p.m.
Panel: Generalization in NLP
4:15
–
5:15 p.m.
Reception
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024
8:30
–
9 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9
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10 a.m.
Out-of-Distribution Generalization as Reasoning: Are LLMs Competitive?
Les Valiant (Harvard University)
10
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10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15
–
11:15 a.m.
When calibration goes awry: hallucination in language models
Adam Kalai (OpenAI)
11:15 a.m.
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12:45 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
12:45
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1:45 p.m.
Generalization in Diffusion Models Arises from Geometry-Adaptive Harmonic Representations
Zahra Kadkhodaie (New York University)
1:45
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2 p.m.
Break
2
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3 p.m.
How well does diffusion model generate? - A quantification that accounts for both training and sampling
Molei Tao (Georgia Tech)
,
Yuqing Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology)
3
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3:10 p.m.
Break
3:10
–
3:55 p.m.
Panel: New Theoretical Frameworks for Generalization
Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024
8:30
–
9 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9
–
10 a.m.
Robust Generalization in the Era of LLMs: Jailbreaking Attacks and Defenses
Hamed Hassani (University of Pennsylvania)
10
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10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15
–
11:15 a.m.
The Pitfalls of Next-token Prediction
Vaishnavh Nagarajan (Google)
11:15 a.m.
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1 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
1
–
2 p.m.
Predictability and Surprise in Language Model Benchmarks
Sanmi Koyejo (Stanford University)
2
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2:15 p.m.
Break
2:15
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3:15 p.m.
Human and machine inductive biases for compositional linguistic generalization
Najoung Kim (Boston University)
3:15
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3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30
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4:30 p.m.
Long context modeling and generalization: two perspectives
Amanda Bertsch (Carnegie Mellon University)
Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024
8:30
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9 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9
–
10 a.m.
Generalization from the behavioral perspective
Max Raginsky (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
10
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10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15
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11:15 a.m.
Controlling distribution shifts in language models: a data-centric approach.
Tatsunori Hashimoto (Stanford University)
11:15 a.m.
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1 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
1
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2 p.m.
On the Curses of Future and History in Off-policy Evaluation in non-Markov Environments
Nan Jiang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2
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2:15 p.m.
Break
2:15
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3:15 p.m.
Iterative preference learning methods for large language model post training
Wei Xiong (UIUC)
3:15
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3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30
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4:30 p.m.
Language Model Alignment: Theory & Algorithms
Ahmad Beirami (Google)
Friday, Sept. 13, 2024
8:30
–
9 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9
–
10 a.m.
Unexpected Test Losses from Generalization Theory?
Frederic Koehler (University of Chicago)
10
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10:15 a.m.
Break
10:15
–
11:15 a.m.
When do dependencies in your data help?
Ankur Moitra (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
11:15 a.m.
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1 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
1
–
2 p.m.
Know When You Know: Handling Adversarial Data by Abstaining
Surbhi Goel (University of Pennsylvania)
2
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2:15 p.m.
Break
2:15
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3:15 p.m.
Neural Networks meet Nonparametric Regression: Generalization by Weight Decay and Large Learning Rate
Yu-Xiang Wang (UC San Diego)
3:15
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3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30
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4:30 p.m.
Generalization in Robotic Behavior Cloning: Pitfalls and Promises
Max Simchowitz (Carnegie Mellon University)
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