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Frontiers of Deep Learning

Program
Foundations of Deep Learning
Location

Calvin Lab auditorium

Date
Monday, July 15 – Thursday, July 18, 2019
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8:30 – 8:50 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
8:50 – 9 a.m.
Opening Remarks
9 – 9:45 a.m.
Benign Overfitting in Linear Prediction

Peter Bartlett (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley)
Video
9:45 – 10:30 a.m.
Practical Model-based Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning and Imitation Learning, with Theoretical Analyses

Tengyu Ma (Facebook AI Research)
Video
10:30 – 11 a.m.
Break
11 – 11:45 a.m.
Analyzing Optimization and Generalization in Deep Learning via Trajectories of Gradient Descent

Nadav Cohen (Institute for Advanced Study)
Video
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
From Classical Statistics to Modern Machine Learning

Misha Belkin (UCSD)
Video
12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Lunch
2:30 – 3:15 p.m.
Learning and Generalization in Over-parametrized Neural Networks, Going Beyond Kernels

Yuanzhi Li (Stanford University)
Video
3:15 – 4 p.m.
Size-free Generalization Bounds for Convolutional Neural Networks

Hanie Sedghi (Google Brain)
Video
4 – 5 p.m.
Reception
8:30 – 9 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9 – 9:45 a.m.
On the Foundations of Deep Learning: SGD, Overparametrization, and Generalization

Jason Lee (University of Southern California)
Video
9:45 – 10:30 a.m.
A Primal-dual Analysis of Margin Maximization by Steepest Descent Methods

Matus Telgarsky (New York University)
Video
10:30 – 11 a.m.
Break
11 – 11:45 a.m.
Explaining Landscape Connectivity of Low-cost Solutions for Multilayer Nets

Rong Ge (Duke University)
Video
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Training on the Test Set and Other Heresies

Benjamin Recht (UC Berkeley)
Video
12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Lunch
2:30 – 3:15 p.m.
Computation in Very Wide Neural Networks

Yasaman Bahri (Google Brain)
Video
3:15 – 4 p.m.
Mad Max: Affine Spline Insights into Deep Learning

Richard Baraniuk (Rice University)
Video
4 – 4:30 p.m.
Break
4:30 – 5:15 p.m.
Splitting Gradient Descent for Incremental Learning of Neural Architectures

Qiang Liu (University of Texas at Austin)
Video
8:30 – 9 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9 – 9:45 a.m.
Provable Robustness Beyond Bound Propagation

Zico Kolter (Carnegie Mellon University)
Video
9:45 – 10:30 a.m.
A New Perspective on Adversarial Perturbations

Aleksander Mądry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Video
10:30 – 11 a.m.
Break
11 – 11:45 a.m.
Provably Robust Deep Learning via Adversarially Trained Smoothed Classifiers

Jerry Li (Microsoft Research)
Video
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Interpreting Deep Neural Networks (DNNs)

Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)
Video
12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Lunch
2:30 – 3:15 p.m.
Interpretability - now what?

Been Kim (Google Brain)
Video
3:15 – 4 p.m.
Lessons Learned from Evaluating the Robustness of Defenses to Adversarial Examples

Nicholas Carlini (Google Brain)
Video
4 – 4:30 p.m.
Break
4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Plenary Discussion: Frontiers of Deep Learning
8:30 – 9 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9 – 9:45 a.m.
Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift

Zack Lipton (Carnegie Mellon University)
Video
9:45 – 10:30 a.m.
Using Deep Learning for Perception in Autonomous Systems: A Perspective from Control Theory

Claire Tomlin (UC Berkeley)
Video
10:30 – 11 a.m.
Break
11 – 11:45 a.m.
Kernel and Deep Regimes in Overparameterized Learning

Suriya Gunasekar (Toyota Technology Institute, Chicago)
Video
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Towards Understanding Transfer Learning with Applications to Medical Imaging

Maithra Raghu (Cornell University and Google Inc.)
Video
12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Lunch
2:30 – 3:15 p.m.
Meta-learning of Optimizers and Update Rules

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein (Google Brain)
Video
3:15 – 4 p.m.
Studying Generalization in Deep Learning via PAC-Bayes

Gintare Karolina Dziugaite (Element AI)
Video
4 – 4:15 p.m.
Break
4:15 – 4:45 p.m.
Sample-complexity of Estimating Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks

Aarti Singh (Carnegie Mellon University)
Video
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