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Frontiers of Deep Learning

Program
Foundations of Deep Learning
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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)
9:45 – 10:30 a.m.
Practical Model-based Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning and Imitation Learning, with Theoretical Analyses
Tengyu Ma (Facebook AI Research)
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)
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
From Classical Statistics to Modern Machine Learning
Misha Belkin (UCSD)
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)
3:15 – 4 p.m.
Size-free Generalization Bounds for Convolutional Neural Networks
Hanie Sedghi (Google Brain)
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)
9:45 – 10:30 a.m.
A Primal-dual Analysis of Margin Maximization by Steepest Descent Methods
Matus Telgarsky (New York University)
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)
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Training on the Test Set and Other Heresies
Benjamin Recht (UC Berkeley)
12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Lunch
2:30 – 3:15 p.m.
Computation in Very Wide Neural Networks
Yasaman Bahri (Google Brain)
3:15 – 4 p.m.
Mad Max: Affine Spline Insights into Deep Learning
Richard Baraniuk (Rice University)
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)
8:30 – 9 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9 – 9:45 a.m.
Provable Robustness Beyond Bound Propagation
Zico Kolter (Carnegie Mellon University)
9:45 – 10:30 a.m.
A New Perspective on Adversarial Perturbations
Aleksander Mądry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
10:30 – 11 a.m.
Break
11 – 11:45 a.m.
Provably Robust Deep Learning via Adversarially Trained Smoothed Classifiers
Jerry Li (Microsoft Research)
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Interpreting Deep Neural Networks (DNNs)
Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)
12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Lunch
2:30 – 3:15 p.m.
Interpretability - now what?
Been Kim (Google Brain)
3:15 – 4 p.m.
Lessons Learned from Evaluating the Robustness of Defenses to Adversarial Examples
Nicholas Carlini (Google Brain)
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)
9:45 – 10:30 a.m.
Using Deep Learning for Perception in Autonomous Systems: A Perspective from Control Theory
Claire Tomlin (UC Berkeley)
10:30 – 11 a.m.
Break
11 – 11:45 a.m.
Kernel and Deep Regimes in Overparameterized Learning
Suriya Gunasekar (Toyota Technology Institute, Chicago)
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Towards Understanding Transfer Learning with Applications to Medical Imaging
Maithra Raghu (Cornell University and Google Inc.)
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)
3:15 – 4 p.m.
Studying Generalization in Deep Learning via PAC-Bayes
Gintare Karolina Dziugaite (Element AI)
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)
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