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Foundations of Machine Learning( smaller text) _hi-res

Representation Learning

Program
Foundations of Machine Learning
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Calvin Lab Auditorium

Date
Monday, Mar. 27 – Friday, Mar. 31, 2017
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9 – 9:20 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:20 – 9:30 a.m.
Opening Remarks
9:30 – 10:10 a.m.
Geometry, Optimization and Generalization in Multilayer Networks
Nathan Srebro, TTI Chicago
10:10 – 10:50 a.m.
A Non-generative Framework and Convex Relaxations for Unsupervised Learning
Elad Hazan, Princeton University
10:50 – 11:20 a.m.
Break
11:20 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Representations for Language: From Word Embeddings to Sentence Meanings
Christopher Manning, Stanford University
12:20 – 2:15 p.m.
Lunch
2:15 – 3:15 p.m.
The Missing Signal
Leon Bottou, Facebook AI Research
3:15 – 3:45 p.m.
Break
3:45 – 4:25 p.m.
Representations of Relationships in Images and Text
Hal Daume, University of Maryland at College Park
4:30 – 4:45 p.m.
Spotlight Talk: A Formalization of Representation Learning
Andrej Risteski, Princeton University
4:45 – 5 p.m.
Spotlight Talk: Semi-Random Units for Learning Neural Networks with Guarantees
Bo Xie, Georgia Institute of Technology
5 – 6 p.m.
Reception
9 – 9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30 – 10:10 a.m.
Unsupervised Discovery Through Adversarial Self-Play
Rob Fergus, New York University
10:10 – 10:50 a.m.
Learning from Unlabeled Video
Kristen Grauman, University of Texas, Austin
10:50 – 11:20 a.m.
Break
11:20 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Deep Reinforcement Learning
Pieter Abbeel, UC Berkeley
12:20 – 2:15 p.m.
Lunch
2:15 – 2:55 p.m.
Supersizing Self-Supervision: Learning Perception and Action without Human Supervision
Abhinav Gupta, Carnegie Mellon University
2:55 – 3:35 p.m.
Failures of Deep Learning
Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
3:35 – 4:10 p.m.
Break
4:10 – 5 p.m.
Panel
9 – 9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30 – 10:10 a.m.
Continuous State Machines and Grammars for Linguistic Structure Prediction
Noah Smith, University of Washington
10:10 – 10:50 a.m.
Adversarial Perceptual Representation Learning Across Diverse Modalities and Domains
Trevor Darrell, UC Berkeley
10:50 – 11:20 a.m.
Break
11:20 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Evaluating Neural Network Representations Against Human Cognition
Tom Griffiths, UC Berkeley
12:20 – 2:15 p.m.
Lunch
2:15 – 2:55 p.m.
Representation Learning for Reading Comprehension
Russ Salakhutdinov, Carnegie Mellon University
2:55 – 3:35 p.m.
Tractable Learning in Structured Probability Spaces
Adnan Darwiche, UCLA
3:35 – 4:10 p.m.
Break
4:10 – 4:30 p.m.
Spotlight Talk: Convolutional Dictionary Learning through Tensor Factorization
Furong Huang, UC Irvine
4:35 – 4:55 p.m.
Spotlight Talk: How to Escape Saddle Points Efficiently
Praneeth Netrapalli, Microsoft Research India
9 – 9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30 – 10:10 a.m.
Re-Thinking Representational Learning in Robotics and Music
Sham Kakade, University of Washington
10:10 – 10:50 a.m.
Representation Learning of Grounded Language and Knowledge: with and without End-to-End Learning
Yejin Choi, University of Washington
10:50 – 11:20 a.m.
Break
11:20 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
TBD
Yann LeCun, New York University
12:20 – 2:15 p.m.
Lunch
2:15 – 2:55 p.m.
Generalization and Equilibrium in Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs)
Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University
2:55 – 3:35 p.m.
Provably Learning of Noisy-or Networks
Rong Ge, Duke University
3:35 – 4:10 p.m.
Break
4:10 – 5 p.m.
Panel
9 – 9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30 – 10:10 a.m.
Learning Paraphrastic Representations of Natural Language Sentences
Kevin Gimpel, TTI Chicago
10:10 – 10:50 a.m.
Formation and Association of Symbolic Memories in the Brain
Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley
10:50 – 11:20 a.m.
Break
11:20 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Learning Representations for Active Vision
Bruno Olshausen, UC Berkeley
12:20 – 2:15 p.m.
Lunch
2:15 – 2:55 p.m.
Resilient Representation and Provable Generalization
Dawn Song, UC Berkeley
2:55 – 3:35 p.m.
Word Representation Learning without <unk> Assumptions
Chris Dyer, Carnegie Mellon University
3:35 – 4:10 p.m.
Break
4:10 – 4:30 p.m.
Spotlight Talk: Performance Guarantees for Transferring Representations
Daniel McNamara, Australian National University
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