Schedule
Time/Location: Fri Aug 11th 08:30 AM – 05:30 PM @ C4.5
Confirmed invited speakers:
- Ryan Adams, Harvard University
- Dhruv Batra, Georgia Tech / Facebook
- Wang Ling, Google DeepMind
- Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Sujith Ravi (Google)
- David Sontag , MIT
Confirmed panelists:
- Anima Anandkumar, University of California Irvine / Amazon Web Services
Schedule:
| Time | Event | Speaker & Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:30 | Welcome | |
| 8:40 | Invited Talk | Andrew McCallum (UMass) An introduction, Structured Prediction Energy Networks, and follow-ons |
| 9:20 | Invited Talk | Wang Ling (Google DeepMind) Generation via Program Induction |
| 10:00 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 | Contributed Talk | Christopher Maddison, Dieterich Lawson, George Tucker, Nicolas Heess, Mohammad Norouzi, Andriy Mnih, Arnaud Doucet and Yee Whye Teh Filtering Variational Objectives |
| 10:50 | Poster Spotlight | 1-min blitz (All posters) |
| 11:20 | Invited Talk | Ryan Adams (Harvard) Building Probabilistic Structure into Massively Parameterized Models |
| 12:00 | Lunch break & Poster session | |
| 14:00 | Invited Talk | David Sontag (MIT) Deep Markov models |
| 14:40 | Contributed Talk | George Tucker, Andriy Mnih, Chris J. Maddison, Dieterich Lawson and Jascha Sohl-Dickstein. REINFORCing Concrete with REBAR |
| 15:00 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 | Invited Talk | Dhruv Batra (Georgia Tech and Facebook AI Research) Sequence-Level Training of Neural Models for Visual Dialog |
| 16:10 | Invited Talk | Sujith Ravi (Google) Neural Graph Learning |
| 16:50 | Panel discussion Ryan Adams, Anima Anandkumar, Dhruv Batra, Wang Ling, Sujith Ravi |
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| 17:30 | Closing remarks |