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SUN 17 JUL
9 a.m.
10 a.m.
noon
Expo Talk Panel:
(ends 4:45 PM)
Expo Demonstration:
(ends 5:00 PM)
2:30 p.m.
Coffee Break:
(ends 3:00 PM)
3:15 p.m.
4:15 p.m.
Expo Talk Panel:
(ends 5:00 PM)
5:30 p.m.
Opening Reception - Catered:
(ends 7:00 PM)

MON 18 JUL
7 a.m.
8 a.m.
Affinity Workshop:
(ends 8:00 PM)
8:30 a.m.
Affinity Workshop:
(ends 6:40 PM)
9 a.m.
Affinity Workshop:
(ends 4:30 PM)
10 a.m.
Coffee Break:
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noon
Lunch Break:
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2 p.m.
3 p.m.
Coffee Break:
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7 p.m.

TUE 19 JUL
6:30 a.m.
Break:
(ends 6:45 AM)
7 a.m.
8:45 a.m.
Remarks:
(ends 9:00 AM)
9 a.m.
Invited Talk:
Weinan E
(ends 10:00 AM)
10 a.m.
Coffee Break:
(ends 10:30 AM)
10:30 a.m.
Spotlights 10:30-11:05
[10:30] Differentially Private Approximate Quantiles
[10:35] Fairness Interventions as (Dis)Incentives for Strategic Manipulation
[10:40] Robust Models Are More Interpretable Because Attributions Look Normal
[10:45] Sequential Covariate Shift Detection Using Classifier Two-Sample Tests
[10:50] A Joint Exponential Mechanism For Differentially Private Top-$k$
[10:55] Transfer Learning In Differential Privacy's Hybrid-Model
[11:00] Robust Kernel Density Estimation with Median-of-Means principle
Orals 11:05-11:25
[11:05] Bounding Training Data Reconstruction in Private (Deep) Learning
Spotlights 11:25-12:00
[11:25] Plug & Play Attacks: Towards Robust and Flexible Model Inversion Attacks
[11:30] FriendlyCore: Practical Differentially Private Aggregation
[11:35] ViT-NeT: Interpretable Vision Transformers with Neural Tree Decoder
[11:40] Fishing for User Data in Large-Batch Federated Learning via Gradient Magnification
[11:45] Public Data-Assisted Mirror Descent for Private Model Training
[11:50] Low-Complexity Deep Convolutional Neural Networks on Fully Homomorphic Encryption Using Multiplexed Parallel Convolutions
[11:55] Robin Hood and Matthew Effects: Differential Privacy Has Disparate Impact on Synthetic Data
(ends 12:00 PM)
Orals 10:30-10:50
[10:30] Tackling covariate shift with node-based Bayesian neural networks
Spotlights 10:50-11:10
[10:50] Why the Rich Get Richer? On the Balancedness of Random Partition Models
[10:55] A Completely Tuning-Free and Robust Approach to Sparse Precision Matrix Estimation
[11:00] Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Continuous-Time Switching Dynamical Systems
[11:05] Calibrated Learning to Defer with One-vs-All Classifiers
Orals 11:10-11:30
[11:10] Tractable Uncertainty for Structure Learning
Spotlights 11:30-11:55
[11:30] DNA: Domain Generalization with Diversified Neural Averaging
[11:35] Unified Fourier-based Kernel and Nonlinearity Design for Equivariant Networks on Homogeneous Spaces
[11:40] DynaMixer: A Vision MLP Architecture with Dynamic Mixing
[11:45] Channel Importance Matters in Few-Shot Image Classification
[11:50] Fishr: Invariant Gradient Variances for Out-of-Distribution Generalization
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-11:00
[10:30] Dynamic Regret of Online Markov Decision Processes
[10:35] On the Impossibility of Learning to Cooperate with Adaptive Partner Strategies in Repeated Games
[10:40] Distributional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equations for Continuous-Time Reinforcement Learning
[10:45] Provable Reinforcement Learning with a Short-Term Memory
[10:50] Optimistic Linear Support and Successor Features as a Basis for Optimal Policy Transfer
[10:55] Mirror Learning: A Unifying Framework of Policy Optimisation
Orals 11:00-11:20
[11:00] Improved No-Regret Algorithms for Stochastic Shortest Path with Linear MDP
Spotlights 11:20-11:50
[11:20] Learning Infinite-horizon Average-reward Markov Decision Process with Constraints
[11:25] A State-Distribution Matching Approach to Non-Episodic Reinforcement Learning
[11:30] Langevin Monte Carlo for Contextual Bandits
[11:35] Prompting Decision Transformer for Few-Shot Policy Generalization
[11:40] Contrastive UCB: Provably Efficient Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning in Online Reinforcement Learning
[11:45] Human-in-the-loop: Provably Efficient Preference-based Reinforcement Learning with General Function Approximation
(ends 12:00 PM)
Orals 10:30-10:50
[10:30] Detecting Adversarial Examples Is (Nearly) As Hard As Classifying Them
Spotlights 10:50-11:10
[10:50] ShiftAddNAS: Hardware-Inspired Search for More Accurate and Efficient Neural Networks
[10:55] Provably Adversarially Robust Nearest Prototype Classifiers
[11:00] Certifying Out-of-Domain Generalization for Blackbox Functions
[11:05] Intriguing Properties of Input-Dependent Randomized Smoothing
Orals 11:10-11:30
[11:10] To Smooth or Not? When Label Smoothing Meets Noisy Labels
Spotlights 11:30-11:55
[11:30] Evaluating the Adversarial Robustness of Adaptive Test-time Defenses
[11:35] On the Generalization Analysis of Adversarial Learning
[11:40] Demystifying the Adversarial Robustness of Random Transformation Defenses
[11:45] Double Sampling Randomized Smoothing
[11:50] TPC: Transformation-Specific Smoothing for Point Cloud Models
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-11:00
[10:30] Certified Robustness Against Natural Language Attacks by Causal Intervention
[10:35] A$^3$T: Alignment-Aware Acoustic and Text Pretraining for Speech Synthesis and Editing
[10:40] On the Learning of Non-Autoregressive Transformers
[10:45] Latent Diffusion Energy-Based Model for Interpretable Text Modelling
[10:50] UNIREX: A Unified Learning Framework for Language Model Rationale Extraction
[10:55] Black-Box Tuning for Language-Model-as-a-Service
Orals 11:00-11:20
[11:00] Understanding Dataset Difficulty with $\mathcal{V}$-Usable Information
Spotlights 11:20-12:00
[11:20] Co-training Improves Prompt-based Learning for Large Language Models
[11:25] Directed Acyclic Transformer for Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation
[11:30] StreamingQA: A Benchmark for Adaptation to New Knowledge over Time in Question Answering Models
[11:35] Unsupervised Detection of Contextualized Embedding Bias with Application to Ideology
[11:40] Generative Cooperative Networks for Natural Language Generation
[11:45] What Language Model Architecture and Pretraining Objective Works Best for Zero-Shot Generalization?
[11:50] Branchformer: Parallel MLP-Attention Architectures to Capture Local and Global Context for Speech Recognition and Understanding
[11:55] ROCK: Causal Inference Principles for Reasoning about Commonsense Causality
(ends 12:00 PM)
Orals 10:30-10:50
[10:30] Exact Optimal Accelerated Complexity for Fixed-Point Iterations
Spotlights 10:50-11:15
[10:50] Fast Convex Optimization for Two-Layer ReLU Networks: Equivalent Model Classes and Cone Decompositions
[10:55] NysADMM: faster composite convex optimization via low-rank approximation
[11:00] FedNew: A Communication-Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Newton-Type Method for Federated Learning
[11:05] Unraveling Attention via Convex Duality: Analysis and Interpretations of Vision Transformers
[11:10] Pairwise Conditional Gradients without Swap Steps and Sparser Kernel Herding
Orals 11:15-11:35
[11:15] Continuous-Time Analysis of Accelerated Gradient Methods via Conservation Laws in Dilated Coordinate Systems
Spotlights 11:35-12:00
[11:35] Only tails matter: Average-Case Universality and Robustness in the Convex Regime
[11:40] Batch Greenkhorn Algorithm for Entropic-Regularized Multimarginal Optimal Transport: Linear Rate of Convergence and Iteration Complexity
[11:45] Approximate Frank-Wolfe Algorithms over Graph-structured Support Sets
[11:50] Neural Fisher Discriminant Analysis: Optimal Neural Network Embeddings in Polynomial Time
[11:55] Active Sampling for Min-Max Fairness
(ends 12:00 PM)
Orals 10:30-10:50
[10:30] Online Learning for Min Sum Set Cover and Pandora’s Box
Spotlights 10:50-11:15
[10:50] Smoothed Adversarial Linear Contextual Bandits with Knapsacks
[10:55] Simultaneously Learning Stochastic and Adversarial Bandits with General Graph Feedback
[11:00] Thompson Sampling for (Combinatorial) Pure Exploration
[11:05] Revisiting Online Submodular Minimization: Gap-Dependent Regret Bounds, Best of Both Worlds and Adversarial Robustness
[11:10] Rotting Infinitely Many-Armed Bandits
Orals 11:15-11:35
[11:15] Batched Dueling Bandits
Spotlights 11:35-12:00
[11:35] Equivalence Analysis between Counterfactual Regret Minimization and Online Mirror Descent
[11:40] Consistent Polyhedral Surrogates for Top-k Classification and Variants
[11:45] Stochastic Contextual Dueling Bandits under Linear Stochastic Transitivity Models
[11:50] Optimal and Efficient Dynamic Regret Algorithms for Non-Stationary Dueling Bandits
[11:55] Online Nonsubmodular Minimization with Delayed Costs: From Full Information to Bandit Feedback
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-11:05
[10:30] Multi-Task Learning as a Bargaining Game
[10:35] Frustratingly Easy Transferability Estimation
[10:40] Transformer Neural Processes: Uncertainty-Aware Meta Learning Via Sequence Modeling
[10:45] A Difference Standardization Method for Mutual Transfer Learning
[10:50] Improving Task-free Continual Learning by Distributionally Robust Memory Evolution
[10:55] A Multi-objective / Multi-task Learning Framework Induced by Pareto Stationarity
[11:00] Sparse Invariant Risk Minimization
Orals 11:05-11:25
[11:05] Head2Toe: Utilizing Intermediate Representations for Better Transfer Learning
Spotlights 11:25-12:00
[11:25] A Closer Look at Smoothness in Domain Adversarial Training
[11:30] Balancing Discriminability and Transferability for Source-Free Domain Adaptation
[11:35] Model Agnostic Sample Reweighting for Out-of-Distribution Learning
[11:40] Zero-shot AutoML with Pretrained Models
[11:45] Efficient Variance Reduction for Meta-learning
[11:50] Generalizing to Evolving Domains with Latent Structure-Aware Sequential Autoencoder
[11:55] Partial disentanglement for domain adaptation
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-11:05
[10:30] Structural Entropy Guided Graph Hierarchical Pooling
[10:35] Self-Supervised Representation Learning via Latent Graph Prediction
[10:40] DSTAGNN: Dynamic Spatial-Temporal Aware Graph Neural Network for Traffic Flow Forecasting
[10:45] Coarsening the Granularity: Towards Structurally Sparse Lottery Tickets
[10:50] Omni-Granular Ego-Semantic Propagation for Self-Supervised Graph Representation Learning
[10:55] Analyzing and Mitigating Interference in Neural Architecture Search
[11:00] Reverse Engineering $\ell_p$ attacks: A block-sparse optimization approach with recovery guarantees
Orals 11:05-11:25
[11:05] Unified Scaling Laws for Routed Language Models
Spotlights 11:25-12:00
[11:25] DRAGONN: Distributed Randomized Approximate Gradients of Neural Networks
[11:30] A deep convolutional neural network that is invariant to time rescaling
[11:35] LyaNet: A Lyapunov Framework for Training Neural ODEs
[11:40] Transfer and Marginalize: Explaining Away Label Noise with Privileged Information
[11:45] On Collective Robustness of Bagging Against Data Poisoning
[11:50] Hindering Adversarial Attacks with Implicit Neural Representations
[11:55] From Noisy Prediction to True Label: Noisy Prediction Calibration via Generative Model
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-11:05
[10:30] Exploring and Exploiting Hubness Priors for High-Quality GAN Latent Sampling
[10:35] ButterflyFlow: Building Invertible Layers with Butterfly Matrices
[10:40] Controlling Conditional Language Models without Catastrophic Forgetting
[10:45] GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models
[10:50] Structure-preserving GANs
[10:55] DeepSpeed-MoE: Advancing Mixture-of-Experts Inference and Training to Power Next-Generation AI Scale
[11:00] Estimating the Optimal Covariance with Imperfect Mean in Diffusion Probabilistic Models
Orals 11:05-11:25
[11:05] Equivariant Diffusion for Molecule Generation in 3D
Spotlights 11:25-12:00
[11:25] Forward Operator Estimation in Generative Models with Kernel Transfer Operators
[11:30] Conditional GANs with Auxiliary Discriminative Classifier
[11:35] Improved StyleGAN-v2 based Inversion for Out-of-Distribution Images
[11:40] Matching Normalizing Flows and Probability Paths on Manifolds
[11:45] Marginal Distribution Adaptation for Discrete Sets via Module-Oriented Divergence Minimization
[11:50] Learning to Incorporate Texture Saliency Adaptive Attention to Image Cartoonization
[11:55] Region-Based Semantic Factorization in GANs
(ends 12:00 PM)
noon
Lunch:
(ends 1:30 AM)
1:30 p.m.
Spotlights 1:30-2:00
[1:30] Online Continual Learning through Mutual Information Maximization
[1:35] Learning Iterative Reasoning through Energy Minimization
[1:40] DepthShrinker: A New Compression Paradigm Towards Boosting Real-Hardware Efficiency of Compact Neural Networks
[1:45] PoF: Post-Training of Feature Extractor for Improving Generalization
[1:50] Improving Ensemble Distillation With Weight Averaging and Diversifying Perturbation
[1:55] Set Based Stochastic Subsampling
Orals 2:00-2:20
[2:00] Monarch: Expressive Structured Matrices for Efficient and Accurate Training
Spotlights 2:20-2:55
[2:20] Generalizing to New Physical Systems via Context-Informed Dynamics Model
[2:25] Self-conditioning Pre-Trained Language Models
[2:30] TAM: Topology-Aware Margin Loss for Class-Imbalanced Node Classification
[2:35] Bitwidth Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Progressive Weight Dequantization
[2:40] Penalizing Gradient Norm for Efficiently Improving Generalization in Deep Learning
[2:45] Knowledge Base Question Answering by Case-based Reasoning over Subgraphs
[2:50] When AUC meets DRO: Optimizing Partial AUC for Deep Learning with Non-Convex Convergence Guarantee
(ends 3:00 PM)
Spotlights 1:30-2:05
[1:30] Meaningfully debugging model mistakes using conceptual counterfactual explanations
[1:35] Measuring the Effect of Training Data on Deep Learning Predictions via Randomized Experiments
[1:40] Robust Counterfactual Explanations for Tree-Based Ensembles
[1:45] A Rigorous Study of Integrated Gradients Method and Extensions to Internal Neuron Attributions
[1:50] Estimating and Penalizing Induced Preference Shifts in Recommender Systems
[1:55] Framework for Evaluating Faithfulness of Local Explanations
[2:00] A Consistent and Efficient Evaluation Strategy for Attribution Methods
Orals 2:05-2:25
[2:05] Training Characteristic Functions with Reinforcement Learning: XAI-methods play Connect Four
Spotlights 2:25-3:00
[2:25] Label-Descriptive Patterns and Their Application to Characterizing Classification Errors
[2:30] XAI for Transformers: Better Explanations through Conservative Propagation
[2:35] Quantification and Analysis of Layer-wise and Pixel-wise Information Discarding
[2:40] Interpretable Off-Policy Learning via Hyperbox Search
[2:45] Neuron Dependency Graphs: A Causal Abstraction of Neural Networks
[2:50] On the Adversarial Robustness of Causal Algorithmic Recourse
[2:55] Knowledge-Grounded Self-Rationalization via Extractive and Natural Language Explanations
(ends 3:00 PM)
Spotlights 1:30-2:00
[1:30] Robust Group Synchronization via Quadratic Programming
[1:35] UAST: Uncertainty-Aware Siamese Tracking
[1:40] You Only Cut Once: Boosting Data Augmentation with a Single Cut
[1:45] Generative Modeling for Multi-task Visual Learning
[1:50] HyperTransformer: Model Generation for Supervised and Semi-Supervised Few-Shot Learning
[1:55] Parametric Visual Program Induction with Function Modularization
Orals 2:00-2:20
[2:00] Path-Gradient Estimators for Continuous Normalizing Flows
Spotlights 2:20-2:55
[2:20] Variational Feature Pyramid Networks
[2:25] Deep Neural Network Fusion via Graph Matching with Applications to Model Ensemble and Federated Learning
[2:30] VLMixer: Unpaired Vision-Language Pre-training via Cross-Modal CutMix
[2:35] Neural Implicit Dictionary Learning via Mixture-of-Expert Training
[2:40] Time Is MattEr: Temporal Self-supervision for Video Transformers
[2:45] Benchmarking and Analyzing Point Cloud Classification under Corruptions
[2:50] Understanding The Robustness in Vision Transformers
(ends 3:00 PM)
Orals 1:30-1:50
[1:30] Learning Mixtures of Linear Dynamical Systems
Spotlights 1:50-2:15
[1:50] Massively Parallel $k$-Means Clustering for Perturbation Resilient Instances
[1:55] Residual-Based Sampling for Online Outlier-Robust PCA
[2:00] Scaling Gaussian Process Optimization by Evaluating a Few Unique Candidates Multiple Times
[2:05] Streaming Algorithms for Support-Aware Histograms
[2:10] Power-Law Escape Rate of SGD
Orals 2:15-2:35
[2:15] Generalized Results for the Existence and Consistency of the MLE in the Bradley-Terry-Luce Model
Spotlights 2:35-3:00
[2:35] Faster Algorithms for Learning Convex Functions
[2:40] Feature selection using e-values
[2:45] ActiveHedge: Hedge meets Active Learning
[2:50] One-Pass Algorithms for MAP Inference of Nonsymmetric Determinantal Point Processes
[2:55] Deciphering Lasso-based Classification Through a Large Dimensional Analysis of the Iterative Soft-Thresholding Algorithm
(ends 3:00 PM)
Spotlights 1:30-2:00
[1:30] An iterative clustering algorithm for the Contextual Stochastic Block Model with optimality guarantees
[1:35] Smoothed Adaptive Weighting for Imbalanced Semi-Supervised Learning: Improve Reliability Against Unknown Distribution Data
[1:40] Class-Imbalanced Semi-Supervised Learning with Adaptive Thresholding
[1:50] Meta-Learning Hypothesis Spaces for Sequential Decision-making
[1:55] A Tighter Analysis of Spectral Clustering, and Beyond
Orals 2:00-2:20
[2:00] Online Active Regression
Spotlights 2:20-2:55
[2:20] On Finite-Sample Identifiability of Contrastive Learning-Based Nonlinear Independent Component Analysis
[2:25] Revisiting Contrastive Learning through the Lens of Neighborhood Component Analysis: an Integrated Framework
[2:30] Open-Sampling: Exploring Out-of-Distribution data for Re-balancing Long-tailed datasets
[2:35] Confidence Score for Source-Free Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
[2:40] Gradient Based Clustering
[2:45] Global Optimization of K-Center Clustering
[2:50] Latent Outlier Exposure for Anomaly Detection with Contaminated Data
(ends 3:00 PM)
Spotlights 1:30-2:00
[1:30] Additive Gaussian Processes Revisited
[1:35] Probabilistic ODE Solutions in Millions of Dimensions
[1:40] Adaptive Gaussian Process Change Point Detection
[1:45] Volatility Based Kernels and Moving Average Means for Accurate Forecasting with Gaussian Processes
[1:50] Fenrir: Physics-Enhanced Regression for Initial Value Problems
[1:55] Variational nearest neighbor Gaussian process
Orals 2:00-2:20
[2:00] Preconditioning for Scalable Gaussian Process Hyperparameter Optimization
Spotlights 2:20-2:50
[2:20] Spectral Representation of Robustness Measures for Optimization Under Input Uncertainty
[2:25] Bayesian Optimization under Stochastic Delayed Feedback
[2:30] Bayesian Optimization for Distributionally Robust Chance-constrained Problem
[2:35] Efficient Distributionally Robust Bayesian Optimization with Worst-case Sensitivity
[2:40] Improved Convergence Rates for Sparse Approximation Methods in Kernel-Based Learning
[2:45] Scalable First-Order Bayesian Optimization via Structured Automatic Differentiation
(ends 3:00 PM)
Orals 1:30-1:50
[1:30] Align-RUDDER: Learning From Few Demonstrations by Reward Redistribution
Spotlights 1:50-2:15
[1:50] AnyMorph: Learning Transferable Polices By Inferring Agent Morphology
[1:55] DreamerPro: Reconstruction-Free Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with Prototypical Representations
[2:00] Stabilizing Off-Policy Deep Reinforcement Learning from Pixels
[2:05] Influence-Augmented Local Simulators: a Scalable Solution for Fast Deep RL in Large Networked Systems
[2:10] CtrlFormer: Learning Transferable State Representation for Visual Control via Transformer
Orals 2:15-2:35
[2:15] Offline RL Policies Should Be Trained to be Adaptive
Spotlights 2:35-3:00
[2:35] Lyapunov Density Models: Constraining Distribution Shift in Learning-Based Control
[2:40] PMIC: Improving Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Progressive Mutual Information Collaboration
[2:45] Supervised Off-Policy Ranking
[2:50] The Primacy Bias in Deep Reinforcement Learning
[2:55] Regularizing a Model-based Policy Stationary Distribution to Stabilize Offline Reinforcement Learning
(ends 3:00 PM)
Orals 1:30-1:50
[1:30] Topology-Aware Network Pruning using Multi-stage Graph Embedding and Reinforcement Learning
Spotlights 1:50-2:10
[1:50] Stochastic Reweighted Gradient Descent
[1:55] Sharpened Quasi-Newton Methods: Faster Superlinear Rate and Larger Local Convergence Neighborhood
[2:00] Image-to-Image Regression with Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification and Applications in Imaging
[2:05] FedNL: Making Newton-Type Methods Applicable to Federated Learning
Orals 2:10-2:30
[2:10] Solving Stackelberg Prediction Game with Least Squares Loss via Spherically Constrained Least Squares Reformulation
Spotlights 2:30-2:55
[2:30] Dimension-free Complexity Bounds for High-order Nonconvex Finite-sum Optimization
[2:35] Value Function based Difference-of-Convex Algorithm for Bilevel Hyperparameter Selection Problems
[2:40] Probabilistic Bilevel Coreset Selection
[2:45] Linear-Time Gromov Wasserstein Distances using Low Rank Couplings and Costs
[2:50] On Implicit Bias in Overparameterized Bilevel Optimization
(ends 3:00 PM)
Spotlights 1:30-2:05
[1:30] pathGCN: Learning General Graph Spatial Operators from Paths
[1:35] Graph-Coupled Oscillator Networks
[1:40] HousE: Knowledge Graph Embedding with Householder Parameterization
[1:45] Interpretable and Generalizable Graph Learning via Stochastic Attention Mechanism
[1:50] ProGCL: Rethinking Hard Negative Mining in Graph Contrastive Learning
[1:55] G$^2$CN: Graph Gaussian Convolution Networks with Concentrated Graph Filters
[2:00] SpeqNets: Sparsity-aware permutation-equivariant graph networks
Orals 2:05-2:25
[2:05] data2vec: A General Framework for Self-supervised Learning in Speech, Vision and Language
Spotlights 2:25-2:55
[2:25] Position Prediction as an Effective Pretraining Strategy
[2:30] Orchestra: Unsupervised Federated Learning via Globally Consistent Clustering
[2:35] Deep and Flexible Graph Neural Architecture Search
[2:40] GNNRank: Learning Global Rankings from Pairwise Comparisons via Directed Graph Neural Networks
[2:45] Large-Scale Graph Neural Architecture Search
[2:50] Optimization-Induced Graph Implicit Nonlinear Diffusion
(ends 3:00 PM)
Orals 1:30-1:50
[1:30] Robustness Implies Generalization via Data-Dependent Generalization Bounds
Spotlights 1:50-2:15
[1:50] Learning to Hash Robustly, Guaranteed
[1:55] Policy Gradient Method For Robust Reinforcement Learning
[2:00] A query-optimal algorithm for finding counterfactuals
[2:05] Linear Bandit Algorithms with Sublinear Time Complexity
[2:10] Quantum-Inspired Algorithms from Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra
Orals 2:15-2:35
[2:15] Individual Preference Stability for Clustering
Spotlights 2:35-3:00
[2:35] Correlated Quantization for Distributed Mean Estimation and Optimization
[2:40] Multiple-Play Stochastic Bandits with Shareable Finite-Capacity Arms
[2:45] Coordinated Attacks against Contextual Bandits: Fundamental Limits and Defense Mechanisms
[2:50] The Algebraic Path Problem for Graph Metrics
[2:55] Steerable 3D Spherical Neurons
(ends 3:00 PM)
3 p.m.
Coffee Break:
(ends 3:30 PM)
3:30 p.m.
Award:
(ends 4:00 PM)
4 p.m.
Break:
(ends 4:15 PM)
4:15 p.m.
Spotlights 4:15-4:50
[4:15] Prototype Based Classification from Hierarchy to Fairness
[4:20] Neural-Symbolic Models for Logical Queries on Knowledge Graphs
[4:25] Deep Probability Estimation
[4:30] Uncertainty Modeling in Generative Compressed Sensing
[4:35] Going Deeper into Permutation-Sensitive Graph Neural Networks
[4:40] Learning from Counterfactual Links for Link Prediction
[4:45] Training Discrete Deep Generative Models via Gapped Straight-Through Estimator
Orals 4:50-5:10
[4:50] Correct-N-Contrast: a Contrastive Approach for Improving Robustness to Spurious Correlations
Spotlights 5:10-5:45
[5:10] Principal Component Flows
[5:15] Bit Prioritization in Variational Autoencoders via Progressive Coding
[5:20] Generative Flow Networks for Discrete Probabilistic Modeling
[5:25] Diffusion bridges vector quantized variational autoencoders
[5:30] Mitigating Modality Collapse in Multimodal VAEs via Impartial Optimization
[5:35] Soft Truncation: A Universal Training Technique of Score-based Diffusion Model for High Precision Score Estimation
[5:40] Fast and Reliable Evaluation of Adversarial Robustness with Minimum-Margin Attack
(ends 5:45 PM)
Spotlights 4:15-4:50
[4:15] Coordinated Double Machine Learning
[4:20] Exploiting Independent Instruments: Identification and Distribution Generalization
[4:25] Partial Counterfactual Identification from Observational and Experimental Data
[4:30] On Measuring Causal Contributions via do-interventions
[4:35] The Role of Deconfounding in Meta-learning
[4:40] CITRIS: Causal Identifiability from Temporal Intervened Sequences
[4:45] Online Balanced Experimental Design
Orals 4:50-5:10
[4:50] Minimum Cost Intervention Design for Causal Effect Identification
Spotlights 5:10-5:45
[5:10] Causal structure-based root cause analysis of outliers
[5:15] Instrumental Variable Regression with Confounder Balancing
[5:20] Causal Transformer for Estimating Counterfactual Outcomes
[5:25] Causal Inference Through the Structural Causal Marginal Problem
[5:30] Functional Generalized Empirical Likelihood Estimation for Conditional Moment Restrictions
[5:35] Matching Learned Causal Effects of Neural Networks with Domain Priors
[5:40] Inferring Cause and Effect in the Presence of Heteroscedastic Noise
(ends 5:45 PM)
Orals 4:15-4:35
[4:15] POEM: Out-of-Distribution Detection with Posterior Sampling
Spotlights 4:35-4:55
[4:35] Selective Network Linearization for Efficient Private Inference
[4:40] Efficient Computation of Higher-Order Subgraph Attribution via Message Passing
[4:45] A Theoretical Analysis on Independence-driven Importance Weighting for Covariate-shift Generalization
[4:50] Modular Conformal Calibration
Orals 4:55-5:15
[4:55] Rethinking Image-Scaling Attacks: The Interplay Between Vulnerabilities in Machine Learning Systems
Spotlights 5:15-5:40
[5:15] Context-Aware Drift Detection
[5:20] Accelerating Shapley Explanation via Contributive Cooperator Selection
[5:25] An Equivalence Between Data Poisoning and Byzantine Gradient Attacks
[5:30] DAVINZ: Data Valuation using Deep Neural Networks at Initialization
[5:35] Sample Efficient Learning of Predictors that Complement Humans
(ends 5:45 PM)
Orals 4:15-4:35
[4:15] H-Consistency Bounds for Surrogate Loss Minimizers
Spotlights 4:35-5:00
[4:35] Learning General Halfspaces with Adversarial Label Noise via Online Gradient Descent
[4:40] The Teaching Dimension of Regularized Kernel Learners
[4:45] Sparse Mixed Linear Regression with Guarantees: Taming an Intractable Problem with Invex Relaxation
[4:50] TURF: Two-Factor, Universal, Robust, Fast Distribution Learning Algorithm
[4:55] Multiclass learning with margin: exponential rates with no bias-variance trade-off
Orals 5:00-5:20
[5:00] Refined Convergence Rates for Maximum Likelihood Estimation under Finite Mixture Models
Spotlights 5:20-5:45
[5:20] High Probability Guarantees for Nonconvex Stochastic Gradient Descent with Heavy Tails
[5:25] An Initial Alignment between Neural Network and Target is Needed for Gradient Descent to Learn
[5:30] Inductive Biases and Variable Creation in Self-Attention Mechanisms
[5:35] Topology-aware Generalization of Decentralized SGD
[5:40] Understanding Gradient Descent on the Edge of Stability in Deep Learning
(ends 5:45 PM)
Spotlights 4:15-4:45
[4:15] Bayesian Nonparametric Learning for Point Processes with Spatial Homogeneity: A Spatial Analysis of NBA Shot Locations
[4:20] On the Effects of Artificial Data Modification
[4:25] Deep Squared Euclidean Approximation to the Levenshtein Distance for DNA Storage
[4:30] How Faithful is your Synthetic Data? Sample-level Metrics for Evaluating and Auditing Generative Models
[4:35] Error-driven Input Modulation: Solving the Credit Assignment Problem without a Backward Pass
[4:40] How to Train Your Wide Neural Network Without Backprop: An Input-Weight Alignment Perspective
Orals 4:45-5:05
[4:45] Contrastive Mixture of Posteriors for Counterfactual Inference, Data Integration and Fairness
Spotlights 5:05-5:45
[5:05] Describing Differences between Text Distributions with Natural Language
[5:10] Distinguishing rule- and exemplar-based generalization in learning systems
[5:15] Burst-Dependent Plasticity and Dendritic Amplification Support Target-Based Learning and Hierarchical Imitation Learning
[5:20] A Deep Learning Approach for the Segmentation of Electroencephalography Data in Eye Tracking Applications
[5:25] Minimizing Control for Credit Assignment with Strong Feedback
[5:30] Self-Supervised Models of Audio Effectively Explain Human Cortical Responses to Speech
[5:35] Towards Scaling Difference Target Propagation by Learning Backprop Targets
[5:40] Content Addressable Memory Without Catastrophic Forgetting by Heteroassociation with a Fixed Scaffold
(ends 5:45 PM)
Orals 4:15-4:35
[4:15] Scalable MCMC Sampling for Nonsymmetric Determinantal Point Processes
Spotlights 4:35-5:00
[4:35] Robust SDE-Based Variational Formulations for Solving Linear PDEs via Deep Learning
[4:40] Hessian-Free High-Resolution Nesterov Acceleration For Sampling
[4:45] LSB: Local Self-Balancing MCMC in Discrete Spaces
[4:50] A Langevin-like Sampler for Discrete Distributions
[4:55] Scalable Spike-and-Slab
Orals 5:00-5:20
[5:00] Nonparametric Involutive Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Spotlights 5:20-5:45
[5:20] Continual Repeated Annealed Flow Transport Monte Carlo
[5:25] Algorithms for the Communication of Samples
[5:30] Low-Precision Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics
[5:35] Fast Relative Entropy Coding with A* coding
[5:40] Accurate Quantization of Measures via Interacting Particle-based Optimization
(ends 5:45 PM)
Spotlights 4:15-4:45
[4:15] Neural Network Weights Do Not Converge to Stationary Points: An Invariant Measure Perspective
[4:20] Convergence and Recovery Guarantees of the K-Subspaces Method for Subspace Clustering
[4:25] Restarted Nonconvex Accelerated Gradient Descent: No More Polylogarithmic Factor in the $O(\epsilon^{-7/4})$ Complexity
[4:30] Understanding the unstable convergence of gradient descent
[4:35] Federated Minimax Optimization: Improved Convergence Analyses and Algorithms
[4:40] Inductive Matrix Completion: No Bad Local Minima and a Fast Algorithm
Orals 4:45-5:05
[4:45] FedNest: Federated Bilevel, Minimax, and Compositional Optimization
Spotlights 5:05-5:35
[5:05] AdaGrad Avoids Saddle Points
[5:10] Fast and Provable Nonconvex Tensor RPCA
[5:15] On Convergence of Gradient Descent Ascent: A Tight Local Analysis
[5:20] Convergence Rates of Non-Convex Stochastic Gradient Descent Under a Generic Lojasiewicz Condition and Local Smoothness
[5:25] A Single-Loop Gradient Descent and Perturbed Ascent Algorithm for Nonconvex Functional Constrained Optimization
[5:30] Anticorrelated Noise Injection for Improved Generalization
(ends 5:45 PM)
Spotlights 4:15-4:45
[4:15] Model-Free Opponent Shaping
[4:20] Pessimism meets VCG: Learning Dynamic Mechanism Design via Offline Reinforcement Learning
[4:25] Efficient Model-based Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning via Optimistic Equilibrium Computation
[4:30] Disentangling Sources of Risk for Distributional Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
[4:35] Scalable Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Mean Field Games
[4:40] Revisiting Some Common Practices in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Orals 4:45-5:05
[4:45] Independent Policy Gradient for Large-Scale Markov Potential Games: Sharper Rates, Function Approximation, and Game-Agnostic Convergence
Spotlights 5:05-5:45
[5:05] Self-Organized Polynomial-Time Coordination Graphs
[5:10] Individual Reward Assisted Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
[5:15] Generalized Beliefs for Cooperative AI
[5:20] Greedy when Sure and Conservative when Uncertain about the Opponents
[5:25] Deconfounded Value Decomposition for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
[5:30] Welfare Maximization in Competitive Equilibrium: Reinforcement Learning for Markov Exchange Economy
[5:35] Simplex Neural Population Learning: Any-Mixture Bayes-Optimality in Symmetric Zero-sum Games
[5:40] Sample and Communication-Efficient Decentralized Actor-Critic Algorithms with Finite-Time Analysis
(ends 5:45 PM)
Spotlights 4:15-4:45
[4:15] Modeling Irregular Time Series with Continuous Recurrent Units
[4:20] TACTiS: Transformer-Attentional Copulas for Time Series
[4:25] CerDEQ: Certifiable Deep Equilibrium Model
[4:30] Approximately Equivariant Networks for Imperfectly Symmetric Dynamics
[4:35] IDYNO: Learning Nonparametric DAGs from Interventional Dynamic Data
[4:40] GSmooth: Certified Robustness against Semantic Transformations via Generalized Randomized Smoothing
Orals 4:45-5:05
[4:45] Neural Laplace: Learning diverse classes of differential equations in the Laplace domain
Spotlights 5:05-5:45
[5:05] Improving Language Models by Retrieving from Trillions of Tokens
[5:10] Closed-Form Diffeomorphic Transformations for Time Series Alignment
[5:15] Removing Batch Normalization Boosts Adversarial Training
[5:20] Forget-free Continual Learning with Winning Subnetworks
[5:25] FEDformer: Frequency Enhanced Decomposed Transformer for Long-term Series Forecasting
[5:30] Adversarial Robustness against Multiple and Single $l_p$-Threat Models via Quick Fine-Tuning of Robust Classifiers
[5:35] On the Practicality of Deterministic Epistemic Uncertainty
[5:40] Combining Diverse Feature Priors
(ends 5:45 PM)
Orals 4:15-4:35
[4:15] Cooperative Online Learning in Stochastic and Adversarial MDPs
Spotlights 4:35-5:00
[4:35] Simple and near-optimal algorithms for hidden stratification and multi-group learning
[4:40] Being Properly Improper
[4:45] Neural Network Pruning Denoises the Features and Makes Local Connectivity Emerge in Visual Tasks
[4:50] On the Finite-Time Complexity and Practical Computation of Approximate Stationarity Concepts of Lipschitz Functions
[4:55] Nearly Optimal Policy Optimization with Stable at Any Time Guarantee
Orals 5:00-5:20
[5:00] Contextual Bandits with Smooth Regret: Efficient Learning in Continuous Action Spaces
Spotlights 5:20-5:45
[5:20] Minimax M-estimation under Adversarial Contamination
[5:25] Adaptive Best-of-Both-Worlds Algorithm for Heavy-Tailed Multi-Armed Bandits
[5:30] Efficiently Learning the Topology and Behavior of a Networked Dynamical System Via Active Queries
[5:35] Boosting Graph Structure Learning with Dummy Nodes
[5:40] Lazy Estimation of Variable Importance for Large Neural Networks
(ends 5:45 PM)
6:30 p.m.
Posters 6:30-8:30
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7 p.m.

WED 20 JUL
6:30 a.m.
Break:
(ends 6:45 AM)
7 a.m.
10 a.m.
Coffee Break:
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10:30 a.m.
Spotlights 10:30-11:05
[10:30] Towards understanding how momentum improves generalization in deep learning
[10:35] What Can Linear Interpolation of Neural Network Loss Landscapes Tell Us?
[10:40] Deep equilibrium networks are sensitive to initialization statistics
[10:45] Scaling-up Diverse Orthogonal Convolutional Networks by a Paraunitary Framework
[10:50] Stability Based Generalization Bounds for Exponential Family Langevin Dynamics
[10:55] Local Augmentation for Graph Neural Networks
[11:00] On Non-local Convergence Analysis of Deep Linear Networks
Orals 11:05-11:25
[11:05] Adaptive Inertia: Disentangling the Effects of Adaptive Learning Rate and Momentum
Spotlights 11:25-12:00
[11:25] Diversified Adversarial Attacks based on Conjugate Gradient Method
[11:30] On the Optimization Landscape of Neural Collapse under MSE Loss: Global Optimality with Unconstrained Features
[11:35] On the Equivalence Between Temporal and Static Equivariant Graph Representations
[11:40] Robust Training under Label Noise by Over-parameterization
[11:45] Implicit Bias of the Step Size in Linear Diagonal Neural Networks
[11:50] Extended Unconstrained Features Model for Exploring Deep Neural Collapse
[11:55] Score-Guided Intermediate Level Optimization: Fast Langevin Mixing for Inverse Problems
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-11:05
[10:30] Weisfeiler-Lehman Meets Gromov-Wasserstein
[10:35] GenLabel: Mixup Relabeling using Generative Models
[10:40] When and How Mixup Improves Calibration
[10:45] On Transportation of Mini-batches: A Hierarchical Approach
[10:50] VariGrow: Variational Architecture Growing for Task-Agnostic Continual Learning based on Bayesian Novelty
[10:55] Beyond Images: Label Noise Transition Matrix Estimation for Tasks with Lower-Quality Features
[11:00] A Model-Agnostic Randomized Learning Framework based on Random Hypothesis Subspace Sampling
Orals 11:05-11:25
[11:05] Stable Conformal Prediction Sets
Spotlights 11:25-12:00
[11:25] Rethinking Fano’s Inequality in Ensemble Learning
[11:30] FITNESS: (Fine Tune on New and Similar Samples) to detect anomalies in streams with drift and outliers
[11:35] Improving Mini-batch Optimal Transport via Partial Transportation
[11:40] Near-optimal rate of consistency for linear models with missing values
[11:45] Permutation Search of Tensor Network Structures via Local Sampling
[11:50] Revisiting Label Smoothing and Knowledge Distillation Compatibility: What was Missing?
[11:55] DNNR: Differential Nearest Neighbors Regression
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-11:00
[10:30] Learning Domain Adaptive Object Detection with Probabilistic Teacher
[10:35] Adaptive Data Analysis with Correlated Observations
[10:40] Efficient PAC Learning from the Crowd with Pairwise Comparisons
[10:45] On the Statistical Benefits of Curriculum Learning
[10:50] Feature and Parameter Selection in Stochastic Linear Bandits
[10:55] Disentangled Federated Learning for Tackling Attributes Skew via Invariant Aggregation and Diversity Transferring
Orals 11:00-11:20
[11:00] A new similarity measure for covariate shift with applications to nonparametric regression
Spotlights 11:20-12:00
[11:20] Contextual Bandits with Large Action Spaces: Made Practical
[11:25] Identifiability Conditions for Domain Adaptation
[11:30] Streaming Algorithms for High-Dimensional Robust Statistics
[11:35] Popular decision tree algorithms are provably noise tolerant
[11:40] Understanding and Improving Knowledge Graph Embedding for Entity Alignment
[11:45] Perfectly Balanced: Improving Transfer and Robustness of Supervised Contrastive Learning
[11:50] Robust Fine-Tuning of Deep Neural Networks with Hessian-based Generalization Guarantees
[11:55] Understanding Gradual Domain Adaptation: Improved Analysis, Optimal Path and Beyond
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-11:05
[10:30] Skin Deep Unlearning: Artefact and Instrument Debiasing in the Context of Melanoma Classification
[10:35] One-Pass Diversified Sampling with Application to Terabyte-Scale Genomic Sequence Streams
[10:40] Unsupervised Flow-Aligned Sequence-to-Sequence Learning for Video Restoration
[10:45] ME-GAN: Learning Panoptic Electrocardio Representations for Multi-view ECG Synthesis Conditioned on Heart Diseases
[10:50] Variational Mixtures of ODEs for Inferring Cellular Gene Expression Dynamics
[10:55] Bayesian Imitation Learning for End-to-End Mobile Manipulation
[11:00] De novo mass spectrometry peptide sequencing with a transformer model
Orals 11:05-11:25
[11:05] Learning inverse folding from millions of predicted structures
Spotlights 11:25-12:00
[11:25] Guided-TTS: A Diffusion Model for Text-to-Speech via Classifier Guidance
[11:30] MAE-DET: Revisiting Maximum Entropy Principle in Zero-Shot NAS for Efficient Object Detection
[11:35] Proximal Exploration for Model-guided Protein Sequence Design
[11:40] Tranception: Protein Fitness Prediction with Autoregressive Transformers and Inference-time Retrieval
[11:45] How to Fill the Optimum Set? Population Gradient Descent with Harmless Diversity
[11:50] Examining Scaling and Transfer of Language Model Architectures for Machine Translation
[11:55] State Transition of Dendritic Spines Improves Learning of Sparse Spiking Neural Networks
(ends 12:00 PM)
Orals 10:30-10:50
[10:30] How Tempering Fixes Data Augmentation in Bayesian Neural Networks
Spotlights 10:50-11:15
[10:50] Surrogate Likelihoods for Variational Annealed Importance Sampling
[10:55] Nonparametric Sparse Tensor Factorization with Hierarchical Gamma Processes
[11:00] Fat–Tailed Variational Inference with Anisotropic Tail Adaptive Flows
[11:05] Variational Sparse Coding with Learned Thresholding
[11:10] Structured Stochastic Gradient MCMC
Orals 11:15-11:35
[11:15] BAMDT: Bayesian Additive Semi-Multivariate Decision Trees for Nonparametric Regression
Spotlights 11:35-11:50
[11:35] Variational Inference with Locally Enhanced Bounds for Hierarchical Models
[11:40] Centroid Approximation for Bootstrap: Improving Particle Quality at Inference
[11:45] Deep Reference Priors: What is the best way to pretrain a model?
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-11:05
[10:30] Modeling Strong and Human-Like Gameplay with KL-Regularized Search
[10:35] Showing Your Offline Reinforcement Learning Work: Online Evaluation Budget Matters
[10:40] Phasic Self-Imitative Reduction for Sparse-Reward Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
[10:45] Model-based Meta Reinforcement Learning using Graph Structured Surrogate Models and Amortized Policy Search
[10:50] Generalized Data Distribution Iteration
[10:55] Optimizing Tensor Network Contraction Using Reinforcement Learning
[11:00] History Compression via Language Models in Reinforcement Learning
Orals 11:05-11:25
[11:05] REvolveR: Continuous Evolutionary Models for Robot-to-robot Policy Transfer
Spotlights 11:25-12:00
[11:25] LeNSE: Learning To Navigate Subgraph Embeddings for Large-Scale Combinatorial Optimisation
[11:30] Efficient Learning for AlphaZero via Path Consistency
[11:35] A data-driven approach for learning to control computers
[11:40] Zero-Shot Reward Specification via Grounded Natural Language
[11:45] How to Stay Curious while avoiding Noisy TVs using Aleatoric Uncertainty Estimation
[11:50] Model-Value Inconsistency as a Signal for Epistemic Uncertainty
[11:55] Improving Policy Optimization with Generalist-Specialist Learning
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-11:05
[10:30] On Numerical Integration in Neural Ordinary Differential Equations
[10:35] Reverse Engineering the Neural Tangent Kernel
[10:40] Principled Knowledge Extrapolation with GANs
[10:45] Informed Learning by Wide Neural Networks: Convergence, Generalization and Sampling Complexity
[10:50] Data Augmentation as Feature Manipulation
[10:55] Convolutional and Residual Networks Provably Contain Lottery Tickets
[11:00] Feature Learning and Signal Propagation in Deep Neural Networks
Orals 11:05-11:25
[11:05] Robust Training of Neural Networks Using Scale Invariant Architectures
Spotlights 11:25-12:00
[11:25] Understanding Contrastive Learning Requires Incorporating Inductive Biases
[11:30] Implicit Regularization with Polynomial Growth in Deep Tensor Factorization
[11:35] Deep Network Approximation in Terms of Intrinsic Parameters
[11:40] Coin Flipping Neural Networks
[11:45] Benefits of Overparameterized Convolutional Residual Networks: Function Approximation under Smoothness Constraint
[11:50] More Than a Toy: Random Matrix Models Predict How Real-World Neural Representations Generalize
[11:55] SE(3) Equivariant Graph Neural Networks with Complete Local Frames
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-11:05
[10:30] Interpretable Neural Networks with Frank-Wolfe: Sparse Relevance Maps and Relevance Orderings
[10:35] Label-Free Explainability for Unsupervised Models
[10:40] Towards Theoretical Analysis of Transformation Complexity of ReLU DNNs
[10:45] A Study of Face Obfuscation in ImageNet
[10:50] Fair Representation Learning through Implicit Path Alignment
[10:55] Mitigating Neural Network Overconfidence with Logit Normalization
[11:00] Learning fair representation with a parametric integral probability metric
Orals 11:05-11:25
[11:05] Privacy for Free: How does Dataset Condensation Help Privacy?
Spotlights 11:25-12:00
[11:25] Fair Generalized Linear Models with a Convex Penalty
[11:30] HyperPrompt: Prompt-based Task-Conditioning of Transformers
[11:35] Validating Causal Inference Methods
[11:40] The Multivariate Community Hawkes Model for Dependent Relational Events in Continuous-time Networks
[11:45] Scalable Deep Gaussian Markov Random Fields for General Graphs
[11:50] Anytime Information Cascade Popularity Prediction via Self-Exciting Processes
[11:55] Deep Variational Graph Convolutional Recurrent Network for Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection
(ends 12:00 PM)
Orals 10:30-10:50
[10:30] Adapting to Mixing Time in Stochastic Optimization with Markovian Data
Spotlights 10:50-11:15
[10:50] Fast Composite Optimization and Statistical Recovery in Federated Learning
[10:55] Beyond Worst-Case Analysis in Stochastic Approximation: Moment Estimation Improves Instance Complexity
[11:00] Personalization Improves Privacy-Accuracy Tradeoffs in Federated Learning
[11:05] Optimal Algorithms for Stochastic Multi-Level Compositional Optimization
[11:10] Finite-Sum Coupled Compositional Stochastic Optimization: Theory and Applications
Orals 11:15-11:35
[11:15] Towards Noise-adaptive, Problem-adaptive (Accelerated) Stochastic Gradient Descent
Spotlights 11:35-12:00
[11:35] Statistical inference with implicit SGD: proximal Robbins-Monro vs. Polyak-Ruppert
[11:40] ProxSkip: Yes! Local Gradient Steps Provably Lead to Communication Acceleration! Finally!
[11:45] Communication-Efficient Adaptive Federated Learning
[11:50] RECAPP: Crafting a More Efficient Catalyst for Convex Optimization
[11:55] Kill a Bird with Two Stones: Closing the Convergence Gaps in Non-Strongly Convex Optimization by Directly Accelerated SVRG with Double Compensation and Snapshots
(ends 12:00 PM)
Orals 10:30-10:50
[10:30] A Minimax Learning Approach to Off-Policy Evaluation in Confounded Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
Spotlights 10:50-11:10
[10:50] The Power of Exploiter: Provable Multi-Agent RL in Large State Spaces
[10:55] Extracting Latent State Representations with Linear Dynamics from Rich Observations
[11:00] For Learning in Symmetric Teams, Local Optima are Global Nash Equilibria
[11:05] Consensus Multiplicative Weights Update: Learning to Learn using Projector-based Game Signatures
Orals 11:10-11:30
[11:10] Learning Markov Games with Adversarial Opponents: Efficient Algorithms and Fundamental Limits
Spotlights 11:30-11:55
[11:30] Strategic Instrumental Variable Regression: Recovering Causal Relationships From Strategic Responses
[11:35] Learning to Infer Structures of Network Games
[11:40] Nearly Minimax Optimal Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation
[11:45] Near-Optimal Learning of Extensive-Form Games with Imperfect Information
[11:50] Guarantees for Epsilon-Greedy Reinforcement Learning with Function Approximation
(ends 12:00 PM)
11 a.m.
noon
Break:
(ends 1:30 PM)
1:15 p.m.
Spotlights 1:15-1:50
[1:15] From data to functa: Your data point is a function and you can treat it like one
[1:20] DisPFL: Towards Communication-Efficient Personalized Federated Learning via Decentralized Sparse Training
[1:25] Differentiable Top-k Classification Learning
[1:30] Finding the Task-Optimal Low-Bit Sub-Distribution in Deep Neural Networks
[1:35] Characterizing and Overcoming the Greedy Nature of Learning in Multi-modal Deep Neural Networks
[1:40] Training Your Sparse Neural Network Better with Any Mask
[1:45] Federated Learning with Positive and Unlabeled Data
Orals 1:50-2:10
[1:50] Generating 3D Molecules for Target Protein Binding
Spotlights 2:10-2:45
[2:10] Sparse Double Descent: Where Network Pruning Aggravates Overfitting
[2:15] Collaboration of Experts: Achieving 80% Top-1 Accuracy on ImageNet with 100M FLOPs
[2:20] Revisiting Consistency Regularization for Deep Partial Label Learning
[2:25] Stochastic smoothing of the top-K calibrated hinge loss for deep imbalanced classification
[2:30] A Unified Weight Initialization Paradigm for Tensorial Convolutional Neural Networks
[2:35] PLATINUM: Semi-Supervised Model Agnostic Meta-Learning using Submodular Mutual Information
[2:40] Multicoated Supermasks Enhance Hidden Networks
(ends 2:45 PM)
Spotlights 1:15-1:50
[1:15] Choosing Answers in Epsilon-Best-Answer Identification for Linear Bandits
[1:20] On the Finite-Time Performance of the Knowledge Gradient Algorithm
[1:25] Expression might be enough: representing pressure and demand for reinforcement learning based traffic signal control
[1:30] Generalization Bounds using Lower Tail Exponents in Stochastic Optimizers
[1:35] No-Regret Learning in Time-Varying Zero-Sum Games
[1:40] Achieving Minimax Rates in Pool-Based Batch Active Learning
[1:45] Active Multi-Task Representation Learning
Orals 1:50-2:10
[1:50] Active fairness auditing
Spotlights 2:10-2:45
[2:10] Metric-Fair Active Learning
[2:15] Metric-Fair Classifier Derandomization
[2:20] Interactively Learning Preference Constraints in Linear Bandits
[2:25] Convergence of Uncertainty Sampling for Active Learning
[2:30] Thompson Sampling for Robust Transfer in Multi-Task Bandits
[2:35] Constants Matter: The Performance Gains of Active Learning
[2:40] Cross-Space Active Learning on Graph Convolutional Networks
(ends 2:45 PM)
Spotlights 1:15-1:45
[1:15] MemSR: Training Memory-efficient Lightweight Model for Image Super-Resolution
[1:20] PINs: Progressive Implicit Networks for Multi-Scale Neural Representations
[1:25] Accelerating Bayesian Optimization for Biological Sequence Design with Denoising Autoencoders
[1:30] Generative Coarse-Graining of Molecular Conformations
[1:35] LIMO: Latent Inceptionism for Targeted Molecule Generation
[1:40] Learning to Separate Voices by Spatial Regions
Orals 1:45-2:05
[1:45] 3DLinker: An E(3) Equivariant Variational Autoencoder for Molecular Linker Design
Spotlights 2:05-2:40
[2:05] 3D Infomax improves GNNs for Molecular Property Prediction
[2:10] Biological Sequence Design with GFlowNets
[2:15] Pocket2Mol: Efficient Molecular Sampling Based on 3D Protein Pockets
[2:20] Retroformer: Pushing the Limits of End-to-end Retrosynthesis Transformer
[2:25] Constrained Optimization with Dynamic Bound-scaling for Effective NLP Backdoor Defense
[2:30] Path-Aware and Structure-Preserving Generation of Synthetically Accessible Molecules
[2:35] EquiBind: Geometric Deep Learning for Drug Binding Structure Prediction
(ends 2:45 PM)
Spotlights 1:15-1:45
[1:15] Decomposing Temporal High-Order Interactions via Latent ODEs
[1:20] Log-Euclidean Signatures for Intrinsic Distances Between Unaligned Datasets
[1:25] DRIBO: Robust Deep Reinforcement Learning via Multi-View Information Bottleneck
[1:30] End-to-End Balancing for Causal Continuous Treatment-Effect Estimation
[1:35] Role-based Multiplex Network Embedding
[1:40] Measure Estimation in the Barycentric Coding Model
Orals 1:45-2:05
[1:45] RieszNet and ForestRiesz: Automatic Debiased Machine Learning with Neural Nets and Random Forests
Spotlights 2:05-2:35
[2:05] Counterfactual Transportability: A Formal Approach
[2:10] Identification of Linear Non-Gaussian Latent Hierarchical Structure
[2:15] COAT: Measuring Object Compositionality in Emergent Representations
[2:20] Generalization and Robustness Implications in Object-Centric Learning
[2:25] NAFS: A Simple yet Tough-to-beat Baseline for Graph Representation Learning
[2:30] Action-Sufficient State Representation Learning for Control with Structural Constraints
(ends 2:45 PM)
Orals 1:15-1:35
[1:15] Bayesian Continuous-Time Tucker Decomposition
Spotlights 1:35-2:00
[1:35] Approximate Bayesian Computation with Domain Expert in the Loop
[1:40] Discrete Probabilistic Inverse Optimal Transport
[1:45] Easy Variational Inference for Categorical Models via an Independent Binary Approximation
[1:50] Streaming Inference for Infinite Feature Models
[1:55] Optimizing Sequential Experimental Design with Deep Reinforcement Learning
Orals 2:00-2:20
[2:00] Function-space Inference with Sparse Implicit Processes
Spotlights 2:20-2:45
[2:20] Variational Inference for Infinitely Deep Neural Networks
[2:25] Personalized Federated Learning via Variational Bayesian Inference
[2:30] Wide Bayesian neural networks have a simple weight posterior: theory and accelerated sampling
[2:35] Bayesian Deep Embedding Topic Meta-Learner
[2:40] Efficient Approximate Inference for Stationary Kernel on Frequency Domain
(ends 2:45 PM)
Spotlights 1:15-1:45
[1:15] Biased Gradient Estimate with Drastic Variance Reduction for Meta Reinforcement Learning
[1:20] Analysis of Stochastic Processes through Replay Buffers
[1:25] Cascaded Gaps: Towards Logarithmic Regret for Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning
[1:30] Communicating via Markov Decision Processes
[1:35] PAGE-PG: A Simple and Loopless Variance-Reduced Policy Gradient Method with Probabilistic Gradient Estimation
[1:40] DNS: Determinantal Point Process Based Neural Network Sampler for Ensemble Reinforcement Learning
Orals 1:45-2:05
[1:45] Planning with Diffusion for Flexible Behavior Synthesis
Spotlights 2:05-2:40
[2:05] A Temporal-Difference Approach to Policy Gradient Estimation
[2:10] MASER: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Subgoals Generated from Experience Replay Buffer
[2:15] Reinforcement Learning from Partial Observation: Linear Function Approximation with Provable Sample Efficiency
[2:20] Actor-Critic based Improper Reinforcement Learning
[2:25] On the Sample Complexity of Learning Infinite-horizon Discounted Linear Kernel MDPs
[2:30] The Geometry of Robust Value Functions
[2:35] Denoised MDPs: Learning World Models Better Than the World Itself
(ends 2:45 PM)
Orals 1:15-1:35
[1:15] Tight and Robust Private Mean Estimation with Few Users
Spotlights 1:35-2:00
[1:35] QSFL: A Two-Level Uplink Communication Optimization Framework for Federated Learning
[1:40] Robustness and Accuracy Could Be Reconcilable by (Proper) Definition
[1:45] Sanity Simulations for Saliency Methods
[1:50] Out-of-Distribution Detection with Deep Nearest Neighbors
[1:55] Differentially Private Maximal Information Coefficients
Orals 2:00-2:20
[2:00] Improved Rates for Differentially Private Stochastic Convex Optimization with Heavy-Tailed Data
Spotlights 2:20-2:45
[2:20] On the Difficulty of Defending Self-Supervised Learning against Model Extraction
[2:25] Adversarial Attack and Defense for Non-Parametric Two-Sample Tests
[2:30] Certified Adversarial Robustness Under the Bounded Support Set
[2:35] Predicting Out-of-Distribution Error with the Projection Norm
[2:40] Adversarially Robust Models may not Transfer Better: Sufficient Conditions for Domain Transferability from the View of Regularization
(ends 2:45 PM)
Spotlights 1:15-1:50
[1:15] Generating Distributional Adversarial Examples to Evade Statistical Detectors
[1:20] Improving Out-of-Distribution Robustness via Selective Augmentation
[1:25] Modeling Adversarial Noise for Adversarial Training
[1:30] Improving Adversarial Robustness via Mutual Information Estimation
[1:35] FOCUS: Familiar Objects in Common and Uncommon Settings
[1:40] Query-Efficient and Scalable Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on Discrete Sequential Data via Bayesian Optimization
[1:45] Test-Time Training Can Close the Natural Distribution Shift Performance Gap in Deep Learning Based Compressed Sensing
Orals 1:50-2:10
[1:50] A Dynamical System Perspective for Lipschitz Neural Networks
Spotlights 2:10-2:45
[2:10] Data Determines Distributional Robustness in Contrastive Language Image Pre-training (CLIP)
[2:15] Neurotoxin: Durable Backdoors in Federated Learning
[2:20] Bayesian Learning with Information Gain Provably Bounds Risk for a Robust Adversarial Defense
[2:25] Maximum Likelihood Training for Score-based Diffusion ODEs by High Order Denoising Score Matching
[2:30] Fast Lossless Neural Compression with Integer-Only Discrete Flows
[2:35] SQ-VAE: Variational Bayes on Discrete Representation with Self-annealed Stochastic Quantization
[2:40] SCHA-VAE: Hierarchical Context Aggregation for Few-Shot Generation
(ends 2:45 PM)
Orals 1:15-1:35
[1:15] Generative Trees: Adversarial and Copycat
Spotlights 1:35-2:00
[1:35] A Resilient Distributed Boosting Algorithm
[1:40] Online Learning and Pricing with Reusable Resources: Linear Bandits with Sub-Exponential Rewards
[1:45] On Well-posedness and Minimax Optimal Rates of Nonparametric Q-function Estimation in Off-policy Evaluation
[1:50] Congested Bandits: Optimal Routing via Short-term Resets
[1:55] Stochastic Rising Bandits
Orals 2:00-2:20
[2:00] Agnostic Learnability of Halfspaces via Logistic Loss
Spotlights 2:20-2:45
[2:20] Fluctuations, Bias, Variance & Ensemble of Learners: Exact Asymptotics for Convex Losses in High-Dimension
[2:25] PDE-Based Optimal Strategy for Unconstrained Online Learning
[2:30] Provable Acceleration of Heavy Ball beyond Quadratics for a Class of Polyak-Lojasiewicz Functions when the Non-Convexity is Averaged-Out
[2:35] On Learning Mixture of Linear Regressions in the Non-Realizable Setting
[2:40] Random Forest Density Estimation
(ends 2:45 PM)
2:45 p.m.
Break:
(ends 3:15 PM)
3:15 p.m.
Invited Talk:
Guido Imbens
(ends 4:15 PM)
4:15 p.m.
Break:
(ends 4:30 PM)
4:30 p.m.
Spotlights 4:30-5:05
[4:30] $p$-Laplacian Based Graph Neural Networks
[4:35] Equivariant Quantum Graph Circuits
[4:40] A Theoretical Comparison of Graph Neural Network Extensions
[4:45] Variational On-the-Fly Personalization
[4:50] Deep symbolic regression for recurrence prediction
[4:55] Geometric Multimodal Contrastive Representation Learning
[5:00] Universality of Winning Tickets: A Renormalization Group Perspective
Orals 5:05-5:25
[5:05] Partial and Asymmetric Contrastive Learning for Out-of-Distribution Detection in Long-Tailed Recognition
Spotlights 5:25-6:00
[5:25] Loss Function Learning for Domain Generalization by Implicit Gradient
[5:30] GraphFM: Improving Large-Scale GNN Training via Feature Momentum
[5:35] Generalization Guarantee of Training Graph Convolutional Networks with Graph Topology Sampling
[5:40] A Differential Entropy Estimator for Training Neural Networks
[5:45] Scaling Out-of-Distribution Detection for Real-World Settings
[5:50] Score-based Generative Modeling of Graphs via the System of Stochastic Differential Equations
[5:55] SPECTRE: Spectral Conditioning Helps to Overcome the Expressivity Limits of One-shot Graph Generators
(ends 6:00 PM)
Spotlights 4:30-5:05
[4:30] The dynamics of representation learning in shallow, non-linear autoencoders
[4:35] Implicit Regularization in Hierarchical Tensor Factorization and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
[4:40] Estimation in Rotationally Invariant Generalized Linear Models via Approximate Message Passing
[4:45] Failure and success of the spectral bias prediction for Laplace Kernel Ridge Regression: the case of low-dimensional data
[4:50] Regret Bounds for Stochastic Shortest Path Problems with Linear Function Approximation
[4:55] Universal Joint Approximation of Manifolds and Densities by Simple Injective Flows
[5:00] Bounding the Width of Neural Networks via Coupled Initialization - A Worst Case Analysis
Orals 5:05-5:25
[5:05] Last Iterate Risk Bounds of SGD with Decaying Stepsize for Overparameterized Linear Regression
Spotlights 5:25-6:00
[5:25] The Neural Race Reduction: Dynamics of Abstraction in Gated Networks
[5:30] Efficient Learning of CNNs using Patch Based Features
[5:35] Neural Tangent Kernel Analysis of Deep Narrow Neural Networks
[5:40] Modality Competition: What Makes Joint Training of Multi-modal Network Fail in Deep Learning? (Provably)
[5:45] Fully-Connected Network on Noncompact Symmetric Space and Ridgelet Transform based on Helgason-Fourier Analysis
[5:50] Non-Vacuous Generalisation Bounds for Shallow Neural Networks
[5:55] Maslow's Hammer in Catastrophic Forgetting: Node Re-Use vs. Node Activation
(ends 6:00 PM)
Spotlights 4:30-5:05
[4:30] SoQal: Selective Oracle Questioning for Consistency Based Active Learning of Cardiac Signals
[4:35] Matching Structure for Dual Learning
[4:40] BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation
[4:45] YourTTS: Towards Zero-Shot Multi-Speaker TTS and Zero-Shot Voice Conversion for Everyone
[4:50] Inducing Causal Structure for Interpretable Neural Networks
[4:55] SDQ: Stochastic Differentiable Quantization with Mixed Precision
[5:00] IGLUE: A Benchmark for Transfer Learning across Modalities, Tasks, and Languages
Orals 5:05-5:25
[5:05] Re-evaluating Word Mover's Distance
Spotlights 5:25-6:00
[5:25] Translatotron 2: High-quality direct speech-to-speech translation with voice preservation
[5:30] Robust alignment of cross-session recordings of neural population activity by behaviour via unsupervised domain adaptation
[5:35] Symmetric Machine Theory of Mind
[5:40] PLATON: Pruning Large Transformer Models with Upper Confidence Bound of Weight Importance
[5:45] LCANets: Lateral Competition Improves Robustness Against Corruption and Attack
[5:50] Reconstructing Nonlinear Dynamical Systems from Multi-Modal Time Series
[5:55] Neural Language Models are not Born Equal to Fit Brain Data, but Training Helps
(ends 6:00 PM)
Spotlights 4:30-5:05
[4:30] Greedy based Value Representation for Optimal Coordination in Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
[4:35] Bayesian Nonparametrics for Offline Skill Discovery
[4:40] Convergence of Policy Gradient for Entropy Regularized MDPs with Neural Network Approximation in the Mean-Field Regime
[4:45] Curriculum Reinforcement Learning via Constrained Optimal Transport
[4:50] Recurrent Model-Free RL Can Be a Strong Baseline for Many POMDPs
[4:55] Stabilizing Q-learning with Linear Architectures for Provable Efficient Learning
[5:00] Constrained Offline Policy Optimization
Orals 5:05-5:25
[5:05] Causal Dynamics Learning for Task-Independent State Abstraction
Spotlights 5:25-6:05
[5:25] Leveraging Approximate Symbolic Models for Reinforcement Learning via Skill Diversity
[5:30] Reinforcement Learning with Action-Free Pre-Training from Videos
[5:35] Towards Evaluating Adaptivity of Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Methods
[5:40] Delayed Reinforcement Learning by Imitation
[5:45] Reachability Constrained Reinforcement Learning
[5:50] Adaptive Model Design for Markov Decision Process
[5:55] Goal Misgeneralization in Deep Reinforcement Learning
[6:00] Translating Robot Skills: Learning Unsupervised Skill Correspondences Across Robots
(ends 6:05 PM)
Spotlights 4:30-5:05
[4:30] The Infinite Contextual Graph Markov Model
[4:35] RankSim: Ranking Similarity Regularization for Deep Imbalanced Regression
[4:40] Detached Error Feedback for Distributed SGD with Random Sparsification
[4:45] Training OOD Detectors in their Natural Habitats
[4:50] Constrained Gradient Descent: A Powerful and Principled Evasion Attack Against Neural Networks
[4:55] Neural Tangent Kernel Empowered Federated Learning
[5:00] Probabilistically Robust Learning: Balancing Average- and Worst-case Performance
Orals 5:05-5:25
[5:05] Adversarially trained neural representations are already as robust as biological neural representations
Spotlights 5:25-6:00
[5:25] Feature Space Particle Inference for Neural Network Ensembles
[5:30] A Study on the Ramanujan Graph Property of Winning Lottery Tickets
[5:35] PAC-Net: A Model Pruning Approach to Inductive Transfer Learning
[5:40] EDEN: Communication-Efficient and Robust Distributed Mean Estimation for Federated Learning
[5:45] Fisher SAM: Information Geometry and Sharpness Aware Minimisation
[5:50] Deep Networks on Toroids: Removing Symmetries Reveals the Structure of Flat Regions in the Landscape Geometry
[5:55] Towards Understanding Sharpness-Aware Minimization
(ends 6:00 PM)
Spotlights 4:30-5:05
[4:30] Improved Regret for Differentially Private Exploration in Linear MDP
[4:35] Differentially Private Community Detection for Stochastic Block Models
[4:40] Understanding Clipping for Federated Learning: Convergence and Client-Level Differential Privacy
[4:45] Hermite Polynomial Features for Private Data Generation
[4:50] How to Steer Your Adversary: Targeted and Efficient Model Stealing Defenses with Gradient Redirection
[4:55] Deduplicating Training Data Mitigates Privacy Risks in Language Models
[5:00] Private frequency estimation via projective geometry
Orals 5:05-5:25
[5:05] The Poisson Binomial Mechanism for Unbiased Federated Learning with Secure Aggregation
Spotlights 5:25-6:00
[5:25] Faster Privacy Accounting via Evolving Discretization
[5:30] The Fundamental Price of Secure Aggregation in Differentially Private Federated Learning
[5:35] Private Adaptive Optimization with Side information
[5:40] Secure Quantized Training for Deep Learning
[5:45] Private optimization in the interpolation regime: faster rates and hardness results
[5:50] Differentially Private Coordinate Descent for Composite Empirical Risk Minimization
[5:55] Private Streaming SCO in $\ell_p$ geometry with Applications in High Dimensional Online Decision Making
(ends 6:00 PM)
Spotlights 4:30-5:05
[4:30] Neural Tangent Kernel Beyond the Infinite-Width Limit: Effects of Depth and Initialization
[4:35] Implicit Bias of Linear Equivariant Networks
[4:40] The State of Sparse Training in Deep Reinforcement Learning
[4:45] Set Norm and Equivariant Skip Connections: Putting the Deep in Deep Sets
[4:50] Datamodels: Understanding Predictions with Data and Data with Predictions
[4:55] Revisiting and Advancing Fast Adversarial Training Through The Lens of Bi-Level Optimization
[5:00] Deep Causal Metric Learning
Orals 5:05-5:25
[5:05] Not All Poisons are Created Equal: Robust Training against Data Poisoning
Spotlights 5:25-6:00
[5:25] Learning Symmetric Embeddings for Equivariant World Models
[5:30] Accelerated Federated Learning with Decoupled Adaptive Optimization
[5:35] Byzantine Machine Learning Made Easy By Resilient Averaging of Momentums
[5:40] TSPipe: Learn from Teacher Faster with Pipelines
[5:45] Personalized Federated Learning through Local Memorization
[5:50] Three-stage Evolution and Fast Equilibrium for SGD with Non-degerate Critical Points
[5:55] Optimization-Derived Learning with Essential Convergence Analysis of Training and Hyper-training
(ends 6:00 PM)
Spotlights 4:30-5:05
[4:30] Gradient Descent on Neurons and its Link to Approximate Second-order Optimization
[4:35] A Tree-based Model Averaging Approach for Personalized Treatment Effect Estimation from Heterogeneous Data Sources
[4:40] Efficient Online ML API Selection for Multi-Label Classification Tasks
[4:45] Entropic Causal Inference: Graph Identifiability
[4:50] Architecture Agnostic Federated Learning for Neural Networks
[4:55] Conformal Prediction Sets with Limited False Positives
[5:00] Scalable Computation of Causal Bounds
Orals 5:05-5:25
[5:05] LIDL: Local Intrinsic Dimension Estimation Using Approximate Likelihood
Spotlights 5:25-6:00
[5:25] Learning Pseudometric-based Action Representations for Offline Reinforcement Learning
[5:30] A Statistical Manifold Framework for Point Cloud Data
[5:35] HyperImpute: Generalized Iterative Imputation with Automatic Model Selection
[5:40] A Natural Actor-Critic Framework for Zero-Sum Markov Games
[5:45] Distributionally Robust $Q$-Learning
[5:50] Sparsity in Partially Controllable Linear Systems
[5:55] Saute RL: Almost Surely Safe Reinforcement Learning Using State Augmentation
(ends 6:00 PM)
Spotlights 4:30-5:00
[4:30] A New Perspective on the Effects of Spectrum in Graph Neural Networks
[4:35] Molecular Representation Learning via Heterogeneous Motif Graph Neural Networks
[4:40] Partial Label Learning via Label Influence Function
[4:45] Minimax Classification under Concept Drift with Multidimensional Adaptation and Performance Guarantees
[4:50] Understanding Robust Overfitting of Adversarial Training and Beyond
[4:55] A Random Matrix Analysis of Data Stream Clustering: Coping With Limited Memory Resources
Orals 5:00-5:20
[5:00] Hierarchical Shrinkage: Improving the accuracy and interpretability of tree-based models.
Spotlights 5:20-5:55
[5:20] Supervised Learning with General Risk Functionals
[5:25] Locally Sparse Neural Networks for Tabular Biomedical Data
[5:30] Dual Perspective of Label-Specific Feature Learning for Multi-Label Classification
[5:35] Detecting Corrupted Labels Without Training a Model to Predict
[5:40] Prototype-Anchored Learning for Learning with Imperfect Annotations
[5:45] Learning to Predict Graphs with Fused Gromov-Wasserstein Barycenters
[5:50] Deep Safe Incomplete Multi-view Clustering: Theorem and Algorithm
(ends 6:00 PM)
6:30 p.m.
Posters 6:30-8:30
(ends 8:30 PM)
7 p.m.

THU 21 JUL
6:30 a.m.
Break:
(ends 6:45 AM)
9 a.m.
Invited Talk:
Aviv Regev
(ends 10:00 AM)
10 a.m.
Break:
(ends 10:30 AM)
10:30 a.m.
Spotlights 10:30-11:00
[10:30] Does the Data Induce Capacity Control in Deep Learning?
[10:35] Fighting Fire with Fire: Avoiding DNN Shortcuts through Priming
[10:40] Memory-Based Model Editing at Scale
[10:45] Winning the Lottery Ahead of Time: Efficient Early Network Pruning
[10:50] Active Learning on a Budget: Opposite Strategies Suit High and Low Budgets
[10:55] AutoSNN: Towards Energy-Efficient Spiking Neural Networks
Orals 11:00-11:20
[11:00] Overcoming Oscillations in Quantization-Aware Training
Spotlights 11:20-11:55
[11:20] Dataset Condensation via Efficient Synthetic-Data Parameterization
[11:25] Searching for BurgerFormer with Micro-Meso-Macro Space Design
[11:30] Multi-scale Feature Learning Dynamics: Insights for Double Descent
[11:35] Dataset Condensation with Contrastive Signals
[11:40] Equivariant Priors for compressed sensing with unknown orientation
[11:45] Injecting Logical Constraints into Neural Networks via Straight-Through Estimators
[11:50] Prioritized Training on Points that are Learnable, Worth Learning, and not yet Learnt
(ends 12:00 PM)
Orals 10:30-10:50
[10:30] First-Order Regret in Reinforcement Learning with Linear Function Approximation: A Robust Estimation Approach
Spotlights 10:50-11:10
[10:50] Generic Coreset for Scalable Learning of Monotonic Kernels: Logistic Regression, Sigmoid and more
[10:55] Shuffle Private Linear Contextual Bandits
[11:00] Pessimistic Q-Learning for Offline Reinforcement Learning: Towards Optimal Sample Complexity
[11:05] Reward-Free RL is No Harder Than Reward-Aware RL in Linear Markov Decision Processes
Orals 11:10-11:30
[11:10] Label Ranking through Nonparametric Regression
Spotlights 11:30-12:00
[11:30] Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning with loglog(T) Switching Cost
[11:35] A Simple Unified Framework for High Dimensional Bandit Problems
[11:40] A Reduction from Linear Contextual Bandits Lower Bounds to Estimations Lower Bounds
[11:45] Branching Reinforcement Learning
[11:50] Fast rates for noisy interpolation require rethinking the effect of inductive bias
[11:55] Near-Optimal Algorithms for Autonomous Exploration and Multi-Goal Stochastic Shortest Path
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-11:05
[10:30] Structure Preserving Neural Networks: A Case Study in the Entropy Closure of the Boltzmann Equation
[10:35] Composing Partial Differential Equations with Physics-Aware Neural Networks
[10:40] Neuro-Symbolic Language Modeling with Automaton-augmented Retrieval
[10:45] Towards Coherent and Consistent Use of Entities in Narrative Generation
[10:50] Pure Noise to the Rescue of Insufficient Data: Improving Imbalanced Classification by Training on Random Noise Images
[10:55] Optimally Controllable Perceptual Lossy Compression
[11:00] Learning to Solve PDE-constrained Inverse Problems with Graph Networks
Orals 11:05-11:25
[11:05] ModLaNets: Learning Generalisable Dynamics via Modularity and Physical Inductive Bias
Spotlights 11:25-12:00
[11:25] Learning to Estimate and Refine Fluid Motion with Physical Dynamics
[11:30] Tractable Dendritic RNNs for Reconstructing Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
[11:35] An Intriguing Property of Geophysics Inversion
[11:40] Particle Transformer for Jet Tagging
[11:45] BabelTower: Learning to Auto-parallelized Program Translation
[11:50] ContentVec: An Improved Self-Supervised Speech Representation by Disentangling Speakers
[11:55] On Distribution Shift in Learning-based Bug Detectors
(ends 12:00 PM)
Orals 10:30-10:50
[10:30] The Importance of Non-Markovianity in Maximum State Entropy Exploration
Spotlights 10:50-11:15
[10:50] Continuous Control with Action Quantization from Demonstrations
[10:55] Plan Your Target and Learn Your Skills: Transferable State-Only Imitation Learning via Decoupled Policy Optimization
[11:00] Inverse Contextual Bandits: Learning How Behavior Evolves over Time
[11:05] Balancing Sample Efficiency and Suboptimality in Inverse Reinforcement Learning
[11:10] Towards Uniformly Superhuman Autonomy via Subdominance Minimization
Orals 11:15-11:35
[11:15] Causal Imitation Learning under Temporally Correlated Noise
Spotlights 11:35-12:00
[11:35] Interactive Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Games
[11:40] A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to Inverse Reinforcement Learning with Symbolic Reward Machines
[11:45] Robust Imitation Learning against Variations in Environment Dynamics
[11:50] Discriminator-Weighted Offline Imitation Learning from Suboptimal Demonstrations
[11:55] Learning from Demonstration: Provably Efficient Adversarial Policy Imitation with Linear Function Approximation
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-11:05
[10:30] A Neural Tangent Kernel Perspective of GANs
[10:35] Style Equalization: Unsupervised Learning of Controllable Generative Sequence Models
[10:40] Neural Inverse Transform Sampler
[10:45] Antibody-Antigen Docking and Design via Hierarchical Structure Refinement
[10:50] Diffusion Models for Adversarial Purification
[10:55] Gaussian Mixture Variational Autoencoder with Contrastive Learning for Multi-Label Classification
[11:00] VarScene: A Deep Generative Model for Realistic Scene Graph Synthesis
Orals 11:05-11:25
[11:05] It’s Raw! Audio Generation with State-Space Models
Spotlights 11:25-12:00
[11:25] Unsupervised Image Representation Learning with Deep Latent Particles
[11:30] Learning Efficient and Robust Ordinary Differential Equations via Invertible Neural Networks
[11:35] Neuro-Symbolic Hierarchical Rule Induction
[11:40] General-purpose, long-context autoregressive modeling with Perceiver AR
[11:45] Marginal Tail-Adaptive Normalizing Flows
[11:50] SkexGen: Autoregressive Generation of CAD Construction Sequences with Disentangled Codebooks
[11:55] NeuroFluid: Fluid Dynamics Grounding with Particle-Driven Neural Radiance Fields
(ends 12:00 PM)
Orals 10:30-10:50
[10:30] Federated Reinforcement Learning: Linear Speedup Under Markovian Sampling
Spotlights 10:50-11:15
[10:50] Entropic Gromov-Wasserstein between Gaussian Distributions
[10:55] No-Regret Learning in Partially-Informed Auctions
[11:00] On Last-Iterate Convergence Beyond Zero-Sum Games
[11:05] Kernelized Multiplicative Weights for 0/1-Polyhedral Games: Bridging the Gap Between Learning in Extensive-Form and Normal-Form Games
[11:10] Fictitious Play and Best-Response Dynamics in Identical Interest and Zero-Sum Stochastic Games
Orals 11:15-11:35
[11:15] On the Convergence of Inexact Predictor-Corrector Methods for Linear Programming
Spotlights 11:35-12:00
[11:35] Nested Bandits
[11:40] Information Discrepancy in Strategic Learning
[11:45] A Psychological Theory of Explainability
[11:50] Task-aware Privacy Preservation for Multi-dimensional Data
[11:55] Strategic Representation
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-10:55
[10:30] Estimating Instance-dependent Bayes-label Transition Matrix using a Deep Neural Network
[10:35] Invariant Ancestry Search
[10:40] Unaligned Supervision for Automatic Music Transcription in The Wild
[10:45] Fourier Learning with Cyclical Data
[10:50] Linear Adversarial Concept Erasure
Orals 10:55-11:15
[10:55] Score Matching Enables Causal Discovery of Nonlinear Additive Noise Models
Spotlights 11:15-11:50
[11:15] Provable Domain Generalization via Invariant-Feature Subspace Recovery
[11:20] Subspace Learning for Effective Meta-Learning
[11:25] Continual Learning via Sequential Function-Space Variational Inference
[11:30] Efficient Test-Time Model Adaptation without Forgetting
[11:35] Gaussian Process Uniform Error Bounds with Unknown Hyperparameters for Safety-Critical Applications
[11:40] Input Dependent Sparse Gaussian Processes
[11:45] AutoIP: A United Framework to Integrate Physics into Gaussian Processes
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-11:00
[10:30] Equivariance versus Augmentation for Spherical Images
[10:35] Optimal Clipping and Magnitude-aware Differentiation for Improved Quantization-aware Training
[10:40] Neural Network Poisson Models for Behavioural and Neural Spike Train Data
[10:45] A Branch and Bound Framework for Stronger Adversarial Attacks of ReLU Networks
[10:50] GACT: Activation Compressed Training for Generic Network Architectures
[10:55] Fast Finite Width Neural Tangent Kernel
Orals 11:00-11:20
[11:00] G-Mixup: Graph Data Augmentation for Graph Classification
Spotlights 11:20-12:00
[11:20] Universal Hopfield Networks: A General Framework for Single-Shot Associative Memory Models
[11:25] Multi-Grained Vision Language Pre-Training: Aligning Texts with Visual Concepts
[11:30] Continual Learning with Guarantees via Weight Interval Constraints
[11:35] Faster Fundamental Graph Algorithms via Learned Predictions
[11:40] Practical Almost-Linear-Time Approximation Algorithms for Hybrid and Overlapping Graph Clustering
[11:45] Fair and Fast k-Center Clustering for Data Summarization
[11:50] Online and Consistent Correlation Clustering
[11:55] Generalized Leverage Scores: Geometric Interpretation and Applications
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-11:00
[10:30] Blurs Behave Like Ensembles: Spatial Smoothings to Improve Accuracy, Uncertainty, and Robustness
[10:35] Breaking Down Out-of-Distribution Detection: Many Methods Based on OOD Training Data Estimate a Combination of the Same Core Quantities
[10:40] Comprehensive Analysis of Negative Sampling in Knowledge Graph Representation Learning
[10:45] Linearity Grafting: Relaxed Neuron Pruning Helps Certifiable Robustness
[10:50] A Hierarchical Transitive-Aligned Graph Kernel for Un-attributed Graphs
[10:55] Leverage Score Sampling for Tensor Product Matrices in Input Sparsity Time
Orals 11:00-11:20
[11:00] Random Gegenbauer Features for Scalable Kernel Methods
Spotlights 11:20-11:55
[11:20] Robust Meta-learning with Sampling Noise and Label Noise via Eigen-Reptile
[11:25] Functional Output Regression with Infimal Convolution: Exploring the Huber and $\epsilon$-insensitive Losses
[11:30] Measuring dissimilarity with diffeomorphism invariance
[11:35] Importance Weighted Kernel Bayes' Rule
[11:40] An Asymptotic Test for Conditional Independence using Analytic Kernel Embeddings
[11:45] Nyström Kernel Mean Embeddings
[11:50] Distribution Regression with Sliced Wasserstein Kernels
(ends 12:00 PM)
Spotlights 10:30-11:05
[10:30] Adapting k-means Algorithms for Outliers
[10:35] Accelerated, Optimal and Parallel: Some results on model-based stochastic optimization
[10:40] Online Algorithms with Multiple Predictions
[10:45] Parsimonious Learning-Augmented Caching
[10:50] RUMs from Head-to-Head Contests
[10:55] Quant-BnB: A Scalable Branch-and-Bound Method for Optimal Decision Trees with Continuous Features
[11:00] Robustness in Multi-Objective Submodular Optimization: a Quantile Approach
Orals 11:05-11:25
[11:05] The Unsurprising Effectiveness of Pre-Trained Vision Models for Control
Spotlights 11:25-12:00
[11:25] COLA: Consistent Learning with Opponent-Learning Awareness
[11:30] A Self-Play Posterior Sampling Algorithm for Zero-Sum Markov Games
[11:35] A Framework for Learning to Request Rich and Contextually Useful Information from Humans
[11:40] Learning Stochastic Shortest Path with Linear Function Approximation
[11:45] Difference Advantage Estimation for Multi-Agent Policy Gradients
[11:50] Plan Better Amid Conservatism: Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Actor Rectification
[11:55] Pessimistic Minimax Value Iteration: Provably Efficient Equilibrium Learning from Offline Datasets
(ends 12:00 PM)
noon
Break:
(ends 1:30 PM)
1:30 p.m.
Spotlights 1:30-2:05
[1:30] Adversarial Masking for Self-Supervised Learning
[1:35] Provable Stochastic Optimization for Global Contrastive Learning: Small Batch Does Not Harm Performance
[1:40] OFA: Unifying Architectures, Tasks, and Modalities Through a Simple Sequence-to-Sequence Learning Framework
[1:45] Multirate Training of Neural Networks
[1:50] Variational Wasserstein gradient flow
[1:55] Building Robust Ensembles via Margin Boosting
[2:00] Investigating Generalization by Controlling Normalized Margin
Orals 2:05-2:25
[2:05] Connect, Not Collapse: Explaining Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
Spotlights 2:25-3:00
[2:25] VLUE: A Multi-Task Multi-Dimension Benchmark for Evaluating Vision-Language Pre-training
[2:30] Let Invariant Rationale Discovery Inspire Graph Contrastive Learning
[2:35] Graph Neural Architecture Search Under Distribution Shifts
[2:40] How Powerful are Spectral Graph Neural Networks
[2:45] Constraint-based graph network simulator
[2:50] PACE: A Parallelizable Computation Encoder for Directed Acyclic Graphs
[2:55] Structure-Aware Transformer for Graph Representation Learning
(ends 3:00 PM)
Orals 1:30-1:50
[1:30] UnderGrad: A Universal Black-Box Optimization Method with Almost Dimension-Free Convergence Rate Guarantees
Spotlights 1:50-2:15
[1:50] Safe Learning in Tree-Form Sequential Decision Making: Handling Hard and Soft Constraints
[1:55] A Marriage between Adversarial Team Games and 2-player Games: Enabling Abstractions, No-regret Learning, and Subgame Solving
[2:00] Exact Learning of Preference Structure: Single-peaked Preferences and Beyond
[2:05] Selling Data To a Machine Learner: Pricing via Costly Signaling
[2:10] Hardness and Algorithms for Robust and Sparse Optimization
Orals 2:15-2:35
[2:15] A Convergent and Dimension-Independent Min-Max Optimization Algorithm
Spotlights 2:35-3:00
[2:35] Stochastic Continuous Submodular Maximization: Boosting via Non-oblivious Function
[2:40] Accelerated Gradient Methods for Geodesically Convex Optimization: Tractable Algorithms and Convergence Analysis
[2:45] The Complexity of k-Means Clustering when Little is Known
[2:50] Iterative Hard Thresholding with Adaptive Regularization: Sparser Solutions Without Sacrificing Runtime
[2:55] 3PC: Three Point Compressors for Communication-Efficient Distributed Training and a Better Theory for Lazy Aggregation
(ends 3:00 PM)
Spotlights 1:30-2:05
[1:30] Ripple Attention for Visual Perception with Sub-quadratic Complexity
[1:35] Self-supervised Models are Good Teaching Assistants for Vision Transformers
[1:40] Plug-In Inversion: Model-Agnostic Inversion for Vision with Data Augmentations
[1:45] In defense of dual-encoders for neural ranking
[1:50] From block-Toeplitz matrices to differential equations on graphs: towards a general theory for scalable masked Transformers
[1:55] Linear Complexity Randomized Self-attention Mechanism
[2:00] Efficient Representation Learning via Adaptive Context Pooling
Orals 2:05-2:25
[2:05] Toward Compositional Generalization in Object-Oriented World Modeling
Spotlights 2:25-3:00
[2:25] Fast Population-Based Reinforcement Learning on a Single Machine
[2:30] NeuralEF: Deconstructing Kernels by Deep Neural Networks
[2:35] Visual Attention Emerges from Recurrent Sparse Reconstruction
[2:40] Transformer Quality in Linear Time
[2:45] What Dense Graph Do You Need for Self-Attention?
[2:50] Dual Decomposition of Convex Optimization Layers for Consistent Attention in Medical Images
[2:55] Multi Resolution Analysis (MRA) for Approximate Self-Attention
(ends 3:00 PM)
Spotlights 1:30-2:05
[1:30] A Context-Integrated Transformer-Based Neural Network for Auction Design
[1:35] Domain Adaptation for Time Series Forecasting via Attention Sharing
[1:40] Continuous-Time Modeling of Counterfactual Outcomes Using Neural Controlled Differential Equations
[1:45] Disentangling Disease-related Representation from Obscure for Disease Prediction
[1:50] Design-Bench: Benchmarks for Data-Driven Offline Model-Based Optimization
[1:55] Blocks Assemble! Learning to Assemble with Large-Scale Structured Reinforcement Learning
[2:00] Learning of Cluster-based Feature Importance for Electronic Health Record Time-series
Orals 2:05-2:25
[2:05] Do Differentiable Simulators Give Better Policy Gradients?
Spotlights 2:25-3:00
[2:25] Adaptive Conformal Predictions for Time Series
[2:30] Language Models as Zero-Shot Planners: Extracting Actionable Knowledge for Embodied Agents
[2:35] Rethinking Graph Neural Networks for Anomaly Detection
[2:40] Fast Aquatic Swimmer Optimization with Differentiable Projective Dynamics and Neural Network Hydrodynamic Models
[2:45] Proving Theorems using Incremental Learning and Hindsight Experience Replay
[2:50] Discovering Generalizable Spatial Goal Representations via Graph-based Active Reward Learning
[2:55] Neural Inverse Kinematic
(ends 3:00 PM)
Orals 1:30-1:50
[1:30] Learning Bellman Complete Representations for Offline Policy Evaluation
Spotlights 1:50-2:15
[1:50] Doubly Robust Distributionally Robust Off-Policy Evaluation and Learning
[1:55] A Simple Reward-free Approach to Constrained Reinforcement Learning
[2:00] Versatile Offline Imitation from Observations and Examples via Regularized State-Occupancy Matching
[2:05] Temporal Difference Learning for Model Predictive Control
[2:10] Model Selection in Batch Policy Optimization
Orals 2:15-2:35
[2:15] Adversarially Trained Actor Critic for Offline Reinforcement Learning
Spotlights 2:35-3:00
[2:35] Optimal Estimation of Policy Gradient via Double Fitted Iteration
[2:40] Provably Efficient Offline Reinforcement Learning for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
[2:45] Off-Policy Fitted Q-Evaluation with Differentiable Function Approximators: Z-Estimation and Inference Theory
[2:50] Lagrangian Method for Q-Function Learning (with Applications to Machine Translation)
[2:55] On the Role of Discount Factor in Offline Reinforcement Learning
(ends 3:00 PM)
Spotlights 1:30-2:05
[1:30] Learning Stable Classifiers by Transferring Unstable Features
[1:35] Data-Efficient Double-Win Lottery Tickets from Robust Pre-training
[1:40] Attentional Meta-learners for Few-shot Polythetic Classification
[1:45] C*-algebra Net: A New Approach Generalizing Neural Network Parameters to C*-algebra
[1:50] Nonlinear Feature Diffusion on Hypergraphs
[1:55] Kernel Methods for Radial Transformed Compositional Data with Many Zeros
[2:00] Robust Task Representations for Offline Meta-Reinforcement Learning via Contrastive Learning
Orals 2:05-2:25
[2:05] Causal Conceptions of Fairness and their Consequences
Spotlights 2:25-2:55
[2:25] Fairness with Adaptive Weights
[2:30] Understanding Instance-Level Impact of Fairness Constraints
[2:35] Achieving Fairness at No Utility Cost via Data Reweighing with Influence
[2:40] Mitigating Gender Bias in Face Recognition using the von Mises-Fisher Mixture Model
[2:45] Selective Regression under Fairness Criteria
[2:50] Input-agnostic Certified Group Fairness via Gaussian Parameter Smoothing
(ends 3:00 PM)
Spotlights 1:30-2:00
[1:30] Dynamic Topic Models for Temporal Document Networks
[1:35] A Functional Information Perspective on Model Interpretation
[1:40] Be Like Water: Adaptive Floating Point for Machine Learning
[1:45] Lie Point Symmetry Data Augmentation for Neural PDE Solvers
[1:50] Fast Provably Robust Decision Trees and Boosting
[1:55] Order Constraints in Optimal Transport
Orals 2:00-2:20
[2:00] Sublinear-Time Clustering Oracle for Signed Graphs
Spotlights 2:20-2:55
[2:20] PAC-Bayesian Bounds on Rate-Efficient Classifiers
[2:25] More Efficient Sampling for Tensor Decomposition With Worst-Case Guarantees
[2:30] Sharp-MAML: Sharpness-Aware Model-Agnostic Meta Learning
[2:35] On the Convergence of Local Stochastic Compositional Gradient Descent with Momentum
[2:40] SPDY: Accurate Pruning with Speedup Guarantees
[2:45] Flashlight: Enabling Innovation in Tools for Machine Learning
[2:50] On the Robustness of CountSketch to Adaptive Inputs
(ends 3:00 PM)
Orals 1:30-1:50
[1:30] Streaming Algorithm for Monotone k-Submodular Maximization with Cardinality Constraints
Spotlights 1:50-2:10
[1:50] Adaptive Accelerated (Extra-)Gradient Methods with Variance Reduction
[1:55] Adaptive Second Order Coresets for Data-efficient Machine Learning
[2:00] Nesterov Accelerated Shuffling Gradient Method for Convex Optimization
[2:05] Efficient Low Rank Convex Bounds for Pairwise Discrete Graphical Models
Orals 2:10-2:30
[2:10] Deletion Robust Submodular Maximization over Matroids
Spotlights 2:30-2:55
[2:30] The Combinatorial Brain Surgeon: Pruning Weights That Cancel One Another in Neural Networks
[2:35] Instance Dependent Regret Analysis of Kernelized Bandits
[2:40] EAT-C: Environment-Adversarial sub-Task Curriculum for Efficient Reinforcement Learning
[2:45] Tell me why! Explanations support learning relational and causal structure
[2:50] Koopman Q-learning: Offline Reinforcement Learning via Symmetries of Dynamics
(ends 3:00 PM)
Orals 1:30-1:50
[1:30] Stochastic Deep Networks with Linear Competing Units for Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning
Spotlights 1:50-2:10
[1:50] Nonparametric Factor Trajectory Learning for Dynamic Tensor Decomposition
[1:55] Nonparametric Embeddings of Sparse High-Order Interaction Events
[2:00] Adapting the Linearised Laplace Model Evidence for Modern Deep Learning
[2:05] NOMU: Neural Optimization-based Model Uncertainty
Orals 2:10-2:30
[2:10] Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and Generalization
Spotlights 2:30-3:00
[2:30] Fast-Rate PAC-Bayesian Generalization Bounds for Meta-Learning
[2:35] Wide Neural Networks Forget Less Catastrophically
[2:40] A Unified View on PAC-Bayes Bounds for Meta-Learning
[2:45] MAML and ANIL Provably Learn Representations
[2:50] C-MinHash: Improving Minwise Hashing with Circulant Permutation
[2:55] Proximal Denoiser for Convergent Plug-and-Play Optimization with Nonconvex Regularization
(ends 3:00 PM)
2 p.m.
3 p.m.
Break:
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3:30 p.m.
Spotlights 3:30-4:05
[3:30] Bregman Neural Networks
[3:35] Quantifying and Learning Linear Symmetry-Based Disentanglement
[3:40] Exploiting Redundancy: Separable Group Convolutional Networks on Lie Groups
[3:45] PDO-s3DCNNs: Partial Differential Operator Based Steerable 3D CNNs
[3:50] Utilizing Expert Features for Contrastive Learning of Time-Series Representations
[3:55] (Non-)Convergence Results for Predictive Coding Networks
[4:00] Representation Topology Divergence: A Method for Comparing Neural Network Representations.
Orals 4:05-4:25
[4:05] Measuring Representational Robustness of Neural Networks Through Shared Invariances
Spotlights 4:25-5:00
[4:25] The Dual Form of Neural Networks Revisited: Connecting Test Time Predictions to Training Patterns via Spotlights of Attention
[4:30] Flowformer: Linearizing Transformers with Conservation Flows
[4:35] Spatial-Channel Token Distillation for Vision MLPs
[4:40] Neurocoder: General-Purpose Computation Using Stored Neural Programs
[4:45] Improving Transformers with Probabilistic Attention Keys
[4:50] Rethinking Attention-Model Explainability through Faithfulness Violation Test
[4:55] AGNAS: Attention-Guided Micro- and Macro-Architecture Search
(ends 5:00 PM)
Spotlights 3:30-4:05
[3:30] Nearly Optimal Catoni’s M-estimator for Infinite Variance
[3:35] Strategies for Safe Multi-Armed Bandits with Logarithmic Regret and Risk
[3:40] Local Linear Convergence of Douglas-Rachford for Linear Programming: a Probabilistic Analysis
[3:45] Contextual Information-Directed Sampling
[3:50] Breaking the $\sqrt{T}$ Barrier: Instance-Independent Logarithmic Regret in Stochastic Contextual Linear Bandits
[3:55] Universal and data-adaptive algorithms for model selection in linear contextual bandits
[4:00] Regret Minimization with Performative Feedback
Orals 4:05-4:25
[4:05] A Simple yet Universal Strategy for Online Convex Optimization
Spotlights 4:25-5:00
[4:25] Deep Hierarchy in Bandits
[4:30] Distributionally-Aware Kernelized Bandit Problems for Risk Aversion
[4:35] Asymptotically-Optimal Gaussian Bandits with Side Observations
[4:40] Learning from a Learning User for Optimal Recommendations
[4:45] Thresholded Lasso Bandit
[4:50] Versatile Dueling Bandits: Best-of-both World Analyses for Learning from Relative Preferences
[4:55] Decentralized Online Convex Optimization in Networked Systems
(ends 5:00 PM)
Spotlights 3:30-4:00
[3:30] GLaM: Efficient Scaling of Language Models with Mixture-of-Experts
[3:35] Deploying Convolutional Networks on Untrusted Platforms Using 2D Holographic Reduced Representations
[3:40] Object Permanence Emerges in a Random Walk along Memory
[3:45] Flow-Guided Sparse Transformer for Video Deblurring
[3:50] N-Penetrate: Active Learning of Neural Collision Handler for Complex 3D Mesh Deformations
[3:55] Staged Training for Transformer Language Models
Orals 4:00-4:20
[4:00] Near-Exact Recovery for Tomographic Inverse Problems via Deep Learning
Spotlights 4:20-5:00
[4:20] Self-supervised learning with random-projection quantizer for speech recognition
[4:25] Learning Multiscale Transformer Models for Sequence Generation
[4:30] NP-Match: When Neural Processes meet Semi-Supervised Learning
[4:35] Proximal and Federated Random Reshuffling
[4:40] Federated Learning with Partial Model Personalization
[4:45] A Stochastic Multi-Rate Control Framework For Modeling Distributed Optimization Algorithms
[4:50] Tackling Data Heterogeneity: A New Unified Framework for Decentralized SGD with Sample-induced Topology
[4:55] Iterative Double Sketching for Faster Least-Squares Optimization
(ends 5:00 PM)
Spotlights 3:30-4:05
[3:30] Revisiting End-to-End Speech-to-Text Translation From Scratch
[3:35] Data Scaling Laws in NMT: The Effect of Noise and Architecture
[3:40] Dialog Inpainting: Turning Documents into Dialogs
[3:45] Safe Exploration for Efficient Policy Evaluation and Comparison
[3:50] Adversarial Attacks on Gaussian Process Bandits
[3:55] GALAXY: Graph-based Active Learning at the Extreme
[4:00] When Are Linear Stochastic Bandits Attackable?
Orals 4:05-4:25
[4:05] UniRank: Unimodal Bandit Algorithms for Online Ranking
Spotlights 4:25-5:00
[4:25] Correlation Clustering via Strong Triadic Closure Labeling: Fast Approximation Algorithms and Practical Lower Bounds
[4:30] Interactive Correlation Clustering with Existential Cluster Constraints
[4:35] Simultaneous Graph Signal Clustering and Graph Learning
[4:40] Bregman Power k-Means for Clustering Exponential Family Data
[4:45] SpaceMAP: Visualizing High-Dimensional Data by Space Expansion
[4:50] Unsupervised Ground Metric Learning Using Wasserstein Singular Vectors
[4:55] Understanding Doubly Stochastic Clustering
(ends 5:00 PM)
Spotlights 3:30-4:05
[3:30] Learning to Cut by Looking Ahead: Cutting Plane Selection via Imitation Learning
[3:35] A Regret Minimization Approach to Multi-Agent Control
[3:40] Multi-slots Online Matching with High Entropy
[3:45] Decision-Focused Learning: Through the Lens of Learning to Rank
[3:50] On the Hidden Biases of Policy Mirror Ascent in Continuous Action Spaces
[3:55] Asking for Knowledge (AFK): Training RL Agents to Query External Knowledge Using Language
[4:00] Addressing Optimism Bias in Sequence Modeling for Reinforcement Learning
Orals 4:05-4:25
[4:05] An Analytical Update Rule for General Policy Optimization
Spotlights 4:25-5:00
[4:25] Making Linear MDPs Practical via Contrastive Representation Learning
[4:30] Flow-based Recurrent Belief State Learning for POMDPs
[4:35] A Parametric Class of Approximate Gradient Updates for Policy Optimization
[4:40] Retrieval-Augmented Reinforcement Learning
[4:45] Robust Policy Learning over Multiple Uncertainty Sets
[4:50] Policy Diagnosis via Measuring Role Diversity in Cooperative Multi-agent RL
[4:55] Learning Dynamics and Generalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning
(ends 5:00 PM)
Orals 3:30-3:50
[3:30] From Dirichlet to Rubin: Optimistic Exploration in RL without Bonuses
Spotlights 3:50-4:15
[3:50] Why Should I Trust You, Bellman? The Bellman Error is a Poor Replacement for Value Error
[3:55] EqR: Equivariant Representations for Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning
[4:00] Imitation Learning by Estimating Expertise of Demonstrators
[4:05] Cliff Diving: Exploring Reward Surfaces in Reinforcement Learning Environments
[4:10] Off-Policy Evaluation for Large Action Spaces via Embeddings
Orals 4:15-4:35
[4:15] Online Decision Transformer
Spotlights 4:35-5:00
[4:35] Learning-based Optimisation of Particle Accelerators Under Partial Observability Without Real-World Training
[4:40] How to Leverage Unlabeled Data in Offline Reinforcement Learning
[4:45] Bisimulation Makes Analogies in Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning
[4:50] Lightweight Projective Derivative Codes for Compressed Asynchronous Gradient Descent
[4:55] Compressed-VFL: Communication-Efficient Learning with Vertically Partitioned Data
(ends 5:00 PM)
Orals 3:30-3:50
[3:30] Generalized Strategic Classification and the Case of Aligned Incentives
Spotlights 3:50-4:10
[3:50] Improving Screening Processes via Calibrated Subset Selection
[3:55] On the Convergence of the Shapley Value in Parametric Bayesian Learning Games
[4:00] Data-SUITE: Data-centric identification of in-distribution incongruous examples
[4:05] Counterfactual Prediction for Outcome-Oriented Treatments
Orals 4:10-4:30
[4:10] Optimal Algorithms for Mean Estimation under Local Differential Privacy
Spotlights 4:30-4:55
[4:30] Least Squares Estimation using Sketched Data with Heteroskedastic Errors
[4:35] Debiaser Beware: Pitfalls of Centering Regularized Transport Maps
[4:40] Bregman Proximal Langevin Monte Carlo via Bregman--Moreau Envelopes
[4:45] Active Nearest Neighbor Regression Through Delaunay Refinement
[4:50] A Convergence Theory for SVGD in the Population Limit under Talagrand's Inequality T1
(ends 5:00 PM)
Spotlights 3:30-4:00
[3:30] ProgFed: Effective, Communication, and Computation Efficient Federated Learning by Progressive Training
[3:35] Federated Learning with Label Distribution Skew via Logits Calibration
[3:40] Adaptive Random Walk Gradient Descent for Decentralized Optimization
[3:45] POET: Training Neural Networks on Tiny Devices with Integrated Rematerialization and Paging
[3:50] Secure Distributed Training at Scale
[3:55] ASAP.SGD: Instance-based Adaptiveness to Staleness in Asynchronous SGD
Orals 4:00-4:20
[4:00] Anarchic Federated Learning
Spotlights 4:20-4:55
[4:20] Virtual Homogeneity Learning: Defending against Data Heterogeneity in Federated Learning
[4:25] Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Block MDPs: A Model-free Representation Learning approach
[4:30] Sketching Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Ridge Regression
[4:35] On Improving Model-Free Algorithms for Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
[4:40] Utility Theory for Sequential Decision Making
[4:45] Online Learning with Knapsacks: the Best of Both Worlds
[4:50] Optimal Clustering with Noisy Queries via Multi-Armed Bandit
(ends 5:00 PM)
Spotlights 3:30-4:00
[3:30] Global Optimization Networks
[3:35] Generalized Federated Learning via Sharpness Aware Minimization
[3:40] Delay-Adaptive Step-sizes for Asynchronous Learning
[3:45] FedScale: Benchmarking Model and System Performance of Federated Learning at Scale
[3:50] Learning Augmented Binary Search Trees
[3:55] Communication-efficient Distributed Learning for Large Batch Optimization
Orals 4:00-4:20
[4:00] Born-Infeld (BI) for AI: Energy-Conserving Descent (ECD) for Optimization
Spotlights 4:20-4:55
[4:20] A Simple Guard for Learned Optimizers
[4:25] An Exact Symbolic Reduction of Linear Smart Predict+Optimize to Mixed Integer Linear Programming
[4:30] Multi-Level Branched Regularization for Federated Learning
[4:35] Revisiting the Effects of Stochasticity for Hamiltonian Samplers
[4:40] Scaling Structured Inference with Randomization
[4:45] Discrete Tree Flows via Tree-Structured Permutations
[4:50] Calibrated and Sharp Uncertainties in Deep Learning via Density Estimation
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5 p.m.
Reception:
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6 p.m.
Posters 6:00-8:00
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FRI 22 JUL
6:30 a.m.
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7 a.m.
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8:30 a.m.
8:55 a.m.
Workshop:
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10 a.m.
Coffee Break:
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noon
Lunch - on your own:
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3 p.m.
Coffee Break:
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7 p.m.

SAT 23 JUL
6:30 a.m.
Break:
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7 a.m.
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8:30 a.m.
Workshop:
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8:45 a.m.
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8:55 a.m.
Workshop:
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9:15 a.m.
Affinity Workshop:
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10 a.m.
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noon
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3 p.m.
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