{"id":493346,"date":"2018-07-05T06:54:32","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T13:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&#038;p=493346"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:57:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:57:02","slug":"ijcai-2018","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/ijcai-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft @ IJCAI 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p><strong>Venue: <\/strong> <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stockholmsmassan.se\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stockholmsm\u00e4ssan<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nM\u00e4ssv\u00e4gen 1 \u00c4lvsj\u00f6<br \/>\nSweden<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website: <\/strong><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ijcai-18.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IJCAI 2018<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is proud to be a Silver sponsor of the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ijcai-18.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">27<sup>th<\/sup> International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> July 13 \u2013 19 in Stockholm, Sweden. Swing by our booth to learn more about available opportunities with Microsoft.<\/p>\n<h2>Invited Talk<\/h2>\n<h4>Maximizing the Social Good: Markets without Money<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 10:25 AM\u201311:10 AM | Victoria<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nicimm\/\"><strong>Nicole Immorlica<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Demo Session<\/h2>\n<h4>Near Real-Time Detection of Poachers from Drones in AirSim<br \/>\nThursday, July 19, 2018 | Morning session<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Elizabeth Bondi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akapoor\/\"><strong>Ashish Kapoor<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dedey\/\"><strong>Debadeepta Dey<\/strong><\/a>, James Piavis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shitals\/\"><strong>Shital Shah<\/strong><\/a>, Robert Hannaford, Arvind Iyer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lujoppa\/\"><strong>Lucas Joppa<\/strong><\/a>, Milind Tambe<\/p>\n<h2>Workshops<\/h2>\n<h4>Humanizing AI<br \/>\nSunday, July 15, 2018 | 8:30 AM-5:30 PM | T3<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Organizers: <strong>Dr. Radhakrishnan Srikanth, Niranjan Nayak, Dr. Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Puneet Agrawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>FAIM\u201918 Workshop on CausalML<br \/>\nSunday, July 15, 2018 | 8:30 AM-6:00 PM | A6<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Organizer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\"><strong>Adith Swaminathan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Deep Convolutional Neural Networks with Merge-and-Run Mappings<br \/>\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 10:15 AM\u201311:15 AM | ML-NN1 \u2013 Neural Networks | C7<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Liming Zhao, <strong>Mingjie Li, Depu Meng, <\/strong>Xi Li, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Yueting Zhuang, Zhuowen Tu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingdw\/\"><strong>Jingdong Wang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Revisiting the Arcade Learning Environment: Evaluation Protocols and Open Problems for General Agents<br \/>\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 10:15 AM\u201311:15\u00a0AM | SGP-GPS \u2013 Game Playing and Search | K2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Marlos C. Machado, Marc G. Bellemare, Erik Talvitie, Joel Veness, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mahauskn\/\"><strong>Matthew Hausknecht<\/strong><\/a>, Michael Bowling<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/combinatorial-pure-exploration-continuous-separable-reward-functions-applications\/\">Combinatorial Pure Exploration with Continuous and Separable Reward Functions and Its Applications<\/a><br \/>\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 11:25 AM\u201312:50 PM | ML-ONL \u2013 Online Learning | K11<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Weiran Huang, Jungseul Ok, Liang Li, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\"><strong>Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>An Axiomatic View of the Parimutuel Consensus Mechanism<br \/>\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | HAI-HCC \u2013 Human Computation and Crowdsourcing | C2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Rupert Freeman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dpennock\/\"><strong>David M. Pennock<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Evaluating and Complementing Vision-to-Language Technology for People who are Blind with Conversational Crowdsourcing<br \/>\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | HAI-HCC \u2013 Human Computation and Crowdsourcing | C2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Elliot Salisbury, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eckamar\/\"><strong>Ece Kamar<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/merrie\/\"><strong>Meredith Ringel Morris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Differential Equations for Modeling Asynchronous Algorithms<br \/>\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | ML-LT \u2013 Learning Theory | K2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Li He, Qi Meng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\"><strong>Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a>, Zhi-Ming Ma, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\"><strong>Tie-Yan Liu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Get The Point of My Utterance! Learning Towards Effective Responses with Multi-Head Attention Mechanism<br \/>\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | NLP-DIA1 \u2013 Dialogue, Conversation Models | T2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Chongyang Tao, Shen Gao, Mingyue Shang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wuwei\/\"><strong>Wei Wu<\/strong><\/a>, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan<\/p>\n<h4>Towards Better Representation Learning for Personalized News Recommendation: a Multi-Channel Deep Fusion Approach<br \/>\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | MUL-CFR \u2013 Collaborative Filtering, Recommender Systems | C3<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Jianxun Lian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuzzhang\/\"><strong>Fuzheng Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\"><strong>Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Guangzhong Sun<\/p>\n<h4>Sequential Recommender System based on Hierarchical Attention Networks<br \/>\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | MUL-REC \u2013 Recommender Systems | C3<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Haochao Ying, Fuzhen Zhuang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuzzhang\/\"><strong>Fuzheng Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, Yanchi Liu, Guandong Xu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\"><strong>Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Hui Xiong, Jian Wu<\/p>\n<h4>Near Real-Time Detection of Poachers from Drones in AirSim<br \/>\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | Demos1 \u2013 Demos 1: Planning, Robotics, Vision | Victoria<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Elizabeth Bondi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akapoor\/\"><strong>Ashish Kapoor<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dedey\/\"><strong>Debadeepta Dey<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>James Piavis<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shitals\/\"><strong>Shital Shah<\/strong><\/a>, Robert Hannaford, Arvind Iyer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lujoppa\/\"><strong>Lucas Joppa<\/strong><\/a>, Milind Tambe<\/p>\n<h4>Galaxy Network Embedding: A Hierarchical Community Structure Preserving Approach<br \/>\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u20131:00 PM | MLA-NET \u2013 Machine Learning Applications: Networks | C3<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Lun Du, Zhicong Lu, Yun Wang, Guojie Song, Yiming Wang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\"><strong>Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Reinforced Mnemonic Reader for Machine Reading Comprehension<br \/>\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | ML-ROL \u2013 Reinforcement Learning and Online Learning | K11<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Minghao Hu, Yuxing Peng, Zhen Huang, Xipeng Qiu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\"><strong>Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\"><strong>Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Multiway Attention Networks for Modeling Sentence Pairs<br \/>\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | NLP-CLA \u2013 Sentence and Text Classification, Text Segmentation | T2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Chuanqi Tan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\"><strong>Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Wenhui Wang, Weifeng Lv, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\"><strong>Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Episodic Memory Deep Q-Networks<br \/>\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | SGP-ML \u2013 Heuristic Search and Learning | K21<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Zichuan Lin, <strong>Tianqi Zhao<\/strong>, Guangwen Yang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lintaoz\/\"><strong>Lintao Zhang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Show, Observe and Tell: Attribute-driven Attention Model for Image Captioning<br \/>\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:20 PM | NLP-CV2 \u2013 Language and Vision: Image Captioning, Visual Question Answering | T2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Hui Chen, Guiguang Ding, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zijlin\/\"><strong>Zijia Lin<\/strong><\/a>, Sicheng Zhao, Jungong Han<\/p>\n<h4>EZLearn: Exploiting Organic Supervision in Automated Data Annotation<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | NLP-SEC \u2013 Sentence Embedding, Text Classification | T2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Maxim Grechkin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hoifung\/\"><strong>Hoifung Poon<\/strong><\/a>, Bill Howe<\/p>\n<h4>Predicting Activity and Location with Multi-task Context Aware Recurrent Neural Network<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | ML-TAM2 \u2013 Transfer, Adaptation, Multi-Task Learning 2 | K2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Dongliang Liao, <strong>Weiqing Liu<\/strong>, Yuan Zhong, Jing Li, Guowei Wang<\/p>\n<h4>Unbiased Learning-to-Rank with Biased Feedback<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | SIS-WEB \u2013 Sister Conferences: Web, Recommendation, Retrieval | C2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Thorsten Joachims, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\"><strong>Adith Swaminathan<\/strong><\/a>, Tobias Schnabel<\/p>\n<h4>Advancements in Dueling Bandits<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | SUR-ML \u2013 Survey, Track: Machine Learning | Victoria<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Yanan Sui, Masrour Zoghi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kahofman\/\"><strong>Katja Hofmann<\/strong><\/a>, Yisong Yue<\/p>\n<h4>Core-Guided Minimal Correction Set and Core Enumeration<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | CSAT-CSAT \u2013 Constraints and Satisfiability | K2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Nina Narodytska, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nbjorner\/\"><strong>Nikolaj Bj\u00f8rner<\/strong><\/a>, Maria-Cristina Marinescu, Mooly Sagiv<\/p>\n<h4>Unsupervised Deep Hashing via Binary Latent Factor Models for Large-scale Cross-modal Retrieval<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | ML-FLS  Feature Selection, Learning Sparse Models | K11<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Gengshen Wu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zijlin\/\"><strong>Zijia Lin<\/strong><\/a>, Jungong Han, Li Liu, Guiguang Ding, Baochang Zhang, Jialie Shen<\/p>\n<h4>Predicting the Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Chronic Diseases in Population with Human Mobility Data<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | MLA-BM \u2013 Biomedical Applications | C3<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Yingzi Wang, Xiao Zhou, Anastasios Noulas, Cecilia Mascolo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\"><strong>Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Enhong Chen<\/p>\n<h4>View-Volume Network for Semantic Scene Completion from a Single Depth Image<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:20 PM | CV-3D \u2013 2d and 3d Computer Vision | T5<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Yuxiao Guo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xtong\/\"><strong>Xin Tong<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Differentiable Submodular Maximization<br \/>\nThursday, July 18, 2018 | 10:25 AM\u201311:40 AM | ML-PRO \u2013 Probabilistic Machine Learning | K11<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/setschia\/\"><strong>Sebastian Tschiatsche<\/strong>k<\/a>, Aytunc Sahin, Andreas Krause<\/p>\n<h4>Attention-Fused Deep Matching Network for Natural Language Inference<br \/>\nThursday, July 18, 2018 | 11:40 AM\u201312:45 PM | NLP-PTS \u2013 Natural Language Processing: Parsing, Tagging, Word Segmentation, Speech | T2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Chaoqun Duan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lecu\/\"><strong>Lei Cui<\/strong><\/a>, Xinchi Chen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\"><strong>Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Conghui Zhu, Tiejun Zhao<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is proud to be a Silver sponsor of the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence July 13 \u2013 19 in Stockholm, Sweden. Swing by our booth to learn more about available opportunities with Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":493835,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_startdate":"2018-07-13","msr_enddate":"2018-07-19","msr_location":"Stockholm, Sweden","msr_expirationdate":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"http:\/\/www.ijcai-18.org\/register\/","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"","msr_hide_region":false,"msr_private_event":false,"msr_hide_image_in_river":0,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13556],"msr-region":[239178],"msr-event-type":[197941],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-493346","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-artificial-intelligence","msr-region-europe","msr-event-type-conferences","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"<!-- wp:msr\/event-details {\"title\":\"Microsoft @ IJCAI 2018\",\"backgroundColor\":\"grey\",\"image\":{\"id\":493835,\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IJCAI2018Header.jpg\",\"alt\":\"\"}} \/-->\n\n<!-- wp:msr\/content-tabs --><!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"About\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><p><strong>Venue: <\/strong> <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stockholmsmassan.se\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stockholmsm\u00e4ssan<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nM\u00e4ssv\u00e4gen 1 \u00c4lvsj\u00f6<br \/>\nSweden<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website: <\/strong><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ijcai-18.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IJCAI 2018<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is proud to be a Silver sponsor of the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ijcai-18.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">27<sup>th<\/sup> International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence<\/a> July 13 \u2013 19 in Stockholm, Sweden. Swing by our booth to learn more about available opportunities with Microsoft.<\/p>\n<h2>Invited Talk<\/h2>\n<h4>Maximizing the Social Good: Markets without Money<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 10:25 AM\u201311:10 AM | Victoria<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nicimm\/\"><strong>Nicole Immorlica<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Demo Session<\/h2>\n<h4>Near Real-Time Detection of Poachers from Drones in AirSim<br \/>\nThursday, July 19, 2018 | Morning session<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Elizabeth Bondi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akapoor\/\"><strong>Ashish Kapoor<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dedey\/\"><strong>Debadeepta Dey<\/strong><\/a>, James Piavis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shitals\/\"><strong>Shital Shah<\/strong><\/a>, Robert Hannaford, Arvind Iyer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lujoppa\/\"><strong>Lucas Joppa<\/strong><\/a>, Milind Tambe<\/p>\n<h2>Workshops<\/h2>\n<h4>Humanizing AI<br \/>\nSunday, July 15, 2018 | 8:30 AM-5:30 PM | T3<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Organizers: <strong>Dr. Radhakrishnan Srikanth, Niranjan Nayak, Dr. Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Puneet Agrawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>FAIM\u201918 Workshop on CausalML<br \/>\nSunday, July 15, 2018 | 8:30 AM-6:00 PM | A6<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Organizer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\"><strong>Adith Swaminathan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:freeform --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tab --><!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"Accepted Papers\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><h4>Deep Convolutional Neural Networks with Merge-and-Run Mappings<br \/>\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 10:15 AM\u201311:15 AM | ML-NN1 \u2013 Neural Networks | C7<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Liming Zhao, <strong>Mingjie Li, Depu Meng, <\/strong>Xi Li, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Yueting Zhuang, Zhuowen Tu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingdw\/\"><strong>Jingdong Wang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Revisiting the Arcade Learning Environment: Evaluation Protocols and Open Problems for General Agents<br \/>\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 10:15 AM\u201311:15\u00a0AM | SGP-GPS \u2013 Game Playing and Search | K2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Marlos C. Machado, Marc G. Bellemare, Erik Talvitie, Joel Veness, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mahauskn\/\"><strong>Matthew Hausknecht<\/strong><\/a>, Michael Bowling<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/combinatorial-pure-exploration-continuous-separable-reward-functions-applications\/\">Combinatorial Pure Exploration with Continuous and Separable Reward Functions and Its Applications<\/a><br \/>\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 11:25 AM\u201312:50 PM | ML-ONL \u2013 Online Learning | K11<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Weiran Huang, Jungseul Ok, Liang Li, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\"><strong>Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>An Axiomatic View of the Parimutuel Consensus Mechanism<br \/>\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | HAI-HCC \u2013 Human Computation and Crowdsourcing | C2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Rupert Freeman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dpennock\/\"><strong>David M. Pennock<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Evaluating and Complementing Vision-to-Language Technology for People who are Blind with Conversational Crowdsourcing<br \/>\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | HAI-HCC \u2013 Human Computation and Crowdsourcing | C2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Elliot Salisbury, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eckamar\/\"><strong>Ece Kamar<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/merrie\/\"><strong>Meredith Ringel Morris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Differential Equations for Modeling Asynchronous Algorithms<br \/>\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | ML-LT \u2013 Learning Theory | K2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Li He, Qi Meng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\"><strong>Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a>, Zhi-Ming Ma, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\"><strong>Tie-Yan Liu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Get The Point of My Utterance! Learning Towards Effective Responses with Multi-Head Attention Mechanism<br \/>\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | NLP-DIA1 \u2013 Dialogue, Conversation Models | T2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Chongyang Tao, Shen Gao, Mingyue Shang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wuwei\/\"><strong>Wei Wu<\/strong><\/a>, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan<\/p>\n<h4>Towards Better Representation Learning for Personalized News Recommendation: a Multi-Channel Deep Fusion Approach<br \/>\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | MUL-CFR \u2013 Collaborative Filtering, Recommender Systems | C3<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Jianxun Lian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuzzhang\/\"><strong>Fuzheng Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\"><strong>Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Guangzhong Sun<\/p>\n<h4>Sequential Recommender System based on Hierarchical Attention Networks<br \/>\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | MUL-REC \u2013 Recommender Systems | C3<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Haochao Ying, Fuzhen Zhuang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuzzhang\/\"><strong>Fuzheng Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, Yanchi Liu, Guandong Xu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\"><strong>Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Hui Xiong, Jian Wu<\/p>\n<h4>Near Real-Time Detection of Poachers from Drones in AirSim<br \/>\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | Demos1 \u2013 Demos 1: Planning, Robotics, Vision | Victoria<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Elizabeth Bondi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akapoor\/\"><strong>Ashish Kapoor<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dedey\/\"><strong>Debadeepta Dey<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>James Piavis<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shitals\/\"><strong>Shital Shah<\/strong><\/a>, Robert Hannaford, Arvind Iyer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lujoppa\/\"><strong>Lucas Joppa<\/strong><\/a>, Milind Tambe<\/p>\n<h4>Galaxy Network Embedding: A Hierarchical Community Structure Preserving Approach<br \/>\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u20131:00 PM | MLA-NET \u2013 Machine Learning Applications: Networks | C3<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Lun Du, Zhicong Lu, Yun Wang, Guojie Song, Yiming Wang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\"><strong>Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Reinforced Mnemonic Reader for Machine Reading Comprehension<br \/>\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | ML-ROL \u2013 Reinforcement Learning and Online Learning | K11<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Minghao Hu, Yuxing Peng, Zhen Huang, Xipeng Qiu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\"><strong>Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\"><strong>Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Multiway Attention Networks for Modeling Sentence Pairs<br \/>\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | NLP-CLA \u2013 Sentence and Text Classification, Text Segmentation | T2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Chuanqi Tan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\"><strong>Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Wenhui Wang, Weifeng Lv, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\"><strong>Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Episodic Memory Deep Q-Networks<br \/>\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | SGP-ML \u2013 Heuristic Search and Learning | K21<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Zichuan Lin, <strong>Tianqi Zhao<\/strong>, Guangwen Yang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lintaoz\/\"><strong>Lintao Zhang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Show, Observe and Tell: Attribute-driven Attention Model for Image Captioning<br \/>\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:20 PM | NLP-CV2 \u2013 Language and Vision: Image Captioning, Visual Question Answering | T2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Hui Chen, Guiguang Ding, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zijlin\/\"><strong>Zijia Lin<\/strong><\/a>, Sicheng Zhao, Jungong Han<\/p>\n<h4>EZLearn: Exploiting Organic Supervision in Automated Data Annotation<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | NLP-SEC \u2013 Sentence Embedding, Text Classification | T2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Maxim Grechkin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hoifung\/\"><strong>Hoifung Poon<\/strong><\/a>, Bill Howe<\/p>\n<h4>Predicting Activity and Location with Multi-task Context Aware Recurrent Neural Network<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | ML-TAM2 \u2013 Transfer, Adaptation, Multi-Task Learning 2 | K2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Dongliang Liao, <strong>Weiqing Liu<\/strong>, Yuan Zhong, Jing Li, Guowei Wang<\/p>\n<h4>Unbiased Learning-to-Rank with Biased Feedback<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | SIS-WEB \u2013 Sister Conferences: Web, Recommendation, Retrieval | C2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Thorsten Joachims, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\"><strong>Adith Swaminathan<\/strong><\/a>, Tobias Schnabel<\/p>\n<h4>Advancements in Dueling Bandits<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | SUR-ML \u2013 Survey, Track: Machine Learning | Victoria<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Yanan Sui, Masrour Zoghi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kahofman\/\"><strong>Katja Hofmann<\/strong><\/a>, Yisong Yue<\/p>\n<h4>Core-Guided Minimal Correction Set and Core Enumeration<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | CSAT-CSAT \u2013 Constraints and Satisfiability | K2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Nina Narodytska, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nbjorner\/\"><strong>Nikolaj Bj\u00f8rner<\/strong><\/a>, Maria-Cristina Marinescu, Mooly Sagiv<\/p>\n<h4>Unsupervised Deep Hashing via Binary Latent Factor Models for Large-scale Cross-modal Retrieval<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | ML-FLS  Feature Selection, Learning Sparse Models | K11<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Gengshen Wu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zijlin\/\"><strong>Zijia Lin<\/strong><\/a>, Jungong Han, Li Liu, Guiguang Ding, Baochang Zhang, Jialie Shen<\/p>\n<h4>Predicting the Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Chronic Diseases in Population with Human Mobility Data<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | MLA-BM \u2013 Biomedical Applications | C3<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Yingzi Wang, Xiao Zhou, Anastasios Noulas, Cecilia Mascolo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\"><strong>Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Enhong Chen<\/p>\n<h4>View-Volume Network for Semantic Scene Completion from a Single Depth Image<br \/>\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:20 PM | CV-3D \u2013 2d and 3d Computer Vision | T5<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Yuxiao Guo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xtong\/\"><strong>Xin Tong<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Differentiable Submodular Maximization<br \/>\nThursday, July 18, 2018 | 10:25 AM\u201311:40 AM | ML-PRO \u2013 Probabilistic Machine Learning | K11<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/setschia\/\"><strong>Sebastian Tschiatsche<\/strong>k<\/a>, Aytunc Sahin, Andreas Krause<\/p>\n<h4>Attention-Fused Deep Matching Network for Natural Language Inference<br \/>\nThursday, July 18, 2018 | 11:40 AM\u201312:45 PM | NLP-PTS \u2013 Natural Language Processing: Parsing, Tagging, Word Segmentation, Speech | T2<\/h4>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Chaoqun Duan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lecu\/\"><strong>Lei Cui<\/strong><\/a>, Xinchi Chen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\"><strong>Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Conghui Zhu, Tiejun Zhao<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:freeform --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tab --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tabs -->","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"About","content":"Microsoft is proud to be a Silver sponsor of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ijcai-18.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">27<sup>th<\/sup> International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence<\/a> July 13 \u2013 19 in Stockholm, Sweden. Swing by our booth to learn more about available opportunities with Microsoft.\r\n<h2>Invited Talk<\/h2>\r\n<h4>Maximizing the Social Good: Markets without Money\r\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 10:25 AM\u201311:10 AM | Victoria<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nicimm\/\"><strong>Nicole Immorlica<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Demo Session<\/h2>\r\n<h4>Near Real-Time Detection of Poachers from Drones in AirSim\r\nThursday, July 19, 2018 | Morning session<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Elizabeth Bondi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akapoor\/\"><strong>Ashish Kapoor<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dedey\/\"><strong>Debadeepta Dey<\/strong><\/a>, James Piavis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shitals\/\"><strong>Shital Shah<\/strong><\/a>, Robert Hannaford, Arvind Iyer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lujoppa\/\"><strong>Lucas Joppa<\/strong><\/a>, Milind Tambe<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Workshops<\/h2>\r\n<h4>Humanizing AI\r\nSunday, July 15, 2018 | 8:30 AM-5:30 PM | T3<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Organizers: <strong>Dr. Radhakrishnan Srikanth, Niranjan Nayak, Dr. Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Puneet Agrawal<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4>FAIM\u201918 Workshop on CausalML\r\nSunday, July 15, 2018 | 8:30 AM-6:00 PM | A6<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Organizer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\"><strong>Adith Swaminathan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>"},{"id":1,"name":"Accepted Papers","content":"<h4>Deep Convolutional Neural Networks with Merge-and-Run Mappings\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 10:15 AM\u201311:15 AM | ML-NN1 \u2013 Neural Networks | C7<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Liming Zhao, <strong>Mingjie Li, Depu Meng, <\/strong>Xi Li, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Yueting Zhuang, Zhuowen Tu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingdw\/\"><strong>Jingdong Wang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Revisiting the Arcade Learning Environment: Evaluation Protocols and Open Problems for General Agents\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 10:15 AM\u201311:15\u00a0AM | SGP-GPS \u2013 Game Playing and Search | K2<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Marlos C. Machado, Marc G. Bellemare, Erik Talvitie, Joel Veness, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mahauskn\/\"><strong>Matthew Hausknecht<\/strong><\/a>, Michael Bowling<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/combinatorial-pure-exploration-continuous-separable-reward-functions-applications\/\">Combinatorial Pure Exploration with Continuous and Separable Reward Functions and Its Applications<\/a>\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 11:25 AM\u201312:50 PM | ML-ONL \u2013 Online Learning | K11<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Weiran Huang, Jungseul Ok, Liang Li, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\"><strong>Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4>An Axiomatic View of the Parimutuel Consensus Mechanism\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | HAI-HCC \u2013 Human Computation and Crowdsourcing | C2<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Rupert Freeman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dpennock\/\"><strong>David M. Pennock<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Evaluating and Complementing Vision-to-Language Technology for People who are Blind with Conversational Crowdsourcing\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | HAI-HCC \u2013 Human Computation and Crowdsourcing | C2<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Elliot Salisbury, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eckamar\/\"><strong>Ece Kamar<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/merrie\/\"><strong>Meredith Ringel Morris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Differential Equations for Modeling Asynchronous Algorithms\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | ML-LT \u2013 Learning Theory | K2<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Li He, Qi Meng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\"><strong>Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a>, Zhi-Ming Ma, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\"><strong>Tie-Yan Liu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Get The Point of My Utterance! Learning Towards Effective Responses with Multi-Head Attention Mechanism\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | NLP-DIA1 \u2013 Dialogue, Conversation Models | T2<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Chongyang Tao, Shen Gao, Mingyue Shang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wuwei\/\"><strong>Wei Wu<\/strong><\/a>, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Towards Better Representation Learning for Personalized News Recommendation: a Multi-Channel Deep Fusion Approach\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | MUL-CFR \u2013 Collaborative Filtering, Recommender Systems | C3<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Jianxun Lian, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuzzhang\/\"><strong>Fuzheng Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\"><strong>Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Guangzhong Sun<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Sequential Recommender System based on Hierarchical Attention Networks\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | MUL-REC \u2013 Recommender Systems | C3<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Haochao Ying, Fuzhen Zhuang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuzzhang\/\"><strong>Fuzheng Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, Yanchi Liu, Guandong Xu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\"><strong>Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Hui Xiong, Jian Wu<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Near Real-Time Detection of Poachers from Drones in AirSim\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | Demos1 \u2013 Demos 1: Planning, Robotics, Vision | Victoria<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Elizabeth Bondi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akapoor\/\"><strong>Ashish Kapoor<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dedey\/\"><strong>Debadeepta Dey<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>James Piavis<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shitals\/\"><strong>Shital Shah<\/strong><\/a>, Robert Hannaford, Arvind Iyer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lujoppa\/\"><strong>Lucas Joppa<\/strong><\/a>, Milind Tambe<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Galaxy Network Embedding: A Hierarchical Community Structure Preserving Approach\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u20131:00 PM | MLA-NET \u2013 Machine Learning Applications: Networks | C3<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Lun Du, Zhicong Lu, Yun Wang, Guojie Song, Yiming Wang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\"><strong>Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Reinforced Mnemonic Reader for Machine Reading Comprehension\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | ML-ROL \u2013 Reinforcement Learning and Online Learning | K11<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Minghao Hu, Yuxing Peng, Zhen Huang, Xipeng Qiu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\"><strong>Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\"><strong>Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Multiway Attention Networks for Modeling Sentence Pairs\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | NLP-CLA \u2013 Sentence and Text Classification, Text Segmentation | T2<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Chuanqi Tan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\"><strong>Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Wenhui Wang, Weifeng Lv, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\"><strong>Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Episodic Memory Deep Q-Networks\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | SGP-ML \u2013 Heuristic Search and Learning | K21<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Zichuan Lin, <strong>Tianqi Zhao<\/strong>, Guangwen Yang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lintaoz\/\"><strong>Lintao Zhang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Show, Observe and Tell: Attribute-driven Attention Model for Image Captioning\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:20 PM | NLP-CV2 \u2013 Language and Vision: Image Captioning, Visual Question Answering | T2<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Hui Chen, Guiguang Ding, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zijlin\/\"><strong>Zijia Lin<\/strong><\/a>, Sicheng Zhao, Jungong Han<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4>EZLearn: Exploiting Organic Supervision in Automated Data Annotation\r\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | NLP-SEC \u2013 Sentence Embedding, Text Classification | T2<\/h4>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Maxim Grechkin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hoifung\/\"><strong>Hoifung Poon<\/strong><\/a>, Bill Howe<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h4>Predicting Activity and Location with Multi-task Context Aware 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