{"id":670011,"date":"2020-06-26T14:10:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T21:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&#038;p=670011"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:52:43","slug":"icml-2020","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/icml-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft at ICML 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/icml.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICML 2020<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 Gold sponsor of the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/icml.cc\/Conferences\/2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">37th International Conference on Machine Learning<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (ICML), as well as Diamond sponsors at the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/wimlworkshop.org\/icml2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1st Women in Machine Learning Un-Workshop<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> and Platinum sponsors of the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/queer-in-ai\/icml-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4th Queer in AI Workshop<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. We have over 50 papers accepted to the conference, and you can find details of our publications on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/icml-2020\/#!accepted-papers\">Accepted papers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/icml-2020\/#!workshops\">Workshops<\/a> tabs.<\/p>\n<h2>Committee chairs<\/h2>\n<p>ICML President: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jcl\/\">John Langford<\/a><br \/>\nICML Board Members: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hal3\/\">Hal Daum\u00e9 III<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a><br \/>\nProgram Co-chair: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hal3\/\">Hal Daum\u00e9 III<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Invited speaker<\/h2>\n<h3>Tuesday, July 14<\/h3>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT & 16:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Doing Some Good with Machine Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\">Lester Mackey<\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Tuesday, July 14<\/h2>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/ngboost-natural-gradient-boosting-for-probabilistic-prediction\/\"><strong>NGBoost: Natural Gradient Boosting for Probabilistic Prediction<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Tony Duan<\/strong>, Anand Avati, Daisy Ding, Khanh K. Thai, Sanjay Basu, Andrew Ng, Alejandro Schuler<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/online-learning-for-active-cache-synchronization\/\"><strong>Online Learning for Active Cache Synchronization<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akolobov\/\">Andrey Kolobov<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sebubeck\/\">Sebastien Bubeck<\/a>, Julian Zimmert<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/randomized-smoothing-of-all-shapes-and-sizes\/\"><strong>Randomized Smoothing of All Shapes and Sizes<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/gregyang\/\">Greg Yang<\/a>, <strong>Tony Duan<\/strong>, <strong>J. Edward Hu<\/strong>, <strong>Hadi Salman<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ilyaraz\/\">Ilya Razenshteyn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jerrl\/\">Jerry Li<\/a><\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/private-reinforcement-learning-with-pac-and-regret-guarantees\/\"><strong>Private Reinforcement Learning with PAC and Regret Guarantees<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGiuseppe Vietri, Borja de Balle Pigem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, Steven Wu<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/scalable-nearest-neighbor-search-for-optimal-transport\/\"><strong>Scalable Nearest Neighbor Search for Optimal Transport<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nArturs Backurs, <strong>Yihe Dong<\/strong>, Piotr Indyk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ilyaraz\/\">Ilya Razenshteyn<\/a>, Tal Wagner<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/combinatorial-pure-exploration-for-dueling-bandits\/\"><strong>Combinatorial Pure Exploration for Dueling Bandit<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Yihan Du, Longbo Huang, Haoyu Zhao<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/distance-metric-learning-with-joint-representation-diversification\/\"><strong>Distance Metric Learning with Joint Representation Diversification<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nXu Chu, Yang Lin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xitwan\/\">Xiting Wang<\/a>, Xin Gao, Qi Tong, Hailong Yu, Yasha Wang<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/efficient-domain-generalization-via-common-specific-low-rank-decomposition\/\"><strong>Efficient Domain Generalization via Common-Specific Low-Rank Decomposition<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Vihari Piratla<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/praneeth\/\">Praneeth Netrapalli<\/a>, Sunita Sarawagi<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/faster-graph-embeddings-via-coarsening\/\"><strong>Faster Graph Embeddings via Coarsening<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nMatthew Fahrbach, Gramoz Goranci, Sushant Sachdeva, Richard Peng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chiw\/\">Chi Wang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/what-is-local-optimality-in-nonconvex-nonconcave-minimax-optimization\/\"><strong>What is Local Optimality in Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Optimization?<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChi Jin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/praneeth\/\">Praneeth Netrapalli<\/a>, Michael Jordan<\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/an-end-to-end-approach-for-the-verification-problem-learning-the-right-distance\/\"><strong>An end-to-end approach for the verification problem: learning the right distance<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJoao Monteiro, Isabela Albuquerque, Jahangir Alam, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/devonh\/\">R Devon Hjelm<\/a>, Tiago Falk<\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/working-memory-graphs\/\"><strong>Working Memory Graphs<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/riloynd\/\">Ricky Loynd<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rfernand\/\">Roland Fernandez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\">Adith Swaminathan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mahauskn\/\">Matthew Hausknecht<\/a><\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/informative-dropout-for-robust-representation-learning-a-shape-bias-perspective\/\"><strong>Informative Dropout for Robust Representation Learning: A Shape-bias Perspective<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBaifeng Shi, Dinghuai Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qid\/\">Qi Dai<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingdw\/\">Jingdong Wang<\/a>, Zhanxing Zhu, Yadong Mu<\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/near-optimal-sample-complexity-bounds-for-learning-latent-k%e2%88%92polytopes-and-applications-to-ad-mixtures\/\"><strong>Near-optimal Sample Complexity Bounds for Learning Latent\u00a0k\u2212polytopes and applications to Ad-Mixtures<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChiranjib Bhattacharyya, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kannan\/\">Ravindran Kannan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/differentially-private-set-union\/\"><strong>Differentially Private Set Union<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Pankaj Gulhane<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sigopi\/\">Sivakanth Gopi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jakul\/\">Janardhan Kulkarni<\/a>, <strong>Judy Hanwen Shen<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/milads\/\">Milad Shokouhi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yekhanin\/\">Sergey Yekhanin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/discount-factor-as-a-regularizer-in-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Discount Factor as a Regularizer in Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nRon Amit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kaciosek\/\">Kamil Ciosek<\/a>, Ron Meir<\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/drocc-deep-robust-one-class-classification\/\"><strong>DROCC: Deep Robust One-Class Classification<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Sachin Goyal<\/strong>, Aditi Raghunathan, Moksh Jain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/harshasi\/\">Harsha Vardhan Simhadri<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>09:00 \u2013 09:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/feature-quantization-improves-gan-training\/\"><strong>Feature Quantization Improves GAN Training<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYang Zhao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chunyl\/\">Chunyuan Li<\/a>, Ping Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Changyou Chen<\/p>\n<p>09:00 \u2013 09:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/how-good-is-the-bayes-posterior-in-deep-neural-networks-really\/\"><strong>How Good is the Bayes Posterior in Deep Neural Networks Really<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nFlorian Wenzel, Kevin Roth, Bastiaan S. Veeling, Jakub Swiatkowski, Linh Tran, Stephan Mandt, Jasper Snoek, Tim Salimans, Rodolphe Jenatton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 11:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/optimization-and-analysis-of-the-papk-metric-for-recommender-systems\/\"><strong>Optimization and Analysis of the pAp@k Metric for Recommender Systems<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGaurush Hiranandani, Warut Vijitbenjaronk, Sanmi Koyejo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 11:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bandits-with-adversarial-scaling\/\"><strong>Bandits with Adversarial Scaling<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/thlykour\/\">Thodoris Lykouris<\/a>, Vahab Mirrokni, Renato Leme<\/p>\n<p>12:00 \u2013 12:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: July 15 | 01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/tasknorm-rethinking-batch-normalization-for-meta-learning\/\"><strong>TaskNorm: Rethinking Batch Normalization for Meta-Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJohn Bronskill, Jonathan Gordon, James Requeima, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a>, Richard E. Turner<\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 13:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: July 15 | 01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gnn-film-graph-neural-networks-with-feature-wise-linear-modulation\/\"><strong>GNN-FiLM: Graph Neural Networks with Feature-wise Linear Modulation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mabrocks\/\">Marc Brockschmidt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/online-learning-for-active-cache-synchronization\/\"><strong>Online Learning for Active Cache Synchronization<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akolobov\/\">Andrey Kolobov<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sebubeck\/\">Sebastien Bubeck<\/a>, Julian Zimmert<\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/scalable-nearest-neighbor-search-for-optimal-transport\/\"><strong>Scalable Nearest Neighbor Search for Optimal Transport<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nArturs Backurs, <strong>Yihe Dong<\/strong>, Piotr Indyk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ilyaraz\/\">Ilya Razenshteyn<\/a>, Tal Wagner<\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/faster-graph-embeddings-via-coarsening\/\"><strong>Faster Graph Embeddings via Coarsening<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nMatthew Fahrbach, Gramoz Goranci, Sushant Sachdeva, Richard Peng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chiw\/\">Chi Wang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/what-is-local-optimality-in-nonconvex-nonconcave-minimax-optimization\/\"><strong>What is Local Optimality in Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Optimization?<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChi Jin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/praneeth\/\">Praneeth Netrapalli<\/a>, Michael Jordan<\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/randomized-smoothing-of-all-shapes-and-sizes\/\"><strong>Randomized Smoothing of All Shapes and Sizes<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/gregyang\/\">Greg Yang<\/a>, <strong>Tony Duan<\/strong>, <strong>J. Edward Hu<\/strong>, <strong>Hadi Salman<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ilyaraz\/\">Ilya Razenshteyn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jerrl\/\">Jerry Li<\/a><\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/an-end-to-end-approach-for-the-verification-problem-learning-the-right-distance\/\"><strong>An end-to-end approach for the verification problem: learning the right distance<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJoao Monteiro, Isabela Albuquerque, Jahangir Alam, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/devonh\/\">R Devon Hjelm<\/a>, Tiago Falk<\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/combinatorial-pure-exploration-for-dueling-bandits\/\"><strong>Combinatorial Pure Exploration for Dueling Bandit<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Yihan Du, Longbo Huang, Haoyu Zhao<\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/distance-metric-learning-with-joint-representation-diversification\/\"><strong>Distance Metric Learning with Joint Representation Diversification<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nXu Chu, Yang Lin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xitwan\/\">Xiting Wang<\/a>, Xin Gao, Qi Tong, Hailong Yu, Yasha Wang<\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/efficient-domain-generalization-via-common-specific-low-rank-decomposition\/\"><strong>Efficient Domain Generalization via Common-Specific Low-Rank Decomposition<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Vihari Piratla<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/praneeth\/\">Praneeth Netrapalli<\/a>, Sunita Sarawagi<\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/informative-dropout-for-robust-representation-learning-a-shape-bias-perspective\/\"><strong>Informative Dropout for Robust Representation Learning: A Shape-bias Perspective<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBaifeng Shi, Dinghuai Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qid\/\">Qi Dai<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingdw\/\">Jingdong Wang<\/a>, Zhanxing Zhu, Yadong Mu<\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/differentially-private-set-union\/\"><strong>Differentially Private Set Union<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Pankaj Gulhane<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sigopi\/\">Sivakanth Gopi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jakul\/\">Janardhan Kulkarni<\/a>, <strong>Judy Hanwen Shen<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/milads\/\">Milad Shokouhi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yekhanin\/\">Sergey Yekhanin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/ngboost-natural-gradient-boosting-for-probabilistic-prediction\/\"><strong>NGBoost: Natural Gradient Boosting for Probabilistic Prediction<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Tony Duan<\/strong>, Anand Avati, Daisy Ding, Khanh K. Thai, Sanjay Basu, Andrew Ng, Alejandro Schuler<\/p>\n<p>20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/private-reinforcement-learning-with-pac-and-regret-guarantees\/\"><strong>Private Reinforcement Learning with PAC and Regret Guarantees<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGiuseppe Vietri, Borja de Balle Pigem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, Steven Wu<\/p>\n<p>20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/feature-quantization-improves-gan-training\/\"><strong>Feature Quantization Improves GAN Training<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYang Zhao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chunyl\/\">Chunyuan Li<\/a>, Ping Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Changyou Chen<\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/working-memory-graphs\/\"><strong>Working Memory Graphs<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/riloynd\/\">Ricky Loynd<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rfernand\/\">Roland Fernandez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\">Adith Swaminathan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mahauskn\/\">Matthew Hausknecht<\/a><\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/near-optimal-sample-complexity-bounds-for-learning-latent-k%e2%88%92polytopes-and-applications-to-ad-mixtures\/\"><strong>Near-optimal Sample Complexity Bounds for Learning Latent\u00a0k\u2212polytopes and applications to Ad-Mixtures<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChiranjib Bhattacharyya, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kannan\/\">Ravindran Kannan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/discount-factor-as-a-regularizer-in-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Discount Factor as a Regularizer in Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nRon Amit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kaciosek\/\">Kamil Ciosek<\/a>, Ron Meir<\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/drocc-deep-robust-one-class-classification\/\"><strong>DROCC: Deep Robust One-Class Classification<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Sachin Goyal<\/strong>, Aditi Raghunathan, Moksh Jain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/harshasi\/\">Harsha Vardhan Simhadri<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/optimization-and-analysis-of-the-papk-metric-for-recommender-systems\/\"><strong>Optimization and Analysis of the pAp@k Metric for Recommender Systems<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGaurush Hiranandani, Warut Vijitbenjaronk, Sanmi Koyejo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bandits-with-adversarial-scaling\/\"><strong>Bandits with Adversarial Scaling<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/thlykour\/\">Thodoris Lykouris<\/a>, Vahab Mirrokni, Renato Leme<\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/how-good-is-the-bayes-posterior-in-deep-neural-networks-really\/\"><strong>How Good is the Bayes Posterior in Deep Neural Networks Really<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nFlorian Wenzel, Kevin Roth, Bastiaan S. Veeling, Jakub Swiatkowski, Linh Tran, Stephan Mandt, Jasper Snoek, Tim Salimans, Rodolphe Jenatton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Wednesday, July 15<\/h2>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gnn-film-graph-neural-networks-with-feature-wise-linear-modulation\/\"><strong>GNN-FiLM: Graph Neural Networks with Feature-wise Linear Modulation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mabrocks\/\">Marc Brockschmidt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/tasknorm-rethinking-batch-normalization-for-meta-learning\/\"><strong>TaskNorm: Rethinking Batch Normalization for Meta-Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJohn Bronskill, Jonathan Gordon, James Requeima, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a>, Richard E. Turner<\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 05:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 16:00 \u2013 16:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/adaptive-estimator-selection-for-off-policy-evaluation\/\"><strong>Adaptive Estimator Selection for Off-Policy Evaluation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYi Su, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/pasrinat\/\">Pavithra Srinath<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 05:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 16:00 \u2013 16:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/privately-learning-markov-random-fields\/\"><strong>Privately Learning Markov Random Fields<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGautam Kamath, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jakul\/\">Janardhan Kulkarni<\/a>, Steven Wu, Huanyu Zhang<\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-non-iid-data-quagmire-of-decentralized-machine-learning\/\"><strong>The Non-IID Data Quagmire of Decentralized Machine Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Kevin Hsieh<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amar\/\">Amar Phanishayee<\/a>, Onur Mutlu, Phillip Gibbons<\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/alleviating-privacy-attacks-via-causal-learning\/\"><strong>Alleviating Privacy Attacks via Causal Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shtople\/\">Shruti Tople<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adityan\/\">Aditya Nori<\/a><\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/locally-differentially-private-combinatorial-semi-bandits\/\"><strong>(Locally) Differentially Private Combinatorial Semi-Bandits<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nXiaoyu Chen, Kai Zheng, Zixin Zhou, Yunchang Yang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Liwei Wang<\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-usual-suspects-reassessing-blame-for-vae-posterior-collapse\/\"><strong>The Usual Suspects? Reassessing Blame for VAE Posterior Collapse<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBin Dai, Ziyu Wang, <strong>David Wipf<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 10:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/single-point-transductive-prediction\/\"><strong>Single Point Transductive Prediction<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nNilesh Tripuraneni, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\">Lester Mackey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 10:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/learning-calibratable-policies-using-programmatic-style-consistency\/\"><strong>Learning Calibratable Policies using Programmatic Style-Consistency<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nEric Zhan, Albert Tseng, Yisong Yue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\">Adith Swaminathan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mahauskn\/\">Matthew Hausknecht<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 11:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/statistically-preconditioned-accelerated-gradient-method-for-distributed-optimization\/\"><strong>Statistically Preconditioned Accelerated Gradient Method for Distributed Optimization<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHadrien Hendrikx, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lixiao\/\">Lin Xiao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sebubeck\/\">Sebastien Bubeck<\/a>, Francis Bach, <strong>Laurent Massouli\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12:00 \u2013 12:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: July 16 | 01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/neuro-symbolic-visual-reasoning-disentangling-visual-from-reasoning\/\"><strong>Neuro-Symbolic Visual Reasoning: Disentangling &#8220;Visual&#8221; from &#8220;Reasoning&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Saeed Amizadeh<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hpalangi\/\">Hamid Palangi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr Polozov<\/a>, <strong>Yichen Huang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kazukoi\/\">Kazuhito Koishida<\/a><\/p>\n<p>16:00 \u2013 16:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: July 16 | 03:00 \u2013 03:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/optimization-from-structured-samples-for-coverage-functions\/\"><strong>Optimization from Structured Samples for Coverage Functions<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Xiaoming Sun, Jialin Zhang, Zhijie Zhang<\/p>\n<p>16:00 \u2013 16:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/adaptive-estimator-selection-for-off-policy-evaluation\/\"><strong>Adaptive Estimator Selection for Off-Policy Evaluation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYi Su, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/pasrinat\/\">Pavithra Srinath<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>16:00 \u2013 16:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/privately-learning-markov-random-fields\/\"><strong>Privately Learning Markov Random Fields<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGautam Kamath, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jakul\/\">Janardhan Kulkarni<\/a>, Steven Wu, Huanyu Zhang<\/p>\n<p>20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-usual-suspects-reassessing-blame-for-vae-posterior-collapse\/\"><strong>The Usual Suspects? Reassessing Blame for VAE Posterior Collapse<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBin Dai, Ziyu Wang, <strong>David Wipf<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-non-iid-data-quagmire-of-decentralized-machine-learning\/\"><strong>The Non-IID Data Quagmire of Decentralized Machine Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Kevin Hsieh<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amar\/\">Amar Phanishayee<\/a>, Onur Mutlu, Phillip Gibbons<\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/single-point-transductive-prediction\/\"><strong>Single Point Transductive Prediction<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nNilesh Tripuraneni, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\">Lester Mackey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/alleviating-privacy-attacks-via-causal-learning\/\"><strong>Alleviating Privacy Attacks via Causal Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shtople\/\">Shruti Tople<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adityan\/\">Aditya Nori<\/a><\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/locally-differentially-private-combinatorial-semi-bandits\/\"><strong>(Locally) Differentially Private Combinatorial Semi-Bandits<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nXiaoyu Chen, Kai Zheng, Zixin Zhou, Yunchang Yang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Liwei Wang<\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/learning-calibratable-policies-using-programmatic-style-consistency\/\"><strong>Learning Calibratable Policies using Programmatic Style-Consistency<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nEric Zhan, Albert Tseng, Yisong Yue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\">Adith Swaminathan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mahauskn\/\">Matthew Hausknecht<\/a><\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/statistically-preconditioned-accelerated-gradient-method-for-distributed-optimization\/\"><strong>Statistically Preconditioned Accelerated Gradient Method for Distributed Optimization<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHadrien Hendrikx, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lixiao\/\">Lin Xiao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sebubeck\/\">Sebastien Bubeck<\/a>, Francis Bach, <strong>Laurent Massouli\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Thursday, July 16<\/h2>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/neuro-symbolic-visual-reasoning-disentangling-visual-from-reasoning\/\"><strong>Neuro-Symbolic Visual Reasoning: Disentangling &#8220;Visual&#8221; from &#8220;Reasoning&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Saeed Amizadeh<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hpalangi\/\">Hamid Palangi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr Polozov<\/a>, <strong>Yichen Huang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kazukoi\/\">Kazuhito Koishida<\/a><\/p>\n<p>03:00 \u2013 03:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/optimization-from-structured-samples-for-coverage-functions\/\"><strong>Optimization from Structured Samples for Coverage Functions<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Xiaoming Sun, Jialin Zhang, Zhijie Zhang<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: July 17 | 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/mapping-natural-language-problems-to-formal-language-solutions-using-structured-neural-representations\/\"><strong>Mapping Natural-language Problems to Formal-language Solutions Using Structured Neural Representations<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nKezhen Chen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qihua\/\">Qiuyuan Huang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hpalangi\/\">Hamid Palangi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/psmo\/\">Paul Smolensky<\/a>, Ken Forbus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/binoculars-for-efficient-nonmyopic-sequential-experimental-design\/\"><strong>BINOCULARS for efficient, nonmyopic sequential experimental design<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nShali Jiang, Henry Chai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jagonz\/\">Javier Gonzalez<\/a>, Roman Garnett<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/black-box-methods-for-restoring-monotonicity\/\"><strong>Black-Box Methods for Restoring Monotonicity<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nEvangelia Gergatsouli, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/brlucier\/\">Brendan Lucier<\/a>, Christos Tzamos<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/club-a-contrastive-log-ratio-upper-bound-of-mutual-information\/\"><strong>CLUB: A Contrastive Log-ratio Upper Bound of Mutual Information<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPengyu Cheng, Weituo Hao, Shuyang Dai, Jiachang Liu, <strong>Zhe Gan<\/strong>, Lawrence Carin<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/neural-datalog-through-time-informed-temporal-modeling-via-logical-specification\/\"><strong>Neural Datalog Through Time: Informed Temporal Modeling via Logical Specification<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHongyuan Mei, Guanghui Qin, Minjie Xu, <strong>Jason Eisner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/provably-efficient-model-based-policy-adaptation\/\"><strong>Provably Efficient Model-based Policy Adaptation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYuda Song, Aditi Mavalankar, <strong>Wen Sun<\/strong>, Sicun Gao<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/sequence-generation-with-mixed-representations\/\"><strong>Sequence Generation with Mixed Representations<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Lijun Wu<\/strong>, <strong>Shufang Xie<\/strong>, Yingce Xia, Yang Fan, Jian-Huang Lai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/reward-free-exploration-for-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Reward-Free Exploration for Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChi Jin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, Max Simchowitz, Tiancheng Yu<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/no-regret-and-incentive-compatible-online-learning\/\"><strong>No-Regret and Incentive-Compatible Online Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rufreema\/\">Rupert Freeman<\/a>, David Pennock, Charikleia Podimata, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jenn\/\">Jennifer Wortman Vaughan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/graph-optimal-transport-for-cross-domain-alignment\/\"><strong>Graph Optimal Transport for Cross-Domain Alignment<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nLiqun Chen, <strong>Zhe Gan<\/strong>, <strong>Yu Cheng<\/strong>, <strong>Linjie Li<\/strong>, Lawrence Carin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/doubly-robust-off-policy-evaluation-with-shrinkage\/\"><strong>Doubly Robust Off-policy Evaluation with Shrinkage<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYi Su, Maria Dimakopoulou, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mdudik\/\">Miroslav Dudik<\/a><\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/variance-reduction-and-quasi-newton-for-particle-based-variational-inference\/\"><strong>Variance Reduction and Quasi-Newton for Particle-Based Variational Inference<\/strong><\/a> Michael Zhu, <strong>Chang Liu<\/strong>, Jun Zhu<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/kinematic-state-abstraction-and-provably-efficient-rich-observation-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Kinematic State Abstraction and Provably Efficient Rich-Observation Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dimisra\/\">Dipendra Misra<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mihenaff\/\">Mikael Henaff<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jcl\/\">John Langford<\/a><\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/unilmv2-pseudo-masked-language-models-for-unified-language-model-pre-training\/\"><strong>UniLMv2: Pseudo-Masked Language Models for Unified Language Model Pre-Training<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHangbo Bao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lidong1\/\">Li Dong<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\">Furu Wei<\/a>, <strong>Wenhui Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanya\/\">Nan Yang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>, <strong>Yu Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Songhao Piao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hon\/\">Hsiao-Wuen Hon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>09:00 \u2013 09:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 23:00 \u2013 23:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bounding-the-fairness-and-accuracy-of-classifiers-from-population-statistics\/\"><strong>Bounding the fairness and accuracy of classifiers from population statistics<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Sivan Sabato<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eladyt\/\">Elad Yom-Tov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:00 \u2013 12:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: July 17 | 00:00 \u2013 00:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/soft-threshold-weight-reparameterization-for-learnable-sparsity\/\"><strong>Soft Threshold Weight Reparameterization for Learnable Sparsity<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nAditya Kusupati, Vivek Ramanujan, Raghav Somani, Mitchell Wortsman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a>, Sham Kakade, Ali Farhadi<\/p>\n<p>12:00 \u2013 12:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: July 17 | 01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-k-tied-normal-distribution-a-compact-parameterization-of-gaussian-mean-field-posteriors-in-bayesian-neural-networks\/\"><strong>The k-tied Normal Distribution: A Compact Parameterization of Gaussian Mean Field Posteriors in Bayesian Neural Networks<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJakub Swiatkowski, Kevin Roth, Bastiaan S. Veeling, Linh Tran, Joshua V. Dillon, Stephan Mandt, Jasper Snoek, Tim Salimans, Rodolphe Jenatton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/binoculars-for-efficient-nonmyopic-sequential-experimental-design\/\"><strong>BINOCULARS for efficient, nonmyopic sequential experimental design<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nShali Jiang, Henry Chai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jagonz\/\">Javier Gonzalez<\/a>, Roman Garnett<\/p>\n<p>17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/club-a-contrastive-log-ratio-upper-bound-of-mutual-information\/\"><strong>CLUB: A Contrastive Log-ratio Upper Bound of Mutual Information<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPengyu Cheng, Weituo Hao, Shuyang Dai, Jiachang Liu, <strong>Zhe Gan<\/strong>, Lawrence Carin<\/p>\n<p>17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/neural-datalog-through-time-informed-temporal-modeling-via-logical-specification\/\"><strong>Neural Datalog Through Time: Informed Temporal Modeling via Logical Specification<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHongyuan Mei, Guanghui Qin, Minjie Xu, <strong>Jason Eisner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/reward-free-exploration-for-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Reward-Free Exploration for Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChi Jin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, Max Simchowitz, Tiancheng Yu<\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/mapping-natural-language-problems-to-formal-language-solutions-using-structured-neural-representations\/\"><strong>Mapping Natural-language Problems to Formal-language Solutions Using Structured Neural Representations<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nKezhen Chen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qihua\/\">Qiuyuan Huang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hpalangi\/\">Hamid Palangi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/psmo\/\">Paul Smolensky<\/a>, Ken Forbus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/no-regret-and-incentive-compatible-online-learning\/\"><strong>No-Regret and Incentive-Compatible Online Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rufreema\/\">Rupert Freeman<\/a>, David Pennock, Charikleia Podimata, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jenn\/\">Jennifer Wortman Vaughan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: July 17 | 04:00 \u2013 04:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/on-layer-normalization-in-the-transformer-architecture\/\"><strong>On Layer Normalization in the Transformer Architecture<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nRuibin Xiong, Yunchang Yang, Di He, Kai Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shuz\/\">Shuxin Zheng<\/a>, Chen Xing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/huzhang\/\">Huishuai Zhang<\/a>, Yanyan Lan, Liwei Wang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/black-box-methods-for-restoring-monotonicity\/\"><strong>Black-Box Methods for Restoring Monotonicity<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nEvangelia Gergatsouli, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/brlucier\/\">Brendan Lucier<\/a>, Christos Tzamos<\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/graph-optimal-transport-for-cross-domain-alignment\/\"><strong>Graph Optimal Transport for Cross-Domain Alignment<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nLiqun Chen, <strong>Zhe Gan<\/strong>, <strong>Yu Cheng<\/strong>, <strong>Linjie Li<\/strong>, Lawrence Carin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/variance-reduction-and-quasi-newton-for-particle-based-variational-inference\/\"><strong>Variance Reduction and Quasi-Newton for Particle-Based Variational Inference<\/strong><\/a> Michael Zhu, <strong>Chang Liu<\/strong>, Jun Zhu<\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/sequence-generation-with-mixed-representations\/\"><strong>Sequence Generation with Mixed Representations<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Lijun Wu<\/strong>, <strong>Shufang Xie<\/strong>, Yingce Xia, Yang Fan, Jian-Huang Lai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/unilmv2-pseudo-masked-language-models-for-unified-language-model-pre-training\/\"><strong>UniLMv2: Pseudo-Masked Language Models for Unified Language Model Pre-Training<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHangbo Bao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lidong1\/\">Li Dong<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\">Furu Wei<\/a>, <strong>Wenhui Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanya\/\">Nan Yang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>, <strong>Yu Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Songhao Piao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hon\/\">Hsiao-Wuen Hon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/provably-efficient-model-based-policy-adaptation\/\"><strong>Provably Efficient Model-based Policy Adaptation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYuda Song, Aditi Mavalankar, <strong>Wen Sun<\/strong>, Sicun Gao<\/p>\n<p>20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/doubly-robust-off-policy-evaluation-with-shrinkage\/\"><strong>Doubly Robust Off-policy Evaluation with Shrinkage<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYi Su, Maria Dimakopoulou, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mdudik\/\">Miroslav Dudik<\/a><\/p>\n<p>20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/kinematic-state-abstraction-and-provably-efficient-rich-observation-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Kinematic State Abstraction and Provably Efficient Rich-Observation Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dimisra\/\">Dipendra Misra<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mihenaff\/\">Mikael Henaff<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jcl\/\">John Langford<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 23:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bounding-the-fairness-and-accuracy-of-classifiers-from-population-statistics\/\"><strong>Bounding the fairness and accuracy of classifiers from population statistics<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Sivan Sabato<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eladyt\/\">Elad Yom-Tov<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Friday, July 17<\/h2>\n<p>00:00 \u2013 00:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/soft-threshold-weight-reparameterization-for-learnable-sparsity\/\"><strong>Soft Threshold Weight Reparameterization for Learnable Sparsity<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nAditya Kusupati, Vivek Ramanujan, Raghav Somani, Mitchell Wortsman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a>, Sham Kakade, Ali Farhadi<\/p>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-k-tied-normal-distribution-a-compact-parameterization-of-gaussian-mean-field-posteriors-in-bayesian-neural-networks\/\"><strong>The k-tied Normal Distribution: A Compact Parameterization of Gaussian Mean Field Posteriors in Bayesian Neural Networks<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJakub Swiatkowski, Kevin Roth, Bastiaan S. Veeling, Linh Tran, Joshua V. Dillon, Stephan Mandt, Jasper Snoek, Tim Salimans, Rodolphe Jenatton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>04:00 \u2013 04:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/on-layer-normalization-in-the-transformer-architecture\/\"><strong>On Layer Normalization in the Transformer Architecture<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nRuibin Xiong, Yunchang Yang, Di He, Kai Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shuz\/\">Shuxin Zheng<\/a>, Chen Xing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/huzhang\/\">Huishuai Zhang<\/a>, Yanyan Lan, Liwei Wang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>July 13 \u2013 18<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/queer-in-ai\/icml-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Queer in AI<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nCo-organizer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/anmcnama\/\">Andrew McNamara<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Friday, July 17<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/optml-icml2020\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Beyond first order methods in machine learning systems<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lixiao\/\">Lin Xiao<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/hsys2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Healthcare Systems, Population Health, and the role of health-tech<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nCo-organizer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kopalla\/\">Konstantina Palla<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/icml-sas.gitlab.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Self-supervision in Audio and Speech<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nCo-organizer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/devonh\/\">R Devon Hjelm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/wensun.github.io\/rl_theory_workshop_2020_ICML.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Theoretical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nCo-organizers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/thlykour\/\">Thodoris Lykouris<\/a><br \/>\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/manikvarma.org\/events\/XC20\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Workshop on eXtreme Classification: Theory and Applications<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nCo-organizers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jcl\/\">John Langford<\/a>, Yashoteja Prabhu<br \/>\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/manik\/\">Manik Varma<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Saturday, July 18<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/larel-ws.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>1st Workshop on Language in Reinforcement Learning (LaReL)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/macote\/\">Marc-Alexandre C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/mlforglobalhealth.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Machine Learning for Global Health<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nCo-organizers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dabelgra\/\">Danielle Belgrave<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sthyland\/\">Stephanie Hyland<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/icml-laow2020\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Workshop on Learning in Artificial Open Worlds<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nCo-organizers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kahofman\/\">Katja Hofmann<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nkuno\/\">Noboru Kuno<\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Microsoft Booth Schedule at ICML<\/h2>\n<p>Talk to our experts and learn more about our research and open opportunities.<\/p>\n<h3>Sunday, July 12<\/h3>\n<h4>Live Chat<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">11:15 \u2013 12:15 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Ricky Loynd, RL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">13:45 \u2013 14:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 style=\"padding: 25px 0px 0px 0px\">Monday, July 13<\/h3>\n<h4>Live Chat<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">04:00 \u2013 05:00 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Amit Sharma: Causality, ML explanations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, University\/PhD Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 style=\"padding: 25px 0px 0px 0px\">Tuesday, July 14<\/h3>\n<h4>Live Chat<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">07:45 \u2013 08:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Marc Brockschmidt, GNNs and ML 4 Programming<br \/>\nVikas Gosain, University\/PhD Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">10:45 \u2013 11:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Edward Tiong, DS\/ML in Microsoft AI Rotation Program<br \/>\nVikas Gosain, University\/PhD Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">13:45 \u2013 14:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Edward Tiong, DS\/ML in Microsoft AI Rotation Program<br \/>\nAkshay Krishnamurthy, RL and learning theory<br \/>\nAmy Siebenthaler, University\/PhD Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">17:45 \u2013 18:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Yang He, DS\/ML in Microsoft AI Rotation Program<br \/>\nKevin Hsieh, federated learning and AutoML<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">20:45 \u2013 21:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 style=\"padding: 25px 0px 0px 0px\">Wednesday, July 15<\/h3>\n<h4>Live Demos<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">04:45 \u2013 05:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Toolkit for building generalizable and robust ML models<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/divyat09.github.io\/\">Divyat Mahajan<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shtople\/\">Shruti Tople<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">10:45 \u2013 11:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Learning calibratable policies using programmatic style-consistency<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\">Adith Swaminathan<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4 style=\"padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px\">Live Chat<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">00:45 \u2013 01:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">04:45 \u2013 05:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Elad Yom-Tov, ML and IR for healthcare<br \/>\nJavier Gonzalez, Bayesian optimization, probabilistic modeling, causality<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">07:45 \u2013 08:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Kevin Yang, computational biology<br \/>\nVikas Gosain, University\/PhD Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">10:45 \u2013 11:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Adith Swaminathan, RL<br \/>\nAmy Siebenthaler, University\/PhD Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">13:45 \u2013 14:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Sahitya Mantravadi, DS\/ML in Microsoft AI Rotation Program<br \/>\nMegha Srivastava, AI Residency Program<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">17:45 \u2013 18:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Jason Eisner, MLP & structured prediction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">20:45 \u2013 21:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 style=\"padding: 25px 0px 0px 0px\">Thursday, July 16<\/h3>\n<h4>Live Demos<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">7:45 \u2013 8:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Toolkit for building generalizable and robust ML models<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a>, <a 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wp:msr\/event-details {\"title\":\"Microsoft at ICML 2020\",\"backgroundColor\":\"grey\",\"image\":{\"id\":392255,\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/MLOG.8.png\",\"alt\":\"\"}} \/-->\n\n<!-- wp:msr\/content-tabs --><!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"About\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><p><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/icml.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ICML 2020<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 Gold sponsor of the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/icml.cc\/Conferences\/2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">37th International Conference on Machine Learning<\/a> (ICML), as well as Diamond sponsors at the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/wimlworkshop.org\/icml2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1st Women in Machine Learning Un-Workshop<\/a> and Platinum sponsors of the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/queer-in-ai\/icml-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4th Queer in AI Workshop<\/a>. We have over 50 papers accepted to the conference, and you can find details of our publications on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/icml-2020\/#!accepted-papers\">Accepted papers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/icml-2020\/#!workshops\">Workshops<\/a> tabs.<\/p>\n<h2>Committee chairs<\/h2>\n<p>ICML President: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jcl\/\">John Langford<\/a><br \/>\nICML Board Members: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hal3\/\">Hal Daum\u00e9 III<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a><br \/>\nProgram Co-chair: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hal3\/\">Hal Daum\u00e9 III<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Invited speaker<\/h2>\n<h3>Tuesday, July 14<\/h3>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT &amp; 16:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<strong>Doing Some Good with Machine Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\">Lester Mackey<\/a><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\":\"Sessions\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><h2>Tuesday, July 14<\/h2>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/ngboost-natural-gradient-boosting-for-probabilistic-prediction\/\"><strong>NGBoost: Natural Gradient Boosting for Probabilistic Prediction<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Tony Duan<\/strong>, Anand Avati, Daisy Ding, Khanh K. Thai, Sanjay Basu, Andrew Ng, Alejandro Schuler<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/online-learning-for-active-cache-synchronization\/\"><strong>Online Learning for Active Cache Synchronization<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akolobov\/\">Andrey Kolobov<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sebubeck\/\">Sebastien Bubeck<\/a>, Julian Zimmert<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/randomized-smoothing-of-all-shapes-and-sizes\/\"><strong>Randomized Smoothing of All Shapes and Sizes<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/gregyang\/\">Greg Yang<\/a>, <strong>Tony Duan<\/strong>, <strong>J. Edward Hu<\/strong>, <strong>Hadi Salman<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ilyaraz\/\">Ilya Razenshteyn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jerrl\/\">Jerry Li<\/a><\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/private-reinforcement-learning-with-pac-and-regret-guarantees\/\"><strong>Private Reinforcement Learning with PAC and Regret Guarantees<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGiuseppe Vietri, Borja de Balle Pigem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, Steven Wu<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/scalable-nearest-neighbor-search-for-optimal-transport\/\"><strong>Scalable Nearest Neighbor Search for Optimal Transport<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nArturs Backurs, <strong>Yihe Dong<\/strong>, Piotr Indyk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ilyaraz\/\">Ilya Razenshteyn<\/a>, Tal Wagner<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/combinatorial-pure-exploration-for-dueling-bandits\/\"><strong>Combinatorial Pure Exploration for Dueling Bandit<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Yihan Du, Longbo Huang, Haoyu Zhao<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/distance-metric-learning-with-joint-representation-diversification\/\"><strong>Distance Metric Learning with Joint Representation Diversification<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nXu Chu, Yang Lin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xitwan\/\">Xiting Wang<\/a>, Xin Gao, Qi Tong, Hailong Yu, Yasha Wang<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/efficient-domain-generalization-via-common-specific-low-rank-decomposition\/\"><strong>Efficient Domain Generalization via Common-Specific Low-Rank Decomposition<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Vihari Piratla<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/praneeth\/\">Praneeth Netrapalli<\/a>, Sunita Sarawagi<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/faster-graph-embeddings-via-coarsening\/\"><strong>Faster Graph Embeddings via Coarsening<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nMatthew Fahrbach, Gramoz Goranci, Sushant Sachdeva, Richard Peng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chiw\/\">Chi Wang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/what-is-local-optimality-in-nonconvex-nonconcave-minimax-optimization\/\"><strong>What is Local Optimality in Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Optimization?<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChi Jin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/praneeth\/\">Praneeth Netrapalli<\/a>, Michael Jordan<\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/an-end-to-end-approach-for-the-verification-problem-learning-the-right-distance\/\"><strong>An end-to-end approach for the verification problem: learning the right distance<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJoao Monteiro, Isabela Albuquerque, Jahangir Alam, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/devonh\/\">R Devon Hjelm<\/a>, Tiago Falk<\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/working-memory-graphs\/\"><strong>Working Memory Graphs<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/riloynd\/\">Ricky Loynd<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rfernand\/\">Roland Fernandez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\">Adith Swaminathan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mahauskn\/\">Matthew Hausknecht<\/a><\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/informative-dropout-for-robust-representation-learning-a-shape-bias-perspective\/\"><strong>Informative Dropout for Robust Representation Learning: A Shape-bias Perspective<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBaifeng Shi, Dinghuai Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qid\/\">Qi Dai<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingdw\/\">Jingdong Wang<\/a>, Zhanxing Zhu, Yadong Mu<\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/near-optimal-sample-complexity-bounds-for-learning-latent-k%e2%88%92polytopes-and-applications-to-ad-mixtures\/\"><strong>Near-optimal Sample Complexity Bounds for Learning Latent\u00a0k\u2212polytopes and applications to Ad-Mixtures<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChiranjib Bhattacharyya, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kannan\/\">Ravindran Kannan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/differentially-private-set-union\/\"><strong>Differentially Private Set Union<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Pankaj Gulhane<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sigopi\/\">Sivakanth Gopi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jakul\/\">Janardhan Kulkarni<\/a>, <strong>Judy Hanwen Shen<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/milads\/\">Milad Shokouhi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yekhanin\/\">Sergey Yekhanin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/discount-factor-as-a-regularizer-in-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Discount Factor as a Regularizer in Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nRon Amit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kaciosek\/\">Kamil Ciosek<\/a>, Ron Meir<\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/drocc-deep-robust-one-class-classification\/\"><strong>DROCC: Deep Robust One-Class Classification<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Sachin Goyal<\/strong>, Aditi Raghunathan, Moksh Jain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/harshasi\/\">Harsha Vardhan Simhadri<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>09:00 \u2013 09:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/feature-quantization-improves-gan-training\/\"><strong>Feature Quantization Improves GAN Training<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYang Zhao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chunyl\/\">Chunyuan Li<\/a>, Ping Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Changyou Chen<\/p>\n<p>09:00 \u2013 09:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/how-good-is-the-bayes-posterior-in-deep-neural-networks-really\/\"><strong>How Good is the Bayes Posterior in Deep Neural Networks Really<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nFlorian Wenzel, Kevin Roth, Bastiaan S. Veeling, Jakub Swiatkowski, Linh Tran, Stephan Mandt, Jasper Snoek, Tim Salimans, Rodolphe Jenatton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 11:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/optimization-and-analysis-of-the-papk-metric-for-recommender-systems\/\"><strong>Optimization and Analysis of the pAp@k Metric for Recommender Systems<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGaurush Hiranandani, Warut Vijitbenjaronk, Sanmi Koyejo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 11:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bandits-with-adversarial-scaling\/\"><strong>Bandits with Adversarial Scaling<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/thlykour\/\">Thodoris Lykouris<\/a>, Vahab Mirrokni, Renato Leme<\/p>\n<p>12:00 \u2013 12:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: July 15 | 01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/tasknorm-rethinking-batch-normalization-for-meta-learning\/\"><strong>TaskNorm: Rethinking Batch Normalization for Meta-Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJohn Bronskill, Jonathan Gordon, James Requeima, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a>, Richard E. Turner<\/p>\n<p>13:00 \u2013 13:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: July 15 | 01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gnn-film-graph-neural-networks-with-feature-wise-linear-modulation\/\"><strong>GNN-FiLM: Graph Neural Networks with Feature-wise Linear Modulation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mabrocks\/\">Marc Brockschmidt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/online-learning-for-active-cache-synchronization\/\"><strong>Online Learning for Active Cache Synchronization<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akolobov\/\">Andrey Kolobov<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sebubeck\/\">Sebastien Bubeck<\/a>, Julian Zimmert<\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/scalable-nearest-neighbor-search-for-optimal-transport\/\"><strong>Scalable Nearest Neighbor Search for Optimal Transport<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nArturs Backurs, <strong>Yihe Dong<\/strong>, Piotr Indyk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ilyaraz\/\">Ilya Razenshteyn<\/a>, Tal Wagner<\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/faster-graph-embeddings-via-coarsening\/\"><strong>Faster Graph Embeddings via Coarsening<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nMatthew Fahrbach, Gramoz Goranci, Sushant Sachdeva, Richard Peng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chiw\/\">Chi Wang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/what-is-local-optimality-in-nonconvex-nonconcave-minimax-optimization\/\"><strong>What is Local Optimality in Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Optimization?<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChi Jin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/praneeth\/\">Praneeth Netrapalli<\/a>, Michael Jordan<\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/randomized-smoothing-of-all-shapes-and-sizes\/\"><strong>Randomized Smoothing of All Shapes and Sizes<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/gregyang\/\">Greg Yang<\/a>, <strong>Tony Duan<\/strong>, <strong>J. Edward Hu<\/strong>, <strong>Hadi Salman<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ilyaraz\/\">Ilya Razenshteyn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jerrl\/\">Jerry Li<\/a><\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/an-end-to-end-approach-for-the-verification-problem-learning-the-right-distance\/\"><strong>An end-to-end approach for the verification problem: learning the right distance<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJoao Monteiro, Isabela Albuquerque, Jahangir Alam, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/devonh\/\">R Devon Hjelm<\/a>, Tiago Falk<\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/combinatorial-pure-exploration-for-dueling-bandits\/\"><strong>Combinatorial Pure Exploration for Dueling Bandit<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Yihan Du, Longbo Huang, Haoyu Zhao<\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/distance-metric-learning-with-joint-representation-diversification\/\"><strong>Distance Metric Learning with Joint Representation Diversification<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nXu Chu, Yang Lin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xitwan\/\">Xiting Wang<\/a>, Xin Gao, Qi Tong, Hailong Yu, Yasha Wang<\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/efficient-domain-generalization-via-common-specific-low-rank-decomposition\/\"><strong>Efficient Domain Generalization via Common-Specific Low-Rank Decomposition<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Vihari Piratla<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/praneeth\/\">Praneeth Netrapalli<\/a>, Sunita Sarawagi<\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/informative-dropout-for-robust-representation-learning-a-shape-bias-perspective\/\"><strong>Informative Dropout for Robust Representation Learning: A Shape-bias Perspective<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBaifeng Shi, Dinghuai Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qid\/\">Qi Dai<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingdw\/\">Jingdong Wang<\/a>, Zhanxing Zhu, Yadong Mu<\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/differentially-private-set-union\/\"><strong>Differentially Private Set Union<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Pankaj Gulhane<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sigopi\/\">Sivakanth Gopi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jakul\/\">Janardhan Kulkarni<\/a>, <strong>Judy Hanwen Shen<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/milads\/\">Milad Shokouhi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yekhanin\/\">Sergey Yekhanin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/ngboost-natural-gradient-boosting-for-probabilistic-prediction\/\"><strong>NGBoost: Natural Gradient Boosting for Probabilistic Prediction<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Tony Duan<\/strong>, Anand Avati, Daisy Ding, Khanh K. Thai, Sanjay Basu, Andrew Ng, Alejandro Schuler<\/p>\n<p>20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/private-reinforcement-learning-with-pac-and-regret-guarantees\/\"><strong>Private Reinforcement Learning with PAC and Regret Guarantees<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGiuseppe Vietri, Borja de Balle Pigem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, Steven Wu<\/p>\n<p>20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/feature-quantization-improves-gan-training\/\"><strong>Feature Quantization Improves GAN Training<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYang Zhao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chunyl\/\">Chunyuan Li<\/a>, Ping Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Changyou Chen<\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/working-memory-graphs\/\"><strong>Working Memory Graphs<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/riloynd\/\">Ricky Loynd<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rfernand\/\">Roland Fernandez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\">Adith Swaminathan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mahauskn\/\">Matthew Hausknecht<\/a><\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/near-optimal-sample-complexity-bounds-for-learning-latent-k%e2%88%92polytopes-and-applications-to-ad-mixtures\/\"><strong>Near-optimal Sample Complexity Bounds for Learning Latent\u00a0k\u2212polytopes and applications to Ad-Mixtures<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChiranjib Bhattacharyya, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kannan\/\">Ravindran Kannan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/discount-factor-as-a-regularizer-in-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Discount Factor as a Regularizer in Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nRon Amit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kaciosek\/\">Kamil Ciosek<\/a>, Ron Meir<\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/drocc-deep-robust-one-class-classification\/\"><strong>DROCC: Deep Robust One-Class Classification<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Sachin Goyal<\/strong>, Aditi Raghunathan, Moksh Jain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/harshasi\/\">Harsha Vardhan Simhadri<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/optimization-and-analysis-of-the-papk-metric-for-recommender-systems\/\"><strong>Optimization and Analysis of the pAp@k Metric for Recommender Systems<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGaurush Hiranandani, Warut Vijitbenjaronk, Sanmi Koyejo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a><\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bandits-with-adversarial-scaling\/\"><strong>Bandits with Adversarial Scaling<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/thlykour\/\">Thodoris Lykouris<\/a>, Vahab Mirrokni, Renato Leme<\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/how-good-is-the-bayes-posterior-in-deep-neural-networks-really\/\"><strong>How Good is the Bayes Posterior in Deep Neural Networks Really<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nFlorian Wenzel, Kevin Roth, Bastiaan S. Veeling, Jakub Swiatkowski, Linh Tran, Stephan Mandt, Jasper Snoek, Tim Salimans, Rodolphe Jenatton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Wednesday, July 15<\/h2>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gnn-film-graph-neural-networks-with-feature-wise-linear-modulation\/\"><strong>GNN-FiLM: Graph Neural Networks with Feature-wise Linear Modulation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mabrocks\/\">Marc Brockschmidt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/tasknorm-rethinking-batch-normalization-for-meta-learning\/\"><strong>TaskNorm: Rethinking Batch Normalization for Meta-Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJohn Bronskill, Jonathan Gordon, James Requeima, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a>, Richard E. Turner<\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 05:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 16:00 \u2013 16:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/adaptive-estimator-selection-for-off-policy-evaluation\/\"><strong>Adaptive Estimator Selection for Off-Policy Evaluation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYi Su, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/pasrinat\/\">Pavithra Srinath<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 05:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 16:00 \u2013 16:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/privately-learning-markov-random-fields\/\"><strong>Privately Learning Markov Random Fields<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGautam Kamath, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jakul\/\">Janardhan Kulkarni<\/a>, Steven Wu, Huanyu Zhang<\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-non-iid-data-quagmire-of-decentralized-machine-learning\/\"><strong>The Non-IID Data Quagmire of Decentralized Machine Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Kevin Hsieh<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amar\/\">Amar Phanishayee<\/a>, Onur Mutlu, Phillip Gibbons<\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/alleviating-privacy-attacks-via-causal-learning\/\"><strong>Alleviating Privacy Attacks via Causal Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shtople\/\">Shruti Tople<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adityan\/\">Aditya Nori<\/a><\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/locally-differentially-private-combinatorial-semi-bandits\/\"><strong>(Locally) Differentially Private Combinatorial Semi-Bandits<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nXiaoyu Chen, Kai Zheng, Zixin Zhou, Yunchang Yang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Liwei Wang<\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-usual-suspects-reassessing-blame-for-vae-posterior-collapse\/\"><strong>The Usual Suspects? Reassessing Blame for VAE Posterior Collapse<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBin Dai, Ziyu Wang, <strong>David Wipf<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 10:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/single-point-transductive-prediction\/\"><strong>Single Point Transductive Prediction<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nNilesh Tripuraneni, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\">Lester Mackey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 10:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/learning-calibratable-policies-using-programmatic-style-consistency\/\"><strong>Learning Calibratable Policies using Programmatic Style-Consistency<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nEric Zhan, Albert Tseng, Yisong Yue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\">Adith Swaminathan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mahauskn\/\">Matthew Hausknecht<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 11:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/statistically-preconditioned-accelerated-gradient-method-for-distributed-optimization\/\"><strong>Statistically Preconditioned Accelerated Gradient Method for Distributed Optimization<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHadrien Hendrikx, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lixiao\/\">Lin Xiao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sebubeck\/\">Sebastien Bubeck<\/a>, Francis Bach, <strong>Laurent Massouli\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12:00 \u2013 12:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: July 16 | 01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/neuro-symbolic-visual-reasoning-disentangling-visual-from-reasoning\/\"><strong>Neuro-Symbolic Visual Reasoning: Disentangling &#8220;Visual&#8221; from &#8220;Reasoning&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Saeed Amizadeh<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hpalangi\/\">Hamid Palangi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr Polozov<\/a>, <strong>Yichen Huang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kazukoi\/\">Kazuhito Koishida<\/a><\/p>\n<p>16:00 \u2013 16:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: July 16 | 03:00 \u2013 03:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/optimization-from-structured-samples-for-coverage-functions\/\"><strong>Optimization from Structured Samples for Coverage Functions<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Xiaoming Sun, Jialin Zhang, Zhijie Zhang<\/p>\n<p>16:00 \u2013 16:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/adaptive-estimator-selection-for-off-policy-evaluation\/\"><strong>Adaptive Estimator Selection for Off-Policy Evaluation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYi Su, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/pasrinat\/\">Pavithra Srinath<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>16:00 \u2013 16:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/privately-learning-markov-random-fields\/\"><strong>Privately Learning Markov Random Fields<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGautam Kamath, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jakul\/\">Janardhan Kulkarni<\/a>, Steven Wu, Huanyu Zhang<\/p>\n<p>20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-usual-suspects-reassessing-blame-for-vae-posterior-collapse\/\"><strong>The Usual Suspects? Reassessing Blame for VAE Posterior Collapse<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nBin Dai, Ziyu Wang, <strong>David Wipf<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-non-iid-data-quagmire-of-decentralized-machine-learning\/\"><strong>The Non-IID Data Quagmire of Decentralized Machine Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Kevin Hsieh<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amar\/\">Amar Phanishayee<\/a>, Onur Mutlu, Phillip Gibbons<\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/single-point-transductive-prediction\/\"><strong>Single Point Transductive Prediction<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nNilesh Tripuraneni, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\">Lester Mackey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/alleviating-privacy-attacks-via-causal-learning\/\"><strong>Alleviating Privacy Attacks via Causal Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shtople\/\">Shruti Tople<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adityan\/\">Aditya Nori<\/a><\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/locally-differentially-private-combinatorial-semi-bandits\/\"><strong>(Locally) Differentially Private Combinatorial Semi-Bandits<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nXiaoyu Chen, Kai Zheng, Zixin Zhou, Yunchang Yang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Liwei Wang<\/p>\n<p>21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/learning-calibratable-policies-using-programmatic-style-consistency\/\"><strong>Learning Calibratable Policies using Programmatic Style-Consistency<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nEric Zhan, Albert Tseng, Yisong Yue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\">Adith Swaminathan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mahauskn\/\">Matthew Hausknecht<\/a><\/p>\n<p>22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/statistically-preconditioned-accelerated-gradient-method-for-distributed-optimization\/\"><strong>Statistically Preconditioned Accelerated Gradient Method for Distributed Optimization<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHadrien Hendrikx, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lixiao\/\">Lin Xiao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sebubeck\/\">Sebastien Bubeck<\/a>, Francis Bach, <strong>Laurent Massouli\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Thursday, July 16<\/h2>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/neuro-symbolic-visual-reasoning-disentangling-visual-from-reasoning\/\"><strong>Neuro-Symbolic Visual Reasoning: Disentangling &#8220;Visual&#8221; from &#8220;Reasoning&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Saeed Amizadeh<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hpalangi\/\">Hamid Palangi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr Polozov<\/a>, <strong>Yichen Huang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kazukoi\/\">Kazuhito Koishida<\/a><\/p>\n<p>03:00 \u2013 03:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/optimization-from-structured-samples-for-coverage-functions\/\"><strong>Optimization from Structured Samples for Coverage Functions<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Xiaoming Sun, Jialin Zhang, Zhijie Zhang<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: July 17 | 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/mapping-natural-language-problems-to-formal-language-solutions-using-structured-neural-representations\/\"><strong>Mapping Natural-language Problems to Formal-language Solutions Using Structured Neural Representations<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nKezhen Chen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qihua\/\">Qiuyuan Huang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hpalangi\/\">Hamid Palangi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/psmo\/\">Paul Smolensky<\/a>, Ken Forbus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/binoculars-for-efficient-nonmyopic-sequential-experimental-design\/\"><strong>BINOCULARS for efficient, nonmyopic sequential experimental design<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nShali Jiang, Henry Chai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jagonz\/\">Javier Gonzalez<\/a>, Roman Garnett<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/black-box-methods-for-restoring-monotonicity\/\"><strong>Black-Box Methods for Restoring Monotonicity<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nEvangelia Gergatsouli, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/brlucier\/\">Brendan Lucier<\/a>, Christos Tzamos<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/club-a-contrastive-log-ratio-upper-bound-of-mutual-information\/\"><strong>CLUB: A Contrastive Log-ratio Upper Bound of Mutual Information<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPengyu Cheng, Weituo Hao, Shuyang Dai, Jiachang Liu, <strong>Zhe Gan<\/strong>, Lawrence Carin<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/neural-datalog-through-time-informed-temporal-modeling-via-logical-specification\/\"><strong>Neural Datalog Through Time: Informed Temporal Modeling via Logical Specification<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHongyuan Mei, Guanghui Qin, Minjie Xu, <strong>Jason Eisner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/provably-efficient-model-based-policy-adaptation\/\"><strong>Provably Efficient Model-based Policy Adaptation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYuda Song, Aditi Mavalankar, <strong>Wen Sun<\/strong>, Sicun Gao<\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/sequence-generation-with-mixed-representations\/\"><strong>Sequence Generation with Mixed Representations<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Lijun Wu<\/strong>, <strong>Shufang Xie<\/strong>, Yingce Xia, Yang Fan, Jian-Huang Lai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/reward-free-exploration-for-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Reward-Free Exploration for Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChi Jin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, Max Simchowitz, Tiancheng Yu<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/no-regret-and-incentive-compatible-online-learning\/\"><strong>No-Regret and Incentive-Compatible Online Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rufreema\/\">Rupert Freeman<\/a>, David Pennock, Charikleia Podimata, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jenn\/\">Jennifer Wortman Vaughan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/graph-optimal-transport-for-cross-domain-alignment\/\"><strong>Graph Optimal Transport for Cross-Domain Alignment<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nLiqun Chen, <strong>Zhe Gan<\/strong>, <strong>Yu Cheng<\/strong>, <strong>Linjie Li<\/strong>, Lawrence Carin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/doubly-robust-off-policy-evaluation-with-shrinkage\/\"><strong>Doubly Robust Off-policy Evaluation with Shrinkage<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYi Su, Maria Dimakopoulou, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mdudik\/\">Miroslav Dudik<\/a><\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/variance-reduction-and-quasi-newton-for-particle-based-variational-inference\/\"><strong>Variance Reduction and Quasi-Newton for Particle-Based Variational Inference<\/strong><\/a> Michael Zhu, <strong>Chang Liu<\/strong>, Jun Zhu<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/kinematic-state-abstraction-and-provably-efficient-rich-observation-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Kinematic State Abstraction and Provably Efficient Rich-Observation Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dimisra\/\">Dipendra Misra<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mihenaff\/\">Mikael Henaff<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jcl\/\">John Langford<\/a><\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/unilmv2-pseudo-masked-language-models-for-unified-language-model-pre-training\/\"><strong>UniLMv2: Pseudo-Masked Language Models for Unified Language Model Pre-Training<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHangbo Bao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lidong1\/\">Li Dong<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\">Furu Wei<\/a>, <strong>Wenhui Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanya\/\">Nan Yang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>, <strong>Yu Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Songhao Piao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hon\/\">Hsiao-Wuen Hon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>09:00 \u2013 09:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: 23:00 \u2013 23:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bounding-the-fairness-and-accuracy-of-classifiers-from-population-statistics\/\"><strong>Bounding the fairness and accuracy of classifiers from population statistics<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Sivan Sabato<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eladyt\/\">Elad Yom-Tov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:00 \u2013 12:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: July 17 | 00:00 \u2013 00:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/soft-threshold-weight-reparameterization-for-learnable-sparsity\/\"><strong>Soft Threshold Weight Reparameterization for Learnable Sparsity<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nAditya Kusupati, Vivek Ramanujan, Raghav Somani, Mitchell Wortsman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a>, Sham Kakade, Ali Farhadi<\/p>\n<p>12:00 \u2013 12:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: July 17 | 01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-k-tied-normal-distribution-a-compact-parameterization-of-gaussian-mean-field-posteriors-in-bayesian-neural-networks\/\"><strong>The k-tied Normal Distribution: A Compact Parameterization of Gaussian Mean Field Posteriors in Bayesian Neural Networks<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJakub Swiatkowski, Kevin Roth, Bastiaan S. Veeling, Linh Tran, Joshua V. Dillon, Stephan Mandt, Jasper Snoek, Tim Salimans, Rodolphe Jenatton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/binoculars-for-efficient-nonmyopic-sequential-experimental-design\/\"><strong>BINOCULARS for efficient, nonmyopic sequential experimental design<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nShali Jiang, Henry Chai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jagonz\/\">Javier Gonzalez<\/a>, Roman Garnett<\/p>\n<p>17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/club-a-contrastive-log-ratio-upper-bound-of-mutual-information\/\"><strong>CLUB: A Contrastive Log-ratio Upper Bound of Mutual Information<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPengyu Cheng, Weituo Hao, Shuyang Dai, Jiachang Liu, <strong>Zhe Gan<\/strong>, Lawrence Carin<\/p>\n<p>17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/neural-datalog-through-time-informed-temporal-modeling-via-logical-specification\/\"><strong>Neural Datalog Through Time: Informed Temporal Modeling via Logical Specification<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHongyuan Mei, Guanghui Qin, Minjie Xu, <strong>Jason Eisner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/reward-free-exploration-for-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Reward-Free Exploration for Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nChi Jin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, Max Simchowitz, Tiancheng Yu<\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/mapping-natural-language-problems-to-formal-language-solutions-using-structured-neural-representations\/\"><strong>Mapping Natural-language Problems to Formal-language Solutions Using Structured Neural Representations<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nKezhen Chen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qihua\/\">Qiuyuan Huang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hpalangi\/\">Hamid Palangi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/psmo\/\">Paul Smolensky<\/a>, Ken Forbus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/no-regret-and-incentive-compatible-online-learning\/\"><strong>No-Regret and Incentive-Compatible Online Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rufreema\/\">Rupert Freeman<\/a>, David Pennock, Charikleia Podimata, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jenn\/\">Jennifer Wortman Vaughan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n2nd session: July 17 | 04:00 \u2013 04:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/on-layer-normalization-in-the-transformer-architecture\/\"><strong>On Layer Normalization in the Transformer Architecture<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nRuibin Xiong, Yunchang Yang, Di He, Kai Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shuz\/\">Shuxin Zheng<\/a>, Chen Xing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/huzhang\/\">Huishuai Zhang<\/a>, Yanyan Lan, Liwei Wang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/black-box-methods-for-restoring-monotonicity\/\"><strong>Black-Box Methods for Restoring Monotonicity<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nEvangelia Gergatsouli, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/brlucier\/\">Brendan Lucier<\/a>, Christos Tzamos<\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/graph-optimal-transport-for-cross-domain-alignment\/\"><strong>Graph Optimal Transport for Cross-Domain Alignment<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nLiqun Chen, <strong>Zhe Gan<\/strong>, <strong>Yu Cheng<\/strong>, <strong>Linjie Li<\/strong>, Lawrence Carin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/variance-reduction-and-quasi-newton-for-particle-based-variational-inference\/\"><strong>Variance Reduction and Quasi-Newton for Particle-Based Variational Inference<\/strong><\/a> Michael Zhu, <strong>Chang Liu<\/strong>, Jun Zhu<\/p>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/sequence-generation-with-mixed-representations\/\"><strong>Sequence Generation with Mixed Representations<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Lijun Wu<\/strong>, <strong>Shufang Xie<\/strong>, Yingce Xia, Yang Fan, Jian-Huang Lai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/unilmv2-pseudo-masked-language-models-for-unified-language-model-pre-training\/\"><strong>UniLMv2: Pseudo-Masked Language Models for Unified Language Model Pre-Training<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHangbo Bao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lidong1\/\">Li Dong<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\">Furu Wei<\/a>, <strong>Wenhui Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanya\/\">Nan Yang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>, <strong>Yu Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Songhao Piao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hon\/\">Hsiao-Wuen Hon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/provably-efficient-model-based-policy-adaptation\/\"><strong>Provably Efficient Model-based Policy Adaptation<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYuda Song, Aditi Mavalankar, <strong>Wen Sun<\/strong>, Sicun Gao<\/p>\n<p>20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/doubly-robust-off-policy-evaluation-with-shrinkage\/\"><strong>Doubly Robust Off-policy Evaluation with Shrinkage<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYi Su, Maria Dimakopoulou, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mdudik\/\">Miroslav Dudik<\/a><\/p>\n<p>20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/kinematic-state-abstraction-and-provably-efficient-rich-observation-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Kinematic State Abstraction and Provably Efficient Rich-Observation Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dimisra\/\">Dipendra Misra<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mihenaff\/\">Mikael Henaff<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jcl\/\">John Langford<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23:00 \u2013 23:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bounding-the-fairness-and-accuracy-of-classifiers-from-population-statistics\/\"><strong>Bounding the fairness and accuracy of classifiers from population statistics<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Sivan Sabato<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eladyt\/\">Elad Yom-Tov<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Friday, July 17<\/h2>\n<p>00:00 \u2013 00:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/soft-threshold-weight-reparameterization-for-learnable-sparsity\/\"><strong>Soft Threshold Weight Reparameterization for Learnable Sparsity<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nAditya Kusupati, Vivek Ramanujan, Raghav Somani, Mitchell Wortsman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a>, Sham Kakade, Ali Farhadi<\/p>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-k-tied-normal-distribution-a-compact-parameterization-of-gaussian-mean-field-posteriors-in-bayesian-neural-networks\/\"><strong>The k-tied Normal Distribution: A Compact Parameterization of Gaussian Mean Field Posteriors in Bayesian Neural Networks<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJakub Swiatkowski, Kevin Roth, Bastiaan S. Veeling, Linh Tran, Joshua V. Dillon, Stephan Mandt, Jasper Snoek, Tim Salimans, Rodolphe Jenatton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>04:00 \u2013 04:45 PDT<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/on-layer-normalization-in-the-transformer-architecture\/\"><strong>On Layer Normalization in the Transformer Architecture<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nRuibin Xiong, Yunchang Yang, Di He, Kai Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shuz\/\">Shuxin Zheng<\/a>, Chen Xing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/huzhang\/\">Huishuai Zhang<\/a>, Yanyan Lan, Liwei Wang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><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\":\"Workshops\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><h2>July 13 \u2013 18<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/queer-in-ai\/icml-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Queer in AI<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nCo-organizer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/anmcnama\/\">Andrew McNamara<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Friday, July 17<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/optml-icml2020\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Beyond first order methods in machine learning systems<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lixiao\/\">Lin Xiao<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/hsys2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Healthcare Systems, Population Health, and the role of health-tech<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nCo-organizer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kopalla\/\">Konstantina Palla<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/icml-sas.gitlab.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Self-supervision in Audio and Speech<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nCo-organizer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/devonh\/\">R Devon Hjelm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/wensun.github.io\/rl_theory_workshop_2020_ICML.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Theoretical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nCo-organizers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/thlykour\/\">Thodoris Lykouris<\/a><br \/>\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/manikvarma.org\/events\/XC20\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Workshop on eXtreme Classification: Theory and Applications<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nCo-organizers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jcl\/\">John Langford<\/a>, Yashoteja Prabhu<br \/>\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/manik\/\">Manik Varma<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Saturday, July 18<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/larel-ws.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>1st Workshop on Language in Reinforcement Learning (LaReL)<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/macote\/\">Marc-Alexandre C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/mlforglobalhealth.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Machine Learning for Global Health<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nCo-organizers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dabelgra\/\">Danielle Belgrave<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sthyland\/\">Stephanie Hyland<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/icml-laow2020\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Workshop on Learning in Artificial Open Worlds<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nCo-organizers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kahofman\/\">Katja Hofmann<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nkuno\/\">Noboru Kuno<\/a><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\":\"Booth schedule\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><h2>Microsoft Booth Schedule at ICML<\/h2>\n<p>Talk to our experts and learn more about our research and open opportunities.<\/p>\n<h3>Sunday, July 12<\/h3>\n<h4>Live Chat<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">11:15 \u2013 12:15 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Ricky Loynd, RL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">13:45 \u2013 14:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 style=\"padding: 25px 0px 0px 0px\">Monday, July 13<\/h3>\n<h4>Live Chat<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">04:00 \u2013 05:00 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Amit Sharma: Causality, ML explanations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, University\/PhD Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 style=\"padding: 25px 0px 0px 0px\">Tuesday, July 14<\/h3>\n<h4>Live Chat<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">07:45 \u2013 08:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Marc Brockschmidt, GNNs and ML 4 Programming<br \/>\nVikas Gosain, University\/PhD Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">10:45 \u2013 11:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Edward Tiong, DS\/ML in Microsoft AI Rotation Program<br \/>\nVikas Gosain, University\/PhD Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">13:45 \u2013 14:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Edward Tiong, DS\/ML in Microsoft AI Rotation Program<br \/>\nAkshay Krishnamurthy, RL and learning theory<br \/>\nAmy Siebenthaler, University\/PhD Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">17:45 \u2013 18:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Yang He, DS\/ML in Microsoft AI Rotation Program<br \/>\nKevin Hsieh, federated learning and AutoML<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">20:45 \u2013 21:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 style=\"padding: 25px 0px 0px 0px\">Wednesday, July 15<\/h3>\n<h4>Live Demos<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">04:45 \u2013 05:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Toolkit for building generalizable and robust ML models<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/divyat09.github.io\/\">Divyat Mahajan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shtople\/\">Shruti Tople<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">10:45 \u2013 11:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Learning calibratable policies using programmatic style-consistency<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\">Adith Swaminathan<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4 style=\"padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px\">Live Chat<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">00:45 \u2013 01:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">04:45 \u2013 05:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Elad Yom-Tov, ML and IR for healthcare<br \/>\nJavier Gonzalez, Bayesian optimization, probabilistic modeling, causality<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">07:45 \u2013 08:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Kevin Yang, computational biology<br \/>\nVikas Gosain, University\/PhD Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">10:45 \u2013 11:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Adith Swaminathan, RL<br \/>\nAmy Siebenthaler, University\/PhD Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">13:45 \u2013 14:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Sahitya Mantravadi, DS\/ML in Microsoft AI Rotation Program<br \/>\nMegha Srivastava, AI Residency Program<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">17:45 \u2013 18:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Jason Eisner, MLP &amp; structured prediction<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">20:45 \u2013 21:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3 style=\"padding: 25px 0px 0px 0px\">Thursday, July 16<\/h3>\n<h4>Live Demos<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">7:45 \u2013 8:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Toolkit for building generalizable and robust ML models<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/divyat09.github.io\/\">Divyat Mahajan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shtople\/\">Shruti Tople<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h4 style=\"padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px\">Live Chat<\/h4>\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">00:45 \u2013 01:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Marc Brockschmidt, GNNs and ML 4 Programming<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">04:45 \u2013 05:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Judy Hanwen Shen, AI Residency Program<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">07:45 \u2013 08:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Edward Tiong, DS\/ML in Microsoft AI Rotation Program<br \/>\nAmit Gupte, Program Management in Microsoft AI Rotation Program<br \/>\nJason Eisner, NLP &amp; structured prediction<br \/>\nVikas Gosain, University\/PhD Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">10:45 \u2013 11:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Shuo Li, DS\/ML in Microsoft AI Rotation Program<br \/>\nYuze Zhang, DS\/ML in Microsoft AI Rotation Program<br \/>\nVikas Gosain, University\/PhD Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">13:45 \u2013 14:45 PDT<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Sahitya Mantravadi, DS\/ML in Microsoft AI Rotation Program<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\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 Gold sponsor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/icml.cc\/Conferences\/2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">37th International Conference on Machine Learning<\/a> (ICML), as well as Diamond sponsors at the <a href=\"https:\/\/wimlworkshop.org\/icml2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1st Women in Machine Learning Un-Workshop<\/a> and Platinum sponsors of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/queer-in-ai\/icml-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4th Queer in AI Workshop<\/a>. We have over 50 papers accepted to the conference, and you can find details of our publications on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/icml-2020\/#!accepted-papers\">Accepted papers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/icml-2020\/#!workshops\">Workshops<\/a> tabs.\r\n<h2>Committee chairs<\/h2>\r\nICML President: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jcl\/\">John Langford<\/a>\r\nICML Board Members: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hal3\/\">Hal Daum\u00e9 III<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a>\r\nProgram Co-chair: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hal3\/\">Hal Daum\u00e9 III<\/a>\r\n<h2>Invited speaker<\/h2>\r\n<h3>Tuesday, July 14<\/h3>\r\n05:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT &amp; 16:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT\r\n<strong>Doing Some Good with Machine Learning<\/strong>\r\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\">Lester Mackey<\/a>"},{"id":1,"name":"Sessions","content":"<h2>Tuesday, July 14<\/h2>\r\n07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/ngboost-natural-gradient-boosting-for-probabilistic-prediction\/\"><strong>NGBoost: Natural Gradient Boosting for Probabilistic Prediction<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Tony Duan<\/strong>, Anand Avati, Daisy Ding, Khanh K. Thai, Sanjay Basu, Andrew Ng, Alejandro Schuler\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/online-learning-for-active-cache-synchronization\/\"><strong>Online Learning for Active Cache Synchronization<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akolobov\/\">Andrey Kolobov<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sebubeck\/\">Sebastien Bubeck<\/a>, Julian Zimmert\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/randomized-smoothing-of-all-shapes-and-sizes\/\"><strong>Randomized Smoothing of All Shapes and Sizes<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/gregyang\/\">Greg Yang<\/a>, <strong>Tony Duan<\/strong>, <strong>J. Edward Hu<\/strong>, <strong>Hadi Salman<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ilyaraz\/\">Ilya Razenshteyn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jerrl\/\">Jerry Li<\/a>\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/private-reinforcement-learning-with-pac-and-regret-guarantees\/\"><strong>Private Reinforcement Learning with PAC and Regret Guarantees<\/strong><\/a>\r\nGiuseppe Vietri, Borja de Balle Pigem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, Steven Wu\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/scalable-nearest-neighbor-search-for-optimal-transport\/\"><strong>Scalable Nearest Neighbor Search for Optimal Transport<\/strong><\/a>\r\nArturs Backurs, <strong>Yihe Dong<\/strong>, Piotr Indyk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ilyaraz\/\">Ilya Razenshteyn<\/a>, Tal Wagner\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/combinatorial-pure-exploration-for-dueling-bandits\/\"><strong>Combinatorial Pure Exploration for Dueling Bandit<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Yihan Du, Longbo Huang, Haoyu Zhao\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/distance-metric-learning-with-joint-representation-diversification\/\"><strong>Distance Metric Learning with Joint Representation Diversification<\/strong><\/a>\r\nXu Chu, Yang Lin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xitwan\/\">Xiting Wang<\/a>, Xin Gao, Qi Tong, Hailong Yu, Yasha Wang\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/efficient-domain-generalization-via-common-specific-low-rank-decomposition\/\"><strong>Efficient Domain Generalization via Common-Specific Low-Rank Decomposition<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Vihari Piratla<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/praneeth\/\">Praneeth Netrapalli<\/a>, Sunita Sarawagi\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/faster-graph-embeddings-via-coarsening\/\"><strong>Faster Graph Embeddings via Coarsening<\/strong><\/a>\r\nMatthew Fahrbach, Gramoz Goranci, Sushant Sachdeva, Richard Peng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chiw\/\">Chi Wang<\/a>\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/what-is-local-optimality-in-nonconvex-nonconcave-minimax-optimization\/\"><strong>What is Local Optimality in Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Optimization?<\/strong><\/a>\r\nChi Jin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/praneeth\/\">Praneeth Netrapalli<\/a>, Michael Jordan\r\n\r\n08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/an-end-to-end-approach-for-the-verification-problem-learning-the-right-distance\/\"><strong>An end-to-end approach for the verification problem: learning the right distance<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJoao Monteiro, Isabela Albuquerque, Jahangir Alam, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/devonh\/\">R Devon Hjelm<\/a>, Tiago Falk\r\n\r\n08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/working-memory-graphs\/\"><strong>Working Memory Graphs<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/riloynd\/\">Ricky Loynd<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rfernand\/\">Roland Fernandez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\">Adith Swaminathan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mahauskn\/\">Matthew Hausknecht<\/a>\r\n\r\n08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/informative-dropout-for-robust-representation-learning-a-shape-bias-perspective\/\"><strong>Informative Dropout for Robust Representation Learning: A Shape-bias Perspective<\/strong><\/a>\r\nBaifeng Shi, Dinghuai Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qid\/\">Qi Dai<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingdw\/\">Jingdong Wang<\/a>, Zhanxing Zhu, Yadong Mu\r\n\r\n08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/near-optimal-sample-complexity-bounds-for-learning-latent-k%e2%88%92polytopes-and-applications-to-ad-mixtures\/\"><strong>Near-optimal Sample Complexity Bounds for Learning Latent\u00a0k\u2212polytopes and applications to Ad-Mixtures<\/strong><\/a>\r\nChiranjib Bhattacharyya, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kannan\/\">Ravindran Kannan<\/a>\r\n\r\n08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/differentially-private-set-union\/\"><strong>Differentially Private Set Union<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Pankaj Gulhane<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sigopi\/\">Sivakanth Gopi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jakul\/\">Janardhan Kulkarni<\/a>, <strong>Judy Hanwen Shen<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/milads\/\">Milad Shokouhi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yekhanin\/\">Sergey Yekhanin<\/a>\r\n\r\n08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/discount-factor-as-a-regularizer-in-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Discount Factor as a Regularizer in Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\nRon Amit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kaciosek\/\">Kamil Ciosek<\/a>, Ron Meir\r\n\r\n08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/drocc-deep-robust-one-class-classification\/\"><strong>DROCC: Deep Robust One-Class Classification<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Sachin Goyal<\/strong>, Aditi Raghunathan, Moksh Jain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/harshasi\/\">Harsha Vardhan Simhadri<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a>\r\n\r\n09:00 \u2013 09:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/feature-quantization-improves-gan-training\/\"><strong>Feature Quantization Improves GAN Training<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYang Zhao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chunyl\/\">Chunyuan Li<\/a>, Ping Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Changyou Chen\r\n\r\n09:00 \u2013 09:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/how-good-is-the-bayes-posterior-in-deep-neural-networks-really\/\"><strong>How Good is the Bayes Posterior in Deep Neural Networks Really<\/strong><\/a>\r\nFlorian Wenzel, Kevin Roth, Bastiaan S. Veeling, Jakub Swiatkowski, Linh Tran, Stephan Mandt, Jasper Snoek, Tim Salimans, Rodolphe Jenatton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a>\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 11:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/optimization-and-analysis-of-the-papk-metric-for-recommender-systems\/\"><strong>Optimization and Analysis of the pAp@k Metric for Recommender Systems<\/strong><\/a>\r\nGaurush Hiranandani, Warut Vijitbenjaronk, Sanmi Koyejo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a>\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 11:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bandits-with-adversarial-scaling\/\"><strong>Bandits with Adversarial Scaling<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/thlykour\/\">Thodoris Lykouris<\/a>, Vahab Mirrokni, Renato Leme\r\n\r\n12:00 \u2013 12:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: July 15 | 01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/tasknorm-rethinking-batch-normalization-for-meta-learning\/\"><strong>TaskNorm: Rethinking Batch Normalization for Meta-Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJohn Bronskill, Jonathan Gordon, James Requeima, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a>, Richard E. Turner\r\n\r\n13:00 \u2013 13:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: July 15 | 01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gnn-film-graph-neural-networks-with-feature-wise-linear-modulation\/\"><strong>GNN-FiLM: Graph Neural Networks with Feature-wise Linear Modulation<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mabrocks\/\">Marc Brockschmidt<\/a>\r\n\r\n18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/online-learning-for-active-cache-synchronization\/\"><strong>Online Learning for Active Cache Synchronization<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akolobov\/\">Andrey Kolobov<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sebubeck\/\">Sebastien Bubeck<\/a>, Julian Zimmert\r\n\r\n18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/scalable-nearest-neighbor-search-for-optimal-transport\/\"><strong>Scalable Nearest Neighbor Search for Optimal Transport<\/strong><\/a>\r\nArturs Backurs, <strong>Yihe Dong<\/strong>, Piotr Indyk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ilyaraz\/\">Ilya Razenshteyn<\/a>, Tal Wagner\r\n\r\n18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/faster-graph-embeddings-via-coarsening\/\"><strong>Faster Graph Embeddings via Coarsening<\/strong><\/a>\r\nMatthew Fahrbach, Gramoz Goranci, Sushant Sachdeva, Richard Peng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chiw\/\">Chi Wang<\/a>\r\n\r\n18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/what-is-local-optimality-in-nonconvex-nonconcave-minimax-optimization\/\"><strong>What is Local Optimality in Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Optimization?<\/strong><\/a>\r\nChi Jin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/praneeth\/\">Praneeth Netrapalli<\/a>, Michael Jordan\r\n\r\n19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/randomized-smoothing-of-all-shapes-and-sizes\/\"><strong>Randomized Smoothing of All Shapes and Sizes<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/gregyang\/\">Greg Yang<\/a>, <strong>Tony Duan<\/strong>, <strong>J. Edward Hu<\/strong>, <strong>Hadi Salman<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ilyaraz\/\">Ilya Razenshteyn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jerrl\/\">Jerry Li<\/a>\r\n\r\n19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/an-end-to-end-approach-for-the-verification-problem-learning-the-right-distance\/\"><strong>An end-to-end approach for the verification problem: learning the right distance<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJoao Monteiro, Isabela Albuquerque, Jahangir Alam, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/devonh\/\">R Devon Hjelm<\/a>, Tiago Falk\r\n\r\n19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/combinatorial-pure-exploration-for-dueling-bandits\/\"><strong>Combinatorial Pure Exploration for Dueling Bandit<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Yihan Du, Longbo Huang, Haoyu Zhao\r\n\r\n19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/distance-metric-learning-with-joint-representation-diversification\/\"><strong>Distance Metric Learning with Joint Representation Diversification<\/strong><\/a>\r\nXu Chu, Yang Lin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xitwan\/\">Xiting Wang<\/a>, Xin Gao, Qi Tong, Hailong Yu, Yasha Wang\r\n\r\n19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/efficient-domain-generalization-via-common-specific-low-rank-decomposition\/\"><strong>Efficient Domain Generalization via Common-Specific Low-Rank Decomposition<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Vihari Piratla<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/praneeth\/\">Praneeth Netrapalli<\/a>, Sunita Sarawagi\r\n\r\n19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/informative-dropout-for-robust-representation-learning-a-shape-bias-perspective\/\"><strong>Informative Dropout for Robust Representation Learning: A Shape-bias Perspective<\/strong><\/a>\r\nBaifeng Shi, Dinghuai Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qid\/\">Qi Dai<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingdw\/\">Jingdong Wang<\/a>, Zhanxing Zhu, Yadong Mu\r\n\r\n19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/differentially-private-set-union\/\"><strong>Differentially Private Set Union<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Pankaj Gulhane<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sigopi\/\">Sivakanth Gopi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jakul\/\">Janardhan Kulkarni<\/a>, <strong>Judy Hanwen Shen<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/milads\/\">Milad Shokouhi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yekhanin\/\">Sergey Yekhanin<\/a>\r\n\r\n20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/ngboost-natural-gradient-boosting-for-probabilistic-prediction\/\"><strong>NGBoost: Natural Gradient Boosting for Probabilistic Prediction<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Tony Duan<\/strong>, Anand Avati, Daisy Ding, Khanh K. Thai, Sanjay Basu, Andrew Ng, Alejandro Schuler\r\n\r\n20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/private-reinforcement-learning-with-pac-and-regret-guarantees\/\"><strong>Private Reinforcement Learning with PAC and Regret Guarantees<\/strong><\/a>\r\nGiuseppe Vietri, Borja de Balle Pigem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, Steven Wu\r\n\r\n20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/feature-quantization-improves-gan-training\/\"><strong>Feature Quantization Improves GAN Training<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYang Zhao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chunyl\/\">Chunyuan Li<\/a>, Ping Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Changyou Chen\r\n\r\n21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/working-memory-graphs\/\"><strong>Working Memory Graphs<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/riloynd\/\">Ricky Loynd<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rfernand\/\">Roland Fernandez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\">Adith Swaminathan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mahauskn\/\">Matthew Hausknecht<\/a>\r\n\r\n21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/near-optimal-sample-complexity-bounds-for-learning-latent-k%e2%88%92polytopes-and-applications-to-ad-mixtures\/\"><strong>Near-optimal Sample Complexity Bounds for Learning Latent\u00a0k\u2212polytopes and applications to Ad-Mixtures<\/strong><\/a>\r\nChiranjib Bhattacharyya, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kannan\/\">Ravindran Kannan<\/a>\r\n\r\n21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/discount-factor-as-a-regularizer-in-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Discount Factor as a Regularizer in Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\nRon Amit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kaciosek\/\">Kamil Ciosek<\/a>, Ron Meir\r\n\r\n21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/drocc-deep-robust-one-class-classification\/\"><strong>DROCC: Deep Robust One-Class Classification<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Sachin Goyal<\/strong>, Aditi Raghunathan, Moksh Jain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/harshasi\/\">Harsha Vardhan Simhadri<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a>\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/optimization-and-analysis-of-the-papk-metric-for-recommender-systems\/\"><strong>Optimization and Analysis of the pAp@k Metric for Recommender Systems<\/strong><\/a>\r\nGaurush Hiranandani, Warut Vijitbenjaronk, Sanmi Koyejo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a>\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bandits-with-adversarial-scaling\/\"><strong>Bandits with Adversarial Scaling<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/thlykour\/\">Thodoris Lykouris<\/a>, Vahab Mirrokni, Renato Leme\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/how-good-is-the-bayes-posterior-in-deep-neural-networks-really\/\"><strong>How Good is the Bayes Posterior in Deep Neural Networks Really<\/strong><\/a>\r\nFlorian Wenzel, Kevin Roth, Bastiaan S. Veeling, Jakub Swiatkowski, Linh Tran, Stephan Mandt, Jasper Snoek, Tim Salimans, Rodolphe Jenatton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<h2>Wednesday, July 15<\/h2>\r\n01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/gnn-film-graph-neural-networks-with-feature-wise-linear-modulation\/\"><strong>GNN-FiLM: Graph Neural Networks with Feature-wise Linear Modulation<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mabrocks\/\">Marc Brockschmidt<\/a>\r\n\r\n01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/tasknorm-rethinking-batch-normalization-for-meta-learning\/\"><strong>TaskNorm: Rethinking Batch Normalization for Meta-Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJohn Bronskill, Jonathan Gordon, James Requeima, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a>, Richard E. Turner\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 05:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 16:00 \u2013 16:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/adaptive-estimator-selection-for-off-policy-evaluation\/\"><strong>Adaptive Estimator Selection for Off-Policy Evaluation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYi Su, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/pasrinat\/\">Pavithra Srinath<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 05:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 16:00 \u2013 16:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/privately-learning-markov-random-fields\/\"><strong>Privately Learning Markov Random Fields<\/strong><\/a>\r\nGautam Kamath, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jakul\/\">Janardhan Kulkarni<\/a>, Steven Wu, Huanyu Zhang\r\n\r\n08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-non-iid-data-quagmire-of-decentralized-machine-learning\/\"><strong>The Non-IID Data Quagmire of Decentralized Machine Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Kevin Hsieh<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amar\/\">Amar Phanishayee<\/a>, Onur Mutlu, Phillip Gibbons\r\n\r\n08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/alleviating-privacy-attacks-via-causal-learning\/\"><strong>Alleviating Privacy Attacks via Causal Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shtople\/\">Shruti Tople<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adityan\/\">Aditya Nori<\/a>\r\n\r\n08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/locally-differentially-private-combinatorial-semi-bandits\/\"><strong>(Locally) Differentially Private Combinatorial Semi-Bandits<\/strong><\/a>\r\nXiaoyu Chen, Kai Zheng, Zixin Zhou, Yunchang Yang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Liwei Wang\r\n\r\n08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-usual-suspects-reassessing-blame-for-vae-posterior-collapse\/\"><strong>The Usual Suspects? Reassessing Blame for VAE Posterior Collapse<\/strong><\/a>\r\nBin Dai, Ziyu Wang, <strong>David Wipf<\/strong>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 10:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/single-point-transductive-prediction\/\"><strong>Single Point Transductive Prediction<\/strong><\/a>\r\nNilesh Tripuraneni, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\">Lester Mackey<\/a>\r\n\r\n10:00 \u2013 10:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/learning-calibratable-policies-using-programmatic-style-consistency\/\"><strong>Learning Calibratable Policies using Programmatic Style-Consistency<\/strong><\/a>\r\nEric Zhan, Albert Tseng, Yisong Yue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\">Adith Swaminathan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mahauskn\/\">Matthew Hausknecht<\/a>\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 11:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/statistically-preconditioned-accelerated-gradient-method-for-distributed-optimization\/\"><strong>Statistically Preconditioned Accelerated Gradient Method for Distributed Optimization<\/strong><\/a>\r\nHadrien Hendrikx, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lixiao\/\">Lin Xiao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sebubeck\/\">Sebastien Bubeck<\/a>, Francis Bach, <strong>Laurent Massouli\u00e9<\/strong>\r\n\r\n12:00 \u2013 12:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: July 16 | 01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/neuro-symbolic-visual-reasoning-disentangling-visual-from-reasoning\/\"><strong>Neuro-Symbolic Visual Reasoning: Disentangling \"Visual\" from \"Reasoning\"<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Saeed Amizadeh<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hpalangi\/\">Hamid Palangi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr Polozov<\/a>, <strong>Yichen Huang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kazukoi\/\">Kazuhito Koishida<\/a>\r\n\r\n16:00 \u2013 16:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: July 16 | 03:00 \u2013 03:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/optimization-from-structured-samples-for-coverage-functions\/\"><strong>Optimization from Structured Samples for Coverage Functions<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Xiaoming Sun, Jialin Zhang, Zhijie Zhang\r\n\r\n16:00 \u2013 16:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/adaptive-estimator-selection-for-off-policy-evaluation\/\"><strong>Adaptive Estimator Selection for Off-Policy Evaluation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYi Su, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/pasrinat\/\">Pavithra Srinath<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>\r\n\r\n16:00 \u2013 16:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/privately-learning-markov-random-fields\/\"><strong>Privately Learning Markov Random Fields<\/strong><\/a>\r\nGautam Kamath, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jakul\/\">Janardhan Kulkarni<\/a>, Steven Wu, Huanyu Zhang\r\n\r\n20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-usual-suspects-reassessing-blame-for-vae-posterior-collapse\/\"><strong>The Usual Suspects? 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href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/alleviating-privacy-attacks-via-causal-learning\/\"><strong>Alleviating Privacy Attacks via Causal Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shtople\/\">Shruti Tople<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adityan\/\">Aditya Nori<\/a>\r\n\r\n21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/locally-differentially-private-combinatorial-semi-bandits\/\"><strong>(Locally) Differentially Private Combinatorial Semi-Bandits<\/strong><\/a>\r\nXiaoyu Chen, Kai Zheng, Zixin Zhou, Yunchang Yang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Liwei Wang\r\n\r\n21:00 \u2013 21:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/learning-calibratable-policies-using-programmatic-style-consistency\/\"><strong>Learning Calibratable Policies using Programmatic Style-Consistency<\/strong><\/a>\r\nEric Zhan, Albert Tseng, Yisong Yue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\">Adith Swaminathan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mahauskn\/\">Matthew Hausknecht<\/a>\r\n\r\n22:00 \u2013 22:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/statistically-preconditioned-accelerated-gradient-method-for-distributed-optimization\/\"><strong>Statistically Preconditioned Accelerated Gradient Method for Distributed Optimization<\/strong><\/a>\r\nHadrien Hendrikx, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lixiao\/\">Lin Xiao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sebubeck\/\">Sebastien Bubeck<\/a>, Francis Bach, <strong>Laurent Massouli\u00e9<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<h2>Thursday, July 16<\/h2>\r\n01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/neuro-symbolic-visual-reasoning-disentangling-visual-from-reasoning\/\"><strong>Neuro-Symbolic Visual Reasoning: Disentangling \"Visual\" from \"Reasoning\"<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Saeed Amizadeh<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hpalangi\/\">Hamid Palangi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/polozov\/\">Oleksandr Polozov<\/a>, <strong>Yichen Huang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kazukoi\/\">Kazuhito Koishida<\/a>\r\n\r\n03:00 \u2013 03:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/optimization-from-structured-samples-for-coverage-functions\/\"><strong>Optimization from Structured Samples for Coverage Functions<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Xiaoming Sun, Jialin Zhang, Zhijie Zhang\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: July 17 | 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/mapping-natural-language-problems-to-formal-language-solutions-using-structured-neural-representations\/\"><strong>Mapping Natural-language Problems to Formal-language Solutions Using Structured Neural Representations<\/strong><\/a>\r\nKezhen Chen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qihua\/\">Qiuyuan Huang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hpalangi\/\">Hamid Palangi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/psmo\/\">Paul Smolensky<\/a>, Ken Forbus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/binoculars-for-efficient-nonmyopic-sequential-experimental-design\/\"><strong>BINOCULARS for efficient, nonmyopic sequential experimental design<\/strong><\/a>\r\nShali Jiang, Henry Chai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jagonz\/\">Javier Gonzalez<\/a>, Roman Garnett\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/black-box-methods-for-restoring-monotonicity\/\"><strong>Black-Box Methods for Restoring Monotonicity<\/strong><\/a>\r\nEvangelia Gergatsouli, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/brlucier\/\">Brendan Lucier<\/a>, Christos Tzamos\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/club-a-contrastive-log-ratio-upper-bound-of-mutual-information\/\"><strong>CLUB: A Contrastive Log-ratio Upper Bound of Mutual Information<\/strong><\/a>\r\nPengyu Cheng, Weituo Hao, Shuyang Dai, Jiachang Liu, <strong>Zhe Gan<\/strong>, Lawrence Carin\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/neural-datalog-through-time-informed-temporal-modeling-via-logical-specification\/\"><strong>Neural Datalog Through Time: Informed Temporal Modeling via Logical Specification<\/strong><\/a>\r\nHongyuan Mei, Guanghui Qin, Minjie Xu, <strong>Jason Eisner<\/strong>\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/provably-efficient-model-based-policy-adaptation\/\"><strong>Provably Efficient Model-based Policy Adaptation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYuda Song, Aditi Mavalankar, <strong>Wen Sun<\/strong>, Sicun Gao\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/sequence-generation-with-mixed-representations\/\"><strong>Sequence Generation with Mixed Representations<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Lijun Wu<\/strong>, <strong>Shufang Xie<\/strong>, Yingce Xia, Yang Fan, Jian-Huang Lai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 06:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/reward-free-exploration-for-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Reward-Free Exploration for Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\nChi Jin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, Max Simchowitz, Tiancheng Yu\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/no-regret-and-incentive-compatible-online-learning\/\"><strong>No-Regret and Incentive-Compatible Online Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rufreema\/\">Rupert Freeman<\/a>, David Pennock, Charikleia Podimata, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jenn\/\">Jennifer Wortman Vaughan<\/a>\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/graph-optimal-transport-for-cross-domain-alignment\/\"><strong>Graph Optimal Transport for Cross-Domain Alignment<\/strong><\/a>\r\nLiqun Chen, <strong>Zhe Gan<\/strong>, <strong>Yu Cheng<\/strong>, <strong>Linjie Li<\/strong>, Lawrence Carin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/doubly-robust-off-policy-evaluation-with-shrinkage\/\"><strong>Doubly Robust Off-policy Evaluation with Shrinkage<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYi Su, Maria Dimakopoulou, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mdudik\/\">Miroslav Dudik<\/a>\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/variance-reduction-and-quasi-newton-for-particle-based-variational-inference\/\"><strong>Variance Reduction and Quasi-Newton for Particle-Based Variational Inference<\/strong><\/a> Michael Zhu, <strong>Chang Liu<\/strong>, Jun Zhu\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 07:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/kinematic-state-abstraction-and-provably-efficient-rich-observation-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Kinematic State Abstraction and Provably Efficient Rich-Observation Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dimisra\/\">Dipendra Misra<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mihenaff\/\">Mikael Henaff<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jcl\/\">John Langford<\/a>\r\n\r\n08:00 \u2013 08:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/unilmv2-pseudo-masked-language-models-for-unified-language-model-pre-training\/\"><strong>UniLMv2: Pseudo-Masked Language Models for Unified Language Model Pre-Training<\/strong><\/a>\r\nHangbo Bao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lidong1\/\">Li Dong<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\">Furu Wei<\/a>, <strong>Wenhui Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanya\/\">Nan Yang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>, <strong>Yu Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Songhao Piao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hon\/\">Hsiao-Wuen Hon<\/a>\r\n\r\n09:00 \u2013 09:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: 23:00 \u2013 23:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bounding-the-fairness-and-accuracy-of-classifiers-from-population-statistics\/\"><strong>Bounding the fairness and accuracy of classifiers from population statistics<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Sivan Sabato<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eladyt\/\">Elad Yom-Tov<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:00 \u2013 12:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: July 17 | 00:00 \u2013 00:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/soft-threshold-weight-reparameterization-for-learnable-sparsity\/\"><strong>Soft Threshold Weight Reparameterization for Learnable Sparsity<\/strong><\/a>\r\nAditya Kusupati, Vivek Ramanujan, Raghav Somani, Mitchell Wortsman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a>, Sham Kakade, Ali Farhadi\r\n\r\n12:00 \u2013 12:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: July 17 | 01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-k-tied-normal-distribution-a-compact-parameterization-of-gaussian-mean-field-posteriors-in-bayesian-neural-networks\/\"><strong>The k-tied Normal Distribution: A Compact Parameterization of Gaussian Mean Field Posteriors in Bayesian Neural Networks<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJakub Swiatkowski, Kevin Roth, Bastiaan S. Veeling, Linh Tran, Joshua V. Dillon, Stephan Mandt, Jasper Snoek, Tim Salimans, Rodolphe Jenatton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a>\r\n\r\n17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/binoculars-for-efficient-nonmyopic-sequential-experimental-design\/\"><strong>BINOCULARS for efficient, nonmyopic sequential experimental design<\/strong><\/a>\r\nShali Jiang, Henry Chai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jagonz\/\">Javier Gonzalez<\/a>, Roman Garnett\r\n\r\n17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/club-a-contrastive-log-ratio-upper-bound-of-mutual-information\/\"><strong>CLUB: A Contrastive Log-ratio Upper Bound of Mutual Information<\/strong><\/a>\r\nPengyu Cheng, Weituo Hao, Shuyang Dai, Jiachang Liu, <strong>Zhe Gan<\/strong>, Lawrence Carin\r\n\r\n17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/neural-datalog-through-time-informed-temporal-modeling-via-logical-specification\/\"><strong>Neural Datalog Through Time: Informed Temporal Modeling via Logical Specification<\/strong><\/a>\r\nHongyuan Mei, Guanghui Qin, Minjie Xu, <strong>Jason Eisner<\/strong>\r\n\r\n17:00 \u2013 17:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/reward-free-exploration-for-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Reward-Free Exploration for Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\nChi Jin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, Max Simchowitz, Tiancheng Yu\r\n\r\n18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/mapping-natural-language-problems-to-formal-language-solutions-using-structured-neural-representations\/\"><strong>Mapping Natural-language Problems to Formal-language Solutions Using Structured Neural Representations<\/strong><\/a>\r\nKezhen Chen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qihua\/\">Qiuyuan Huang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hpalangi\/\">Hamid Palangi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/psmo\/\">Paul Smolensky<\/a>, Ken Forbus, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>\r\n\r\n18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/no-regret-and-incentive-compatible-online-learning\/\"><strong>No-Regret and Incentive-Compatible Online Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rufreema\/\">Rupert Freeman<\/a>, David Pennock, Charikleia Podimata, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jenn\/\">Jennifer Wortman Vaughan<\/a>\r\n\r\n18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n2nd session: July 17 | 04:00 \u2013 04:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/on-layer-normalization-in-the-transformer-architecture\/\"><strong>On Layer Normalization in the Transformer Architecture<\/strong><\/a>\r\nRuibin Xiong, Yunchang Yang, Di He, Kai Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shuz\/\">Shuxin Zheng<\/a>, Chen Xing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/huzhang\/\">Huishuai Zhang<\/a>, Yanyan Lan, Liwei Wang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/black-box-methods-for-restoring-monotonicity\/\"><strong>Black-Box Methods for Restoring Monotonicity<\/strong><\/a>\r\nEvangelia Gergatsouli, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/brlucier\/\">Brendan Lucier<\/a>, Christos Tzamos\r\n\r\n18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/graph-optimal-transport-for-cross-domain-alignment\/\"><strong>Graph Optimal Transport for Cross-Domain Alignment<\/strong><\/a>\r\nLiqun Chen, <strong>Zhe Gan<\/strong>, <strong>Yu Cheng<\/strong>, <strong>Linjie Li<\/strong>, Lawrence Carin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/variance-reduction-and-quasi-newton-for-particle-based-variational-inference\/\"><strong>Variance Reduction and Quasi-Newton for Particle-Based Variational Inference<\/strong><\/a> Michael Zhu, <strong>Chang Liu<\/strong>, Jun Zhu\r\n\r\n18:00 \u2013 18:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/sequence-generation-with-mixed-representations\/\"><strong>Sequence Generation with Mixed Representations<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Lijun Wu<\/strong>, <strong>Shufang Xie<\/strong>, Yingce Xia, Yang Fan, Jian-Huang Lai, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/unilmv2-pseudo-masked-language-models-for-unified-language-model-pre-training\/\"><strong>UniLMv2: Pseudo-Masked Language Models for Unified Language Model Pre-Training<\/strong><\/a>\r\nHangbo Bao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lidong1\/\">Li Dong<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fuwei\/\">Furu Wei<\/a>, <strong>Wenhui Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nanya\/\">Nan Yang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaodl\/\">Xiaodong Liu<\/a>, <strong>Yu Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Songhao Piao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mingzhou\/\">Ming Zhou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hon\/\">Hsiao-Wuen Hon<\/a>\r\n\r\n19:00 \u2013 19:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/provably-efficient-model-based-policy-adaptation\/\"><strong>Provably Efficient Model-based Policy Adaptation<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYuda Song, Aditi Mavalankar, <strong>Wen Sun<\/strong>, Sicun Gao\r\n\r\n20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/doubly-robust-off-policy-evaluation-with-shrinkage\/\"><strong>Doubly Robust Off-policy Evaluation with Shrinkage<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYi Su, Maria Dimakopoulou, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mdudik\/\">Miroslav Dudik<\/a>\r\n\r\n20:00 \u2013 20:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/kinematic-state-abstraction-and-provably-efficient-rich-observation-reinforcement-learning\/\"><strong>Kinematic State Abstraction and Provably Efficient Rich-Observation Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dimisra\/\">Dipendra Misra<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mihenaff\/\">Mikael Henaff<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jcl\/\">John Langford<\/a>\r\n\r\n23:00 \u2013 23:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/bounding-the-fairness-and-accuracy-of-classifiers-from-population-statistics\/\"><strong>Bounding the fairness and accuracy of classifiers from population statistics<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Sivan Sabato<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eladyt\/\">Elad Yom-Tov<\/a>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<h2>Friday, July 17<\/h2>\r\n00:00 \u2013 00:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/soft-threshold-weight-reparameterization-for-learnable-sparsity\/\"><strong>Soft Threshold Weight Reparameterization for Learnable Sparsity<\/strong><\/a>\r\nAditya Kusupati, Vivek Ramanujan, Raghav Somani, Mitchell Wortsman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/prajain\/\">Prateek Jain<\/a>, Sham Kakade, Ali Farhadi\r\n\r\n01:00 \u2013 01:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/the-k-tied-normal-distribution-a-compact-parameterization-of-gaussian-mean-field-posteriors-in-bayesian-neural-networks\/\"><strong>The k-tied Normal Distribution: A Compact Parameterization of Gaussian Mean Field Posteriors in Bayesian Neural Networks<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJakub Swiatkowski, Kevin Roth, Bastiaan S. Veeling, Linh Tran, Joshua V. Dillon, Stephan Mandt, Jasper Snoek, Tim Salimans, Rodolphe Jenatton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/senowozi\/\">Sebastian Nowozin<\/a>\r\n\r\n04:00 \u2013 04:45 PDT\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/on-layer-normalization-in-the-transformer-architecture\/\"><strong>On Layer Normalization in the Transformer Architecture<\/strong><\/a>\r\nRuibin Xiong, Yunchang Yang, Di He, Kai Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shuz\/\">Shuxin Zheng<\/a>, Chen Xing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/huzhang\/\">Huishuai Zhang<\/a>, Yanyan Lan, Liwei Wang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>"},{"id":2,"name":"Workshops","content":"<h2>July 13 \u2013 18<\/h2>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/queer-in-ai\/icml-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Queer in AI<\/strong><\/a>\r\nCo-organizer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/anmcnama\/\">Andrew McNamara<\/a>\r\n<h2>Friday, July 17<\/h2>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/optml-icml2020\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Beyond first order methods in machine learning systems<\/strong><\/a>\r\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lixiao\/\">Lin Xiao<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/hsys2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Healthcare Systems, Population Health, and the role of health-tech<\/strong><\/a>\r\nCo-organizer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kopalla\/\">Konstantina Palla<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/icml-sas.gitlab.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Self-supervision in Audio and Speech<\/strong><\/a>\r\nCo-organizer: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/devonh\/\">R Devon Hjelm<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wensun.github.io\/rl_theory_workshop_2020_ICML.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Theoretical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\nCo-organizers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/thlykour\/\">Thodoris Lykouris<\/a>\r\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/akshaykr\/\">Akshay Krishnamurthy<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/manikvarma.org\/events\/XC20\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Workshop on eXtreme Classification: Theory and Applications<\/strong><\/a>\r\nCo-organizers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jcl\/\">John Langford<\/a>, Yashoteja Prabhu\r\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/manik\/\">Manik Varma<\/a>\r\n<h2>Saturday, July 18<\/h2>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/larel-ws.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>1st Workshop on Language in 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ICML<\/h2>\r\nTalk to our experts and learn more about our research and open opportunities.\r\n<h3>Sunday, July 12<\/h3>\r\n<h4>Live Chat<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">11:15 \u2013 12:15 PDT<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Ricky Loynd, RL<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">13:45 \u2013 14:45 PDT<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3 style=\"padding: 25px 0px 0px 0px\">Monday, July 13<\/h3>\r\n<h4>Live Chat<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">04:00 \u2013 05:00 PDT<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">Amit Sharma: Causality, ML explanations<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">14:00 \u2013 15:00 PDT<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, University\/PhD Recruiting<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h3 style=\"padding: 25px 0px 0px 0px\">Tuesday, July 14<\/h3>\r\n<h4>Live Chat<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">07:45 \u2013 08:45 PDT<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid 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Sharma<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/divyat09.github.io\/\">Divyat Mahajan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shtople\/\">Shruti Tople<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">10:45 \u2013 11:45 PDT<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Learning calibratable policies using programmatic style-consistency\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/adswamin\/\">Adith Swaminathan<\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<h4 style=\"padding: 15px 0px 0px 0px\">Live Chat<\/h4>\r\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: left;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 22%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\">00:45 \u2013 01:45 PDT<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid 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