{"id":713662,"date":"2021-01-11T18:09:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T02:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&#038;p=713662"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:52:03","slug":"aaai-2021","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/aaai-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft at AAAI 2021"},"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:\/\/aaai.org\/Conferences\/AAAI-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AAAI 2021<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is proud to be a silver sponsor of the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/aaai.org\/Conferences\/AAAI-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. Stop by our virtual booth to chat with our researchers and learn about open opportunities at Microsoft. See below for our live chat schedule.<\/p>\n<h2>Live chat with us<\/h2>\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: center;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Thursday, February 4<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Time (PST)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Name, Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">11:00\u201311:45<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">11:45\u201312:30<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, Recruiting<br \/>\nTristan Naumann, ML & NLP for Health<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">19:00\u201319:45<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Soroush Mehri, Machine Learning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Friday, February 5<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Time (PST)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Name, Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">3:45\u20134:30<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Krzysztof Maziarz, Generative Chemistry, GNNs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">10:00 \u201311:00<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, Recruiting<br \/>\nLar Liden, NLP, Conversational AI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">11:00\u201311:45<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">11:45\u201312:30<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Tristan Naumann, ML & NLP for Health<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">18:00\u201319:00<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Besmira Nushi, Reliable & Robust ML, Human-AI Collaboration<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Saturday, February 6<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Time (PST)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Name, Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">10:00\u201311:45<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">11:45\u201312:30<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Cammy Vasquez, Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">18:00\u201320:30<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Cammy Vasquez, Recruiting<br \/>\nJiayi Song, Recruiting<br \/>\nYun Chen, Recruiting<\/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<p><em>All times are displayed in Pacific Time (UTC-08:00)<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday, February 3<\/h3>\n<p>8:30 \u2013 11:45 | Tutorial<br \/>\n<strong>Responsible AI in Industry: Practical Challenges and Lessons Learned<\/strong><br \/>\nKrishnaram Kenthapadi, Ben Packer, <strong>Mehrnoosh Sameki<\/strong>, Nashlie Sephus<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Thursday, February 4<\/h3>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Demonstration<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/integrating-pre-trained-model-into-rule-based-dialogue-management\/\"><strong>Integrating Pre-trained Model into Rule-based Dialogue Management<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Jun Quan<\/strong>, <strong>Meng Yang<\/strong>, <strong>Qiang Gan<\/strong>, Deyi Xiong, <strong>Yiming Liu<\/strong>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yuchen-song-984a82a3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuchen Dong<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <strong>Fangxin Ouyang<\/strong>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/junzhuo-tian-2babb037\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jun Tian<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <strong>Ruiling Deng<\/strong>, <strong>Yongzhi Li<\/strong>, <strong>Yang Yang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Demonstration<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/integrating-pre-trained-model-into-rule-based-dialogue-management\/\"><strong>Integrating Pre-trained Model into Rule-based Dialogue Management<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Jun Quan<\/strong>, <strong>Meng Yang<\/strong>, <strong>Qiang Gan<\/strong>, Deyi Xiong, <strong>Yiming Liu<\/strong>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yuchen-song-984a82a3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuchen Dong<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <strong>Fangxin Ouyang<\/strong>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/junzhuo-tian-2babb037\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jun Tian<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <strong>Ruiling Deng<\/strong>, <strong>Yongzhi Li<\/strong>, <strong>Yang Yang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Intelligent Robots \/ Vision for Robotics<br \/>\n<strong>Learning Monocular Depth in Dynamic Scenes via Instance-Aware Projection Consistency<\/strong><br \/>\nSeokju Lee, Sunghoon Im, <strong>Stephen Lin<\/strong>, In So Kweon<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Reinforcement Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Successor feature sets: generalizing successor representations across policies<\/strong><br \/>\nKiant\u00e9 Brantley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/somehri\/\">Soroush Mehri<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ggordon\/\">Geoff Gordon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Discourse \/ Dialog \/ Summarization<br \/>\n<strong>Data Augmentation for Abstractive Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization<\/strong><br \/>\nRamakanth R Pasunuru, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mgalley\/\">Michel Galley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan Xiong<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe Zhang<\/a>, Mohit Bansal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Ethics<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/how-linguistically-fair-are-multilingual-pre-trained-language-models\/\"><strong>How Linguistically Fair are Multilingual Pre-Trained Language Models?<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit Choudhury<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amitdesh\/\">Amit Deshpande<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Information Extraction<br \/>\n<strong>Denoising Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition via a Hypergeometric Probabilistic Model<\/strong><br \/>\nHongyu Lin, Wenkai Zhang, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Huidan Liu, <strong>Nicholas Yuan<\/strong>, Zhicheng Wei<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI<br \/>\n<strong>The Importance of Modeling Data Missingness in Algorithmic Fairness: A Causal Perspective<\/strong><br \/>\nNaman Goel, Alfonso Amayuelas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amitdesh\/\">Amit Deshpande<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI<br \/>\n<strong>How Does Data Augmentation Affect Privacy in Machine Learning?<\/strong><br \/>\nDa Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/huzhang\/\">Huishuai Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Jian Yin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/is-the-most-accurate-ai-the-best-teammate-optimizing-ai-for-teamwork\/\"><strong>Is the Most Accurate AI the Best Teammate? Optimizing AI for Teamwork<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGagan Bansal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/benushi\/\">Besmira Nushi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eckamar\/\">Ece Kamar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/horvitz\/\">Eric Horvitz<\/a>, Daniel Weld<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Vision: Scene Analysis & Understanding<br \/>\n<strong>Holistic Multi-View Building Analysis in the Wild with Projection Pooling<\/strong><br \/>\nZbigniew Bogdan Wojna, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/krmaziar\/\">Krzysztof Maziarz<\/a>, Lukasz Jocz, Robert Paluba, Robert Kozikowski, Iason Kokkinos<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Demonstration<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/integrating-pre-trained-model-into-rule-based-dialogue-management\/\"><strong>Integrating Pre-trained Model into Rule-based Dialogue Management<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Jun Quan<\/strong>, <strong>Meng Yang<\/strong>, <strong>Qiang Gan<\/strong>, Deyi Xiong, <strong>Yiming Liu<\/strong>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yuchen-song-984a82a3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuchen Dong<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <strong>Fangxin Ouyang<\/strong>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/junzhuo-tian-2babb037\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jun Tian<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <strong>Ruiling Deng<\/strong>, <strong>Yongzhi Li<\/strong>, <strong>Yang Yang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Discourse \/ Dialog \/ Summarization<br \/>\n<strong>Data Augmentation for Abstractive Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization<\/strong><br \/>\nRamakanth R Pasunuru, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mgalley\/\">Michel Galley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan Xiong<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe Zhang<\/a>, Mohit Bansal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Information Extraction<br \/>\n<strong>Denoising Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition via a Hypergeometric Probabilistic Model<\/strong><br \/>\nHongyu Lin, Wenkai Zhang, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Huidan Liu, <strong>Nicholas Yuan<\/strong>, Zhicheng Wei<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Reinforcement Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Successor feature sets: generalizing successor representations across policies<\/strong><br \/>\nKiant\u00e9 Brantley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/somehri\/\">Soroush Mehri<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ggordon\/\">Geoff Gordon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI<br \/>\n<strong>How Does Data Augmentation Affect Privacy in Machine Learning?<\/strong><br \/>\nDa Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/huzhang\/\">Huishuai Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Jian Yin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/is-the-most-accurate-ai-the-best-teammate-optimizing-ai-for-teamwork\/\"><strong>Is the Most Accurate AI the Best Teammate? Optimizing AI for Teamwork<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGagan Bansal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/benushi\/\">Besmira Nushi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eckamar\/\">Ece Kamar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/horvitz\/\">Eric Horvitz<\/a>, Daniel Weld<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Vision: Image and Video Retrieval<br \/>\n<strong>Exploiting Sample Uncertainty for Domain Adaptive Person Re-Identification<\/strong><br \/>\nKecheng Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/culan\/\">Cuiling Lan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wezeng\/\">Wenjun Zeng<\/a>, Zhizheng Zhang, Zheng-Jun Zha<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Vision: Scene Analysis & Understanding<br \/>\n<strong>Holistic Multi-View Building Analysis in the Wild with Projection Pooling<\/strong><br \/>\nZbigniew Bogdan Wojna, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/krmaziar\/\">Krzysztof Maziarz<\/a>, Lukasz Jocz, Robert Paluba, Robert Kozikowski, Iason Kokkinos<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Friday, February 5<\/h3>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Intelligent Robots \/ Vision for Robotics<br \/>\n<strong>Learning Monocular Depth in Dynamic Scenes via Instance-Aware Projection Consistency<\/strong><br \/>\nSeokju Lee, Sunghoon Im, <strong>Stephen Lin<\/strong>, In So Kweon<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Ethics<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/how-linguistically-fair-are-multilingual-pre-trained-language-models\/\"><strong>How Linguistically Fair are Multilingual Pre-Trained Language Models?<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit Choudhury<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amitdesh\/\">Amit Deshpande<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI<br \/>\n<strong>The Importance of Modeling Data Missingness in Algorithmic Fairness: A Causal Perspective<\/strong><br \/>\nNaman Goel, Alfonso Amayuelas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amitdesh\/\">Amit Deshpande<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Vision: Image and Video Retrieval<br \/>\n<strong>Exploiting Sample Uncertainty for Domain Adaptive Person Re-Identification<\/strong><br \/>\nKecheng Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/culan\/\">Cuiling Lan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wezeng\/\">Wenjun Zeng<\/a>, Zhizheng Zhang, Zheng-Jun Zha<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Applications<br \/>\n<strong>Universal Trading for Order Execution with Oracle Policy Distillation<\/strong><br \/>\nYuchen Fang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kanren\/\">Kan Ren<\/a>, <strong>Weiqing Liu<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongzho\/\">Dong Zhou<\/a>, Weinan Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jibian\/\">Jiang Bian<\/a>, Yong Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Fair Division<br \/>\n<strong>Fair and Truthful Mechanisms for Dichotomous Valuations<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/moshe\/\">Moshe Babaioff<\/a>, Tomer Ezra, Uriel Feige<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Game Theory and Economic Paradigms<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/estimating-%ce%b1-rank-by-maximizing-information-gain\/\"><strong>Estimating alpha-Rank by Maximizing Information Gain<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nTabish Rashid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chezha\/\">Cheng Zhang<\/a>, <strong>Kamil Ciosek<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Heuristic and Greedy Search<br \/>\n<strong>NuQClq: An Effective Local Search Algorithm for Maximum Quasi-Clique Problem<\/strong><br \/>\nJiejiang Chen, Shaowei Cai, Shiwei Pan, Yiyuan Wang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qlin\/\">Qingwei Lin<\/a>, Mengyu Zhao, Minghao Yin<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Generation<br \/>\n<strong>Copy That! Editing Sequences by Copying Spans<\/strong><br \/>\nSheena L Panthaplackel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/miallama\/\">Miltiadis Allamanis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mabrocks\/\">Marc Brockschmidt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Generation<br \/>\n<strong>A Controllable Model of Grounded Response Generation<\/strong><br \/>\nZeqiu Wu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mgalley\/\">Michel Galley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisbkt\/\">Chris Brockett<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiag\/\">Xiang Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisq\/\">Chris Quirk<\/a>, Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Mari Ostendorf, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/billdol\/\">Bill Dolan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Search and Optimization<br \/>\n<strong>OpEvo: An Evolutionary Method for Tensor Operator Optimization<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Xiaotian Gao<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weicu\/\">Wei Cui<\/a>, <strong>Lintao Zhang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/maoyang\/\">Mao Yang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | 3D Computer Vision<br \/>\n<strong>Unsupervised 3D Learning for Shape Analysis via Multiresolution Instance Discrimination<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Peng-Shuai Wang<\/strong>, Yuqi Yang, Qianfang Zou, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wuzhiron\/\">Zhirong Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yangliu\/\">Yang Liu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xtong\/\">Xin Tong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Applications<br \/>\n<strong>Universal Trading for Order Execution with Oracle Policy Distillation<\/strong><br \/>\nYuchen Fang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kanren\/\">Kan Ren<\/a>, <strong>Weiqing Liu<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongzho\/\">Dong Zhou<\/a>, Weinan Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jibian\/\">Jiang Bian<\/a>, Yong Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Game Theory and Economic Paradigms<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/estimating-%ce%b1-rank-by-maximizing-information-gain\/\"><strong>Estimating alpha-Rank by Maximizing Information Gain<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nTabish Rashid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chezha\/\">Cheng Zhang<\/a>, <strong>Kamil Ciosek<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Bandits \/ RL \/ Imitation Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Combinatorial Pure Exploration with Full-Bandit or Partial Linear Feedback<\/strong><br \/>\nYihan Du, Yuko Kuroki, <strong>Wei Chen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Unsupervised & Self-Supervised Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Distilling Localization for Self-Supervised Representation Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nNanxuan Zhao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wuzhiron\/\">Zhirong Wu<\/a>, Rynson W.H. Lau, <strong>Stephen Lin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Conversational AI\/Dialog Systems<br \/>\n<strong>Learning an Effective Context-Response Matching Model with Self-Supervised Tasks for Retrieval-based Dialogues<\/strong><br \/>\nRuijian Xu, <strong>Chongyang Tao<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a>, Xueliang Zhao, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Generation<br \/>\n<strong>Copy That! Editing Sequences by Copying Spans<\/strong><br \/>\nSheena L Panthaplackel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/miallama\/\">Miltiadis Allamanis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mabrocks\/\">Marc Brockschmidt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Information Extraction<br \/>\n<strong>A Supervised Multi-Head Self-Attention Network for Nested Named Entity Recognition<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yongxiu Xu<\/strong>, Heyan Huang, Chong Feng, Yue Hu<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Information Extraction<br \/>\n<strong>A Controllable Model of Grounded Response Generation<\/strong><br \/>\nZeqiu Wu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mgalley\/\">Michel Galley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisbkt\/\">Chris Brockett<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiag\/\">Xiang Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisq\/\">Chris Quirk<\/a>, Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Mari Ostendorf, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/billdol\/\">Bill Dolan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Search and Optimization<br \/>\n<strong>OpEvo: An Evolutionary Method for Tensor Operator Optimization<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Xiaotian Gao<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weicu\/\">Wei Cui<\/a>, <strong>Lintao Zhang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/maoyang\/\">Mao Yang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Speech & Signal Processing<br \/>\n<strong>Interactive Speech and Noise Modeling for Speech Enhancement<\/strong><br \/>\nChengyu Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xipe\/\">Xiulian Peng<\/a>, Yuan Zhang, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sriramsrinivasan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sriram Srinivasan<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yanlu\/\">Yan Lu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Speech & Signal Processing<br \/>\n<strong>UWSpeech: Speech to Speech Translation for Unwritten Languages<\/strong><br \/>\nChen Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Yi Ren, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Kejun Zhang, <strong>Tieyan Liu<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Saturday, February 6<\/h3>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | 3D Computer Vision<br \/>\n<strong>Unsupervised 3D Learning for Shape Analysis via Multiresolution Instance Discrimination<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Peng-Shuai Wang<\/strong>, Yuqi Yang, Qianfang Zou, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wuzhiron\/\">Zhirong Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yangliu\/\">Yang Liu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xtong\/\">Xin Tong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Fair Division<br \/>\n<strong>Fair and Truthful Mechanisms for Dichotomous Valuations<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/moshe\/\">Moshe Babaioff<\/a>, Tomer Ezra, Uriel Feige<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Heuristic and Greedy Search<br \/>\n<strong>NuQClq: An Effective Local Search Algorithm for Maximum Quasi-Clique Problem<\/strong><br \/>\nJiejiang Chen, Shaowei Cai, Shiwei Pan, Yiyuan Wang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qlin\/\">Qingwei Lin<\/a>, Mengyu Zhao, Minghao Yin<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Bandits \/ RL \/ Imitation Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Combinatorial Pure Exploration with Full-Bandit or Partial Linear Feedback<\/strong><br \/>\nYihan Du, Yuko Kuroki, <strong>Wei Chen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Unsupervised & Self-Supervised Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Distilling Localization for Self-Supervised Representation Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nNanxuan Zhao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wuzhiron\/\">Zhirong Wu<\/a>, Rynson W.H. Lau, <strong>Stephen Lin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Conversational AI\/Dialog Systems<br \/>\n<strong>Learning an Effective Context-Response Matching Model with Self-Supervised Tasks for Retrieval-based Dialogues<\/strong><br \/>\nRuijian Xu, <strong>Chongyang Tao<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a>, Xueliang Zhao, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Information Extraction<br \/>\n<strong>A Supervised Multi-Head Self-Attention Network for Nested Named Entity Recognition<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yongxiu Xu<\/strong>, Heyan Huang, Chong Feng, Yue Hu<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Speech & Signal Processing<br \/>\n<strong>Interactive Speech and Noise Modeling for Speech Enhancement<\/strong><br \/>\nChengyu Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xipe\/\">Xiulian Peng<\/a>, Yuan Zhang, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sriramsrinivasan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sriram Srinivasan<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yanlu\/\">Yan Lu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Speech & Signal Processing<br \/>\n<strong>UWSpeech: Speech to Speech Translation for Unwritten Languages<\/strong><br \/>\nChen Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Yi Ren, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Kejun Zhang, <strong>Tieyan Liu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Applications<br \/>\n<strong>Towards Balanced Defect Prediction with Better Information Propagation<\/strong><br \/>\nXianda Zheng, Yuan-Fang Li, <strong>Huan Gao<\/strong>, Yuncheng Hua, Guilin Qi<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Language and Vision<br \/>\n<strong>VIVO: Visual Vocabulary Pre-Training for Novel Object Captioning<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaowh\/\">Xiaowei Hu<\/a>, <strong>Xi Yin<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/keli\/\">Kevin Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/leizhang\/\">Lei Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lijuanw\/\">Lijuan Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zliu\/\">Zicheng Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Learning Theory \/ Optimization<br \/>\n<strong>Frugal Optimization for Cost-related Hyperparameters<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qiw\/\">Qingyun Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chiw\/\">Chi Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sihua\/\">Silu Huang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Neural Network Algorithms<br \/>\n<strong>Learning to Reweight with Deep Interactions<\/strong><br \/>\nYang Fan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yinxia\/\">Yingce Xia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lijuwu\/\">Lijun Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shufxi\/\">Shufang Xie<\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/weiqing-liu-09646b91\/\">Weiqing Liu<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jibian\/\">Jiang Bian<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Xiangyang Li<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Information Extraction<br \/>\n<strong>Re-TACRED: Addressing Shortcomings of the TACRED Dataset<\/strong><br \/>\nGeorge I Stoica, <strong>Emmanouil Antonios Platanios<\/strong>, Barnabas Poczos<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Vision: Computational Photography, Image & Video Synthesis<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/object-centric-image-generation-from-layouts\/\"><strong>Object-Centric Image Generation from Layouts<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nTristan Sylvain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/penzhan\/\">Pengchuan Zhang<\/a>, Yoshua Bengio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/devonh\/\">R Devon Hjelm<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shsh\/\">Shikhar Sharma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Applications<br \/>\n<strong>Correlation-Aware Heuristic Search for Intelligent Virtual Machine Provisioning in Cloud Systems<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Chuan Luo<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/boqiao\/\">Bo Qiao<\/a>, <strong>Wenqian Xing<\/strong>, <strong>Xin Chen<\/strong>, <strong>Pu Zhao<\/strong>, <strong>Chao Du<\/strong>, <strong>Randolph Yao<\/strong>, Hongyu Zhang, Wei Wu, Shaowei Cai, Bing He, <strong>Saravanakumar Rajmohan<\/strong>, <strong>Qingwei Lin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Applications<br \/>\n<strong>Towards Balanced Defect Prediction with Better Information Propagation<\/strong><br \/>\nXianda Zheng, Yuan-Fang Li, <strong>Huan Gao<\/strong>, Yuncheng Hua, Guilin Qi<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Humans and AI<br \/>\n<strong>Improving the Performance-Compatibility Tradeoff with Personalized Objective Functions<\/strong><br \/>\nJonathan Martinez, Kobi Gal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eckamar\/\">Ece Kamar<\/a>, Levi H. S. Lelis<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Language and Vision<br \/>\n<strong>VIVO: Visual Vocabulary Pre-Training for Novel Object Captioning<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaowh\/\">Xiaowei Hu<\/a>, <strong>Xi Yin<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/keli\/\">Kevin Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/leizhang\/\">Lei Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lijuanw\/\">Lijuan Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zliu\/\">Zicheng Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Learning Theory \/ Optimization<br \/>\n<strong>Frugal Optimization for Cost-related Hyperparameters<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qiw\/\">Qingyun Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chiw\/\">Chi Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sihua\/\">Silu Huang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Conversational AI\/Dialog Systems<br \/>\n<strong>Co-GAT: A Co-Interactive Graph Attention Network for Joint Dialog Act Recognition and Sentiment Classification<\/strong><br \/>\nLibo Qin, Zhouyang Li, Wanxiang Che, <strong>Minheng Ni<\/strong>, Ting Liu<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Information Extraction<br \/>\n<strong>Re-TACRED: Addressing Shortcomings of the TACRED Dataset<\/strong><br \/>\nGeorge I Stoica, <strong>Emmanouil Antonios Platanios<\/strong>, Barnabas Poczos<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Learning & Optimization<br \/>\n<strong>Simpson&#8217;s Bias in NLP Training<\/strong><br \/>\nFei Yuan, Longtu Zhang, Huang Bojun, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo Liang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Semantics<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/iterative-utterance-segmentation-for-neural-semantic-parsing\/\"><strong>Iterative Utterance Segmentation for Neural Semantic Parsing<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYinuo Guo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zelin\/\">Zeqi Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang Lou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongmeiz\/\">Dongmei Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Vision: Object Detection & Categorization<br \/>\n<strong>Very Important Person Localization in Unconstrained Conditions: A New Benchmark<\/strong><br \/>\nXiao Wang, Zheng Wang, Toshihiko Yamasaki, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wezeng\/\">Wenjun Zeng<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Sunday, February 7<\/h3>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Applications<br \/>\n<strong>Correlation-Aware Heuristic Search for Intelligent Virtual Machine Provisioning in Cloud Systems<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Chuan Luo<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/boqiao\/\">Bo Qiao<\/a>, <strong>Wenqian Xing<\/strong>, <strong>Xin Chen<\/strong>, <strong>Pu Zhao<\/strong>, <strong>Chao Du<\/strong>, <strong>Randolph Yao<\/strong>, Hongyu Zhang, Wei Wu, Shaowei Cai, Bing He, <strong>Saravanakumar Rajmohan<\/strong>, <strong>Qingwei Lin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Humans and AI<br \/>\n<strong>Improving the Performance-Compatibility Tradeoff with Personalized Objective Functions<\/strong><br \/>\nJonathan Martinez, Kobi Gal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eckamar\/\">Ece Kamar<\/a>, Levi H. S. Lelis<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Neural Network Algorithms<br \/>\n<strong>Learning to Reweight with Deep Interactions<\/strong><br \/>\nYang Fan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yinxia\/\">Yingce Xia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lijuwu\/\">Lijun Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shufxi\/\">Shufang Xie<\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/weiqing-liu-09646b91\/\">Weiqing Liu<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jibian\/\">Jiang Bian<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Xiangyang Li<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Conversational AI\/Dialog Systems<br \/>\n<strong>Co-GAT: A Co-Interactive Graph Attention Network for Joint Dialog Act Recognition and Sentiment Classification<\/strong><br \/>\nLibo Qin, Zhouyang Li, Wanxiang Che, <strong>Minheng Ni<\/strong>, Ting Liu<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Learning & Optimization<br \/>\n<strong>Simpson&#8217;s Bias in NLP Training<\/strong><br \/>\nFei Yuan, Longtu Zhang, Huang Bojun, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo Liang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Semantics<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/iterative-utterance-segmentation-for-neural-semantic-parsing\/\"><strong>Iterative Utterance Segmentation for Neural Semantic Parsing<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYinuo Guo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zelin\/\">Zeqi Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang Lou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongmeiz\/\">Dongmei Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Vision: Object Detection & Categorization<br \/>\n<strong>Very Important Person Localization in Unconstrained Conditions: A New Benchmark<\/strong><br \/>\nXiao Wang, Zheng Wang, Toshihiko Yamasaki, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wezeng\/\">Wenjun Zeng<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Vision: Computational Photography, Image & Video Synthesis<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/object-centric-image-generation-from-layouts\/\"><strong>Object-Centric Image Generation from Layouts<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nTristan Sylvain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/penzhan\/\">Pengchuan Zhang<\/a>, Yoshua Bengio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/devonh\/\">R Devon Hjelm<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shsh\/\">Shikhar Sharma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Reinforcement Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Reinforcement Learning with Trajectory Feedback<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yefroni\/\">Yonathan Efroni<\/a>, Nadav Merlis, Shie Mannor<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Transfer\/Adaptation\/Multi-task\/Meta\/Automated Learning<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/meta-label-correction-for-noisy-label-learning\/\"><strong>Meta Label Correction for Noisy Label Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zheng\/\">Guoqing Zheng<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Awadallah<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sdumais\/\">Susan Dumais<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Neuro-Symbolic AI<br \/>\n<strong>Self-Supervised Self Supervision by Combining Deep Learning and Probabilistic Logic<\/strong><br \/>\nHunter Lang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hoifung\/\">Hoifung Poon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Deep Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Reinforced Multi-Teacher Selection for Knowledge Distillation<\/strong><br \/>\nFei Yuan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lisho\/\">Linjun Shou<\/a>, Jian Pei, <strong>Wutao Lin<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/migon\/\">Ming Gong<\/a>, Yan Fu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Data Mining & Knowledge Management<br \/>\n<strong>Fairness-aware News Recommendation with Decomposed Adversarial Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nChuhan Wu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xitwan\/\">Xiting Wang<\/a>, Yongfeng Huang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing Xie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Active \/ Weakly-Supervised \/ Semi-Supervised Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Revisiting Iterative Back-Translation from the Perspective of Compositional Generalization<\/strong><br \/>\nYinuo Guo, Hualei Zhu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zelin\/\">Zeqi Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/beichen\/\">Bei Chen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang Lou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongmeiz\/\">Dongmei Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Active \/ Weakly-Supervised \/ Semi-Supervised Learning<br \/>\n<strong>PULNS: Positive-Unlabeled Learning with Effective Negative Sample Selector<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Chuan Luo<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/puzhao\/\">Pu Zhao<\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chen-chen-71960346\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chen Chen<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/boqiao\/\">Bo Qiao<\/a>, <strong>Chao Du<\/strong>, Hongyu Zhang, Wei Wu, Shaowei Cai, Bing He, <strong>Saravanakumar Rajmohan<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qlin\/\">Qingwei Lin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Matrix & Tensor Methods<br \/>\n<strong>Scalable and Explainable 1-Bit Matrix Completion via Graph Signal Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nChao Chen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongsli\/\">Dongsheng Li<\/a>, Junchi Yan, Hanchi Huang, Xiaokang Yang<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Transfer\/Adaptation\/Multi-task\/Meta\/Automated Learning<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/meta-label-correction-for-noisy-label-learning\/\"><strong>Meta Label Correction for Noisy Label Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zheng\/\">Guoqing Zheng<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Awadallah<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sdumais\/\">Susan Dumais<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Neuro-Symbolic AI<br \/>\n<strong>Self-Supervised Self Supervision by Combining Deep Learning and Probabilistic Logic<\/strong><br \/>\nHunter Lang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hoifung\/\">Hoifung Poon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Applications<br \/>\n<strong>Automatic Song Writing with Pre-training and Alignment Constraint<\/strong><br \/>\nZhonghao Sheng, Kaitao Song, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Yi Ren, Wei Ye, Shikun Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Conversational AI \/ Dialog Systems<br \/>\n<strong>Open Domain Dialogue Generation with Latent Images<\/strong><br \/>\nZe Yang, Wei Wu, <strong>Huang Hu<\/strong>, <strong>Can Xu<\/strong>, Wei Wang, Zhoujun Li<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Generation<br \/>\n<strong>Code Completion by Modeling Flattened Abstract Syntax Trees as Graphs<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yanlin Wang<\/strong>, Hui Li<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Generation<br \/>\n<strong>Towards Topic-aware Slide Generation for Academic Papers with Unsupervised Mutual Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nDa-Wei Li, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dahua\/\">Danqing Huang<\/a>, Tingting Ma, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cyl\/\">Chin-Yew Lin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Language Models<br \/>\n<strong>Self-Attention Attribution: Interpreting Information Interactions Inside Transformer<\/strong><br \/>\nYaru Hao, <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>, Ke Xu<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Language Models<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/filter-an-enhanced-fusion-method-for-cross-lingual-language-understanding\/\"><strong>FILTER: An Enhanced Fusion Method for Cross-lingual Language Understanding<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yuwfan\/\">Yuwei Fang<\/a>, <strong>Shuohang Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zhgan\/\">Zhe Gan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/siqisun\/\">Siqi Sun<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Vision: Video Understanding & Activity Analysis<br \/>\n<strong>Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization by Uncertainty Modeling<\/strong><br \/>\nPilhyeon Lee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jinglwa\/\">Jinglu Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yanlu\/\">Yan Lu<\/a>, Hyeran Byun<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Monday, February 8<\/h3>\n<p>Workshop<br \/>\n9th Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC-9)<br \/>\n<strong>Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bapeng\/\">Baolin Peng<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jincli\/\">Jinchao Li<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/laliden\/\">Lars Liden<\/a>, Minlie Huang, Qi Zhu, Runze Liang, Ryuichi Takanobu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shahins\/\">Shahin Shayandeh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/swads\/\">Swadheen Shukla<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zhez\/\">Zheng Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Data Mining & Knowledge Management<br \/>\n<strong>Fairness-aware News Recommendation with Decomposed Adversarial Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nChuhan Wu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xitwan\/\">Xiting Wang<\/a>, Yongfeng Huang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing Xie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Active \/ Weakly-Supervised \/ Semi-Supervised Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Revisiting Iterative Back-Translation from the Perspective of Compositional Generalization<\/strong><br \/>\nYinuo Guo, Hualei Zhu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zelin\/\">Zeqi Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/beichen\/\">Bei Chen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang Lou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongmeiz\/\">Dongmei Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Active \/ Weakly-Supervised \/ Semi-Supervised Learning<br \/>\n<strong>PULNS: Positive-Unlabeled Learning with Effective Negative Sample Selector<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Chuan Luo<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/puzhao\/\">Pu Zhao<\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chen-chen-71960346\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chen Chen<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/boqiao\/\">Bo Qiao<\/a>, <strong>Chao Du<\/strong>, Hongyu Zhang, Wei Wu, Shaowei Cai, Bing He, <strong>Saravanakumar Rajmohan<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qlin\/\">Qingwei Lin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Matrix & Tensor Methods<br \/>\n<strong>Scalable and Explainable 1-Bit Matrix Completion via Graph Signal Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nChao Chen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongsli\/\">Dongsheng Li<\/a>, Junchi Yan, Hanchi Huang, Xiaokang Yang<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Reinforcement Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Reinforcement Learning with Trajectory Feedback<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yefroni\/\">Yonathan Efroni<\/a>, Nadav Merlis, Shie Mannor<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Applications<br \/>\n<strong>Automatic Song Writing with Pre-training and Alignment Constraint<\/strong><br \/>\nZhonghao Sheng, Kaitao Song, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Yi Ren, Wei Ye, Shikun Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Conversational AI \/ Dialog Systems<br \/>\n<strong>Open Domain Dialogue Generation with Latent Images<\/strong><br \/>\nZe Yang, Wei Wu, <strong>Huang Hu<\/strong>, <strong>Can Xu<\/strong>, Wei Wang, Zhoujun Li<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Deep Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Reinforced Multi-Teacher Selection for Knowledge Distillation<\/strong><br \/>\nFei Yuan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lisho\/\">Linjun Shou<\/a>, Jian Pei, <strong>Wutao Lin<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/migon\/\">Ming Gong<\/a>, Yan Fu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Generation<br \/>\n<strong>Code Completion by Modeling Flattened Abstract Syntax Trees as Graphs<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yanlin Wang<\/strong>, Hui Li<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Generation<br \/>\n<strong>Towards Topic-aware Slide Generation for Academic Papers with Unsupervised Mutual Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nDa-Wei Li, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dahua\/\">Danqing Huang<\/a>, Tingting Ma, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cyl\/\">Chin-Yew Lin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Language Models<br \/>\n<strong>Self-Attention Attribution: Interpreting Information Interactions Inside Transformer<\/strong><br \/>\nYaru Hao, <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>, Ke Xu<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Language Models<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/filter-an-enhanced-fusion-method-for-cross-lingual-language-understanding\/\"><strong>FILTER: An Enhanced Fusion Method for Cross-lingual Language Understanding<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yuwfan\/\">Yuwei Fang<\/a>, <strong>Shuohang Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zhgan\/\">Zhe Gan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/siqisun\/\">Siqi Sun<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Vision: Video Understanding & Activity Analysis<br \/>\n<strong>Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization by Uncertainty Modeling<\/strong><br \/>\nPilhyeon Lee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jinglwa\/\">Jinglu Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yanlu\/\">Yan Lu<\/a>, Hyeran Byun<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Tuesday, February 9<\/h3>\n<p>Workshop<br \/>\n9th Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC-9)<br \/>\n<strong>Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bapeng\/\">Baolin Peng<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jincli\/\">Jinchao Li<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/laliden\/\">Lars Liden<\/a>, Minlie Huang, Qi Zhu, Runze Liang, Ryuichi Takanobu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shahins\/\">Shahin Shayandeh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/swads\/\">Swadheen Shukla<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zhez\/\">Zheng Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Workshop<br \/>\n<strong>Trustworthy AI for Healthcare<\/strong><br \/>\nLawrence Carin, Emily Fox, Russ Greiner, Joyce Ho, Tommi Jaakkola, Heng Ji, Sanmi Koyejo, Yan Liu, Sendhil Mullainathan, Susan Murphy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tristan\/\">Tristan Naumann<\/a>, Lucila Ohno-Machado, Rajesh Ranganath, Jimeng Sun<br \/>\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tristan\/\">Tristan Naumann<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/deep-dial2021\/\"><strong>The Fourth Workshop on Reasoning and Learning for Human-Machine Dialogues<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Awadallah<\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is proud to be a silver sponsor of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Stop by our virtual booth to see demos of our research and learn about open opportunities at Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":627627,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_startdate":"2021-02-02","msr_enddate":"2021-02-09","msr_location":"Virtual","msr_expirationdate":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"","msr_hide_region":false,"msr_private_event":false,"msr_hide_image_in_river":0,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13556],"msr-region":[256048],"msr-event-type":[197941],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[243727,243724],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-713662","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-artificial-intelligence","msr-region-global","msr-event-type-conferences","msr-locale-en_us","msr-program-audience-faculty","msr-program-audience-students"],"msr_about":"<!-- wp:msr\/event-details {\"title\":\"Microsoft at AAAI 2021\",\"backgroundColor\":\"grey\",\"image\":{\"id\":627627,\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Theme-navy_MLAI_header_12_2019_1920x720.png\",\"alt\":\"\"},\"imageType\":\"full-bleed\"} \/-->\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:\/\/aaai.org\/Conferences\/AAAI-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AAAI 2021<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is proud to be a silver sponsor of the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/aaai.org\/Conferences\/AAAI-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>. Stop by our virtual booth to chat with our researchers and learn about open opportunities at Microsoft. See below for our live chat schedule.<\/p>\n<h2>Live chat with us<\/h2>\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: center;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Thursday, February 4<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Time (PST)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Name, Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">11:00\u201311:45<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">11:45\u201312:30<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, Recruiting<br \/>\nTristan Naumann, ML &amp; NLP for Health<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">19:00\u201319:45<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Soroush Mehri, Machine Learning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Friday, February 5<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Time (PST)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Name, Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">3:45\u20134:30<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Krzysztof Maziarz, Generative Chemistry, GNNs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">10:00 \u201311:00<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, Recruiting<br \/>\nLar Liden, NLP, Conversational AI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">11:00\u201311:45<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">11:45\u201312:30<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Tristan Naumann, ML &amp; NLP for Health<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">18:00\u201319:00<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Besmira Nushi, Reliable &amp; Robust ML, Human-AI Collaboration<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Saturday, February 6<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Time (PST)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Name, Title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">10:00\u201311:45<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">11:45\u201312:30<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Cammy Vasquez, Recruiting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">18:00\u201320:30<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Cammy Vasquez, Recruiting<br \/>\nJiayi Song, Recruiting<br \/>\nYun Chen, Recruiting<\/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-tab {\"title\":\"Schedule\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><p><em>All times are displayed in Pacific Time (UTC-08:00)<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday, February 3<\/h3>\n<p>8:30 \u2013 11:45 | Tutorial<br \/>\n<strong>Responsible AI in Industry: Practical Challenges and Lessons Learned<\/strong><br \/>\nKrishnaram Kenthapadi, Ben Packer, <strong>Mehrnoosh Sameki<\/strong>, Nashlie Sephus<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Thursday, February 4<\/h3>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Demonstration<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/integrating-pre-trained-model-into-rule-based-dialogue-management\/\"><strong>Integrating Pre-trained Model into Rule-based Dialogue Management<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Jun Quan<\/strong>, <strong>Meng Yang<\/strong>, <strong>Qiang Gan<\/strong>, Deyi Xiong, <strong>Yiming Liu<\/strong>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yuchen-song-984a82a3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuchen Dong<\/a>, <strong>Fangxin Ouyang<\/strong>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/junzhuo-tian-2babb037\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jun Tian<\/a>, <strong>Ruiling Deng<\/strong>, <strong>Yongzhi Li<\/strong>, <strong>Yang Yang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Demonstration<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/integrating-pre-trained-model-into-rule-based-dialogue-management\/\"><strong>Integrating Pre-trained Model into Rule-based Dialogue Management<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Jun Quan<\/strong>, <strong>Meng Yang<\/strong>, <strong>Qiang Gan<\/strong>, Deyi Xiong, <strong>Yiming Liu<\/strong>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yuchen-song-984a82a3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuchen Dong<\/a>, <strong>Fangxin Ouyang<\/strong>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/junzhuo-tian-2babb037\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jun Tian<\/a>, <strong>Ruiling Deng<\/strong>, <strong>Yongzhi Li<\/strong>, <strong>Yang Yang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Intelligent Robots \/ Vision for Robotics<br \/>\n<strong>Learning Monocular Depth in Dynamic Scenes via Instance-Aware Projection Consistency<\/strong><br \/>\nSeokju Lee, Sunghoon Im, <strong>Stephen Lin<\/strong>, In So Kweon<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Reinforcement Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Successor feature sets: generalizing successor representations across policies<\/strong><br \/>\nKiant\u00e9 Brantley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/somehri\/\">Soroush Mehri<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ggordon\/\">Geoff Gordon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Discourse \/ Dialog \/ Summarization<br \/>\n<strong>Data Augmentation for Abstractive Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization<\/strong><br \/>\nRamakanth R Pasunuru, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mgalley\/\">Michel Galley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan Xiong<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe Zhang<\/a>, Mohit Bansal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Ethics<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/how-linguistically-fair-are-multilingual-pre-trained-language-models\/\"><strong>How Linguistically Fair are Multilingual Pre-Trained Language Models?<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit Choudhury<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amitdesh\/\">Amit Deshpande<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Information Extraction<br \/>\n<strong>Denoising Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition via a Hypergeometric Probabilistic Model<\/strong><br \/>\nHongyu Lin, Wenkai Zhang, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Huidan Liu, <strong>Nicholas Yuan<\/strong>, Zhicheng Wei<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI<br \/>\n<strong>The Importance of Modeling Data Missingness in Algorithmic Fairness: A Causal Perspective<\/strong><br \/>\nNaman Goel, Alfonso Amayuelas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amitdesh\/\">Amit Deshpande<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI<br \/>\n<strong>How Does Data Augmentation Affect Privacy in Machine Learning?<\/strong><br \/>\nDa Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/huzhang\/\">Huishuai Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Jian Yin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/is-the-most-accurate-ai-the-best-teammate-optimizing-ai-for-teamwork\/\"><strong>Is the Most Accurate AI the Best Teammate? Optimizing AI for Teamwork<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGagan Bansal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/benushi\/\">Besmira Nushi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eckamar\/\">Ece Kamar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/horvitz\/\">Eric Horvitz<\/a>, Daniel Weld<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Vision: Scene Analysis &amp; Understanding<br \/>\n<strong>Holistic Multi-View Building Analysis in the Wild with Projection Pooling<\/strong><br \/>\nZbigniew Bogdan Wojna, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/krmaziar\/\">Krzysztof Maziarz<\/a>, Lukasz Jocz, Robert Paluba, Robert Kozikowski, Iason Kokkinos<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Demonstration<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/integrating-pre-trained-model-into-rule-based-dialogue-management\/\"><strong>Integrating Pre-trained Model into Rule-based Dialogue Management<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Jun Quan<\/strong>, <strong>Meng Yang<\/strong>, <strong>Qiang Gan<\/strong>, Deyi Xiong, <strong>Yiming Liu<\/strong>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yuchen-song-984a82a3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuchen Dong<\/a>, <strong>Fangxin Ouyang<\/strong>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/junzhuo-tian-2babb037\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jun Tian<\/a>, <strong>Ruiling Deng<\/strong>, <strong>Yongzhi Li<\/strong>, <strong>Yang Yang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Discourse \/ Dialog \/ Summarization<br \/>\n<strong>Data Augmentation for Abstractive Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization<\/strong><br \/>\nRamakanth R Pasunuru, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mgalley\/\">Michel Galley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan Xiong<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe Zhang<\/a>, Mohit Bansal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Information Extraction<br \/>\n<strong>Denoising Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition via a Hypergeometric Probabilistic Model<\/strong><br \/>\nHongyu Lin, Wenkai Zhang, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Huidan Liu, <strong>Nicholas Yuan<\/strong>, Zhicheng Wei<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Reinforcement Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Successor feature sets: generalizing successor representations across policies<\/strong><br \/>\nKiant\u00e9 Brantley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/somehri\/\">Soroush Mehri<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ggordon\/\">Geoff Gordon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI<br \/>\n<strong>How Does Data Augmentation Affect Privacy in Machine Learning?<\/strong><br \/>\nDa Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/huzhang\/\">Huishuai Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Jian Yin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/is-the-most-accurate-ai-the-best-teammate-optimizing-ai-for-teamwork\/\"><strong>Is the Most Accurate AI the Best Teammate? Optimizing AI for Teamwork<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nGagan Bansal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/benushi\/\">Besmira Nushi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eckamar\/\">Ece Kamar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/horvitz\/\">Eric Horvitz<\/a>, Daniel Weld<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Vision: Image and Video Retrieval<br \/>\n<strong>Exploiting Sample Uncertainty for Domain Adaptive Person Re-Identification<\/strong><br \/>\nKecheng Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/culan\/\">Cuiling Lan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wezeng\/\">Wenjun Zeng<\/a>, Zhizheng Zhang, Zheng-Jun Zha<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Vision: Scene Analysis &amp; Understanding<br \/>\n<strong>Holistic Multi-View Building Analysis in the Wild with Projection Pooling<\/strong><br \/>\nZbigniew Bogdan Wojna, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/krmaziar\/\">Krzysztof Maziarz<\/a>, Lukasz Jocz, Robert Paluba, Robert Kozikowski, Iason Kokkinos<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Friday, February 5<\/h3>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Intelligent Robots \/ Vision for Robotics<br \/>\n<strong>Learning Monocular Depth in Dynamic Scenes via Instance-Aware Projection Consistency<\/strong><br \/>\nSeokju Lee, Sunghoon Im, <strong>Stephen Lin<\/strong>, In So Kweon<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Ethics<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/how-linguistically-fair-are-multilingual-pre-trained-language-models\/\"><strong>How Linguistically Fair are Multilingual Pre-Trained Language Models?<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit Choudhury<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amitdesh\/\">Amit Deshpande<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI<br \/>\n<strong>The Importance of Modeling Data Missingness in Algorithmic Fairness: A Causal Perspective<\/strong><br \/>\nNaman Goel, Alfonso Amayuelas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amitdesh\/\">Amit Deshpande<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Vision: Image and Video Retrieval<br \/>\n<strong>Exploiting Sample Uncertainty for Domain Adaptive Person Re-Identification<\/strong><br \/>\nKecheng Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/culan\/\">Cuiling Lan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wezeng\/\">Wenjun Zeng<\/a>, Zhizheng Zhang, Zheng-Jun Zha<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Applications<br \/>\n<strong>Universal Trading for Order Execution with Oracle Policy Distillation<\/strong><br \/>\nYuchen Fang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kanren\/\">Kan Ren<\/a>, <strong>Weiqing Liu<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongzho\/\">Dong Zhou<\/a>, Weinan Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jibian\/\">Jiang Bian<\/a>, Yong Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Fair Division<br \/>\n<strong>Fair and Truthful Mechanisms for Dichotomous Valuations<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/moshe\/\">Moshe Babaioff<\/a>, Tomer Ezra, Uriel Feige<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Game Theory and Economic Paradigms<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/estimating-%ce%b1-rank-by-maximizing-information-gain\/\"><strong>Estimating alpha-Rank by Maximizing Information Gain<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nTabish Rashid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chezha\/\">Cheng Zhang<\/a>, <strong>Kamil Ciosek<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Heuristic and Greedy Search<br \/>\n<strong>NuQClq: An Effective Local Search Algorithm for Maximum Quasi-Clique Problem<\/strong><br \/>\nJiejiang Chen, Shaowei Cai, Shiwei Pan, Yiyuan Wang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qlin\/\">Qingwei Lin<\/a>, Mengyu Zhao, Minghao Yin<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Generation<br \/>\n<strong>Copy That! Editing Sequences by Copying Spans<\/strong><br \/>\nSheena L Panthaplackel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/miallama\/\">Miltiadis Allamanis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mabrocks\/\">Marc Brockschmidt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Generation<br \/>\n<strong>A Controllable Model of Grounded Response Generation<\/strong><br \/>\nZeqiu Wu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mgalley\/\">Michel Galley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisbkt\/\">Chris Brockett<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiag\/\">Xiang Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisq\/\">Chris Quirk<\/a>, Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Mari Ostendorf, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/billdol\/\">Bill Dolan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Search and Optimization<br \/>\n<strong>OpEvo: An Evolutionary Method for Tensor Operator Optimization<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Xiaotian Gao<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weicu\/\">Wei Cui<\/a>, <strong>Lintao Zhang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/maoyang\/\">Mao Yang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | 3D Computer Vision<br \/>\n<strong>Unsupervised 3D Learning for Shape Analysis via Multiresolution Instance Discrimination<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Peng-Shuai Wang<\/strong>, Yuqi Yang, Qianfang Zou, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wuzhiron\/\">Zhirong Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yangliu\/\">Yang Liu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xtong\/\">Xin Tong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Applications<br \/>\n<strong>Universal Trading for Order Execution with Oracle Policy Distillation<\/strong><br \/>\nYuchen Fang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kanren\/\">Kan Ren<\/a>, <strong>Weiqing Liu<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongzho\/\">Dong Zhou<\/a>, Weinan Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jibian\/\">Jiang Bian<\/a>, Yong Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Game Theory and Economic Paradigms<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/estimating-%ce%b1-rank-by-maximizing-information-gain\/\"><strong>Estimating alpha-Rank by Maximizing Information Gain<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nTabish Rashid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chezha\/\">Cheng Zhang<\/a>, <strong>Kamil Ciosek<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Bandits \/ RL \/ Imitation Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Combinatorial Pure Exploration with Full-Bandit or Partial Linear Feedback<\/strong><br \/>\nYihan Du, Yuko Kuroki, <strong>Wei Chen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Unsupervised &amp; Self-Supervised Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Distilling Localization for Self-Supervised Representation Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nNanxuan Zhao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wuzhiron\/\">Zhirong Wu<\/a>, Rynson W.H. Lau, <strong>Stephen Lin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Conversational AI\/Dialog Systems<br \/>\n<strong>Learning an Effective Context-Response Matching Model with Self-Supervised Tasks for Retrieval-based Dialogues<\/strong><br \/>\nRuijian Xu, <strong>Chongyang Tao<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a>, Xueliang Zhao, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Generation<br \/>\n<strong>Copy That! Editing Sequences by Copying Spans<\/strong><br \/>\nSheena L Panthaplackel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/miallama\/\">Miltiadis Allamanis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mabrocks\/\">Marc Brockschmidt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Information Extraction<br \/>\n<strong>A Supervised Multi-Head Self-Attention Network for Nested Named Entity Recognition<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yongxiu Xu<\/strong>, Heyan Huang, Chong Feng, Yue Hu<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Information Extraction<br \/>\n<strong>A Controllable Model of Grounded Response Generation<\/strong><br \/>\nZeqiu Wu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mgalley\/\">Michel Galley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisbkt\/\">Chris Brockett<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiag\/\">Xiang Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisq\/\">Chris Quirk<\/a>, Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Mari Ostendorf, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/billdol\/\">Bill Dolan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Search and Optimization<br \/>\n<strong>OpEvo: An Evolutionary Method for Tensor Operator Optimization<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Xiaotian Gao<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weicu\/\">Wei Cui<\/a>, <strong>Lintao Zhang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/maoyang\/\">Mao Yang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Speech &amp; Signal Processing<br \/>\n<strong>Interactive Speech and Noise Modeling for Speech Enhancement<\/strong><br \/>\nChengyu Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xipe\/\">Xiulian Peng<\/a>, Yuan Zhang, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sriramsrinivasan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sriram Srinivasan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yanlu\/\">Yan Lu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Speech &amp; Signal Processing<br \/>\n<strong>UWSpeech: Speech to Speech Translation for Unwritten Languages<\/strong><br \/>\nChen Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Yi Ren, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Kejun Zhang, <strong>Tieyan Liu<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Saturday, February 6<\/h3>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | 3D Computer Vision<br \/>\n<strong>Unsupervised 3D Learning for Shape Analysis via Multiresolution Instance Discrimination<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Peng-Shuai Wang<\/strong>, Yuqi Yang, Qianfang Zou, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wuzhiron\/\">Zhirong Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yangliu\/\">Yang Liu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xtong\/\">Xin Tong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Fair Division<br \/>\n<strong>Fair and Truthful Mechanisms for Dichotomous Valuations<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/moshe\/\">Moshe Babaioff<\/a>, Tomer Ezra, Uriel Feige<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Heuristic and Greedy Search<br \/>\n<strong>NuQClq: An Effective Local Search Algorithm for Maximum Quasi-Clique Problem<\/strong><br \/>\nJiejiang Chen, Shaowei Cai, Shiwei Pan, Yiyuan Wang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qlin\/\">Qingwei Lin<\/a>, Mengyu Zhao, Minghao Yin<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Bandits \/ RL \/ Imitation Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Combinatorial Pure Exploration with Full-Bandit or Partial Linear Feedback<\/strong><br \/>\nYihan Du, Yuko Kuroki, <strong>Wei Chen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Unsupervised &amp; Self-Supervised Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Distilling Localization for Self-Supervised Representation Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nNanxuan Zhao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wuzhiron\/\">Zhirong Wu<\/a>, Rynson W.H. Lau, <strong>Stephen Lin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Conversational AI\/Dialog Systems<br \/>\n<strong>Learning an Effective Context-Response Matching Model with Self-Supervised Tasks for Retrieval-based Dialogues<\/strong><br \/>\nRuijian Xu, <strong>Chongyang Tao<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a>, Xueliang Zhao, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Information Extraction<br \/>\n<strong>A Supervised Multi-Head Self-Attention Network for Nested Named Entity Recognition<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yongxiu Xu<\/strong>, Heyan Huang, Chong Feng, Yue Hu<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Speech &amp; Signal Processing<br \/>\n<strong>Interactive Speech and Noise Modeling for Speech Enhancement<\/strong><br \/>\nChengyu Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xipe\/\">Xiulian Peng<\/a>, Yuan Zhang, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sriramsrinivasan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sriram Srinivasan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yanlu\/\">Yan Lu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Speech &amp; Signal Processing<br \/>\n<strong>UWSpeech: Speech to Speech Translation for Unwritten Languages<\/strong><br \/>\nChen Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Yi Ren, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Kejun Zhang, <strong>Tieyan Liu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Applications<br \/>\n<strong>Towards Balanced Defect Prediction with Better Information Propagation<\/strong><br \/>\nXianda Zheng, Yuan-Fang Li, <strong>Huan Gao<\/strong>, Yuncheng Hua, Guilin Qi<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Language and Vision<br \/>\n<strong>VIVO: Visual Vocabulary Pre-Training for Novel Object Captioning<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaowh\/\">Xiaowei Hu<\/a>, <strong>Xi Yin<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/keli\/\">Kevin Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/leizhang\/\">Lei Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lijuanw\/\">Lijuan Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zliu\/\">Zicheng Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Learning Theory \/ Optimization<br \/>\n<strong>Frugal Optimization for Cost-related Hyperparameters<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qiw\/\">Qingyun Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chiw\/\">Chi Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sihua\/\">Silu Huang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Neural Network Algorithms<br \/>\n<strong>Learning to Reweight with Deep Interactions<\/strong><br \/>\nYang Fan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yinxia\/\">Yingce Xia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lijuwu\/\">Lijun Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shufxi\/\">Shufang Xie<\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/weiqing-liu-09646b91\/\">Weiqing Liu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jibian\/\">Jiang Bian<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Xiangyang Li<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Information Extraction<br \/>\n<strong>Re-TACRED: Addressing Shortcomings of the TACRED Dataset<\/strong><br \/>\nGeorge I Stoica, <strong>Emmanouil Antonios Platanios<\/strong>, Barnabas Poczos<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Vision: Computational Photography, Image &amp; Video Synthesis<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/object-centric-image-generation-from-layouts\/\"><strong>Object-Centric Image Generation from Layouts<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nTristan Sylvain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/penzhan\/\">Pengchuan Zhang<\/a>, Yoshua Bengio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/devonh\/\">R Devon Hjelm<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shsh\/\">Shikhar Sharma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Applications<br \/>\n<strong>Correlation-Aware Heuristic Search for Intelligent Virtual Machine Provisioning in Cloud Systems<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Chuan Luo<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/boqiao\/\">Bo Qiao<\/a>, <strong>Wenqian Xing<\/strong>, <strong>Xin Chen<\/strong>, <strong>Pu Zhao<\/strong>, <strong>Chao Du<\/strong>, <strong>Randolph Yao<\/strong>, Hongyu Zhang, Wei Wu, Shaowei Cai, Bing He, <strong>Saravanakumar Rajmohan<\/strong>, <strong>Qingwei Lin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Applications<br \/>\n<strong>Towards Balanced Defect Prediction with Better Information Propagation<\/strong><br \/>\nXianda Zheng, Yuan-Fang Li, <strong>Huan Gao<\/strong>, Yuncheng Hua, Guilin Qi<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Humans and AI<br \/>\n<strong>Improving the Performance-Compatibility Tradeoff with Personalized Objective Functions<\/strong><br \/>\nJonathan Martinez, Kobi Gal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eckamar\/\">Ece Kamar<\/a>, Levi H. S. Lelis<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Language and Vision<br \/>\n<strong>VIVO: Visual Vocabulary Pre-Training for Novel Object Captioning<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaowh\/\">Xiaowei Hu<\/a>, <strong>Xi Yin<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/keli\/\">Kevin Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/leizhang\/\">Lei Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lijuanw\/\">Lijuan Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zliu\/\">Zicheng Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Learning Theory \/ Optimization<br \/>\n<strong>Frugal Optimization for Cost-related Hyperparameters<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qiw\/\">Qingyun Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chiw\/\">Chi Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sihua\/\">Silu Huang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Conversational AI\/Dialog Systems<br \/>\n<strong>Co-GAT: A Co-Interactive Graph Attention Network for Joint Dialog Act Recognition and Sentiment Classification<\/strong><br \/>\nLibo Qin, Zhouyang Li, Wanxiang Che, <strong>Minheng Ni<\/strong>, Ting Liu<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Information Extraction<br \/>\n<strong>Re-TACRED: Addressing Shortcomings of the TACRED Dataset<\/strong><br \/>\nGeorge I Stoica, <strong>Emmanouil Antonios Platanios<\/strong>, Barnabas Poczos<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Learning &amp; Optimization<br \/>\n<strong>Simpson&#8217;s Bias in NLP Training<\/strong><br \/>\nFei Yuan, Longtu Zhang, Huang Bojun, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo Liang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Semantics<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/iterative-utterance-segmentation-for-neural-semantic-parsing\/\"><strong>Iterative Utterance Segmentation for Neural Semantic Parsing<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYinuo Guo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zelin\/\">Zeqi Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang Lou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongmeiz\/\">Dongmei Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Vision: Object Detection &amp; Categorization<br \/>\n<strong>Very Important Person Localization in Unconstrained Conditions: A New Benchmark<\/strong><br \/>\nXiao Wang, Zheng Wang, Toshihiko Yamasaki, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wezeng\/\">Wenjun Zeng<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Sunday, February 7<\/h3>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Applications<br \/>\n<strong>Correlation-Aware Heuristic Search for Intelligent Virtual Machine Provisioning in Cloud Systems<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Chuan Luo<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/boqiao\/\">Bo Qiao<\/a>, <strong>Wenqian Xing<\/strong>, <strong>Xin Chen<\/strong>, <strong>Pu Zhao<\/strong>, <strong>Chao Du<\/strong>, <strong>Randolph Yao<\/strong>, Hongyu Zhang, Wei Wu, Shaowei Cai, Bing He, <strong>Saravanakumar Rajmohan<\/strong>, <strong>Qingwei Lin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Humans and AI<br \/>\n<strong>Improving the Performance-Compatibility Tradeoff with Personalized Objective Functions<\/strong><br \/>\nJonathan Martinez, Kobi Gal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eckamar\/\">Ece Kamar<\/a>, Levi H. S. Lelis<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Neural Network Algorithms<br \/>\n<strong>Learning to Reweight with Deep Interactions<\/strong><br \/>\nYang Fan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yinxia\/\">Yingce Xia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lijuwu\/\">Lijun Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shufxi\/\">Shufang Xie<\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/weiqing-liu-09646b91\/\">Weiqing Liu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jibian\/\">Jiang Bian<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Xiangyang Li<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Conversational AI\/Dialog Systems<br \/>\n<strong>Co-GAT: A Co-Interactive Graph Attention Network for Joint Dialog Act Recognition and Sentiment Classification<\/strong><br \/>\nLibo Qin, Zhouyang Li, Wanxiang Che, <strong>Minheng Ni<\/strong>, Ting Liu<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Learning &amp; Optimization<br \/>\n<strong>Simpson&#8217;s Bias in NLP Training<\/strong><br \/>\nFei Yuan, Longtu Zhang, Huang Bojun, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo Liang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Semantics<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/iterative-utterance-segmentation-for-neural-semantic-parsing\/\"><strong>Iterative Utterance Segmentation for Neural Semantic Parsing<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nYinuo Guo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zelin\/\">Zeqi Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang Lou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongmeiz\/\">Dongmei Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Vision: Object Detection &amp; Categorization<br \/>\n<strong>Very Important Person Localization in Unconstrained Conditions: A New Benchmark<\/strong><br \/>\nXiao Wang, Zheng Wang, Toshihiko Yamasaki, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wezeng\/\">Wenjun Zeng<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Vision: Computational Photography, Image &amp; Video Synthesis<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/object-centric-image-generation-from-layouts\/\"><strong>Object-Centric Image Generation from Layouts<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nTristan Sylvain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/penzhan\/\">Pengchuan Zhang<\/a>, Yoshua Bengio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/devonh\/\">R Devon Hjelm<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shsh\/\">Shikhar Sharma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Reinforcement Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Reinforcement Learning with Trajectory Feedback<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yefroni\/\">Yonathan Efroni<\/a>, Nadav Merlis, Shie Mannor<\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Transfer\/Adaptation\/Multi-task\/Meta\/Automated Learning<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/meta-label-correction-for-noisy-label-learning\/\"><strong>Meta Label Correction for Noisy Label Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zheng\/\">Guoqing Zheng<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Awadallah<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sdumais\/\">Susan Dumais<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Neuro-Symbolic AI<br \/>\n<strong>Self-Supervised Self Supervision by Combining Deep Learning and Probabilistic Logic<\/strong><br \/>\nHunter Lang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hoifung\/\">Hoifung Poon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Deep Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Reinforced Multi-Teacher Selection for Knowledge Distillation<\/strong><br \/>\nFei Yuan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lisho\/\">Linjun Shou<\/a>, Jian Pei, <strong>Wutao Lin<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/migon\/\">Ming Gong<\/a>, Yan Fu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Data Mining &amp; Knowledge Management<br \/>\n<strong>Fairness-aware News Recommendation with Decomposed Adversarial Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nChuhan Wu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xitwan\/\">Xiting Wang<\/a>, Yongfeng Huang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing Xie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Active \/ Weakly-Supervised \/ Semi-Supervised Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Revisiting Iterative Back-Translation from the Perspective of Compositional Generalization<\/strong><br \/>\nYinuo Guo, Hualei Zhu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zelin\/\">Zeqi Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/beichen\/\">Bei Chen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang Lou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongmeiz\/\">Dongmei Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Active \/ Weakly-Supervised \/ Semi-Supervised Learning<br \/>\n<strong>PULNS: Positive-Unlabeled Learning with Effective Negative Sample Selector<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Chuan Luo<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/puzhao\/\">Pu Zhao<\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chen-chen-71960346\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chen Chen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/boqiao\/\">Bo Qiao<\/a>, <strong>Chao Du<\/strong>, Hongyu Zhang, Wei Wu, Shaowei Cai, Bing He, <strong>Saravanakumar Rajmohan<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qlin\/\">Qingwei Lin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Matrix &amp; Tensor Methods<br \/>\n<strong>Scalable and Explainable 1-Bit Matrix Completion via Graph Signal Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nChao Chen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongsli\/\">Dongsheng Li<\/a>, Junchi Yan, Hanchi Huang, Xiaokang Yang<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Transfer\/Adaptation\/Multi-task\/Meta\/Automated Learning<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/meta-label-correction-for-noisy-label-learning\/\"><strong>Meta Label Correction for Noisy Label Learning<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zheng\/\">Guoqing Zheng<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Awadallah<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sdumais\/\">Susan Dumais<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Neuro-Symbolic AI<br \/>\n<strong>Self-Supervised Self Supervision by Combining Deep Learning and Probabilistic Logic<\/strong><br \/>\nHunter Lang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hoifung\/\">Hoifung Poon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Applications<br \/>\n<strong>Automatic Song Writing with Pre-training and Alignment Constraint<\/strong><br \/>\nZhonghao Sheng, Kaitao Song, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Yi Ren, Wei Ye, Shikun Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Conversational AI \/ Dialog Systems<br \/>\n<strong>Open Domain Dialogue Generation with Latent Images<\/strong><br \/>\nZe Yang, Wei Wu, <strong>Huang Hu<\/strong>, <strong>Can Xu<\/strong>, Wei Wang, Zhoujun Li<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Generation<br \/>\n<strong>Code Completion by Modeling Flattened Abstract Syntax Trees as Graphs<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yanlin Wang<\/strong>, Hui Li<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Generation<br \/>\n<strong>Towards Topic-aware Slide Generation for Academic Papers with Unsupervised Mutual Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nDa-Wei Li, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dahua\/\">Danqing Huang<\/a>, Tingting Ma, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cyl\/\">Chin-Yew Lin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Language Models<br \/>\n<strong>Self-Attention Attribution: Interpreting Information Interactions Inside Transformer<\/strong><br \/>\nYaru Hao, <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>, Ke Xu<\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Language Models<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/filter-an-enhanced-fusion-method-for-cross-lingual-language-understanding\/\"><strong>FILTER: An Enhanced Fusion Method for Cross-lingual Language Understanding<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yuwfan\/\">Yuwei Fang<\/a>, <strong>Shuohang Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zhgan\/\">Zhe Gan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/siqisun\/\">Siqi Sun<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Vision: Video Understanding &amp; Activity Analysis<br \/>\n<strong>Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization by Uncertainty Modeling<\/strong><br \/>\nPilhyeon Lee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jinglwa\/\">Jinglu Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yanlu\/\">Yan Lu<\/a>, Hyeran Byun<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Monday, February 8<\/h3>\n<p>Workshop<br \/>\n9th Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC-9)<br \/>\n<strong>Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bapeng\/\">Baolin Peng<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jincli\/\">Jinchao Li<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/laliden\/\">Lars Liden<\/a>, Minlie Huang, Qi Zhu, Runze Liang, Ryuichi Takanobu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shahins\/\">Shahin Shayandeh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/swads\/\">Swadheen Shukla<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zhez\/\">Zheng Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Data Mining &amp; Knowledge Management<br \/>\n<strong>Fairness-aware News Recommendation with Decomposed Adversarial Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nChuhan Wu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xitwan\/\">Xiting Wang<\/a>, Yongfeng Huang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing Xie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Active \/ Weakly-Supervised \/ Semi-Supervised Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Revisiting Iterative Back-Translation from the Perspective of Compositional Generalization<\/strong><br \/>\nYinuo Guo, Hualei Zhu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zelin\/\">Zeqi Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/beichen\/\">Bei Chen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang Lou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongmeiz\/\">Dongmei Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Active \/ Weakly-Supervised \/ Semi-Supervised Learning<br \/>\n<strong>PULNS: Positive-Unlabeled Learning with Effective Negative Sample Selector<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Chuan Luo<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/puzhao\/\">Pu Zhao<\/a>, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chen-chen-71960346\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chen Chen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/boqiao\/\">Bo Qiao<\/a>, <strong>Chao Du<\/strong>, Hongyu Zhang, Wei Wu, Shaowei Cai, Bing He, <strong>Saravanakumar Rajmohan<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qlin\/\">Qingwei Lin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Matrix &amp; Tensor Methods<br \/>\n<strong>Scalable and Explainable 1-Bit Matrix Completion via Graph Signal Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nChao Chen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongsli\/\">Dongsheng Li<\/a>, Junchi Yan, Hanchi Huang, Xiaokang Yang<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Reinforcement Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Reinforcement Learning with Trajectory Feedback<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yefroni\/\">Yonathan Efroni<\/a>, Nadav Merlis, Shie Mannor<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Applications<br \/>\n<strong>Automatic Song Writing with Pre-training and Alignment Constraint<\/strong><br \/>\nZhonghao Sheng, Kaitao Song, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Yi Ren, Wei Ye, Shikun Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Conversational AI \/ Dialog Systems<br \/>\n<strong>Open Domain Dialogue Generation with Latent Images<\/strong><br \/>\nZe Yang, Wei Wu, <strong>Huang Hu<\/strong>, <strong>Can Xu<\/strong>, Wei Wang, Zhoujun Li<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Deep Learning<br \/>\n<strong>Reinforced Multi-Teacher Selection for Knowledge Distillation<\/strong><br \/>\nFei Yuan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lisho\/\">Linjun Shou<\/a>, Jian Pei, <strong>Wutao Lin<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/migon\/\">Ming Gong<\/a>, Yan Fu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Generation<br \/>\n<strong>Code Completion by Modeling Flattened Abstract Syntax Trees as Graphs<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yanlin Wang<\/strong>, Hui Li<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Generation<br \/>\n<strong>Towards Topic-aware Slide Generation for Academic Papers with Unsupervised Mutual Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nDa-Wei Li, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dahua\/\">Danqing Huang<\/a>, Tingting Ma, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cyl\/\">Chin-Yew Lin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Language Models<br \/>\n<strong>Self-Attention Attribution: Interpreting Information Interactions Inside Transformer<\/strong><br \/>\nYaru Hao, <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>, Ke Xu<\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Language Models<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/filter-an-enhanced-fusion-method-for-cross-lingual-language-understanding\/\"><strong>FILTER: An Enhanced Fusion Method for Cross-lingual Language Understanding<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yuwfan\/\">Yuwei Fang<\/a>, <strong>Shuohang Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zhgan\/\">Zhe Gan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/siqisun\/\">Siqi Sun<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing Liu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Vision: Video Understanding &amp; Activity Analysis<br \/>\n<strong>Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization by Uncertainty Modeling<\/strong><br \/>\nPilhyeon Lee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jinglwa\/\">Jinglu Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yanlu\/\">Yan Lu<\/a>, Hyeran Byun<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Tuesday, February 9<\/h3>\n<p>Workshop<br \/>\n9th Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC-9)<br \/>\n<strong>Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bapeng\/\">Baolin Peng<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jincli\/\">Jinchao Li<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/laliden\/\">Lars Liden<\/a>, Minlie Huang, Qi Zhu, Runze Liang, Ryuichi Takanobu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shahins\/\">Shahin Shayandeh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/swads\/\">Swadheen Shukla<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zhez\/\">Zheng Zhang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Workshop<br \/>\n<strong>Trustworthy AI for Healthcare<\/strong><br \/>\nLawrence Carin, Emily Fox, Russ Greiner, Joyce Ho, Tommi Jaakkola, Heng Ji, Sanmi Koyejo, Yan Liu, Sendhil Mullainathan, Susan Murphy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tristan\/\">Tristan Naumann<\/a>, Lucila Ohno-Machado, Rajesh Ranganath, Jimeng Sun<br \/>\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tristan\/\">Tristan Naumann<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/deep-dial2021\/\"><strong>The Fourth Workshop on Reasoning and Learning for Human-Machine Dialogues<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nInvited Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Awadallah<\/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-tabs -->","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"About","content":"Microsoft is proud to be a silver sponsor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/aaai.org\/Conferences\/AAAI-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence<\/a>. Stop by our virtual booth to chat with our researchers and learn about open opportunities at Microsoft. See below for our live chat schedule.\r\n<h2>Live chat with us<\/h2>\r\n<table style=\"border-spacing: inherit;border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;padding: 6px;text-align: center;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Thursday, February 4<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Time (PST)<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Name, Title<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">11:00\u201311:45<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, Recruiting<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">11:45\u201312:30<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, Recruiting\r\nTristan Naumann, ML &amp; NLP for Health<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">19:00\u201319:45<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Soroush Mehri, Machine Learning<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Friday, February 5<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Time (PST)<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Name, Title<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">3:45\u20134:30<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Krzysztof Maziarz, Generative Chemistry, GNNs<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">10:00 \u201311:00<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, Recruiting\r\nLar Liden, NLP, Conversational AI<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">11:00\u201311:45<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, Recruiting<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">11:45\u201312:30<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Tristan Naumann, ML &amp; NLP for Health<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">18:00\u201319:00<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Besmira Nushi, Reliable &amp; Robust ML, Human-AI Collaboration<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;background-color: #dddddd\" colspan=\"2\"><strong>Saturday, February 6<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Time (PST)<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\"><strong>Name, Title<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">10:00\u201311:45<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Amy Siebenthaler, Recruiting<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">11:45\u201312:30<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Cammy Vasquez, Recruiting<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 30%;padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">18:00\u201320:30<\/td>\r\n<td style=\"padding: 6px;border-bottom: 1px solid #000000\">Cammy Vasquez, Recruiting\r\nJiayi Song, Recruiting\r\nYun Chen, Recruiting<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>"},{"id":1,"name":"Schedule","content":"<em>All times are displayed in Pacific Time (UTC-08:00)<\/em>\r\n<h3>Wednesday, February 3<\/h3>\r\n8:30 \u2013 11:45 | Tutorial\r\n<strong>Responsible AI in Industry: Practical Challenges and Lessons Learned<\/strong>\r\nKrishnaram Kenthapadi, Ben Packer, <strong>Mehrnoosh Sameki<\/strong>, Nashlie Sephus\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>Thursday, February 4<\/h3>\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Demonstration\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/integrating-pre-trained-model-into-rule-based-dialogue-management\/\"><strong>Integrating Pre-trained Model into Rule-based Dialogue Management<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Jun Quan<\/strong>, <strong>Meng Yang<\/strong>, <strong>Qiang Gan<\/strong>, Deyi Xiong, <strong>Yiming Liu<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yuchen-song-984a82a3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuchen Dong<\/a>, <strong>Fangxin Ouyang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/junzhuo-tian-2babb037\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jun Tian<\/a>, <strong>Ruiling Deng<\/strong>, <strong>Yongzhi Li<\/strong>, <strong>Yang Yang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Demonstration\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/integrating-pre-trained-model-into-rule-based-dialogue-management\/\"><strong>Integrating Pre-trained Model into Rule-based Dialogue Management<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Jun Quan<\/strong>, <strong>Meng Yang<\/strong>, <strong>Qiang Gan<\/strong>, Deyi Xiong, <strong>Yiming Liu<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yuchen-song-984a82a3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuchen Dong<\/a>, <strong>Fangxin Ouyang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/junzhuo-tian-2babb037\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jun Tian<\/a>, <strong>Ruiling Deng<\/strong>, <strong>Yongzhi Li<\/strong>, <strong>Yang Yang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Intelligent Robots \/ Vision for Robotics\r\n<strong>Learning Monocular Depth in Dynamic Scenes via Instance-Aware Projection Consistency<\/strong>\r\nSeokju Lee, Sunghoon Im, <strong>Stephen Lin<\/strong>, In So Kweon\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Reinforcement Learning\r\n<strong>Successor feature sets: generalizing successor representations across policies<\/strong>\r\nKiant\u00e9 Brantley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/somehri\/\">Soroush Mehri<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ggordon\/\">Geoff Gordon<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Discourse \/ Dialog \/ Summarization\r\n<strong>Data Augmentation for Abstractive Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization<\/strong>\r\nRamakanth R Pasunuru, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mgalley\/\">Michel Galley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan Xiong<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe Zhang<\/a>, Mohit Bansal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Ethics\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/how-linguistically-fair-are-multilingual-pre-trained-language-models\/\"><strong>How Linguistically Fair are Multilingual Pre-Trained Language Models?<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit Choudhury<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amitdesh\/\">Amit Deshpande<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Information Extraction\r\n<strong>Denoising Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition via a Hypergeometric Probabilistic Model<\/strong>\r\nHongyu Lin, Wenkai Zhang, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Huidan Liu, <strong>Nicholas Yuan<\/strong>, Zhicheng Wei\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI\r\n<strong>The Importance of Modeling Data Missingness in Algorithmic Fairness: A Causal Perspective<\/strong>\r\nNaman Goel, Alfonso Amayuelas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amitdesh\/\">Amit Deshpande<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI\r\n<strong>How Does Data Augmentation Affect Privacy in Machine Learning?<\/strong>\r\nDa Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/huzhang\/\">Huishuai Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Jian Yin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/is-the-most-accurate-ai-the-best-teammate-optimizing-ai-for-teamwork\/\"><strong>Is the Most Accurate AI the Best Teammate? Optimizing AI for Teamwork<\/strong><\/a>\r\nGagan Bansal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/benushi\/\">Besmira Nushi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eckamar\/\">Ece Kamar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/horvitz\/\">Eric Horvitz<\/a>, Daniel Weld\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Vision: Scene Analysis &amp; Understanding\r\n<strong>Holistic Multi-View Building Analysis in the Wild with Projection Pooling<\/strong>\r\nZbigniew Bogdan Wojna, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/krmaziar\/\">Krzysztof Maziarz<\/a>, Lukasz Jocz, Robert Paluba, Robert Kozikowski, Iason Kokkinos\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Demonstration\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/integrating-pre-trained-model-into-rule-based-dialogue-management\/\"><strong>Integrating Pre-trained Model into Rule-based Dialogue Management<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<strong>Jun Quan<\/strong>, <strong>Meng Yang<\/strong>, <strong>Qiang Gan<\/strong>, Deyi Xiong, <strong>Yiming Liu<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yuchen-song-984a82a3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yuchen Dong<\/a>, <strong>Fangxin Ouyang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/junzhuo-tian-2babb037\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jun Tian<\/a>, <strong>Ruiling Deng<\/strong>, <strong>Yongzhi Li<\/strong>, <strong>Yang Yang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Discourse \/ Dialog \/ Summarization\r\n<strong>Data Augmentation for Abstractive Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization<\/strong>\r\nRamakanth R Pasunuru, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/aslicel\/\">Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mgalley\/\">Michel Galley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cxiong\/\">Chenyan Xiong<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe Zhang<\/a>, Mohit Bansal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Information Extraction\r\n<strong>Denoising Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition via a Hypergeometric Probabilistic Model<\/strong>\r\nHongyu Lin, Wenkai Zhang, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Huidan Liu, <strong>Nicholas Yuan<\/strong>, Zhicheng Wei\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Reinforcement Learning\r\n<strong>Successor feature sets: generalizing successor representations across policies<\/strong>\r\nKiant\u00e9 Brantley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/somehri\/\">Soroush Mehri<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ggordon\/\">Geoff Gordon<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI\r\n<strong>How Does Data Augmentation Affect Privacy in Machine Learning?<\/strong>\r\nDa Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/huzhang\/\">Huishuai Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weic\/\">Wei Chen<\/a>, Jian Yin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/is-the-most-accurate-ai-the-best-teammate-optimizing-ai-for-teamwork\/\"><strong>Is the Most Accurate AI the Best Teammate? Optimizing AI for Teamwork<\/strong><\/a>\r\nGagan Bansal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/benushi\/\">Besmira Nushi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eckamar\/\">Ece Kamar<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/horvitz\/\">Eric Horvitz<\/a>, Daniel Weld\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Vision: Image and Video Retrieval\r\n<strong>Exploiting Sample Uncertainty for Domain Adaptive Person Re-Identification<\/strong>\r\nKecheng Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/culan\/\">Cuiling Lan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wezeng\/\">Wenjun Zeng<\/a>, Zhizheng Zhang, Zheng-Jun Zha\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Vision: Scene Analysis &amp; Understanding\r\n<strong>Holistic Multi-View Building Analysis in the Wild with Projection Pooling<\/strong>\r\nZbigniew Bogdan Wojna, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/krmaziar\/\">Krzysztof Maziarz<\/a>, Lukasz Jocz, Robert Paluba, Robert Kozikowski, Iason Kokkinos\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>Friday, February 5<\/h3>\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Intelligent Robots \/ Vision for Robotics\r\n<strong>Learning Monocular Depth in Dynamic Scenes via Instance-Aware Projection Consistency<\/strong>\r\nSeokju Lee, Sunghoon Im, <strong>Stephen Lin<\/strong>, In So Kweon\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Ethics\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/how-linguistically-fair-are-multilingual-pre-trained-language-models\/\"><strong>How Linguistically Fair are Multilingual Pre-Trained Language Models?<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/monojitc\/\">Monojit Choudhury<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amitdesh\/\">Amit Deshpande<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI\r\n<strong>The Importance of Modeling Data Missingness in Algorithmic Fairness: A Causal Perspective<\/strong>\r\nNaman Goel, Alfonso Amayuelas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amitdesh\/\">Amit Deshpande<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Vision: Image and Video Retrieval\r\n<strong>Exploiting Sample Uncertainty for Domain Adaptive Person Re-Identification<\/strong>\r\nKecheng Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/culan\/\">Cuiling Lan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wezeng\/\">Wenjun Zeng<\/a>, Zhizheng Zhang, Zheng-Jun Zha\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Applications\r\n<strong>Universal Trading for Order Execution with Oracle Policy Distillation<\/strong>\r\nYuchen Fang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kanren\/\">Kan Ren<\/a>, <strong>Weiqing Liu<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongzho\/\">Dong Zhou<\/a>, Weinan Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jibian\/\">Jiang Bian<\/a>, Yong Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Fair Division\r\n<strong>Fair and Truthful Mechanisms for Dichotomous Valuations<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/moshe\/\">Moshe Babaioff<\/a>, Tomer Ezra, Uriel Feige\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Game Theory and Economic Paradigms\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/estimating-%ce%b1-rank-by-maximizing-information-gain\/\"><strong>Estimating alpha-Rank by Maximizing Information Gain<\/strong><\/a>\r\nTabish Rashid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chezha\/\">Cheng Zhang<\/a>, <strong>Kamil Ciosek<\/strong>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Heuristic and Greedy Search\r\n<strong>NuQClq: An Effective Local Search Algorithm for Maximum Quasi-Clique Problem<\/strong>\r\nJiejiang Chen, Shaowei Cai, Shiwei Pan, Yiyuan Wang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qlin\/\">Qingwei Lin<\/a>, Mengyu Zhao, Minghao Yin\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Generation\r\n<strong>Copy That! Editing Sequences by Copying Spans<\/strong>\r\nSheena L Panthaplackel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/miallama\/\">Miltiadis Allamanis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mabrocks\/\">Marc Brockschmidt<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Generation\r\n<strong>A Controllable Model of Grounded Response Generation<\/strong>\r\nZeqiu Wu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mgalley\/\">Michel Galley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisbkt\/\">Chris Brockett<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiag\/\">Xiang Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisq\/\">Chris Quirk<\/a>, Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Mari Ostendorf, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/billdol\/\">Bill Dolan<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Search and Optimization\r\n<strong>OpEvo: An Evolutionary Method for Tensor Operator Optimization<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Xiaotian Gao<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weicu\/\">Wei Cui<\/a>, <strong>Lintao Zhang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/maoyang\/\">Mao Yang<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | 3D Computer Vision\r\n<strong>Unsupervised 3D Learning for Shape Analysis via Multiresolution Instance Discrimination<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Peng-Shuai Wang<\/strong>, Yuqi Yang, Qianfang Zou, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wuzhiron\/\">Zhirong Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yangliu\/\">Yang Liu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xtong\/\">Xin Tong<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Applications\r\n<strong>Universal Trading for Order Execution with Oracle Policy Distillation<\/strong>\r\nYuchen Fang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kanren\/\">Kan Ren<\/a>, <strong>Weiqing Liu<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongzho\/\">Dong Zhou<\/a>, Weinan Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jibian\/\">Jiang Bian<\/a>, Yong Yu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Game Theory and Economic Paradigms\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/estimating-%ce%b1-rank-by-maximizing-information-gain\/\"><strong>Estimating alpha-Rank by Maximizing Information Gain<\/strong><\/a>\r\nTabish Rashid, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chezha\/\">Cheng Zhang<\/a>, <strong>Kamil Ciosek<\/strong>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Bandits \/ RL \/ Imitation Learning\r\n<strong>Combinatorial Pure Exploration with Full-Bandit or Partial Linear Feedback<\/strong>\r\nYihan Du, Yuko Kuroki, <strong>Wei Chen<\/strong>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Unsupervised &amp; Self-Supervised Learning\r\n<strong>Distilling Localization for Self-Supervised Representation Learning<\/strong>\r\nNanxuan Zhao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wuzhiron\/\">Zhirong Wu<\/a>, Rynson W.H. Lau, <strong>Stephen Lin<\/strong>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Conversational AI\/Dialog Systems\r\n<strong>Learning an Effective Context-Response Matching Model with Self-Supervised Tasks for Retrieval-based Dialogues<\/strong>\r\nRuijian Xu, <strong>Chongyang Tao<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a>, Xueliang Zhao, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Generation\r\n<strong>Copy That! Editing Sequences by Copying Spans<\/strong>\r\nSheena L Panthaplackel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/miallama\/\">Miltiadis Allamanis<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mabrocks\/\">Marc Brockschmidt<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Information Extraction\r\n<strong>A Supervised Multi-Head Self-Attention Network for Nested Named Entity Recognition<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Yongxiu Xu<\/strong>, Heyan Huang, Chong Feng, Yue Hu\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Information Extraction\r\n<strong>A Controllable Model of Grounded Response Generation<\/strong>\r\nZeqiu Wu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mgalley\/\">Michel Galley<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisbkt\/\">Chris Brockett<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yizzhang\/\">Yizhe Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiag\/\">Xiang Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chrisq\/\">Chris Quirk<\/a>, Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Mari Ostendorf, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/billdol\/\">Bill Dolan<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Search and Optimization\r\n<strong>OpEvo: An Evolutionary Method for Tensor Operator Optimization<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Xiaotian Gao<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weicu\/\">Wei Cui<\/a>, <strong>Lintao Zhang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/maoyang\/\">Mao Yang<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Speech &amp; Signal Processing\r\n<strong>Interactive Speech and Noise Modeling for Speech Enhancement<\/strong>\r\nChengyu Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xipe\/\">Xiulian Peng<\/a>, Yuan Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sriramsrinivasan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sriram Srinivasan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yanlu\/\">Yan Lu<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Speech &amp; Signal Processing\r\n<strong>UWSpeech: Speech to Speech Translation for Unwritten Languages<\/strong>\r\nChen Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Yi Ren, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Kejun Zhang, <strong>Tieyan Liu<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>Saturday, February 6<\/h3>\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | 3D Computer Vision\r\n<strong>Unsupervised 3D Learning for Shape Analysis via Multiresolution Instance Discrimination<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Peng-Shuai Wang<\/strong>, Yuqi Yang, Qianfang Zou, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wuzhiron\/\">Zhirong Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yangliu\/\">Yang Liu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xtong\/\">Xin Tong<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Fair Division\r\n<strong>Fair and Truthful Mechanisms for Dichotomous Valuations<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/moshe\/\">Moshe Babaioff<\/a>, Tomer Ezra, Uriel Feige\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Heuristic and Greedy Search\r\n<strong>NuQClq: An Effective Local Search Algorithm for Maximum Quasi-Clique Problem<\/strong>\r\nJiejiang Chen, Shaowei Cai, Shiwei Pan, Yiyuan Wang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qlin\/\">Qingwei Lin<\/a>, Mengyu Zhao, Minghao Yin\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Bandits \/ RL \/ Imitation Learning\r\n<strong>Combinatorial Pure Exploration with Full-Bandit or Partial Linear Feedback<\/strong>\r\nYihan Du, Yuko Kuroki, <strong>Wei Chen<\/strong>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Unsupervised &amp; Self-Supervised Learning\r\n<strong>Distilling Localization for Self-Supervised Representation Learning<\/strong>\r\nNanxuan Zhao, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wuzhiron\/\">Zhirong Wu<\/a>, Rynson W.H. Lau, <strong>Stephen Lin<\/strong>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Conversational AI\/Dialog Systems\r\n<strong>Learning an Effective Context-Response Matching Model with Self-Supervised Tasks for Retrieval-based Dialogues<\/strong>\r\nRuijian Xu, <strong>Chongyang Tao<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a>, Xueliang Zhao, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Information Extraction\r\n<strong>A Supervised Multi-Head Self-Attention Network for Nested Named Entity Recognition<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Yongxiu Xu<\/strong>, Heyan Huang, Chong Feng, Yue Hu\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Speech &amp; Signal Processing\r\n<strong>Interactive Speech and Noise Modeling for Speech Enhancement<\/strong>\r\nChengyu Zheng, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xipe\/\">Xiulian Peng<\/a>, Yuan Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sriramsrinivasan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sriram Srinivasan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yanlu\/\">Yan Lu<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Speech &amp; Signal Processing\r\n<strong>UWSpeech: Speech to Speech Translation for Unwritten Languages<\/strong>\r\nChen Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Yi Ren, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Kejun Zhang, <strong>Tieyan Liu<\/strong>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Applications\r\n<strong>Towards Balanced Defect Prediction with Better Information Propagation<\/strong>\r\nXianda Zheng, Yuan-Fang Li, <strong>Huan Gao<\/strong>, Yuncheng Hua, Guilin Qi\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Language and Vision\r\n<strong>VIVO: Visual Vocabulary Pre-Training for Novel Object Captioning<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaowh\/\">Xiaowei Hu<\/a>, <strong>Xi Yin<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/keli\/\">Kevin Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/leizhang\/\">Lei Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lijuanw\/\">Lijuan Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zliu\/\">Zicheng Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Learning Theory \/ Optimization\r\n<strong>Frugal Optimization for Cost-related Hyperparameters<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qiw\/\">Qingyun Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chiw\/\">Chi Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sihua\/\">Silu Huang<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Neural Network Algorithms\r\n<strong>Learning to Reweight with Deep Interactions<\/strong>\r\nYang Fan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yinxia\/\">Yingce Xia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lijuwu\/\">Lijun Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shufxi\/\">Shufang Xie<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/weiqing-liu-09646b91\/\">Weiqing Liu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jibian\/\">Jiang Bian<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Xiangyang Li\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Information Extraction\r\n<strong>Re-TACRED: Addressing Shortcomings of the TACRED Dataset<\/strong>\r\nGeorge I Stoica, <strong>Emmanouil Antonios Platanios<\/strong>, Barnabas Poczos\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Vision: Computational Photography, Image &amp; Video Synthesis\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/object-centric-image-generation-from-layouts\/\"><strong>Object-Centric Image Generation from Layouts<\/strong><\/a>\r\nTristan Sylvain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/penzhan\/\">Pengchuan Zhang<\/a>, Yoshua Bengio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/devonh\/\">R Devon Hjelm<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shsh\/\">Shikhar Sharma<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Applications\r\n<strong>Correlation-Aware Heuristic Search for Intelligent Virtual Machine Provisioning in Cloud Systems<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Chuan Luo<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/boqiao\/\">Bo Qiao<\/a>, <strong>Wenqian Xing<\/strong>, <strong>Xin Chen<\/strong>, <strong>Pu Zhao<\/strong>, <strong>Chao Du<\/strong>, <strong>Randolph Yao<\/strong>, Hongyu Zhang, Wei Wu, Shaowei Cai, Bing He, <strong>Saravanakumar Rajmohan<\/strong>, <strong>Qingwei Lin<\/strong>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Applications\r\n<strong>Towards Balanced Defect Prediction with Better Information Propagation<\/strong>\r\nXianda Zheng, Yuan-Fang Li, <strong>Huan Gao<\/strong>, Yuncheng Hua, Guilin Qi\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Humans and AI\r\n<strong>Improving the Performance-Compatibility Tradeoff with Personalized Objective Functions<\/strong>\r\nJonathan Martinez, Kobi Gal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eckamar\/\">Ece Kamar<\/a>, Levi H. S. Lelis\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Language and Vision\r\n<strong>VIVO: Visual Vocabulary Pre-Training for Novel Object Captioning<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xiaowh\/\">Xiaowei Hu<\/a>, <strong>Xi Yin<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/keli\/\">Kevin Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/leizhang\/\">Lei Zhang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lijuanw\/\">Lijuan Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zliu\/\">Zicheng Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Learning Theory \/ Optimization\r\n<strong>Frugal Optimization for Cost-related Hyperparameters<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qiw\/\">Qingyun Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chiw\/\">Chi Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sihua\/\">Silu Huang<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Conversational AI\/Dialog Systems\r\n<strong>Co-GAT: A Co-Interactive Graph Attention Network for Joint Dialog Act Recognition and Sentiment Classification<\/strong>\r\nLibo Qin, Zhouyang Li, Wanxiang Che, <strong>Minheng Ni<\/strong>, Ting Liu\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Information Extraction\r\n<strong>Re-TACRED: Addressing Shortcomings of the TACRED Dataset<\/strong>\r\nGeorge I Stoica, <strong>Emmanouil Antonios Platanios<\/strong>, Barnabas Poczos\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Learning &amp; Optimization\r\n<strong>Simpson's Bias in NLP Training<\/strong>\r\nFei Yuan, Longtu Zhang, Huang Bojun, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo Liang<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Semantics\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/iterative-utterance-segmentation-for-neural-semantic-parsing\/\"><strong>Iterative Utterance Segmentation for Neural Semantic Parsing<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYinuo Guo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zelin\/\">Zeqi Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang Lou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongmeiz\/\">Dongmei Zhang<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Vision: Object Detection &amp; Categorization\r\n<strong>Very Important Person Localization in Unconstrained Conditions: A New Benchmark<\/strong>\r\nXiao Wang, Zheng Wang, Toshihiko Yamasaki, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wezeng\/\">Wenjun Zeng<\/a>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>Sunday, February 7<\/h3>\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Applications\r\n<strong>Correlation-Aware Heuristic Search for Intelligent Virtual Machine Provisioning in Cloud Systems<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Chuan Luo<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/boqiao\/\">Bo Qiao<\/a>, <strong>Wenqian Xing<\/strong>, <strong>Xin Chen<\/strong>, <strong>Pu Zhao<\/strong>, <strong>Chao Du<\/strong>, <strong>Randolph Yao<\/strong>, Hongyu Zhang, Wei Wu, Shaowei Cai, Bing He, <strong>Saravanakumar Rajmohan<\/strong>, <strong>Qingwei Lin<\/strong>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Humans and AI\r\n<strong>Improving the Performance-Compatibility Tradeoff with Personalized Objective Functions<\/strong>\r\nJonathan Martinez, Kobi Gal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/eckamar\/\">Ece Kamar<\/a>, Levi H. S. Lelis\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Neural Network Algorithms\r\n<strong>Learning to Reweight with Deep Interactions<\/strong>\r\nYang Fan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yinxia\/\">Yingce Xia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lijuwu\/\">Lijun Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shufxi\/\">Shufang Xie<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/weiqing-liu-09646b91\/\">Weiqing Liu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jibian\/\">Jiang Bian<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>, Xiangyang Li\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Conversational AI\/Dialog Systems\r\n<strong>Co-GAT: A Co-Interactive Graph Attention Network for Joint Dialog Act Recognition and Sentiment Classification<\/strong>\r\nLibo Qin, Zhouyang Li, Wanxiang Che, <strong>Minheng Ni<\/strong>, Ting Liu\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Learning &amp; Optimization\r\n<strong>Simpson's Bias in NLP Training<\/strong>\r\nFei Yuan, Longtu Zhang, Huang Bojun, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalia\/\">Yaobo Liang<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Semantics\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/iterative-utterance-segmentation-for-neural-semantic-parsing\/\"><strong>Iterative Utterance Segmentation for Neural Semantic Parsing<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYinuo Guo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zelin\/\">Zeqi Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang Lou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongmeiz\/\">Dongmei Zhang<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Vision: Object Detection &amp; Categorization\r\n<strong>Very Important Person Localization in Unconstrained Conditions: A New Benchmark<\/strong>\r\nXiao Wang, Zheng Wang, Toshihiko Yamasaki, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wezeng\/\">Wenjun Zeng<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Vision: Computational Photography, Image &amp; Video Synthesis\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/object-centric-image-generation-from-layouts\/\"><strong>Object-Centric Image Generation from Layouts<\/strong><\/a>\r\nTristan Sylvain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/penzhan\/\">Pengchuan Zhang<\/a>, Yoshua Bengio, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/devonh\/\">R Devon Hjelm<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shsh\/\">Shikhar Sharma<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Reinforcement Learning\r\n<strong>Reinforcement Learning with Trajectory Feedback<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yefroni\/\">Yonathan Efroni<\/a>, Nadav Merlis, Shie Mannor\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Transfer\/Adaptation\/Multi-task\/Meta\/Automated Learning\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/meta-label-correction-for-noisy-label-learning\/\"><strong>Meta Label Correction for Noisy Label Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zheng\/\">Guoqing Zheng<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Awadallah<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sdumais\/\">Susan Dumais<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Neuro-Symbolic AI\r\n<strong>Self-Supervised Self Supervision by Combining Deep Learning and Probabilistic Logic<\/strong>\r\nHunter Lang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hoifung\/\">Hoifung Poon<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Deep Learning\r\n<strong>Reinforced Multi-Teacher Selection for Knowledge Distillation<\/strong>\r\nFei Yuan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lisho\/\">Linjun Shou<\/a>, Jian Pei, <strong>Wutao Lin<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/migon\/\">Ming Gong<\/a>, Yan Fu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/djiang\/\">Daxin Jiang<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Data Mining &amp; Knowledge Management\r\n<strong>Fairness-aware News Recommendation with Decomposed Adversarial Learning<\/strong>\r\nChuhan Wu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/fangzwu\/\">Fangzhao Wu<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xitwan\/\">Xiting Wang<\/a>, Yongfeng Huang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xingx\/\">Xing Xie<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Active \/ Weakly-Supervised \/ Semi-Supervised Learning\r\n<strong>Revisiting Iterative Back-Translation from the Perspective of Compositional Generalization<\/strong>\r\nYinuo Guo, Hualei Zhu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zelin\/\">Zeqi Lin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/beichen\/\">Bei Chen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jlou\/\">Jian-Guang Lou<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongmeiz\/\">Dongmei Zhang<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Active \/ Weakly-Supervised \/ Semi-Supervised Learning\r\n<strong>PULNS: Positive-Unlabeled Learning with Effective Negative Sample Selector<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Chuan Luo<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/puzhao\/\">Pu Zhao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chen-chen-71960346\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chen Chen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/boqiao\/\">Bo Qiao<\/a>, <strong>Chao Du<\/strong>, Hongyu Zhang, Wei Wu, Shaowei Cai, Bing He, <strong>Saravanakumar Rajmohan<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/qlin\/\">Qingwei Lin<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Matrix &amp; Tensor Methods\r\n<strong>Scalable and Explainable 1-Bit Matrix Completion via Graph Signal Learning<\/strong>\r\nChao Chen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dongsli\/\">Dongsheng Li<\/a>, Junchi Yan, Hanchi Huang, Xiaokang Yang\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Transfer\/Adaptation\/Multi-task\/Meta\/Automated Learning\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/meta-label-correction-for-noisy-label-learning\/\"><strong>Meta Label Correction for Noisy Label Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zheng\/\">Guoqing Zheng<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Awadallah<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sdumais\/\">Susan Dumais<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Neuro-Symbolic AI\r\n<strong>Self-Supervised Self Supervision by Combining Deep Learning and Probabilistic Logic<\/strong>\r\nHunter Lang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hoifung\/\">Hoifung Poon<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Applications\r\n<strong>Automatic Song Writing with Pre-training and Alignment Constraint<\/strong>\r\nZhonghao Sheng, Kaitao Song, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/xuta\/\">Xu Tan<\/a>, Yi Ren, Wei Ye, Shikun Zhang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/taoqin\/\">Tao Qin<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Conversational AI \/ Dialog Systems\r\n<strong>Open Domain Dialogue Generation with Latent Images<\/strong>\r\nZe Yang, Wei Wu, <strong>Huang Hu<\/strong>, <strong>Can Xu<\/strong>, Wei Wang, Zhoujun Li\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Generation\r\n<strong>Code Completion by Modeling Flattened Abstract Syntax Trees as Graphs<\/strong>\r\n<strong>Yanlin Wang<\/strong>, Hui Li\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Generation\r\n<strong>Towards Topic-aware Slide Generation for Academic Papers with Unsupervised Mutual Learning<\/strong>\r\nDa-Wei Li, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dahua\/\">Danqing Huang<\/a>, Tingting Ma, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cyl\/\">Chin-Yew Lin<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Language Models\r\n<strong>Self-Attention Attribution: Interpreting Information Interactions Inside Transformer<\/strong>\r\nYaru Hao, <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>, Ke Xu\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Language Models\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/filter-an-enhanced-fusion-method-for-cross-lingual-language-understanding\/\"><strong>FILTER: An Enhanced Fusion Method for Cross-lingual Language Understanding<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yuwfan\/\">Yuwei Fang<\/a>, <strong>Shuohang Wang<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zhgan\/\">Zhe Gan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/siqisun\/\">Siqi Sun<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jingjl\/\">Jingjing Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Vision: Video Understanding &amp; Activity Analysis\r\n<strong>Weakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization by Uncertainty Modeling<\/strong>\r\nPilhyeon Lee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jinglwa\/\">Jinglu Wang<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yanlu\/\">Yan Lu<\/a>, Hyeran Byun\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n\r\n<h3>Monday, February 8<\/h3>\r\nWorkshop\r\n9th Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC-9)\r\n<strong>Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II<\/strong>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/bapeng\/\">Baolin Peng<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jincli\/\">Jinchao Li<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/laliden\/\">Lars Liden<\/a>, Minlie Huang, Qi Zhu, Runze Liang, Ryuichi Takanobu, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/shahins\/\">Shahin Shayandeh<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/swads\/\">Swadheen Shukla<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/zhez\/\">Zheng Zhang<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Data Mining &amp; 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