{"id":761314,"date":"2021-11-18T08:05:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T16:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&#038;p=761314"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:51:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:51:02","slug":"neurips-2021","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/neurips-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft at NeurIPS 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p><strong>Time zone:<\/strong> Pacific Time<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/neurips.cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NeurIPS 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>This year marks the <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/neurips.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021).<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> NeurIPS 2021 is a virtual-only conference.<\/p>\n<h3>Outstanding Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-universal-law-of-robustness-via-isoperimetry\/\"><strong>A Universal Law of Robustness via Isoperimetry<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sebubeck\/\">S\u00e9bastien Bubeck<\/a>, Mark Sellke<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrapper margin-bottom-sp1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A law of robustness and the importance of overparametrization in deep learning\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ujMvnQpP528?feature=oembed&rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Board Member<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Program Co-Chair<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jenn\/\">Jenn Wortman Vaughan<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Workshop Chair<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tristan\/\">Tristan Naumann<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Chair<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\">Lester Mackey<\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Tuesday, December 7, 2021<\/h3>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 15:00 | Affinity Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latinxinai.org\/neurips-2021-about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>LatinX in AI (LXAI) Research @ NeurIPS 2021 (2)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Maria Luisa Santiago, Andres Munoz, Laura Montoya, Karla Caballero, Isabel Metzger, Jose Gallego-Posada, Juan Banda, Gabriela Vega, Amanda Duarte, Patrick Feeney, Lourdes Ram\u00edrez Cerna, Walter M Mayor, Omar U. Florez, Rosina Weber, Rocio Zorrilla<br \/>\n<em>Microsoft Gold Sponsored<\/em><\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 14:33 | Affinity Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sunhaozhe.github.io\/NewInML2021_NeurIPS\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>New in ML (2)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Haozhe Sun, Wenzhuo Liu, Joseph Pedersen<br \/>\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalesong\/\">Yale Song<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday, December 8, 2021<\/h3>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 23:00 | Affinity Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/wiml2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WiML Workshop (1)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve G\u00fcrel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney<\/p>\n<h3>Thursday, December 9, 2021<\/h3>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 23:00 | Affinity Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/wiml2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WiML Workshop (2)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve G\u00fcrel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney<\/p>\n<h3>Friday, December 10, 2021<\/h3>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 07:00 | Affinity Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/wiml2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WiML Workshop (3)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve G\u00fcrel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney<\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 15:00 | Affinity Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/wiml2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WiML Workshop (4)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve G\u00fcrel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney<\/p>\n<h3>Monday, December 13, 2021<\/h3>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 12:30 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afciworkshop.org\/afcr2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Algorithmic Fairness through the lens of Causality and Robustness<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Jessica Schrouff, Awa Dieng, Golnoosh Farnadi, Mark Kwegyir-Aggrey, Miriam Rateike<br \/>\nPanelist: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/solon\/\">Solon Barocas<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>04:50 \u2013 14:10 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/i-cant-believe-its-not-better.github.io\/neurips2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>I (Still) Can&#8217;t Believe It&#8217;s Not Better: A workshop for \u201cbeautiful\u201d ideas that &#8220;should&#8221; have worked<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Aaron Schein,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/melanief\/\">Melanie F. Pradier<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Jessica Forde,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sthyland\/\">Stephanie Hyland<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Francisco Ruiz<br \/>\nSenior Advisory Board: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 12:10 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/mlecon2021\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Machine Learning Meets Econometrics (MLECON)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: David Bruns-Smith, Arthur Gretton, Limor Gultchin, Niki Kilbertus, Krikamol Muandet, Evan Munro, Angela Zhou<br \/>\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/vasy\/\">Vasilis Syrgkanis<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 17:00 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/ai4sciencecommunity.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AI for Science: Mind the Gaps<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Payal Chandak, Yuanqi Du, Tianfan Fu, Wenhao Gao, Kexin Huang, Shengchao Liu, Ziming Liu, Gabriel Spadon, Max Tegmark, Hanchen Wang, Adrian Weller, Max Welling, Marinka Zitnik<br \/>\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 15:30 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/ml4physicalsciences.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Anima Anandkumar, Kyle Cranmer, Mr. Prabhat, Lenka Zdeborov\u00e1, Atilim Gunes Baydin, Juan Carrasquilla, Emine Kucukbenli, Gilles Louppe, Benjamin Nachman, Brian Nord, Savannah Thais<br \/>\nSteering Committee: Prabhat Ram<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 16:45 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/hcai-human-centered-ai-neurips\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Human Centered AI<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Michael Muller, Plamen P Angelov, Shion Guha, Marina Kogan, Gina Neff, Nuria Oliver, Manuel Rodriguez, Adrian Weller<br \/>\nProgram Committee: Samir Passi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/loy\/\">Longqi Yang<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 00:00 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/ctrlgenworkshop.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CtrlGen: Controllable Generative Modeling in Language and Vision<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Steven Y. Feng, Dor Arad Hudson, Tatsunori Hashimoto, DONGYEOP Kang, Varun Prashant Gangal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/anbalak\/\">Anusha Balakrishnan<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Joel Tetreault<\/p>\n<p>09:00 \u2013 18:00 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/distshift2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Distribution shifts: connecting methods and applications (DistShift)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Shiori Sagawa, Pang Wei Koh, Fanny Yang, Hongseok Namkoong, Jiashi Feng, Kate Saenko, Percy Liang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/slbird\/\">Sarah Bird<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Sergey Levine<\/p>\n<h3>Tuesday, December 14, 2021<\/h3>\n<p>03:45 \u2013 15:00 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/aiplans.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Advances in Programming Languages and Neurosymbolic Systems (AIPLANS)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Breandan Considine, Disha Shrivastava, David Yu-Tung Hui, Chin-Wei Huang, Shawn Tan, Xujie Si, Prakash Panangaden, Guy Van den Broeck, Daniel Tarlow<br \/>\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/daselsam\/\">Daniel Selsam<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>04:55 \u2013 16:30 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/robustbayes-neurips21\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Your Model is Wrong: Robustness and misspecification in probabilistic modeling<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Diana Cai, Sameer Deshpande, Michael Hughes, Tamara Broderick, Trevor Campbell, Nick Foti, Barbara Engelhardt, Sinead Williamson<br \/>\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\">Lester Mackey<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 12:20 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.neurodata.io\/ood-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Out-of-distribution generalization and adaptation in natural and artificial intelligence<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Joshua T Vogelstein, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weiwya\/\">Weiwei Yang<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Soledad Villar, Zenna Tavares, Johnathan Flowers, Onyema Osuagwu<br \/>\nSpeakers: Eric Traut, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dburger\/\">Doug Burger<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chwh\/\">Chris White<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sujbhara\/\">Sujeeth Bharadwaj<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/emrek\/\">Emre Kiciman<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Max Welling<br \/>\nProgram Committee: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chwh\/\">Chris White<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sujbhara\/\">Sujeeth Bharadwaj<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 14:10 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/ecorl2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ecological Theory of Reinforcement Learning: How Does Task Design Influence Agent Learning?<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Manfred D\u00edaz, Hiroki Furuta, Elise van der Pol, Lisa Lee, Shixiang (Shane) Gu, Pablo Samuel Castro, Simon Du, Marc Bellemare, Sergey Levine<br \/>\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kahofman\/\">Katja Hofmann<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 14:30 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/g.harvard.edu\/research2clinics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bridging the Gap: from Machine Learning Research to Clinical Practice<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Julia Vogt, Ece Ozkan, Sonali Parbhoo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/melanief\/\">Melanie F. Pradier<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Patrick Schwab, Shengpu Tang, Mario Wieser, Jiayu Yao<br \/>\nSpeakers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rcaruana\/\">Rich Caruana<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sthyland\/\">Stephanie Hyland<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 14:00 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/lmrl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Learning Meaningful Representations of Life (LMRL)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Elizabeth Wood, Adji Bousso Dieng, Aleksandrina Goeva, Anshul Kundaje, Barbara Engelhardt, Chang Liu, David Van Valen, Debora Marks, Edward Boyden, Eli N Weinstein, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lcrawford\/\">Lorin Crawford<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Mor Nitzan, Romain Lopez, Tamara Broderick, Ray Jones, Wouter Boomsma, Yixin Wang<\/p>\n<p>05:20 \u2013 14:00 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/med-neurips-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Medical Imaging meets NeurIPS<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: DOU QI, Marleen de Bruijne, Ben Glocker, Aasa Feragen, Herve Lombaert, Ipek Oguz, Jonas Teuwen, Islem Rekik, Darko Stern, Xiaoxiao Li<br \/>\nProgram Committee: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ozoktay\/\">Ozan Oktay<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 15:00 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/dgms-and-applications.github.io\/2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Deep Generative Models and Downstream Applications<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Jos\u00e9 Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez-Lobato, Yingzhen Li, Yichuan Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Austin Tripp, Weiwei Pan, Oren Rippel<br \/>\n<em>Microsoft sponsored workshop<\/em><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 14:35 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/tensorworkshop.github.io\/NeurIPS2021\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Second Workshop on Quantum Tensor Networks in Machine Learning<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Xiao-Yang Liu, Qibin Zhao, Ivan Oseledets, Yufei Ding, Guillaume Rabusseau, Khadijeh Najafi, Andrzej Cichocki, Masashi Sugiyama, Anwar Walid<br \/>\nSpeaker: Anima Anandkumar (2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship)<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 14:10 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nightingalescience.org\/conferences-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Machine learning from ground truth: New medical imaging datasets for unsolved medical problems<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Katy Haynes, Ziad Obermeyer, Emma Pierson, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Matthew Lungren, Sendhil Mullainathan, Matthew McDermott<span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Competitions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Day 1: December 7, 10:00 &#8211; 12:05<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Day 2: December 8, 02:00 &#8211; 03:45<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Day 3: December 9, 10:00 &#8211; 12:05<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Day 4: December 10, 02:00 &#8211; 04:05<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Organizers: Douwe Kiela, Marco Ciccone, Barbara Caputo<br \/>\nProgram Committee Members:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/evelynev\/\">Evelyne Viegas<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nkuno\/\">Noboru Kuno<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/savempra\/\">Sai Vemprala<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/neurips.cc\/Conferences\/2021\/CompetitionTrack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about the NeurIPS 2021 Competition Track ><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Challenge<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganizers:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/harshasi\/\">Harsha Vardhan Simhadri<\/a>, George Williams, Martin Aum\u00fcller, Artem Babenko, Dmitry Baranchuk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cheqi\/\">Qi Chen<\/a>, Matthijs Douze, Lucas Hosseini, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rakri\/\">Ravishankar Krishnaswamy<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/gopalsr\/\">Gopal Srinivasa<\/a>, Suhas Jayaram Subramanya, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jindwang\/\">Jingdong Wang<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Diamond: A MineRL Competition on Training Sample-Efficient Agents<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganizer: William H. 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Pradier<\/a>, Sharad Vikram, Andrew Foong, Sanae Lotfi, Sebastian Farquhar<\/p>\n<p><strong>IGLU: Interactive Grounded Language Understanding in a Collaborative Environment<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganizers: Julia Kiseleva, Ziming Li, Mohammad\u00a0Aliannejadi, Maartje\u00a0ter\u00a0Hoeve, Mikhail\u00a0Burtsev, Alexey\u00a0Skrynnik, Artem\u00a0Zholus,\u00a0Shrestha\u00a0Mohanty, Aleksandr Panov, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kahofman\/\">Katja Hofmann<\/a>, Kavya Srinet, Arthur Szlam, Yuxuan Sun, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mgalley\/\">Michel Galley<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Awadallah<\/a><br \/>\nAdvisory Board: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/billdol\/\">Bill Dolan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ryenw\/\">Ryen W. White<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reconnaissance Blind Chess<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganizer: Ryan W. Gardner, Gino Perrotta, Corey Lowman, Casey Richardson, Andrew Newman, Jared Markowitz, Nathan Drenkow, Barton Paulhamus,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/allorens\/\">Ashley J. Llorens<\/a>, Todd W. Neller, Raman Arora, Bo Li, Mykel J. Kochenderfer<\/p>\n<p><strong>WebQA Competition<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganizers: Yingshan\u00a0Chang,\u00a0Yonatan Bisk,\u00a0Mridu Narang, Jared Fernandez, Levi Melnick, Guihong Cao, Hisami Suzuki,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Alchemy-with-Friends-Print-at-Home-2020.pdf\">Print your own copy<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> of Alchemy with Friends to play at home. Share your favorite card combinations using #AlchemyFriends on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. 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glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/microsoftresearch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>: MicrosoftResearch<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MSFTResearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter:<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> @MSFTResearch<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MicrosoftResearch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>: microsoftresearch<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/LinkedInMSR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new 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Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021).<\/a> NeurIPS 2021 is a virtual-only conference.<\/p>\n<h3>Outstanding Paper Award<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/a-universal-law-of-robustness-via-isoperimetry\/\"><strong>A Universal Law of Robustness via Isoperimetry<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sebubeck\/\">S\u00e9bastien Bubeck<\/a>, Mark Sellke<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrapper margin-bottom-sp1\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A law of robustness and the importance of overparametrization in deep learning\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ujMvnQpP528?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Board Member<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Program Co-Chair<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jenn\/\">Jenn Wortman Vaughan<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Workshop Chair<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tristan\/\">Tristan Naumann<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Chair<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\">Lester Mackey<\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:freeform --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tab --><!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"Tutorials u0026 workshops\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><h3>Tuesday, December 7, 2021<\/h3>\n<p>10:00 \u2013 15:00 | Affinity Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latinxinai.org\/neurips-2021-about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>LatinX in AI (LXAI) Research @ NeurIPS 2021 (2)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Maria Luisa Santiago, Andres Munoz, Laura Montoya, Karla Caballero, Isabel Metzger, Jose Gallego-Posada, Juan Banda, Gabriela Vega, Amanda Duarte, Patrick Feeney, Lourdes Ram\u00edrez Cerna, Walter M Mayor, Omar U. Florez, Rosina Weber, Rocio Zorrilla<br \/>\n<em>Microsoft Gold Sponsored<\/em><\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 14:33 | Affinity Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sunhaozhe.github.io\/NewInML2021_NeurIPS\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>New in ML (2)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Haozhe Sun, Wenzhuo Liu, Joseph Pedersen<br \/>\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalesong\/\">Yale Song<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Wednesday, December 8, 2021<\/h3>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 23:00 | Affinity Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/wiml2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WiML Workshop (1)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve G\u00fcrel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney<\/p>\n<h3>Thursday, December 9, 2021<\/h3>\n<p>18:00 \u2013 23:00 | Affinity Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/wiml2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WiML Workshop (2)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve G\u00fcrel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney<\/p>\n<h3>Friday, December 10, 2021<\/h3>\n<p>02:00 \u2013 07:00 | Affinity Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/wiml2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WiML Workshop (3)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve G\u00fcrel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney<\/p>\n<p>11:00 \u2013 15:00 | Affinity Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/wiml2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WiML Workshop (4)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve G\u00fcrel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney<\/p>\n<h3>Monday, December 13, 2021<\/h3>\n<p>01:00 \u2013 12:30 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.afciworkshop.org\/afcr2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Algorithmic Fairness through the lens of Causality and Robustness<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Jessica Schrouff, Awa Dieng, Golnoosh Farnadi, Mark Kwegyir-Aggrey, Miriam Rateike<br \/>\nPanelist: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/solon\/\">Solon Barocas<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>04:50 \u2013 14:10 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/i-cant-believe-its-not-better.github.io\/neurips2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>I (Still) Can&#8217;t Believe It&#8217;s Not Better: A workshop for \u201cbeautiful\u201d ideas that &#8220;should&#8221; have worked<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Aaron Schein,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/melanief\/\">Melanie F. Pradier<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Jessica Forde,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sthyland\/\">Stephanie Hyland<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Francisco Ruiz<br \/>\nSenior Advisory Board: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 12:10 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/mlecon2021\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Machine Learning Meets Econometrics (MLECON)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: David Bruns-Smith, Arthur Gretton, Limor Gultchin, Niki Kilbertus, Krikamol Muandet, Evan Munro, Angela Zhou<br \/>\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/vasy\/\">Vasilis Syrgkanis<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 17:00 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/ai4sciencecommunity.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AI for Science: Mind the Gaps<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Payal Chandak, Yuanqi Du, Tianfan Fu, Wenhao Gao, Kexin Huang, Shengchao Liu, Ziming Liu, Gabriel Spadon, Max Tegmark, Hanchen Wang, Adrian Weller, Max Welling, Marinka Zitnik<br \/>\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 15:30 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/ml4physicalsciences.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Anima Anandkumar, Kyle Cranmer, Mr. Prabhat, Lenka Zdeborov\u00e1, Atilim Gunes Baydin, Juan Carrasquilla, Emine Kucukbenli, Gilles Louppe, Benjamin Nachman, Brian Nord, Savannah Thais<br \/>\nSteering Committee: Prabhat Ram<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 16:45 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/hcai-human-centered-ai-neurips\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Human Centered AI<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Michael Muller, Plamen P Angelov, Shion Guha, Marina Kogan, Gina Neff, Nuria Oliver, Manuel Rodriguez, Adrian Weller<br \/>\nProgram Committee: Samir Passi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/loy\/\">Longqi Yang<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>08:00 \u2013 00:00 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/ctrlgenworkshop.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CtrlGen: Controllable Generative Modeling in Language and Vision<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Steven Y. Feng, Dor Arad Hudson, Tatsunori Hashimoto, DONGYEOP Kang, Varun Prashant Gangal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/anbalak\/\">Anusha Balakrishnan<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Joel Tetreault<\/p>\n<p>09:00 \u2013 18:00 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/distshift2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Distribution shifts: connecting methods and applications (DistShift)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Shiori Sagawa, Pang Wei Koh, Fanny Yang, Hongseok Namkoong, Jiashi Feng, Kate Saenko, Percy Liang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/slbird\/\">Sarah Bird<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Sergey Levine<\/p>\n<h3>Tuesday, December 14, 2021<\/h3>\n<p>03:45 \u2013 15:00 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/aiplans.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Advances in Programming Languages and Neurosymbolic Systems (AIPLANS)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Breandan Considine, Disha Shrivastava, David Yu-Tung Hui, Chin-Wei Huang, Shawn Tan, Xujie Si, Prakash Panangaden, Guy Van den Broeck, Daniel Tarlow<br \/>\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/daselsam\/\">Daniel Selsam<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>04:55 \u2013 16:30 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/robustbayes-neurips21\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Your Model is Wrong: Robustness and misspecification in probabilistic modeling<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Diana Cai, Sameer Deshpande, Michael Hughes, Tamara Broderick, Trevor Campbell, Nick Foti, Barbara Engelhardt, Sinead Williamson<br \/>\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\">Lester Mackey<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 12:20 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.neurodata.io\/ood-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Out-of-distribution generalization and adaptation in natural and artificial intelligence<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Joshua T Vogelstein, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weiwya\/\">Weiwei Yang<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Soledad Villar, Zenna Tavares, Johnathan Flowers, Onyema Osuagwu<br \/>\nSpeakers: Eric Traut, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dburger\/\">Doug Burger<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chwh\/\">Chris White<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sujbhara\/\">Sujeeth Bharadwaj<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/emrek\/\">Emre Kiciman<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Max Welling<br \/>\nProgram Committee: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chwh\/\">Chris White<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sujbhara\/\">Sujeeth Bharadwaj<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 14:10 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/ecorl2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ecological Theory of Reinforcement Learning: How Does Task Design Influence Agent Learning?<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Manfred D\u00edaz, Hiroki Furuta, Elise van der Pol, Lisa Lee, Shixiang (Shane) Gu, Pablo Samuel Castro, Simon Du, Marc Bellemare, Sergey Levine<br \/>\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kahofman\/\">Katja Hofmann<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 14:30 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/g.harvard.edu\/research2clinics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bridging the Gap: from Machine Learning Research to Clinical Practice<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Julia Vogt, Ece Ozkan, Sonali Parbhoo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/melanief\/\">Melanie F. Pradier<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Patrick Schwab, Shengpu Tang, Mario Wieser, Jiayu Yao<br \/>\nSpeakers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rcaruana\/\">Rich Caruana<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sthyland\/\">Stephanie Hyland<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>05:00 \u2013 14:00 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/lmrl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Learning Meaningful Representations of Life (LMRL)<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Elizabeth Wood, Adji Bousso Dieng, Aleksandrina Goeva, Anshul Kundaje, Barbara Engelhardt, Chang Liu, David Van Valen, Debora Marks, Edward Boyden, Eli N Weinstein, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lcrawford\/\">Lorin Crawford<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Mor Nitzan, Romain Lopez, Tamara Broderick, Ray Jones, Wouter Boomsma, Yixin Wang<\/p>\n<p>05:20 \u2013 14:00 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/med-neurips-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Medical Imaging meets NeurIPS<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: DOU QI, Marleen de Bruijne, Ben Glocker, Aasa Feragen, Herve Lombaert, Ipek Oguz, Jonas Teuwen, Islem Rekik, Darko Stern, Xiaoxiao Li<br \/>\nProgram Committee: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ozoktay\/\">Ozan Oktay<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 15:00 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/dgms-and-applications.github.io\/2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Deep Generative Models and Downstream Applications<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Jos\u00e9 Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez-Lobato, Yingzhen Li, Yichuan Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Austin Tripp, Weiwei Pan, Oren Rippel<br \/>\n<em>Microsoft sponsored workshop<\/em><\/p>\n<p>06:00 \u2013 14:35 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/tensorworkshop.github.io\/NeurIPS2021\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Second Workshop on Quantum Tensor Networks in Machine Learning<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Xiao-Yang Liu, Qibin Zhao, Ivan Oseledets, Yufei Ding, Guillaume Rabusseau, Khadijeh Najafi, Andrzej Cichocki, Masashi Sugiyama, Anwar Walid<br \/>\nSpeaker: Anima Anandkumar (2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship)<\/p>\n<p>07:00 \u2013 14:10 | Workshop<br \/>\n<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nightingalescience.org\/conferences-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Machine learning from ground truth: New medical imaging datasets for unsolved medical problems<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nOrganizers: Katy Haynes, Ziad Obermeyer, Emma Pierson, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Matthew Lungren, Sendhil Mullainathan, Matthew McDermott<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\":\"Competitions\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><h2>Competitions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Day 1: December 7, 10:00 &#8211; 12:05<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Day 2: December 8, 02:00 &#8211; 03:45<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Day 3: December 9, 10:00 &#8211; 12:05<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Day 4: December 10, 02:00 &#8211; 04:05<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Organizers: Douwe Kiela, Marco Ciccone, Barbara Caputo<br \/>\nProgram Committee Members:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/evelynev\/\">Evelyne Viegas<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nkuno\/\">Noboru Kuno<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/savempra\/\">Sai Vemprala<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/neurips.cc\/Conferences\/2021\/CompetitionTrack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about the NeurIPS 2021 Competition Track &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Challenge<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganizers:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/harshasi\/\">Harsha Vardhan Simhadri<\/a>, George Williams, Martin Aum\u00fcller, Artem Babenko, Dmitry Baranchuk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cheqi\/\">Qi Chen<\/a>, Matthijs Douze, Lucas Hosseini, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rakri\/\">Ravishankar Krishnaswamy<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/gopalsr\/\">Gopal Srinivasa<\/a>, Suhas Jayaram Subramanya, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jindwang\/\">Jingdong Wang<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Diamond: A MineRL Competition on Training Sample-Efficient Agents<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganizer: William H. Guss, Alara Dirik, Byron V. Galbraith, Brandon Houghton, Anssi Kanervisto, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nkuno\/\">Noboru Sean Kuno<\/a>, Stephanie Milani, Sharada Mohanty, Karolis Ramanauskas, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Rohin Shah, Nicholay Topin, Steven H. Wang, Cody Wild<br \/>\nAdvisory Committee:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sadevlin\/\">Sam\u00a0Devlin<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kahofman\/\">Katja\u00a0Hofmann<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Evaluating Approximate Inference in Bayesian Deep Learning<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganizer: Andrew Gordon Wilson, Pavel Izmailov, Matthew D. Hoffman, Yarin Gal, Yingzhen Li, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/melanief\/\">Melanie F. Pradier<\/a>, Sharad Vikram, Andrew Foong, Sanae Lotfi, Sebastian Farquhar<\/p>\n<p><strong>IGLU: Interactive Grounded Language Understanding in a Collaborative Environment<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganizers: Julia Kiseleva, Ziming Li, Mohammad\u00a0Aliannejadi, Maartje\u00a0ter\u00a0Hoeve, Mikhail\u00a0Burtsev, Alexey\u00a0Skrynnik, Artem\u00a0Zholus,\u00a0Shrestha\u00a0Mohanty, Aleksandr Panov, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kahofman\/\">Katja Hofmann<\/a>, Kavya Srinet, Arthur Szlam, Yuxuan Sun, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/mgalley\/\">Michel Galley<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/hassanam\/\">Ahmed Awadallah<\/a><br \/>\nAdvisory Board: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/billdol\/\">Bill Dolan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ryenw\/\">Ryen W. White<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reconnaissance Blind Chess<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganizer: Ryan W. Gardner, Gino Perrotta, Corey Lowman, Casey Richardson, Andrew Newman, Jared Markowitz, Nathan Drenkow, Barton Paulhamus,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/allorens\/\">Ashley J. Llorens<\/a>, Todd W. Neller, Raman Arora, Bo Li, Mykel J. Kochenderfer<\/p>\n<p><strong>WebQA Competition<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganizers: Yingshan\u00a0Chang,\u00a0Yonatan Bisk,\u00a0Mridu Narang, Jared Fernandez, Levi Melnick, Guihong Cao, Hisami Suzuki,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jfgao\/\">Jianfeng Gao<\/a><span id=\"label-external-link\" class=\"sr-only\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:freeform --><!-- \/wp:msr\/content-tab --><!-- wp:msr\/content-tab {\"title\":\"#AlchemyFriends\"} --><!-- wp:freeform --><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Alchemy-with-Friends-Print-at-Home-2020.pdf\">Print your own copy<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> of Alchemy with Friends to play at home. Share your favorite card combinations using #AlchemyFriends on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. 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Isoperimetry<\/strong><\/a>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sebubeck\/\">S\u00e9bastien Bubeck<\/a>, Mark Sellke\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/ujMvnQpP528\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h3>Board Member<\/h3>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a>\r\n<h3>Program Co-Chair<\/h3>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jenn\/\">Jenn Wortman Vaughan<\/a>\r\n<h3>Workshop Chair<\/h3>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tristan\/\">Tristan Naumann<\/a>\r\n<h3>Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Chair<\/h3>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\">Lester Mackey<\/a>"},{"id":1,"name":"Tutorials & workshops","content":"<h3>Tuesday, December 7, 2021<\/h3>\r\n10:00 \u2013 15:00 | Affinity Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latinxinai.org\/neurips-2021-about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>LatinX in AI (LXAI) Research @ NeurIPS 2021 (2)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Maria Luisa Santiago, Andres Munoz, Laura Montoya, Karla Caballero, Isabel Metzger, Jose Gallego-Posada, Juan Banda, Gabriela Vega, Amanda Duarte, Patrick Feeney, Lourdes Ram\u00edrez Cerna, Walter M Mayor, Omar U. Florez, Rosina Weber, Rocio Zorrilla\r\n<em>Microsoft Gold Sponsored<\/em>\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 14:33 | Affinity Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sunhaozhe.github.io\/NewInML2021_NeurIPS\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>New in ML (2)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Haozhe Sun, Wenzhuo Liu, Joseph Pedersen\r\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/yalesong\/\">Yale Song<\/a>\r\n<h3>Wednesday, December 8, 2021<\/h3>\r\n18:00 \u2013 23:00 | Affinity Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/wiml2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WiML Workshop (1)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve G\u00fcrel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney\r\n<h3>Thursday, December 9, 2021<\/h3>\r\n18:00 \u2013 23:00 | Affinity Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/wiml2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WiML Workshop (2)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve G\u00fcrel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney\r\n<h3>Friday, December 10, 2021<\/h3>\r\n02:00 \u2013 07:00 | Affinity Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/wiml2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WiML Workshop (3)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve G\u00fcrel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 15:00 | Affinity Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/wiml2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>WiML Workshop (4)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve G\u00fcrel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney\r\n<h3>Monday, December 13, 2021<\/h3>\r\n01:00 \u2013 12:30 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.afciworkshop.org\/afcr2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Algorithmic Fairness through the lens of Causality and Robustness<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Jessica Schrouff, Awa Dieng, Golnoosh Farnadi, Mark Kwegyir-Aggrey, Miriam Rateike\r\nPanelist: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/solon\/\">Solon Barocas<\/a>\r\n\r\n04:50 \u2013 14:10 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-cant-believe-its-not-better.github.io\/neurips2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>I (Still) Can't Believe It's Not Better: A workshop for \u201cbeautiful\u201d ideas that \"should\" have worked<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Aaron Schein,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/melanief\/\">Melanie F. Pradier<\/a>, Jessica Forde,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sthyland\/\">Stephanie Hyland<\/a>, Francisco Ruiz\r\nSenior Advisory Board: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/wallach\/\">Hanna Wallach<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 12:10 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/mlecon2021\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Machine Learning Meets Econometrics (MLECON)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: David Bruns-Smith, Arthur Gretton, Limor Gultchin, Niki Kilbertus, Krikamol Muandet, Evan Munro, Angela Zhou\r\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/vasy\/\">Vasilis Syrgkanis<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 17:00 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ai4sciencecommunity.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AI for Science: Mind the Gaps<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Payal Chandak, Yuanqi Du, Tianfan Fu, Wenhao Gao, Kexin Huang, Shengchao Liu, Ziming Liu, Gabriel Spadon, Max Tegmark, Hanchen Wang, Adrian Weller, Max Welling, Marinka Zitnik\r\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/tyliu\/\">Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 15:30 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ml4physicalsciences.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Anima Anandkumar, Kyle Cranmer, Mr. Prabhat, Lenka Zdeborov\u00e1, Atilim Gunes Baydin, Juan Carrasquilla, Emine Kucukbenli, Gilles Louppe, Benjamin Nachman, Brian Nord, Savannah Thais\r\nSteering Committee: Prabhat Ram\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 16:45 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/hcai-human-centered-ai-neurips\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Human Centered AI<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Michael Muller, Plamen P Angelov, Shion Guha, Marina Kogan, Gina Neff, Nuria Oliver, Manuel Rodriguez, Adrian Weller\r\nProgram Committee: Samir Passi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/loy\/\">Longqi Yang<\/a>\r\n\r\n08:00 \u2013 00:00 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ctrlgenworkshop.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CtrlGen: Controllable Generative Modeling in Language and Vision<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Steven Y. Feng, Dor Arad Hudson, Tatsunori Hashimoto, DONGYEOP Kang, Varun Prashant Gangal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/anbalak\/\">Anusha Balakrishnan<\/a>, Joel Tetreault\r\n\r\n09:00 \u2013 18:00 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/distshift2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Distribution shifts: connecting methods and applications (DistShift)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Shiori Sagawa, Pang Wei Koh, Fanny Yang, Hongseok Namkoong, Jiashi Feng, Kate Saenko, Percy Liang, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/slbird\/\">Sarah Bird<\/a>, Sergey Levine\r\n<h3>Tuesday, December 14, 2021<\/h3>\r\n03:45 \u2013 15:00 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/aiplans.github.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Advances in Programming Languages and Neurosymbolic Systems (AIPLANS)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Breandan Considine, Disha Shrivastava, David Yu-Tung Hui, Chin-Wei Huang, Shawn Tan, Xujie Si, Prakash Panangaden, Guy Van den Broeck, Daniel Tarlow\r\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/daselsam\/\">Daniel Selsam<\/a>\r\n\r\n04:55 \u2013 16:30 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/robustbayes-neurips21\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Your Model is Wrong: Robustness and misspecification in probabilistic modeling<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Diana Cai, Sameer Deshpande, Michael Hughes, Tamara Broderick, Trevor Campbell, Nick Foti, Barbara Engelhardt, Sinead Williamson\r\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lmackey\/\">Lester Mackey<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 12:20 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.neurodata.io\/ood-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Out-of-distribution generalization and adaptation in natural and artificial intelligence<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Joshua T Vogelstein, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/weiwya\/\">Weiwei Yang<\/a>, Soledad Villar, Zenna Tavares, Johnathan Flowers, Onyema Osuagwu\r\nSpeakers: Eric Traut, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/dburger\/\">Doug Burger<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chwh\/\">Chris White<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sujbhara\/\">Sujeeth Bharadwaj<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/emrek\/\">Emre Kiciman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/amshar\/\">Amit Sharma<\/a>, Max Welling\r\nProgram Committee: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/chwh\/\">Chris White<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sujbhara\/\">Sujeeth Bharadwaj<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 14:10 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/ecorl2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ecological Theory of Reinforcement Learning: How Does Task Design Influence Agent Learning?<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Manfred D\u00edaz, Hiroki Furuta, Elise van der Pol, Lisa Lee, Shixiang (Shane) Gu, Pablo Samuel Castro, Simon Du, Marc Bellemare, Sergey Levine\r\nSpeaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/kahofman\/\">Katja Hofmann<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 14:30 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/g.harvard.edu\/research2clinics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bridging the Gap: from Machine Learning Research to Clinical Practice<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Julia Vogt, Ece Ozkan, Sonali Parbhoo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/melanief\/\">Melanie F. Pradier<\/a>, Patrick Schwab, Shengpu Tang, Mario Wieser, Jiayu Yao\r\nSpeakers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rcaruana\/\">Rich Caruana<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sthyland\/\">Stephanie Hyland<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 14:00 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lmrl.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Learning Meaningful Representations of Life (LMRL)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Elizabeth Wood, Adji Bousso Dieng, Aleksandrina Goeva, Anshul Kundaje, Barbara Engelhardt, Chang Liu, David Van Valen, Debora Marks, Edward Boyden, Eli N Weinstein, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/lcrawford\/\">Lorin Crawford<\/a>, Mor Nitzan, Romain Lopez, Tamara Broderick, Ray Jones, Wouter Boomsma, Yixin Wang\r\n\r\n05:20 \u2013 14:00 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/med-neurips-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Medical Imaging meets NeurIPS<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: DOU QI, Marleen de Bruijne, Ben Glocker, Aasa Feragen, Herve Lombaert, Ipek Oguz, Jonas Teuwen, Islem Rekik, Darko Stern, Xiaoxiao Li\r\nProgram Committee: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/ozoktay\/\">Ozan Oktay<\/a>\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 15:00 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dgms-and-applications.github.io\/2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Deep Generative Models and Downstream Applications<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Jos\u00e9 Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez-Lobato, Yingzhen Li, Yichuan Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Austin Tripp, Weiwei Pan, Oren Rippel\r\n<em>Microsoft sponsored workshop<\/em>\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 14:35 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tensorworkshop.github.io\/NeurIPS2021\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Second Workshop on Quantum Tensor Networks in Machine Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Xiao-Yang Liu, Qibin Zhao, Ivan Oseledets, Yufei Ding, Guillaume Rabusseau, Khadijeh Najafi, Andrzej Cichocki, Masashi Sugiyama, Anwar Walid\r\nSpeaker: Anima Anandkumar (2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship)\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 14:10 | Workshop\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nightingalescience.org\/conferences-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Machine learning from ground truth: New medical imaging datasets for unsolved medical problems<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Katy Haynes, Ziad Obermeyer, Emma Pierson, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Matthew Lungren, Sendhil Mullainathan, Matthew McDermott"},{"id":2,"name":"Competitions","content":"<h2>Competitions<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><em>Day 1: December 7, 10:00 - 12:05<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t<li><em>Day 2: December 8, 02:00 - 03:45<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t<li><em>Day 3: December 9, 10:00 - 12:05<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t<li><em>Day 4: December 10, 02:00 - 04:05<\/em><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nOrganizers: Douwe Kiela, Marco Ciccone, Barbara Caputo\r\nProgram Committee Members:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/evelynev\/\">Evelyne Viegas<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/nkuno\/\">Noboru Kuno<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/savempra\/\">Sai Vemprala<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/neurips.cc\/Conferences\/2021\/CompetitionTrack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about the NeurIPS 2021 Competition Track &gt;<\/a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Billion-Scale Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search Challenge<\/strong>\r\nOrganizers:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/harshasi\/\">Harsha Vardhan Simhadri<\/a>, George Williams, Martin Aum\u00fcller, Artem Babenko, Dmitry Baranchuk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/cheqi\/\">Qi Chen<\/a>, Matthijs Douze, Lucas Hosseini, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/rakri\/\">Ravishankar Krishnaswamy<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/gopalsr\/\">Gopal Srinivasa<\/a>, Suhas Jayaram Subramanya, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/jindwang\/\">Jingdong Wang<\/a>\r\n\r\n<strong>Diamond: A MineRL Competition on Training Sample-Efficient Agents<\/strong>\r\nOrganizer: William H. 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