
The Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL) is an annual research conference focused on addressing the parsimonious, low dimensional structures that prevail in machine learning, signal processing, optimization, and beyond. We are interested in theories, algorithms, applications, hardware and systems, as well as scientific foundations for learning with parsimony.
CPAL 2024 will take place from January 3–6
at the University of Hong Kong!
Register to Attend CPAL 2024
All CPAL attendees are required to register. The deadline to register is December 15th, 2023.
Keynote Speakers
Information on the speakers’ planned talks is available here.

Dan Alistarh
Institute of Science and Technology Austria / Neural Magic

SueYeon Chung
New York University / Flatiron Institute

Kostas Daniilidis
University of Pennsylvania

Maryam Fazel
University of Washington

Tom Goldstein
University of Maryland

Yingbin Liang
Ohio State University

Dimitris Papailiopoulos
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Stefano Soatto
University of California, Los Angeles

Jong Chul Ye
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
Tentative Program
All times below are in HKT (GMT+8).
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Day 1 (Jan 3)
Wednesday- 10:00 AM–11:00 AMTBA"Representation and Control of Meanings in Large Language Models and Multimodal Foundation Models"
- Coffee Break
- Rising Stars Session 111:20 AM–12:30 PMTBA
- Lunch Break
- 1:30 PM–2:30 PMTBA"Flat Minima and Generalization in Learning: The Case of Low-rank Matrix Recovery"
- Oral Session 12:30 PM–3:40 PMTBA
- Coffee Break
- 4:00 PM–5:00 PMTBA"Accurate Model Compression at GPT Scale"
- Reception5:00 PM–6:30 PMTBA
Day 2 (Jan 4)
Thursday- Yoga Meditation8:30 AM–9:00 AMTBA
- 9:00 AM–10:00 AMTBA"Scaling Diffusion Model for Inverse Problems Beyond 2D and Known Forward Models"
- Rising Stars Session 210:00 AM–11:00 AMTBA
- Coffee Break
- Oral Session 211:20 AM–12:30 PMTBA
- Lunch Break
- 1:30 PM–2:30 PMTBA"Parsimony through Equivariance"
- Oral Session 32:30 PM–4:00 PMTBA
- Coffee Break
- Spotlight Poster Session 15:00 PM–6:30 PMTBA
- Banquet7:00 PM–9:00 PMTBA
Day 3 (Jan 5)
Friday- Yoga Meditation8:30 AM–9:00 AMTBA
- 9:00 AM–10:00 AMTBA"In-Context Convergence of Transformers"
- Rising Stars Session 310:00 AM–11:00 AMTBA
- Coffee Break
- Oral Session 411:20 AM–12:30 PMTBA
- Lunch Break
- 1:30 PM–2:30 PMTBA"Teaching arithmetic to small language models"
- Oral Session 52:30 PM–3:40 PMTBA
- Coffee Break
- Oral Session 64:00 PM–5:00 PMTBA
- Spotlight Poster Session 25:00 PM–6:30 PMTBA
- Tram Tour (Tentative)7:00 PM–9:00 PMTBA
Day 4 (Jan 6)
Saturday- Yoga Meditation8:30 AM–9:00 AMTBA
- 9:00 AM–10:00 AMTBA"Statistical methods for addressing safety and security issues of generative models"
- 10:00 AM–11:00 AMTBA"Multi-level theory of neural representations: Capacity of neural manifolds in biological and artificial neural networks"
- Coffee Break
- Lunch Break
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Day 5 (Jan 7)
Sunday- Social Event / Tour / Etc. (TBA)10:00 AM–2:00 PMTBA