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Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL)
March 2025, Stanford

Program at a Glance

All times below are in Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7).

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  • 08:30 AM
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  • Day 1 (Mar 24)
    Monday

    • Tutorial Session 1
      T1: Deep Representation Learning: from Knowledge to Intelligence
      T2: Foundations on Interpretable AI
      9:15 AM–11:45 AM
      Main Auditorium
    • Lunch Break
      11:45 AM–1:15 PM
    • Tutorial Session 2
      T3: Methods, Analysis, and Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training and Post-training
      T4: Harnessing Low Dimensionality in Diffusion Models: From Theory to Practice
      1:15 PM–3:45 PM
      Main Auditorium
    • Coffee Break
      3:45 PM–4:15 PM
    • Tutorial Session 3
      T5: A Function-Space Tour of Data Science
      T6: Sparsity and Mixture-of-Experts in the Era of LLMs: A New Odyssey
      4:15 PM–6:45 PM
      Main Auditorium

  • Day 2 (Mar 25)
    Tuesday

  • Day 3 (Mar 26)
    Wednesday

    • Fred Kjolstad
      9:00 AM–10:00 AM
      Main Auditorium
      "Plenary Talk 1"
    • Coffee Break
      11:00 AM–11:30 AM
    • Michael Unser
      11:30 AM–12:30 PM
      Main Auditorium
      "Plenary Talk 3"
    • Lunch Break
      12:30 PM–1:30 PM
    • Rising Stars Talks 2
      1:30 PM–2:30 PM
      Main Auditorium
    • Coffee Break
      2:30 PM–3:00 PM
    • Doris Tsao
      3:00 PM–4:00 PM
      Main Auditorium
      "Plenary Talk 4"
    • Panel Discussion
      4:00 PM–4:45 PM
      Main Auditorium
    • Poster Session 2
      4:45 PM–6:15 PM
      Main Auditorium

  • Day 4 (Mar 27)
    Thursday