Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL)

January 2024, HKU

Program at a Glance

All times below are in HKT (GMT+8).

• 08:00 AM
• 08:30 AM
• 09:00 AM
• 09:30 AM
• 10:00 AM
• 10:30 AM
• 11:00 AM
• 11:30 AM
• 12:00 PM
• 12:30 PM
• 01:00 PM
• 01:30 PM
• 02:00 PM
• 02:30 PM
• 03:00 PM
• 03:30 PM
• 04:00 PM
• 04:30 PM
• 05:00 PM
• 05:30 PM
• 06:00 PM
• 06:30 PM
• 07:00 PM
• 07:30 PM
• 08:00 PM
• 08:30 PM
• 09:00 PM

• Day 1 (Jan 3)
  Wednesday

  • Registration
    8:00 AM–9:15 AM
    TBA
  • Opening Remarks
    9:15 AM–10:00 AM
    TBA
  • Stefano Soatto
    10:00 AM–11:00 AM
    TBA
    "Representation and Control of Meanings in Large Language Models and Multimodal Foundation Models"
  • Coffee Break
  • Rising Stars Session 1
    11:20 AM–12:30 PM
    TBA
  • Lunch Break
  • Maryam Fazel
    1:30 PM–2:30 PM
    TBA
    "Flat Minima and Generalization in Learning: The Case of Low-rank Matrix Recovery"
  • Oral Session 1
    2:30 PM–3:40 PM
    TBA
  • Coffee Break
  • Dan Alistarh
    4:00 PM–5:00 PM
    TBA
    "Accurate Model Compression at GPT Scale"
  • Reception
    5:00 PM–6:30 PM
    TBA

• Day 2 (Jan 4)
  Thursday

  • Yoga Meditation
    8:30 AM–9:00 AM
    TBA
  • Jong Chul Ye
    9:00 AM–10:00 AM
    TBA
    "Scaling Diffusion Model for Inverse Problems Beyond 2D and Known Forward Models"
  • Rising Stars Session 2
    10:00 AM–11:00 AM
    TBA
  • Coffee Break
  • Oral Session 2
    11:20 AM–12:30 PM
    TBA
  • Lunch Break
  • Kostas Daniilidis
    1:30 PM–2:30 PM
    TBA
    "Parsimony through Equivariance"
  • Oral Session 3
    2:30 PM–4:00 PM
    TBA
  • Coffee Break
  • Panel Discussion
    4:10 PM–5:00 PM
    TBA
  • Spotlight Poster Session 1
    5:00 PM–6:30 PM
    TBA
  • Banquet
    7:00 PM–9:00 PM
    TBA

• Day 3 (Jan 5)
  Friday

  • Yoga Meditation
    8:30 AM–9:00 AM
    TBA
  • Yingbin Liang
    9:00 AM–10:00 AM
    TBA
    "In-Context Convergence of Transformers"
  • Rising Stars Session 3
    10:00 AM–11:00 AM
    TBA
  • Coffee Break
  • Oral Session 4
    11:20 AM–12:30 PM
    TBA
  • Lunch Break
  • Dimitris Papailiopoulos
    1:30 PM–2:30 PM
    TBA
    "Teaching arithmetic to small language models"
  • Oral Session 5
    2:30 PM–3:40 PM
    TBA
  • Coffee Break
  • Oral Session 6
    4:00 PM–5:00 PM
    TBA
  • Spotlight Poster Session 2
    5:00 PM–6:30 PM
    TBA
  • Tram Tour (Tentative)
    7:00 PM–9:00 PM
    TBA

• Day 4 (Jan 6)
  Saturday

  • Yoga Meditation
    8:30 AM–9:00 AM
    TBA
  • Tom Goldstein
    9:00 AM–10:00 AM
    TBA
    "Statistical methods for addressing safety and security issues of generative models"
  • SueYeon Chung
    10:00 AM–11:00 AM
    TBA
    "Multi-level theory of neural representations:
Capacity of neural manifolds in biological and artificial neural networks"
  • Coffee Break
  • Open-Door Roundtable (Organization Committee)
    11:20 AM–12:30 PM
    TBA
  • Lunch Break
  • OPEN TO PUBLIC: Half-Day Tutorials, Part I
    (Two Parallel Tracks: Low-Dimensional Structure in Deep Networks; Inverse Problems)
    1:30 PM–3:40 PM
    TBA
  • Coffee Break
  • OPEN TO PUBLIC: Half-Day Tutorials, Part II
    (Two Parallel Tracks: Low-Dimensional Structure in Deep Networks; Inverse Problems)
    4:00 PM–6:30 PM
    TBA

• Day 5 (Jan 7)
  Sunday

  • Social Event / Tour / Etc. (TBA)
    10:00 AM–2:00 PM
    TBA