
Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL)
January 2024, HKU
Program at a Glance
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
- Coffee Break
Day 5 (Jan 7)
Sunday- Social Event / Tour / Etc. (TBA)10:00 AM–2:00 PMTBA