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Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL)
January 2024, HKU

Program at a Glance

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

  • 08:00 AM
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  • 12:00 PM
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  • Day 1 (Jan 3)
    Wednesday

    • Registration
      8:00 AM–9:15 AM
      TBA
    • Opening Remarks
      9:15 AM–10:00 AM
      TBA
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 9:00 AM–10:00 AM
      TBA
      "Statistical methods for addressing safety and security issues of generative models"
    • 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