Tuesday, April 13
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12:30 PM-12:35 PM | Welcome Jessica Mastronardi, Senior Manager Community Engagement & Partnerships, Microsoft Research Outreach Susan Dumais, Technical Fellow and Lab Director, Microsoft Research Montreal, New England, and NYC |
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12:35 PM-1:05 PM | Interactive Representation Learning Devon Hjelm, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal |
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1:05 PM-1:35 PM | Chatbots: There and Back Again Mahmoud Adada, Principal Engineer Manager, Turing Montreal |
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1:35 PM-2:05 PM | Machines with Common Sense? Modelling Plausibility in Text Jackie Cheung, Assistant Professor, McGill University, Mila and Consulting Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal |
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2:05 PM-2:15 PM | 10 Minute Break | ||
2:15 PM-3:25 PM | Breakout Session A: Generalization Failures in Deep Nets Alessandro Sordoni, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Sara Hooker, Google Brain Gauthier Gidel, Université de Montréal and Mila Remi Tachet des Combes, Microsoft Research Aaron Courville, Université de Montréal and Mila |
Breakout Session B: FATE concerns in NLP Alexandra Olteanu, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Su Lin Blodgett, Post Doc Researcher, Microsoft Research Hal Daume III, Microsoft Research Solon Barocas, Microsoft Research Jackie Cheung, Mcgill University and Mila Amandalynne Paullada, University of Washington |
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3:25 PM-3:55 PM | Deep Learning of Abstract Mechanisms, Abstract Entities and Abstract Actions Professor Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Mila |
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3:55 PM-4:00 PM | Closing Discussion and Thank You Remarks Professor Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Mila Peter Lee, CVP, Research and Incubations, Microsoft Research |
Wednesday, April 14
Time (EST) | Session | ||
12:30 PM-12:35 PM | Welcome Jessica Mastronardi, Senior Manager Community Engagement & Partnerships, Microsoft Research Outreach Susan Dumais, Technical Fellow and Lab Director, Microsoft Research Montreal, New England, and NYC |
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12:35 PM-1:05 PM | Towards Hyperparameter-Free Optimization for Modern Machine Learning Simon Lacoste-Julien, Associate Professor, Université de Montréal, Mila |
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1:05 PM-1:35 PM | Successor Feature Sets for Planning and Imitation Geoff Gordon, Partner Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal |
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1:35 PM-2:05 PM | Dialogue as Collaborative Construction of Dataflow Jason Eisner, Partner Principal Researcher, Microsoft Semantic Machines |
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2:05 PM-2:15 PM | 10 Minute Break | ||
2:15 PM-3:25 PM | Breakout Session A: Memory in RL Ida Momennejad, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Blake Richards, Assistant Professor, McGill University, Mila Guillaume Lajoie, Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal, Mila |
Breakout Session B: Observe, Remember, and Assist Andrew McNamara, Director of Engineering, Turing Geoff Gordon, Microsoft Research Gerald Haslhofer, Microsoft (MMX) Kaheer Suleman, Microsoft Research Tim Franklin, Microsoft (MMX) Tianyu Li, McGill University |
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3:25 PM-3:55 PM | Towards Broad and Robust AI Irina Rish, Associate Professor, University of Montreal, Mila |
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3:55 PM-4:00 PM | Closing Discussion and Thank You Remarks Professor Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Mila Peter Lee, CVP, Research and Incubations, Microsoft Research |