Detailed Schedule
Monday – Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Session chair: Hugo Larochelle
Location:
Ballroom 1+2+Juliard
- 10:20 – One-Shot Generalization in Deep Generative Models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:37 – Learning to Generate with Memory Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:54 – A Theory of Generative ConvNet Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:30 – Deconstructing the Ladder Network Architecture Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:47 – Normalization Propagation: A Parametric Technique for Removing Internal Covariate Shift in Deep Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 12:04 – Unitary Evolution Recurrent Neural Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
Session chair: Honglak Lee
Location: Ballroom 1+2+Juliard - 02:00 – Deep Speech 2 : End-to-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 02:17 – Persistent RNNs: Stashing Recurrent Weights On-Chip Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 02:34 – Sequence to Sequence Training of CTC-RNNs with Partial Windowing Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:10 – Analysis of Deep Neural Networks with Extended Data Jacobian Matrix Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:27 – Understanding and Improving Convolutional Neural Networks via Concatenated Rectified Linear Units Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- Best paper award – 03:44 – Pixel Recurrent Neural Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Monday – Reinforcement Learning
Session chair: Joelle Pineau
Location: Ballroom 3+4 - 10:20 – Why Most Decisions Are Easy in Tetris—And Perhaps in Other Sequential Decision Problems, As Well Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:37 – Opponent Modeling in Deep Reinforcement Learning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:54 – Control of Memory, Active Perception, and Action in Minecraft Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:30 – Graying the black box: Understanding DQNs Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:47 – Benchmarking Deep Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Control Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- Best paper award – 12:04 – Dueling Network Architectures for Deep Reinforcement Learning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
Monday – Optimization (Continuous)
Session chair: Sebastien Bubeck
Location: Marquis - 10:20 – SDCA without Duality, Regularization, and Individual Convexity Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:37 – Stochastic Variance Reduction for Nonconvex Optimization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:54 – Fast Rate Analysis of Some Stochastic Optimization Algorithms Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:30 – Black-box Optimization with a Politician Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:47 – Starting Small – Learning with Adaptive Sample Sizes Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 12:04 – Primal-Dual Rates and Certificates Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
Monday – Online Learning
Session chair: Alina Beygelzimer
Location: Lyceum - 10:20 – Online Learning with Feedback Graphs Without the Graphs Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:37 – Efficient Algorithms for Adversarial Contextual Learning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:54 – BISTRO: An Efficient Relaxation-Based Method for Contextual Bandits Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:30 – Online Stochastic Linear Optimization under One-bit Feedback Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:47 – Tracking Slowly Moving Clairvoyant: Optimal Dynamic Regret of Online Learning with True and Noisy Gradient Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 12:04 – Adaptive Algorithms for Online Convex Optimization with Long-term Constraints Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
Session chair: Csaba Szepesvari
Location: Liberty - 04:15 – Pricing a Low-regret Seller Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:32 – Multi-Player Bandits — a Musical Chairs Approach Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:49 – Contextual Combinatorial Cascading Bandits Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:25 – Copeland Dueling Bandit Problem: Regret Lower Bound, Optimal Algorithm, and Computationally Efficient Algorithm Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:42 – DCM Bandits: Learning to Rank with Multiple Clicks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:59 – Distributed Clustering of Linear Bandits in Peer to Peer Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Monday – Clustering
Session chair: Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil
Location: Empire - 10:20 – Correlation Clustering and Biclustering with Locally Bounded Errors Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:37 – K K-Means Clustering with Distributed Dimensions Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:54 – Speeding up k-means by approximating Euclidean distances via block vectors Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:30 – Fast k-means with accurate bounds Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:47 – k-variates++: more pluses in the k-means++ Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 12:04 – Compressive Spectral Clustering Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
Monday – Bayesian Nonparametric Methods
Session chair: Hal Daume III
Location: Soho - 10:20 – On collapsed representation of hierarchical Completely Random Measures Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:37 – Hawkes Processes with Stochastic Excitations Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:54 – The Segmented iHMM: A Simple, Efficient Hierarchical Infinite HMM Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:30 – Markov Latent Feature Models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:47 – Diversity-Promoting Bayesian Learning of Latent Variable Models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 12:04 – Bayesian Poisson Tucker Decomposition for Learning the Structure of International Relations Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
Monday – Matrix Factorization / Neuroscience Applications
Session chair: Jennifer Dy
Location: Liberty - 10:20 – The knockoff filter for FDR control in group-sparse and multitask regression Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:37 – A Simple and Provable Algorithm for Sparse Diagonal CCA Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:54 – Experimental Design on a Budget for Sparse Linear Models and Applications Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:30 – Representational Similarity Learning with Application to Brain Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:47 – Dictionary Learning for Massive Matrix Factorization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 12:04 – A Random Matrix Approach to Echo-State Neural Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
Monday – Optimization / Online Learning
Session chair: Satyen Kale
Location: Ballroom 3+4 - 02:00 – Shifting Regret, Mirror Descent, and Matrices Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 02:17 – Heteroscedastic Sequences: Beyond Gaussianity Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 02:34 – Convergence of Stochastic Gradient Descent for PCA Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:10 – Fast Stochastic Algorithms for SVD and PCA: Convergence Properties and Convexity Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:27 – Faster Eigenvector Computation via Shift-and-Invert Preconditioning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:44 – Solving Ridge Regression using Sketched Preconditioned SVRG Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Monday – Machine Learning Applications
Session chair: Balazs Kegl
Location: Marquis - 02:00 – Bounded Off-Policy Evaluation with Missing Data for Course Recommendation and Curriculum Design Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 02:17 – Dealbreaker: A Nonlinear Latent Variable Model for Educational Data Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 02:34 – Estimating Cosmological Parameters from the Dark Matter Distribution Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:10 – BASC: Applying Bayesian Optimization to the Search for Global Minima on Potential Energy Surfaces Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:27 – Predictive Entropy Search for Multi-objective Bayesian Optimization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:44 – Pareto Frontier Learning with Expensive Correlated Objectives Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Monday – Matrix Factorization and Related Topics
Session chair: Alex Kulesza
Location: Lyceum - 02:00 – Complex Embeddings for Simple Link Prediction Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 02:17 – PAC learning of Probabilistic Automaton based on the Method of Moments Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 02:34 – Rich Component Analysis Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:10 – Beyond CCA: Moment Matching for Multi-View Models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:27 – Isotonic Hawkes Processes Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:44 – Non-negative Matrix Factorization under Heavy Noise Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Monday – Bandit Problems
Session chair: Shie Mannor
Location: Empire - 02:00 – An optimal algorithm for the Thresholding Bandit Problem Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 02:17 – Anytime Exploration for Multi-armed Bandits using Confidence Information Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 02:34 – Anytime optimal algorithms in stochastic multi-armed bandits Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:10 – PAC Lower Bounds and Efficient Algorithms for The Max K K-Armed Bandit Problem Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:27 – Conservative Bandits Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:44 – No-Regret Algorithms for Heavy-Tailed Linear Bandits Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Monday – Graphical Models
Session chair: Stefano Ermon
Location: Soho - 02:00 – Hierarchical Span-Based Conditional Random Fields for Labeling and Segmenting Events in Wearable Sensor Data Streams Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 02:17 – Efficient Multi-Instance Learning for Activity Recognition from Time Series Data Using an Auto-Regressive Hidden Markov Model Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 02:34 – Clustering High Dimensional Categorical Data via Topographical Features Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:10 – Nonlinear Statistical Learning with Truncated Gaussian Graphical Models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:27 – Collapsed Variational Inference for Sum-Product Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:44 – Square Root Graphical Models: Multivariate Generalizations of Univariate Exponential Families that Permit Positive Dependencies Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Monday – Transfer Learning / Learning Theory
Session chair: Alina Beygelzimer
Location: Liberty - 02:00 – A New PAC-Bayesian Perspective on Domain Adaptation Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 02:17 – Domain Adaptation with Conditional Transferable Components Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 02:34 – Minimizing the Maximal Loss: How and Why Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 03:10 – Accurate Robust and Efficient Error Estimation for Decision Trees Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:27 – The Teaching Dimension of Linear Learners Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:44 – Loss factorization, weakly supervised learning and label noise robustness Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Monday – Neural Networks and Deep Learning I
Session chair: Kyunghyun Cho
Location: Ballroom 1+2+Juliard - 04:15 – Texture Networks: Feed-forward Synthesis of Textures and Stylized Images Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:32 – Discrete Deep Feature Extraction: A Theory and New Architectures Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:49 – Deep Structured Energy Based Models for Anomaly Detection Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:25 – Noisy Activation Functions Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:42 – A Kronecker-factored approximate Fisher matrix for convolution layers Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:59 – Recurrent Orthogonal Networks and Long-Memory Tasks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Monday – Neural Networks and Deep Learning II (Computer Vision)
Session chair: Laurens van der Maaten
Location: Ballroom 3+4 - 04:15 – Group Equivariant Convolutional Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:32 – Learning End-to-end Video Classification with Rank-Pooling Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:49 – Learning Physical Intuition of Block Towers by Example Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:25 – Large-Margin Softmax Loss for Convolutional Neural Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:42 – Network Morphism Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:59 – Multi-Bias Non-linear Activation in Deep Neural Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Monday – Approximate Inference
Session chair: Jun Zhu
Location: Marquis - 04:15 – Boolean Matrix Factorization and Noisy Completion via Message Passing Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:32 – Stochastic Discrete Clenshaw-Curtis Quadrature Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:49 – Beyond Parity Constraints: Fourier Analysis of Hash Functions for Inference Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:25 – Variable Elimination in the Fourier Domain Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:42 – Learning and Inference via Maximum Inner Product Search Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:59 – Analysis of Variational Bayesian Factorizations for Sparse and Low-Rank Estimation Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Monday – Metric and Manifold Learning / Kernel Methods
Session chair: Le Song
Location: Lyceum - 04:15 – Fast k-Nearest Neighbour Search via Dynamic Continuous Indexing Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:32 – Geometric Mean Metric Learning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:49 – Low-rank tensor completion: a Riemannian manifold preconditioning approach Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:25 – The Variational Nystrom method for large-scale spectral problems Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:42 – Fast DPP Sampling for Nystro ̈m with Application to Kernel Methods Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:59 – Computationally Efficient Nystr\”{o}m Approximation using Fast Transforms Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Monday – Statistical Learning Theory
Session chair: Ohad Shamir
Location: Empire - 04:15 – Barron and Cover’s Theory in Supervised Learning and its Application to Lasso Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:32 – Exact Exponent in Optimal Rates for Crowdsourcing Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:49 – Generalization Properties and Implicit Regularization for Multiple Passes SGM Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:25 – Generalized Direct Change Estimation in Ising Model Structure Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:42 – Gaussian process nonparametric tensor estimator and its minimax optimality Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:59 – Minimum Regret Search for Single- and Multi-Task Optimization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Monday – Structured Prediction / Monte Carlo Methods
Session chair: Martin Jaggi
Location: Soho - 04:15 – The Sum-Product Theorem: A Foundation for Learning Tractable Models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:32 – Train and Test Tightness of LP Relaxations in Structured Prediction Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:49 – Evasion and Hardening of Tree Ensemble Classifiers Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:25 – Importance Sampling Tree for Large-scale Empirical Expectation Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:42 – Stratified Sampling Meets Machine Learning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:59 – Scalable Discrete Sampling as a Multi-Armed Bandit Problem Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Tuesday – Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Session chair: Hal Daume III
Location: Ballroom 1+2+Juliard - 10:30 – Strongly-Typed Recurrent Neural Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:47 – A Convolutional Attention Network for Extreme Summarization of Source Code Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:04 – Ask Me Anything: Dynamic Memory Networks for Natural Language Processing Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:40 – Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:57 – Supervised and Semi-Supervised Text Categorization using LSTM for Region Embeddings Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 12:14 – PHOG: Probabilistic Model for Code Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
Tuesday – Reinforcement Learning
Session chair: Tom Erez
Location: Ballroom 3+4 - 10:30 – On the Analysis of Complex Backup Strategies in Monte Carlo Tree Search Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:47 – Generalization and Exploration via Randomized Value Functions Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:04 – Doubly Robust Off-policy Value Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:40 – Near Optimal Behavior via Approximate State Abstraction Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:57 – Model-Free Trajectory Optimization\\ for Reinforcement Learning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 12:14 – Model-Free Imitation Learning with Policy Optimization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
Session chair: Lihong Li
Location: Marquis - 03:40 – Guided Cost Learning: Deep Inverse Optimal Control via Policy Optimization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:57 – Smooth Imitation Learning for Online Sequence Prediction Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:14 – Continuous Deep Q-Learning with Model-based Acceleration Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:31 – Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Session chair: Tom Erez
Location: Marquis - 05:10 – Estimating Maximum Expected Value through Gaussian Approximation Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:27 – Data-Efficient Off-Policy Policy Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:44 – Cumulative Prospect Theory Meets Reinforcement Learning: Prediction and Control Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 06:01 – Softened Approximate Policy Iteration for Markov Games Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Tuesday – Optimization (Combinatorial)
Session chair: Andreas Krause
Location: Marquis - 10:30 – Algorithms for Optimizing the Ratio of Submodular Functions Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:47 – Horizontally Scalable Submodular Maximization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:04 – Learning Sparse Combinatorial Representations via Two-stage Submodular Maximization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:40 – Fast Constrained Submodular Maximization: Personalized Data Summarization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:57 – A Box-Constrained Approach for Hard Permutation Problems Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 12:14 – A Convex Atomic-Norm Approach to Multiple Sequence Alignment and Motif Discovery Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
Tuesday – Unsupervised Learning / Representation Learning
Session chair: Jennifer Dy
Location: Lyceum - 10:30 – Nonparametric Canonical Correlation Analysis Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:47 – The Information Sieve Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:04 – Gromov-Wasserstein Averaging of Kernel and Distance Matrices Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:40 – Learning Representations for Counterfactual Inference Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:57 – Why Regularized Auto-Encoders learn Sparse Representation? Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 12:14 – Robust Random Cut Forest Based Anomaly Detection on Streams Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
Tuesday – Sampling / Kernel Methods
Session chair: Marius Kloft
Location: Empire - 10:30 – Mixing Rates for the Alternating Gibbs Sampler over Restricted Boltzmann Machines and Friends Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:47 – Pliable Rejection Sampling Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:04 – A Kernel Test of Goodness of Fit Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:40 – A Kernelized Stein Discrepancy for Goodness-of-fit Tests Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:57 – Additive Approximations in High Dimensional Nonparametric Regression via the SALSA Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 12:14 – Doubly Decomposing Nonparametric Tensor Regression Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
Tuesday – Sparsity and Compressed Sensing
Session chair: Gal Chechik
Location: Soho - 10:30 – The Information-Theoretic Requirements of Subspace Clustering with Missing Data Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:47 – Robust Principal Component Analysis with Side Information Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:04 – Online Low-Rank Subspace Clustering by Basis Dictionary Pursuit Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:40 – Provable Non-convex Phase Retrieval with Outliers: Median TruncatedWirtinger Flow Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:57 – Estimating Structured Vector Autoregressive Models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 12:14 – Towards Faster Rates and Oracle Property for Low-Rank Matrix Estimation Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
Tuesday – Approximate Inference
Session chair: Jon Mcauliffe
Location: Liberty - 10:30 – Hierarchical Variational Models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 10:47 – A Variational Analysis of Stochastic Gradient Algorithms Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:04 – Black-Box Alpha Divergence Minimization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:40 – Variational Inference for Monte Carlo Objectives Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 11:57 – Dropout as a Bayesian Approximation: Representing Model Uncertainty in Deep Learning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
- 12:14 – Auxiliary Deep Generative Models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on monday afternoon 3:00pm-7:00pm | Abstract
Tuesday – Neural Networks and Deep Learning I
Session chair: Nicolas Le Roux
Location: Ballroom 1+2+Juliard - 03:40 – Factored Temporal Sigmoid Belief Networks for Sequence Learning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:57 – Bidirectional Helmholtz Machines Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:14 – Structured and Efficient Variational Deep Learning with Matrix Gaussian Posteriors Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:31 – Dropout distillation Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Session chair: Yoshua Bengio
Location: Ballroom 1+2+Juliard - 05:10 – Expressiveness of Rectifier Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:27 – Convolutional Rectifier Networks as Generalized Tensor Decompositions Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:44 – Fixed Point Quantization of Deep Convolutional Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 06:01 – CryptoNets: Applying Neural Networks to Encrypted Data with High Throughput and Accuracy Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Tuesday – Neural Networks and Deep Learning II
Session chair: Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil
Location: Ballroom 3+4 - 03:40 – Revisiting Semi-Supervised Learning with Graph Embeddings Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:57 – ADIOS: Architectures Deep In Output Space Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:14 – Unsupervised Deep Embedding for Clustering Analysis Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:31 – Learning Convolutional Neural Networks for Graphs Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Session chair: David Sontag
Location: Ballroom 3+4 - 05:10 – Correcting Forecasts with Multifactor Neural Attention Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:27 – Meta-Learning with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:44 – Learning Simple Algorithms from Examples Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 06:01 – Associative Long Short-Term Memory Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Tuesday – Optimization (Continuous)
Session chair: Le Song
Location: Lyceum - 03:40 – On the Statistical Limits of Convex Relaxations Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:57 – Faster Convex Optimization: Simulated Annealing with an Efficient Universal Barrier Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:14 – A ranking approach to global optimization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:31 – Epigraph projections for fast general convex programming Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Session chair: Tong Zhang
Location: Lyceum - 05:10 – Low-rank Solutions of Linear Matrix Equations via Procrustes Flow Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:27 – Quadratic Optimization with Orthogonality Constraints: Explicit Lojasiewicz Exponent and Linear Convergence of Line-Search Methods Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:44 – Efficient Algorithms for Large-scale Generalized Eigenvector Computation and Canonical Correlation Analysis Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 06:01 – Matrix Eigen-decomposition via Doubly Stochastic Riemannian Optimization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Tuesday – Matrix Factorization and Related Topics
Session chair: Roger Grosse
Location: Empire - 03:40 – Principal Component Projection Without Principal Component Analysis Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:57 – Recovery guarantee of weighted low-rank approximation via alternating minimization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:14 – Tensor Decomposition via Joint Matrix Schur Decomposition Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:31 – Fast methods for estimating the Numerical rank of large matrices Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Tuesday – Unsupervised Learning / Applications
Session chair: Jeff Bilmes
Location: Soho - 03:40 – Markov-modulated Marked Poisson Processes for Check-in Data Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:57 – Hierarchical Compound Poisson Factorization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:14 – Dirichlet Process Mixture Model for Correcting Technical Variation in Single-Cell Gene Expression Data Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:31 – Automatic Construction of Nonparametric Relational Regression Models for Multiple Time Series Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Tuesday – Learning Theory
Session chair: Jon Mcauliffe
Location: Liberty - 03:40 – Truthful Univariate Estimators Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:57 – Fast Algorithms for Segmented Regression Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:14 – Stochastically Transitive Models for Pairwise Comparisons: Statistical and Computational Issues Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:31 – Provable Algorithms for Inference in Topic Models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Tuesday – Large Scale Learning and Big Data
Session chair: Andreas Krause
Location: Empire - 05:10 – Extreme F-measure Maximization using Sparse Probability Estimates Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:27 – Stochastic Optimization for Multiview Representation Learning using Partial Least Squares Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:44 – Gaussian quadrature for matrix inverse forms with applications Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 06:01 – A Subspace Learning Approach for High Dimensional Matrix Decomposition with Efficient Column/Row Sampling Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Tuesday – Graphical Models
Session chair: Jun Zhu
Location: Soho - 05:10 – Uprooting and Rerooting Graphical Models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:27 – Structure Learning of Partitioned Markov Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- Best paper award – 05:44 – Ensuring Rapid Mixing and Low Bias for Asynchronous Gibbs Sampling Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 06:01 – Estimation from Indirect Supervision with Linear Moments Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Tuesday – Supervised Learning
Session chair: Nicolas Le Roux
Location: Liberty - 05:10 – Early and Reliable Event Detection Using Proximity Space Representation Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:27 – Meta–Gradient Boosted Decision Tree Model for Weight and Target Learning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 05:44 – Differential Geometric Regularization for Supervised Learning of Classifiers Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 06:01 – Linking losses for density ratio and class-probability estimation Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Neural Networks and Deep Learning I
Session chair: Samy Bengio
Location: Ballroom 1+2+Juliard - 08:30 – Neural Variational Inference for Text Processing Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 08:47 – A Deep Learning Approach to Unsupervised Ensemble Learning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:04 – From Softmax to Sparsemax: A Sparse Model of Attention and Multi-Label Classification Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:21 – A Neural Autoregressive Approach to Collaborative Filtering Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:38 – Scalable Gradient-Based Tuning of Continuous Regularization Hyperparameters Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Optimization (Continuous)
Session chair: Shie Mannor
Location: Ballroom 3+4 - 08:30 – SDNA: Stochastic Dual Newton Ascent for Empirical Risk Minimization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 08:47 – Stochastic Block BFGS: Squeezing More Curvature out of Data Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:04 – PD-Sparse : A Primal and Dual Sparse Approach to Extreme Multiclass and Multilabel Classification Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:21 – Parallel and Distributed Block-Coordinate Frank-Wolfe Algorithms Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:38 – Minding the Gaps for Block Frank-Wolfe Optimization of Structured SVMs Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
Session chair: Satyen Kale
Location: Ballroom 3+4 - 10:20 – On the Iteration Complexity of Oblivious First-Order Optimization Algorithms Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 10:37 – Variance-Reduced and Projection-Free Stochastic Optimization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 10:54 – On Graduated Optimization for Stochastic Non-Convex Problems Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 11:30 – A Self-Correcting Variable-Metric Algorithm for Stochastic Optimization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 11:47 – A Superlinearly-Convergent Proximal Newton-type Method for the Optimization of Finite Sums Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 12:04 – Stochastic Variance Reduced Optimization for Nonconvex Sparse Learning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 03:40 – Energetic Natural Gradient Descent Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:57 – On the Quality of the Initial Basin in Overspecified Neural Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:14 – L1-regularized Neural Networks are Improperly Learnable in Polynomial Time Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Multi-label, multi-task, and neural networks
Session chair: Joelle Pineau
Location: Marquis - 08:30 – Asymmetric Multi-task Learning based on Task Relatedness and Confidence Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 08:47 – Training Deep Neural Networks via Direct Loss Minimization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:04 – Structured Prediction Energy Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:21 – Conditional Bernoulli Mixtures for Multi-label Classification Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:38 – Training Neural Networks Without Gradients: A Scalable ADMM Approach Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Gaussian Processes
Session chair: Roger Grosse
Location: Lyceum - 08:30 – Stability of Controllers for Gaussian Process Forward Models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 08:47 – A Distributed Variational Inference Framework for Unifying Parallel Sparse Gaussian Process Regression Models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:04 – Deep Gaussian Processes for Regression using Approximate Expectation Propagation Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:21 – Preconditioning Kernel Matrices Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:38 – Extended and Unscented Kitchen Sinks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Feature Selection and Dimensionality Reduction
Session chair: Laurens van der Maaten
Location: Empire - 08:30 – On the Consistency of Feature Selection With Lasso for Non-linear Targets Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 08:47 – No penalty no tears: Least squares in high-dimensional linear models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:04 – Simultaneous Safe Screening of Features and Samples in Doubly Sparse Modeling Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:21 – Efficient Learning with a Family of Nonconvex Regularizers by Redistributing Nonconvexity Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:38 – How to Fake Multiply by a Gaussian Matrix Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Graph Analysis/ Spectral Methods
Session chair: Alex Kulesza
Location: Soho - 08:30 – Metadata-conscious anonymous messaging Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 08:47 – A Simple and Strongly-Local Flow-Based Method for Cut Improvement Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:04 – Community Recovery in Graphs with Locality Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:21 – Interactive Bayesian Hierarchical Clustering Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:38 – Cross-Graph Learning of Multi-Relational Associations Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Ranking and Preference Learning
Session chair: Tong Zhang
Location: Liberty - 08:30 – Controlling the distance to a Kemeny consensus without computing it Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 08:47 – Data-driven Rank Breaking for Efficient Rank Aggregation Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:04 – Parameter Estimation for Generalized Thurstone Choice Models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:21 – Learning Mixtures of Plackett-Luce Models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 09:38 – Recommendations as Treatments: Debiasing Learning and Evaluation Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Session chair: Yoshua Bengio
Location: Ballroom 1+2+Juliard - 10:20 – Generative Adversarial Text to Image Synthesis Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 10:37 – Autoencoding beyond pixels using a learned similarity metric Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 10:54 – Exploiting Cyclic Symmetry in Convolutional Neural Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 11:30 – A Comparative Analysis and Study of Multiview CNN Models for Joint Object Categorization and Pose Estimation Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 11:47 – Dynamic Capacity Networks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 12:04 – Augmenting Supervised Neural Networks with Unsupervised Objectives for Large-scale Image Classification Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Applications and Time-Series Analysis
Session chair: Jon Mcauliffe
Location: Marquis - 10:20 – Hierarchical Decision Making In Electricity Grid Management Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 10:37 – ForecastICU: A Prognostic Decision Support System for Timely Prediction of Intensive Care Unit Admission Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 10:54 – Power of Ordered Hypothesis Testing Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 11:30 – Learning to Filter with Predictive State Inference Machines Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 11:47 – Learning Population-Level Diffusions with Generative RNNs Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 12:04 – Fast Parameter Inference in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems using Iterative Gradient Matching Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Dimensionality Reduction / Private Learning
Session chair: Jeff Bilmes
Location: Lyceum - 10:20 – Greedy Column Subset Selection: New Bounds and Distributed Algorithms Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 10:37 – Efficient Private Empirical Risk Minimization for High-dimensional Learning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 10:54 – Binary embeddings with structured hashed projections Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 11:30 – Differentially Private Policy Evaluation Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 11:47 – Learning from Multiway Data: Simple and Efficient Tensor Regression Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 12:04 – Low-Rank Matrix Approximation with Stability Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Monte Carlo Methods
Session chair: Stefano Ermon
Location: Empire - 10:20 – Interacting Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 10:37 – Slice Sampling on Hamiltonian Trajectories Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 10:54 – Robust Monte Carlo Sampling using Riemannian Nos\'{e}-Poincar\'{e} Hamiltonian Dynamics Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 11:30 – Inference Networks for Sequential Monte Carlo in Graphical Models Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 11:47 – Partition Functions from Rao-Blackwellized Tempered Sampling Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 12:04 – Stochastic Quasi-Newton Langevin Monte Carlo Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Crowdsourcing and Interactive Learning
Session chair: Yisong Yue
Location: Soho - 10:20 – No Oops, You Won’t Do It Again: Mechanisms for Self-correction in Crowdsourcing Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 10:37 – The Label Complexity of Mixed-Initiative Classifier Training Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 10:54 – The Knowledge Gradient for Sequential Decision Making with Stochastic Binary Feedbacks Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 11:30 – Estimating Accuracy from Unlabeled Data: A Bayesian Approach Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 11:47 – Actively Learning Hemimetrics with Applications to Eliciting User Preferences Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 12:04 – Optimality of Belief Propagation for Crowdsourced Classification Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Learning Theory
Session chair: Alina Beygelzimer
Location: Liberty - 10:20 – Improved SVRG for Non-Strongly-Convex or Sum-of-Non-Convex Objectives Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 10:37 – Variance Reduction for Faster Non-Convex Optimization Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 10:54 – Even Faster Accelerated Coordinate Descent Using Non-Uniform Sampling Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 11:30 – False Discovery Rate Control and Statistical Quality Assessment of Annotators in Crowdsourced Ranking Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 11:47 – On the Power and Limits of Distance-Based Learning Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday afternoon 3pm-7pm | Abstract
- 12:04 – Train faster, generalize better: Stability of stochastic gradient descent Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on tuesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Supervised Learning
Session chair: Csaba Szepesvari
Location: Ballroom 3+4 - 03:40 – Sparse Nonlinear Regression: Parameter Estimation Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:57 – Polynomial Networks and Factorization Machines: New Insights and Efficient Training Algorithms Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:14 – Hyperparameter optimization with approximate gradient Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Kernel Methods
Session chair: Marius Kloft
Location: Marquis - 03:40 – DR-ABC: Approximate Bayesian Computation with Kernel-Based Distribution Regression Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:57 – Persistence weighted Gaussian kernel for topological data analysis Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:14 – Discriminative Embeddings of Latent Variable Models for Structured Data Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Matrix Factorization and Related Topics
Session chair: Stefanie Jegelka
Location: Lyceum - 03:40 – Recycling Randomness with Structure for Sublinear time Kernel Expansions Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:57 – Optimal Classification with Multivariate Losses Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:14 – Sparse Parameter Recovery from Aggregated Data Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Privacy, Anonymity, and Security
Session chair: Gal Chechik
Location: Empire - 03:40 – Learning privately from multiparty data Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:57 – Differentially Private Chi-Squared Hypothesis Testing: Goodness of Fit and Independence Testing Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:14 – Discrete Distribution Estimation under Local Privacy Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Causal Inference
Session chair: David Sontag
Location: Soho - 03:40 – The Arrow of Time in Multivariate Time Series Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:57 – Conditional Dependence via Shannon Capacity: Axioms, Estimators and Applications Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:14 – Learning Granger Causality for Hawkes Processes Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
Wednesday – Optimization
Session chair: Lihong Li
Location: Liberty - 03:40 – Gossip Dual Averaging for Decentralized Optimization of Pairwise Functions Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 03:57 – Adaptive Sampling for SGD by Exploiting Side Information Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract
- 04:14 – Mixture Proportion Estimation via Kernel Embeddings of Distributions Paper | Reviews | Rebuttal | Poster session on wednesday morning 10am-1pm | Abstract