Registration (East & West)

7:30 AM - 6:00 PM

Registration Desk West Level 1 & East Level 1

Women in Machine Learning - Overflow Streaming

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Affinity Event West Meeting Room 217-219

Women in Machine Learning

8:15 AM - 5:00 PM

Tiffany Vlaar ⋅ Ibtihel Amara ⋅ Nikita Saxena ⋅ Bo Zhao ⋅ Mehrnaz Mofakhami ⋅ Yolanne Lee ⋅ Mahsa Massoud ⋅ Milica Cvetkovic ⋅ Eda Okur ⋅ Mandana Samiei

Affinity Event West Meeting Room 211-214

AI Verification & Validation: Trends, Applications, and Challenges

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Lucas Garcia ⋅ Darren Cofer

Expo Talk Panel West Ballroom B

AI for Autonomous Driving at Scale

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Vincent Vanhoucke ⋅ Samer Shehab

Expo Talk Panel West Ballroom A

Commerce Foundation Model

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Andrew Arnold ⋅ Thomas Cleberg ⋅ Audrey-Anne Guindon ⋅ Diego Ardila

Expo Talk Panel West Meeting Room 220-222

Compute: Past, Present & Future

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Amanda Keay ⋅ Greg Osuri ⋅ Zach Horn ⋅ Cheng Wang ⋅ Anil Murty

Expo Talk Panel East Exhibition Hall C

Core Technical Interpretation and Best Practices of Responsible AI

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Wei Lin ⋅ Shuonan Zhang

Expo Talk Panel East Exhibition Hall A

Incentivizing Collaborative AI: A Decentralized Approach to Scaling Machine Learning

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Jacob Steeves

Expo Talk Panel West Meeting Room 109, 110

LatinX in AI

8:30 AM - 4:15 PM

Laura Montoya ⋅ Ana Maria Quintero ⋅ Abraham Ramos ⋅ Ana María Quintero-Ossa ⋅ Daniel Otero

Affinity Event West Meeting Room 202-204

Onboarding Generative AI at the Edge: Challenges and Solutions from Industrial Research

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Ron Tindall

Expo Talk Panel West Ballroom C

TikTok Symphony: AIGC Solution for Advertising

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Yihang Cheng ⋅ BINGYUE PENG

Expo Talk Panel West Meeting Room 301

Coffee Break

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Break TBA

Creative AI Session 1

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Jean Oh ⋅ Marcelo Coelho ⋅ Lia Coleman ⋅ Yingtao Tian

Session East Ballroom C

Quiet Streaming Hangout

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Meetup East Meeting Room 13

Quiet Streaming Hangout

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Meetup East Meeting Room 14

Quiet Streaming Hangout

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Meetup East Meeting Room 17

Quiet Streaming Hangout

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Meetup West Meeting Room 118-120

Quiet Streaming Hangout

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Meetup West Meeting Room 121, 122

Streaming Hangout

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Meetup East Lobby Foyer

Causality for Large Language Models

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Zhijing Jin ⋅ Sergio Garrido

Tutorial West Ballroom A

Dynamic Sparsity in Machine Learning: Routing Information through Neural Pathways

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Edoardo Maria Ponti ⋅ André Martins

Tutorial West Ballroom C

Evaluating Large Language Models - Principles, Approaches, and Applications

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Bo Li ⋅ Irina Sigler ⋅ Yuan Xue

Tutorial West Exhibition Hall C, B3

Experimental Design and Analysis for AI Researchers

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Michael Mozer ⋅ Katherine Hermann ⋅ Jennifer Hu

Tutorial East Exhibition Hall A

Flow Matching for Generative Modeling

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Ricky T. Q. Chen ⋅ Yaron Lipman ⋅ Heli Ben-Hamu

Tutorial East Exhibition Hall C

Opening the Language Model Pipeline: A Tutorial on Data Preparation, Model Training, and Adaptation

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Kyle Lo ⋅ Akshita Bhagia ⋅ Nathan Lambert

Tutorial West Ballroom B

Watermarking for Large Language Models

9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Yu-Xiang Wang ⋅ Lei Li ⋅ Xuandong Zhao

Tutorial West Meeting Room 109, 110

Black in AI

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Mírian Silva ⋅ Marquita Riggins ⋅ Foutse Yuehgoh ⋅ Lyse Wamba ⋅ Blessing Ogbuokiri

Affinity Event West Meeting Room 208,209

Global South in AI

10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Susanna Raj

Affinity Event West Meeting Room 201

AI for Enhanced Spacecraft Orientation

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Reece Teramoto ⋅ Abhijit Bhattacharjee

Expo Workshop West Ballroom A

Accelerating AI Research and Development with AMD Instinct Systems

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Dilkhush Engineer

Expo Workshop East Exhibition Hall A

Accelerating Edge AI: Optimizing and Deploying AI Models with Qualcomm AI Hub

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Ron Tindall

Expo Workshop West Meeting Room 109, 110

Active Training: Building Agentic Apps with Llama 3.2 and Llama Stack

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Raghotham Murthy ⋅ Ashwin Bharambe

Expo Workshop West Exhibition Hall C, B3

AutoGen 0.4: Redefining Agentic AI Systems

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Jack Gerrits ⋅ Saleema Amershi ⋅ Adam Fourney ⋅ Friederike Niedtner ⋅ Eric Zhu

Expo Workshop East Exhibition Hall C

AutoGluon 1.2: Advancing AutoML with Foundational Models and LLM Agents

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Nick Erickson ⋅ Abdul Fatir Ansari ⋅ Shuai Zhang ⋅ Boran Han

Expo Workshop West Ballroom C

Demystify Financial Textual Data with LLMs

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Dianqi Li

Expo Talk Panel West Meeting Room 220-222

Exhibit Sponsor Hall

12:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Break West Exhibition Hall A

Knowledge-enhanced LLMs for Industry Verticals

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Siwen Yu

Expo Workshop West Ballroom B

Lunch (catered)

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Break TBA

Sony’s Efficient Content Creation and Editing through Deep Generative Models

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Chieh-Hsin Lai ⋅ Kazumi Fukuda ⋅ Koichi Saito ⋅ Satoshi Hayakawa ⋅ Dongjun Kim

Expo Workshop West Meeting Room 301

Creative AI Session 2

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Jean Oh ⋅ Marcelo Coelho ⋅ Lia Coleman ⋅ Yingtao Tian

Session East Ballroom C

Muslims in ML

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Suleiman Khan ⋅ Ehsaneddin Asgari ⋅ Ahmed Youssef ⋅ Gasser Elbanna ⋅ Azmine Toushik Wasi ⋅ Muhammad Irfan khan ⋅ Nasik Muhammad Nafi ⋅ Rian Adam Rajagede ⋅ Raja Farrukh Ali ⋅ Kamran Soomro

Affinity Event West Meeting Room 215, 216

Advancing Data Selection for Foundation Models: From Heuristics to Principled Methods

1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Jiachen (Tianhao) Wang ⋅ Ludwig Schmidt ⋅ Ruoxi Jia

Tutorial West Ballroom C

Beyond Decoding: Meta-Generation Algorithms for Large Language Models

1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Matthew Finlayson ⋅ Hailey Schoelkopf ⋅ Sean Welleck

Tutorial East Exhibition Hall C

Cross-disciplinary insights into alignment in humans and machines

1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Gillian Hadfield ⋅ Dylan Hadfield-Menell ⋅ Joel Leibo ⋅ Rakshit Trivedi

Tutorial West Exhibition Hall C, B3

Generating Programmatic Solutions: Algorithms and Applications of Programmatic Reinforcement Learning and Code Generation

1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Levi Lelis ⋅ Xinyun Chen ⋅ Shao-Hua Sun

Tutorial East Exhibition Hall A

Out-of-Distribution Generalization: Shortcuts, Spuriousness, and Stability

1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Maggie Makar ⋅ Aahlad Manas Puli ⋅ Yoav Wald

Tutorial West Ballroom A

PrivacyML: Meaningful Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning and How To Evaluate AI Privacy

1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Mimee Xu ⋅ Dmitrii Usynin ⋅ Fazl Barez

Tutorial West Meeting Room 109, 110

Sandbox for the Blackbox: How LLMs Learn Structured Data?

1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Bingbin Liu ⋅ Ashok Vardhan Makkuva ⋅ Jason Lee

Tutorial West Ballroom B

New in ML

1:45 PM - 6:00 PM

Ching Lam Choi ⋅ Armin Moradi ⋅ Anuradha Mitra ⋅ Subhrajyoti Dasgupta ⋅ Julia Olkhovskaya ⋅ Rohan Sukumaran ⋅ Daniel Herbst ⋅ Rohan Banerjee ⋅ Zhen Xu

Affinity Event West Meeting Room 205-207

Science Communication for AI Researchers: An Introduction

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Lucy Smith

Mentorship East Meeting Room 8, 15

Augmenting Driving Scenes by High Fidelity Generative Models

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Ron Tindall

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

Automatically Deploying a Sequence-to-Sequence Transformer for Accelerated Discovery on the IBM HERMES Project Chip

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Julian Büchel

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

Deploying Cached Conditional Mixture-of-Experts LLMs on Mobile Devices with Memory Constraints

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Ron Tindall

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

Deploying Personal AI Assistants with Voice, LLMs, RAG via OpenVINO™ on the AI PC

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Raymond Lo ⋅ Adrian Boguszewski

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

Diffusion Video Editing on Mobile

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Ron Tindall

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

EvalAssist - An LLM-as-a-Judge Framework

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Werner Geyer

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

HPC-AI.COM: Unleashing the Power of High-Performance Cloud Computing for Large-Scale AI Model Training

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Yanjia Ouyang

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

IBM AI Agent SWE-1.0

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Martin Hirzel

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

IBM Granite Vision Model for Enterprise AI

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Leonid Karlinsky

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

Large Multimodal Model running on a mobile device

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Ron Tindall

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) for Large Vision Model on a Mobile Device

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Ron Tindall

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

MemoMagnet: A fridge-magnet memo agent based on LLM

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Ting Cao ⋅ HAO CHEN ⋅ Ching-An Cheng ⋅ Ahmed Awadallah ⋅ Donglin Bai ⋅ Lily Sun

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

Moving beyond chat: Enabling LLMs with intrinsic functions that give fine-grained control in application development

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Luis Lastras ⋅ Kristjan Greenewald ⋅ Nathalie Baracaldo

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

Open-Sora: Democratizing Efficient Video Production for All

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

James Demmel

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

Practices of Alibaba Cloud PAI (Platform for AI): An AI Native Large Models and AIGC Engineering Platform

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Shuonan Zhang ⋅ Wei Lin

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

ProLLM: Program analysis driven, LLM assisted application modernization

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Atin Sood

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

Site Reliability Engineering Agent-101 for Incident Management

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Rohan R. Arora

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

Trace: An LLM-powered End-to-end Optimization Framework of AI Workflow

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Elaina Robinson ⋅ Ching-An Cheng

Expo Demonstration West Exhibition Hall A

AgentInstruct: Agentic flows are effective synthetic-data generators

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Elaina Robinson ⋅ Arindam Mitra ⋅ Yash Lara

Expo Talk Panel East Exhibition Hall C

Building industry-grade NLP applications for the financial domain

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Andy Liu

Expo Talk Panel West Ballroom A

Coffee Break

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Break TBA

Colossal-AI: Breakthroughs in Efficient AI Training and Implementation

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

James Demmel

Expo Talk Panel West Meeting Room 301

Granite Time Series Foundation Models

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Vijay Ekambaram

Expo Talk Panel West Exhibition Hall C, B3

Graph Reasoning in Large Language Models

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Bryan Perozzi ⋅ Clayton Sanford ⋅ Jonathan Halcrow

Expo Talk Panel West Meeting Room 220-222

Improving Foundation Models Using Human Data

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

JONATHAN SIDDHARTH

Expo Talk Panel West Meeting Room 109, 110

Sequence Modeling in Financial Services

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Nam Nguyen

Expo Talk Panel West Ballroom B

Symbolic AI and Foundation Models Integration towards Reliable and Trustworthy Industry-grade AI Systems

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Vítor Lourenço ⋅ Vítor Lourenço ⋅ Audrey Depeige ⋅ Audrey Depeige ⋅ Charles Ivie ⋅ Ora Lassila ⋅ George Karypis

Expo Talk Panel East Exhibition Hall A

Training the Unprecedented Decart Diffusion World Simulator at scale on the Crusoe Cluster

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Ethan Petersen ⋅ Orian Leitersdorf

Expo Talk Panel West Ballroom C

Opening Remarks

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Remarks West Exhibition Hall C, B3

The Golem vs. Stone Soup: Understanding How Children Learn Can Help Us Understand And Improve AI

5:30 PM - 6:15 PM

Alison Gopnik

Invited Talk West Exhibition Hall C, B3

Affinity Joint Poster Session

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Affinity Poster Session West Ballroom D

Welcome Reception

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Reception West Level 0 & Level 1