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MON 1 DEC
noon
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TUE 2 DEC
7:30 a.m.
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8 a.m.
Affinity Workshop:
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9 a.m.
Affinity Workshop:
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Break:
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10 a.m.
s 10:00-5:00
[10:00] Education Material Showcase
[10:00] Tutorial led by Julien Besset
[11:00] Coffee Break
[11:30] Contributed Talk #1 - Application of Multi-Agent Systems for Essay Scoring
[11:40] Contributed Talk #2 - Understanding How Neural Networks See
[11:50] Contributed Talk #3 - MCP Explorer: Interactive Learning Experience
[12:00] Contributed Talk #4 - The Invisible Fingerprints: Protecting Your Digital Images
[12:10] Contributed Talk #5 - How to Train a Model: A hands-on, interactive guide to understanding how calculus is used to train AI models.
[12:20] Contributed Talk #6 - IoT-MCP: Design and Control IoT Systems via LLMs
[12:30] Lunch Break
[1:30] Invited Talk #1 - Serena Booth
[2:00] Invited Talk #2 - Eunice Jun
[2:30] Coffee Break
[3:00] Contributed Talk #7 - Understanding Bias and Ethics in AI
[3:12] Contributed Talk #8 - Benchmarks 101
[3:24] Contributed Talk #9 - AI-Powered Agritourism Toolkit: Revolutionizing Agritourism with AI and Machine Learning
[3:36] Contributed Talk #10 - Interpreting Large Language Models (LLMs) with Geometry
[3:48] Contributed Talk #11 - AI & Human Co-Creativity: LLM Hallucinations are Features, Prompts are Experiments, AI is not a being
[4:00] Panel Discussion
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noon
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Talks 12:00-6:00
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Exhibit Sponsor Hall:
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1 p.m.
Affinity Workshop:
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Affinity Workshop:
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5:30 p.m.
Remarks:
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6 p.m.
Reception:
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Affinity Poster Session:
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WED 3 DEC
7:30 a.m.
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8 a.m.
Break:
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8:30 a.m.
San Diego Invited Talk:
Rich Sutton
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9 a.m.
Exhibit Sponsor Hall:
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9:30 a.m.
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Break:
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10 a.m.
Orals 10:00-11:00
[10:00] Understanding and Mitigating Numerical Sources of Nondeterminism in LLM Inference
[10:20] Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)
[10:40] SAVVY: Spatial Awareness via Audio-Visual LLMs through Seeing and Hearing
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Orals 10:00-11:00
[10:00] Representation Entanglement for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Much Easier Than You Think
[10:20] On the Closed-Form of Flow Matching: Generalization Does Not Arise from Target Stochasticity
[10:40] Why Diffusion Models Don’t Memorize: The Role of Implicit Dynamical Regularization in Training
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Orals 10:00-11:00
[10:00] Optimal Mistake Bounds for Transductive Online Learning
[10:20] High-Dimensional Calibration from Swap Regret
[10:40] Does Stochastic Gradient really succeed for bandits?
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Orals 10:00-11:00
[10:00] Dynam3D: Dynamic Layered 3D Tokens Empower VLM for Vision-and-Language Navigation
[10:20] Perception Encoder: The best visual embeddings are not at the output of the network
[10:40] Interactive Cross-modal Learning for Text-3D Scene Retrieval
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Orals 10:00-11:00
[10:00] Adjoint Schrödinger Bridge Sampler
[10:20] Rethinking Joint Maximum Mean Discrepancy for Visual Domain Adaptation
[10:40] Class-wise Balancing Data Replay for Federated Class-Incremental Learning
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11 a.m.
Posters 11:00-2:00
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s 11:00-2:00
[11:00] AI as intermediary in modern-day ritual: An immersive, interactive production of the roller disco musical Xanadu at UCLA
[11:00] AI is Misled by GenAI: Stylistic Bias in Automated Assessment of Creativity in Large Language Models
[11:00] CoTextor: Training-Free Modular Multilingual Text Editing via Layered Disentanglement and Depth-Aware Fusion
[11:00] Digital Plankton
[11:00] Echoes of Humanity: Exploring the Perceived Humanness of AI Music
[11:00] EmoNest: Crafting Emotionally-Adaptive Experiences with Generative AI
[11:00] EMPATHIA: Multi-Faceted Human-AI Collaboration for Refugee Integration
[11:00] Evaluating In Silico Creativity: An Expert Review of AI Chess Compositions
[11:00] How Foundation Models are Reshaping Non-Invasive Brain–Computer Interfaces: A Case for Novel Human Expression and Alignment
[11:00] Interactive Artistic Text-To-Voice: Tungnaá and Bla Blavatar vs Jaap Blonk
[11:00] Large-Scale Training Data Attribution for Music Generative Models via Unlearning
[11:00] Melody Slot Machine III for Automatic Fingering Saxophone using Servomotors
[11:00] Orchestrating Emergent Storytelling with Embodied Multi-Agent Systems
[11:00] Painting with Paintings
[11:00] Plan Before You Write: Improve LLM writing by planning
[11:00] Real-Time Intuitive AI Drawing System for Collaboration: Enhancing Human Creativity through Formal and Contextual Intent Integration
[11:00] Stroke Patches: Customizable Artistic Image Styling Using Regression
[11:00] Surface Tension
[11:00] Synthaesthetic Art: Human-Machine Creative Collaboration
[11:00] The Anemoia Device: A Tangible AI System for the Co-creation of Synthetic Memories through Scent
[11:00] The Ghost in the Keys: A Disklavier Demo for Human-AI Musical Co-Creativity
[11:00] The Stochastic Parrot: a physical AI Cohabitant
[11:00] The Sublime Ordinary: A Tool for Analysing Temporal City Soundscapes
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1 p.m.
Break:
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1:30 p.m.
Affinity Workshop:
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2 p.m.
Test Of Time:
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2:30 p.m.
San Diego Invited Talk:
Zeynep Tufekci
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3:30 p.m.
Orals 3:30-4:30
[3:30] Envisioning Beyond the Pixels: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Visual Editing
[3:50] CoralVQA: A Large-Scale Visual Question Answering Dataset for Coral Reef Image Understanding
[4:10] OpenHOI: Open-World Hand-Object Interaction Synthesis with Multimodal Large Language Model
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Orals 3:30-4:30
[3:30] A multiscale analysis of mean-field transformers in the moderate interaction regime
[3:50] The emergence of sparse attention: impact of data distribution and benefits of repetition
[4:10] From Condensation to Rank Collapse: A Two-Stage Analysis of Transformer Training Dynamics
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Orals 3:30-4:30
[3:30] PRIMT: Preference-based Reinforcement Learning with Multimodal Feedback and Trajectory Synthesis from Foundation Models
[3:50] Adaptive Surrogate Gradients for Sequential Reinforcement Learning in Spiking Neural Networks
[4:10] SAGE: A Unified Framework for Generalizable Object State Recognition with State-Action Graph Embedding
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Orals 3:30-4:30
[3:30] PhySense: Sensor Placement Optimization for Accurate Physics Sensing
[3:50] TransferTraj: A Vehicle Trajectory Learning Model for Region and Task Transferability
[4:10] OrthoLoC: UAV 6-DoF Localization and Calibration Using Orthographic Geodata
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Orals 3:30-4:30
[3:30] Agnostic Active Learning Is Always Better Than Passive Learning
[3:50] Dynamical Decoupling of Generalization and Overfitting in Large Two-Layer Networks
[4:10] Tighter CMI-Based Generalization Bounds via Stochastic Projection and Quantization
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4:30 p.m.
Break:
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s 4:30-7:30
[4:30] Assembloid Agency: Unreal Engine API for brain-on-a-chip platforms
[4:30] Best Friends Forever
[4:30] Brushes in Motion: Vector Guided Strokes for Computational Painting
[4:30] Cultural Alien Sampler: Open-ended Art Generation Balancing Originality and Coherence
[4:30] Go witheFlow: Real-time Emotion Driven Audio Effects Modulation
[4:30] Human-Machine Ritual: Synergic Performance through Real-Time Motion Recognition
[4:30] Knolling Bot: Teaching Robots the Human Notion of Tidiness
[4:30] Learning to Move with Style: Few-Shot Cross-Modal Style Transfer for Creative Robot Motion Generation
[4:30] LLMscape
[4:30] LUMIA: A Handheld Vision-to-Music System for Real-Time, Embodied Composition
[4:30] LUMIA: A Handheld Vision-to-Music System for Real-Time, Embodied Composition
[4:30] MCP-Driven Parametric Modeling: Integrating LLM Agents into Architectural and Landscape Design Workflows
[4:30] Music Arena: Live Evaluation for Text-to-Music
[4:30] Musings on AI Muses: Support for Human Creativity
[4:30] My AI Agent Feels Gray on Her Period
[4:30] Panel-by-Panel Souls: A Performative Workflow for Expressive Faces in AI-Assisted Manga Creation
[4:30] ProGress: Structured Music Generation via Graph Diffusion and Hierarchical Music Analysis
[4:30] Prompt-Character Divergence: A Responsibility Compass for Human-AI Creative Collaboration
[4:30] Sound Clouds: Exploring ambient intelligence in public spaces to elicit deep human experience of awe, wonder, and beauty
[4:30] ‘Studies for’ : A Human-AI Co-Creative Sound Artwork Using a Real-time Multi-channel Sound Generation Model
[4:30] Visualizing Our Changing Earth: A Creative AI Framework for Democratizing Environmental Storytelling Through Satellite Imagery
[4:30] yammer
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Posters 4:30-7:30
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7 p.m.
Reception:
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THU 4 DEC
7:30 a.m.
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8 a.m.
Break:
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8:30 a.m.
San Diego Invited Talk:
Yejin Choi
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9 a.m.
Exhibit Sponsor Hall:
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Affinity Workshop:
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10 a.m.
Orals 10:00-11:00
[10:00] State Entropy Regularization for Robust Reinforcement Learning
[10:20] A Clean Slate for Offline Reinforcement Learning
[10:40] Breaking the Performance Ceiling in Reinforcement Learning requires Inference Strategies
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Orals 10:00-11:00
[10:00] Auto-Compressing Networks
[10:20] Dynamical Low-Rank Compression of Neural Networks with Robustness under Adversarial Attacks
[10:40] ImageNet-trained CNNs are not biased towards texture: Revisiting feature reliance through controlled suppression
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Orals 10:00-11:00
[10:00] Position: If Innovation in AI systematically Violates Fundamental Rights, Is It Innovation at All?
[10:20] More effort is needed to protect pedestrian privacy in the era of AI
[10:40] Real-Time Hyper-Personalized Generative AI Should Be Regulated to Prevent the Rise of "Digital Heroin"
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Orals 10:00-11:00
[10:00] ControlFusion: A Controllable Image Fusion Network with Language-Vision Degradation Prompts
[10:20] Pan-LUT: Efficient Pan-sharpening via Learnable Look-Up Tables
[10:40] FuXi-Ocean: A Global Ocean Forecasting System with Sub-Daily Resolution
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Orals 10:00-11:00
[10:00] Identifiability of Deep Polynomial Neural Networks
[10:20] Depth-Bounds for Neural Networks via the Braid Arrangement
[10:40] Learning Linear Attention in Polynomial Time
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11 a.m.
Creative AI Panel:
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s 11:00-2:00
[11:00] 8bit-GPT: Exploring Human-AI Interaction on Obsolete Macintosh Operating Systems
[11:00] A(I)nimism: Re-enchanting the World Through AI-Mediated Object Interaction
[11:00] Artism: AI-Driven Dual-Engine System for Art Generation and Critique
[11:00] ArtPeer: Artistic Alignment via Reflection-based Prompt Evolution with Simulated Artist
[11:00] AugTwins
[11:00] CraftGraffiti: Exploring Human Identity with Custom Graffiti Art via Facial-Preserving Diffusion Models
[11:00] Encoding Values: Injecting Morality into Machines via Prompt-Conditioned Moral Frames
[11:00] Experiencing of Sensorium Arc: AI Agent System for Oceanic Data Exploration and Interactive Eco-Art
[11:00] Exploring Human-AI Conceptual Alignment through the Prism of Chess
[11:00] Gaze to the Stars: AI and Public Art from Personal Affect and Collective Empathy
[11:00] Gaze to the Stars: AI, Storytelling and Public Art
[11:00] Human-AI Co-Development of a Geometric Algorithm for Infinite Shuriken Artwork Design Generation
[11:00] Large Language Label
[11:00] Live Music Models
[11:00] MambaKit: Towards Modular Intelligence - Cognitive Scaffolding in Next-Generation Drum Synthesis
[11:00] Neural Palate Kueh
[11:00] Pareiduo: A Human–LLM Dialogue in Sand
[11:00] Possible You: AI-Generated Digital Twins as Creative Mirrors for Future Self Modeling
[11:00] princi/pal: A Moral Dilemma Tamagotchi Game
[11:00] ReTracing: An Archaeological Approach Through Body, Machine, and Generative Systems
[11:00] Semantic Glitch: Agency and Artistry in an Autonomous Pixel Cloud
[11:00] Sensorium Arc: AI Agent System for Oceanic Data Exploration and Interactive Eco-Art
[11:00] Supporting Creative Ownership through Deep Learning-Based Music Variation
[11:00] Text to Robotic Assembly of Multi Component Objects using 3D Generative AI and Vision Language Models
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Posters 11:00-2:00
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1 p.m.
Break:
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3:30 p.m.
Orals 3:30-4:30
[3:30] A is for Absorption: Studying Feature Splitting and Absorption in Sparse Autoencoders
[3:50] Gated Attention for Large Language Models: Non-linearity, Sparsity, and Attention-Sink-Free
[4:10] Superposition Yields Robust Neural Scaling
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Orals 3:30-4:30
[3:30] Exploring Diffusion Transformer Designs via Grafting
[3:50] Deep Compositional Phase Diffusion for Long Motion Sequence Generation
[4:10] Mean Flows for One-step Generative Modeling
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Orals 3:30-4:30
[3:30] In Search of Adam’s Secret Sauce
[3:50] Analog In-memory Training on General Non-ideal Resistive Elements: The Impact of Response Functions
[4:10] Generalized Gradient Norm Clipping & Non-Euclidean $(L_0,L_1)$-Smoothness
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Orals 3:30-4:30
[3:30] MaxSup: Overcoming Representation Collapse in Label Smoothing
[3:50] Advancing Expert Specialization for Better MoE
[4:10] Learning to Learn with Contrastive Meta-Objective
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4:30 p.m.
Creative AI Panel:
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Break:
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Posters 4:30-7:30
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s 4:30-7:30
[4:30] An Inference Zoo for Real-Time Media Arts: Avendish as a Bridge Between AI and Creative Environments
[4:30] Artificial "Authentic" Intelligence: Can AI Systems Embody and Evolve Cultural Heritage? A Case Study of "Cyber Subin" and Thai Traditional Dance
[4:30] "Artificial Spectator" Developing AI Audiences for Watching AI-Generated Films: A Speculative Exploration on the Future of Media and AI
[4:30] Between Reality and AI Hallucinations: Reimagining the Sacred Soundscape of Ming Rituals
[4:30] BioArtlas: Computational Clustering of Multi-Dimensional Complexity in Bioart
[4:30] Blankscope: Real-time Bridging of Human Perception with AI Imagination
[4:30] Craving Checkpoint: An Interactive Fridge Lock for Mindful Eating
[4:30] Creative Synthesis of Kinematic Mechanisms
[4:30] From Movement Memories to Robotic Dialogue: A Language-Mediated Pipeline for Somatic Machine Translation
[4:30] Green Topics, Deep Roots: Energy-Aware Topic Modelling of Multilingual Nigerian Lyrics
[4:30] "Jutters''
[4:30] Little Martians: From Desert Clay to Generative Agents
[4:30] MCP2OSC: Parametric Control by Natural Language
[4:30] Opt-In Art: Learning Art Styles Only from Few Examples
[4:30] Pocket Ink - Heaven’s mandate: a hyper-individualized tangible card game platform in the Age of AI
[4:30] Roulettective: Repurposing a Vintage Slide Projector into an AI-Driven Physical Detective Game
[4:30] Scene-Aware Urban Design: A Human–AI Recommendation Framework Using Co-Occurrence Embeddings and Vision-Language Models
[4:30] SPICE: A Synergistic, Precise, Iterative, and Customizable Image Editing Workflow
[4:30] Superradiance
[4:30] The Glitching Therapist: Performing the Limits of AI Empathy
[4:30] TinyTim: a family of language models for divergent generation
[4:30] (Un)Natural Language
[4:30] Writing in Symbiosis: Mapping Human Creative Agency in the AI Era
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FRI 5 DEC
7:30 a.m.
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8 a.m.
Break:
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8:30 a.m.
San Diego Invited Talk:
Kyunghyun Cho
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9 a.m.
Exhibit Sponsor Hall:
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9:30 a.m.
Break:
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10 a.m.
Orals 10:00-11:00
[10:00] EvoLM: In Search of Lost Language Model Training Dynamics
[10:20] Large Language Diffusion Models
[10:40] Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?
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Orals 10:00-11:00
[10:00] Boosting Knowledge Utilization in Multimodal Large Language Models via Adaptive Logits Fusion and Attention Reallocation
[10:20] HyperET: Efficient Training in Hyperbolic Space for Multi-modal Large Language Models
[10:40] Rethinking Multimodal Learning from the Perspective of Mitigating Classification Ability Disproportion
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Orals 10:00-11:00
[10:00] InfinityStar: Unified Spacetime AutoRegressive Modeling for Visual Generation
[10:20] PlayerOne: Egocentric World Simulator
[10:40] BEDLAM2.0: Synthetic humans and cameras in motion
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Orals 10:00-11:00
[10:00] WebGen-Bench: Evaluating LLMs on Generating Interactive and Functional Websites from Scratch
[10:20] QoQ-Med: Building Multimodal Clinical Foundation Models with Domain-Aware GRPO Training
[10:40] NOVA: A Benchmark for Rare Anomaly Localization and Clinical Reasoning in Brain MRI
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Orals 10:00-11:00
[10:00] High-dimensional neuronal activity from low-dimensional latent dynamics: a solvable model
[10:20] Task-Optimized Convolutional Recurrent Networks Align with Tactile Processing in the Rodent Brain
[10:40] Memory Mosaics at scale
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11 a.m.
Posters 11:00-2:00
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1 p.m.
Break:
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2 p.m.
Award:
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2:30 p.m.
San Diego Invited Talk:
Andrew Saxe
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3:30 p.m.
Orals 3:30-4:30
[3:30] A Snapshot of Influence: A Local Data Attribution Framework for Online Reinforcement Learning
[3:50] 1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL: Scaling Depth Can Enable New Goal-Reaching Capabilities
[4:10] Learning long range dependencies through time reversal symmetry breaking
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Orals 3:30-4:30
[3:30] KVzip: Query-Agnostic KV Cache Compression with Context Reconstruction
[3:50] MokA: Multimodal Low-Rank Adaptation for MLLMs
[4:10] ElasticMM: Efficient Multimodal LLMs Serving with Elastic Multimodal Parallelism
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Orals 3:30-4:30
[3:30] Generalized Linear Mode Connectivity for Transformers
[3:50] On Linear Mode Connectivity of Mixture-of-Experts Architectures
[4:10] Learning (Approximately) Equivariant Networks via Constrained Optimization
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Orals 3:30-4:30
[3:30] GnnXemplar: Exemplars to Explanations - Natural Language Rules for Global GNN Interpretability
[3:50] RAG4GFM: Bridging Knowledge Gaps in Graph Foundation Models through Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation
[4:10] Discovering Opinion Intervals from Conflicts in Signed Graphs
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Orals 3:30-4:30
[3:30] An Optimized Franz-Parisi Criterion and its Equivalence with SQ Lower Bounds
[3:50] Spectral Perturbation Bounds for Low-Rank Approximation with Applications to Privacy
[4:10] Improved Regret Bounds for Gaussian Process Upper Confidence Bound in Bayesian Optimization
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4:30 p.m.
Break:
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Posters 4:30-7:30
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7 p.m.
Town Hall:
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8 p.m.
Reception:
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SAT 6 DEC
7:30 a.m.
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8 a.m.
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9 a.m.
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noon
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3 p.m.
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SUN 7 DEC
7:30 a.m.
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8 a.m.
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9 a.m.
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