AAAI 2019
January 27, 2019 - February 1, 2019

Microsoft @ AAAI 2019

Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

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Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | 10:25 AM–11:25 AM | Coral Ballroom 3-5 | #2683
Tech Session 1: Machine Learning 1
A Distillation Approach to Data Efficient Individual Treatment Effect Estimation
Maggie Makar, Adith Swaminathan, Emre Kiciman

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | 10:25 AM–11:25 AM | South Pacific 2 | #142
Tech Session 5: NLP: Semantics and Summarization 1
Leveraging Web Semantic Knowledge in Word Representation Learning
Haoyan Liu, Lei Fang, Jian–Guang Lou, Zhoujun Li

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | 11:30 AM–12:30 PM | Coral 1 | #1036
Tech Session 2: AI for Social Impact 2
Traffic Updates: Saying a Lot While Revealing a Little
John Krumm, Eric Horvitz

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | 11:30 AM–12:30 PM | Lehua | #4059
Tech Session 9: Cognitive Systems
Attentive Tensor Product Learning
Qiuyuan Huang, Li Deng, Dapeng Wu, Chang Liu, Xiaodong He

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | 2:00 PM–3:30 PM | Coral Ballroom 3-5 | #4495
Tech Session 1: Deep Learning 1
RecurJac: An Efficient Recursive Algorithm for Bounding Jacobian Matrix of General Neural Networks and Its Applications
Huan Zhang, Pengchuan Zhang, Cho-Jui Hsieh

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 |2:00 PM–3:30 PM | Coral Ballroom 3-5 | #6721
Tech Session 1: Deep Learning 1
Towards Non-Saturating Recurrent Units for Modelling Long-Term Dependencies
Sarath Chandar, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Eugene Vorontsov, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Yoshua Bengio

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | 2:00 PM–3:30 PM | South Pacific 1 | #3855
Tech Session 4: AI and Web 3
Regularizing Neural Machine Translation by Target-Bidirectional Agreement
Zhirui Zhang, Shuangzhi Wu, Shujie Liu, Mu li, Ming Zhou, Tong Xu

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | 2:00 PM–3:30 PM | South Pacific 2 | #1200
Tech Session 5: NLP: discourse and Dialogue
Zero-Shot Adaptive Transfer for Conversational Language Understanding
Sungjin Lee, Rahul Jha

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | 2:00 PM–3:30 PM | South Pacific 2 | #2744
Tech Session 5: NLP: Discourse and Dialogue
Re-Evaluating ADEM: A Deeper Look at Scoring Dialogue Responses
Ananya Sai B, Mithun Das Gupta, Mitesh M. Khapra, Mukundhan Srinivasan

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | 2:00 PM–3:30 PM | Hibiscus Suite | #1575
Tech Session 7: Learning Theory
Capacity Control of ReLU Neural Networks by Basis‐Path Norm
Shuxin Zheng, Qi Meng, Huishuai Zhang, Wei Chen, Nenghai Yu, Tie-Yan Liu

Tuesday, January 29, 2019 | 2:00 PM–3:30 PM | Kahili Suite | #1538
Tech Session 8: Game Theory and Economic Paradigms 3
Online Pandora’s Boxes and Bandits
Hossein Esfandiari, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, Brendan Lucier, Michael Mitzenmacher

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | 10:25 AM–11:25 AM | Coral Ballroom 3-5 | #3753
Tech Session 1: GANs
On‐Line Adaptative Curriculum Learning for GANs
Thang Doan, Joao B Monteiro, Isabela Albuquerque, Bogdan Mazoure, Audrey Durand, Joelle Pineau, Devon Hjelm

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | 10:25 AM–11:25 AM | South Pacific 2 | #1979
Tech Session 4: NLP: Question Answering
Read + Verify: Machine Reading Comprehension with Unanswerable Questions
Minghao Hu, Furu Wei, Yuxing Peng, Zhen Huang, Nan Yang, Dongsheng Li

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | 11:30 AM–12:30 PM | South Pacific 1 | #4947
Tech Session 4: AI and Web 4
TableSense: Spreadsheet Table Detection with Convolutional Neural Networks
Haoyu Dong, Shijie Liu, Shi Han, Zhouyu Fu, Dongmei Zhang

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | 11:30 AM–12:30 PM | South Pacific 2 | #5320
Tech Session 5: NLP: Information Extraction 2
GRN: Gated Relation Network to Enhance Convolutional Neural Network for Named Entity Recognition
Hui Chen, Zijia Lin, Guiguang Ding, Jian-Guang Lou, Yusen Zhang, Borje Karlsson

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | 11:30 AM–12:30 PM | South Pacific 3 | #1991
Tech Session 6: Vision and Video Analysis 2
Detect or Track: Towards Cost-Effective Video Object Detection/Tracking
Hao Luo, Wenxuan Xie, Xinggang Wang, Wenjun Zeng

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | 2:00 PM–3:30 PM | Coral 1 | #2145
Tech Session 1: Deep Learning 2
Balanced Sparsity for Efficient DNN Inference on GPU
Zhuliang Yao, Shijie Cao, Wencong Xiao, Lanshun Nie, Chen Zhang

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | 2:00 PM–3:30 PM | Coral 2 | #4082
Tech Session 2: Language and Vision 2
Hierarchically Structured Reinforcement Learning for Topically Coherent Visual Story Generation
Qiuyuan Huang, Zhe Gan, Asli Celikyilmaz, Dapeng Wu, Jianfeng Wang, Xiaodong He

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | 3:35 PM–4:35 PM | Coral Ballroom 3-5 | #3228
Tech Session 1: Reinforcement Learning 1
Trust Region Evolution Strategies
Guoqing Liu, Li Zhao, Feidiao Yang, Jiang Bian, Tao Qin, Nenghai Yu, Tie-Yan Liu

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 | 3:35 PM–4:45 PM | Sea Pearl Suite | #7721
Tech Session 9: Applications and the Web 4
Learning Heterogeneous Spatial-Temporal Representation for Bike-Sharing Demand Prediction
Youru Li, Zhenfeng Zhu, Deqiang Kong, Meixiang Xu, Yao Zhao

Thursday, January 31, 2019 | 10:25 AM–11:25 AM | South Pacific 1 | #2022
Tech Session 4: NLP (General) 1
Dictionary-Guided Editing Networks for Paraphrase Generation
Shaohan Huang, Yu Wu, Furu Wei, Zhongzhi Luan

Thursday, January 31, 2019 | 10:25 AM–11:25 AM | South Pacific 3 | #985
Tech Session 6: Vision: Motion
Learning Basis Representation to Refine 3D Human Pose Estimations
Chunyu Wang,Haibo Qiu, Alan Yuille, Wenjun Zeng

Thursday, January 31, 2019 | 10:25 AM–11:25 AM | Sea Pearl Suite | #3515
Tech Session 11: Reasoning Under Uncertainty 1
Communication Efficient Stochastic Gradient MCMC for Neural Networks
Chunyuan Li, Changyou Chen

Thursday, January 31, 2019 | 11:30 AM-12:30 PM | Coral Ballroom 3-5 |#5688
Tech Session 1: Deep Learning 4
Tied Transformers: Neural Machine Translation with Shared Encoder and Decoder
Yingce Xia, Tianyu He, Xu Tan, Fei Tian, Di He, Tao Qin

Thursday, January 31, 2019 | 11:30 AM-12:30 PM | Lehua | #2924
Tech Session 10: Human-AI Collaboration 1
Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation with Auxiliary Regularization
Yiren Wang, Fei Tian, Di He, Tao Qin, Cheng Xiang Zhai, Tieyan Liu

Thursday, January 31, 2019 | 2:00 PM–3:30 PM | Coral 1 | #7354
Tech Session 2: Machine Learning 3
Found in Translation: Learning Robust Joint Representations by Cyclic Translations Between Modalities
Hai Pham, Paul Pu Liang, Thomas Manzini, Louis-Philippe Morency, Barnabas Poczos

Thursday, January 31, 2019 | 2:00 PM–3:30 PM | Lehua | #3659
Tech Session 10: Human-AI Collaboration 2
Interactive Semantic Parsing for If‐Then Recipes via Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Ziyu Yao, Xiujun Li, Jianfeng Gao, Brian Sadler, Huan Sun

Thursday, January 31, 2019 | 2:00 PM–3:30 PM | Lehua | #5238
Tech Session 10: Human-AI Collaboration 2
Explainable Recommendation Through Attentive Multi–‐View Learning
Jingyue Gao, Xiting Wang, Yasha Wang, Xing Xie

Thursday, January 31, 2019 | 2:00 PM–3:30 PM | Sea Pearl Suite | #7839
Tech Session 11: Multiagent Systems 1
Overcoming Blind Spots in the Real World: Leveraging Complementary Abilities for Joint Execution
Ramya Ramakrishnan, Ece Kamar, Besmira Nushi,  Debadeepta Dey, Julie A. Shah, Eric Horvitz