MSR and Mila Workshop Day 1: Tuesday, April 13, 2021
The MSR and Mila Workshop featured presentations and forward-thinking breakout sessions hosted by Mila professors, students and researchers at Microsoft.
The workshop was an opportunity for Mila professors, students and MSR researchers to share and present what they’re currently working on with the goal of facilitating and building on existing research collaborations between Mila & MSR.
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Interactive Representation Learning
Speaker: Devon Hjelm, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal
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Chatbots: There and Back Again
Speaker: Mahmoud Adada, Principal Engineer Manager, Turing Montreal
1:05:00 (opens in new tab)
Machines with Common Sense? Modelling Plausibility in Text
Speaker: Jackie Cheung, Assistant Professor, McGill University, Mila and Consulting Researcher, Microsoft Research Montreal
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Breakout Session A: Generalization Failures in Deep Nets
Speakers: Alessandro Sordoni, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Sara Hooker, Google Brain
Gauthier Gidel, Université de Montréal and Mila
Remi Tachet des Combes, Microsoft Research
Aaron Courville, Université de Montréal and Mila
2:36:55 (opens in new tab)
Breakout Session B: FATE Concerns in NLP
Speakers: Alexandra Olteanu, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Su Lin Blodgett, Post Doc Researcher, Microsoft Research
Hal Daume III, Microsoft Research
Solon Barocas, Microsoft Research
Jackie Cheung, Mcgill University and Mila
Amandalynne Paullada, University of Washington
3:48:10 (opens in new tab)
System 2 Deep Learning: Higher-Level Cognition, Agency, Out-of-Distribution Generalization and Causality
Speaker: Professor Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Mila
4:16:40 (opens in new tab)
Closing Discussion and Thank You Remarks
Speakers: Professor Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director of Mila
Peter Lee, CVP, Research and Incubations, Microsoft Research
- Date:
- Speakers:
- Devon Hjelm, Mahmoud Adada, Jackie Cheung, Alessandro Sordoni, Sara Hooker, Gauthier Gidel, Remi Tachet des Combes, Aaron Courville, Alexandra Olteanu, Su Lin Blodgett, Hal Daume III, Solon Barocas, Jackie Cheung, Amandalynne Paullada, Yoshua Bengio, Peter Lee
- Affiliation:
- Microsoft Research Montreal, Turing Montreal, McGill University and Microsoft Research Montreal, Microsoft Research, Google Brain, Université de Montréal and Mila, Microsoft Research, Université de Montréal and Mila, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research, Microsoft Research, Mcgill University and Mila, University of Washington, Mila, Microsoft Research
