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Venue: <\/strong> Stockholmsm\u00e4ssan (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nM\u00e4ssv\u00e4gen 1 \u00c4lvsj\u00f6
\nSweden<\/p>\n

Website: <\/strong>IJCAI 2018 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft is proud to be a Silver sponsor of the 27th<\/sup> International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> July 13 \u2013 19 in Stockholm, Sweden. Swing by our booth to learn more about available opportunities with Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Invited Talk<\/h2>\n

Maximizing the Social Good: Markets without Money
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 10:25 AM\u201311:10 AM | Victoria<\/h4>\n

Nicole Immorlica<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Demo Session<\/h2>\n

Near Real-Time Detection of Poachers from Drones in AirSim
\nThursday, July 19, 2018 | Morning session<\/h4>\n

Elizabeth Bondi, Ashish Kapoor<\/strong><\/a>, Debadeepta Dey<\/strong><\/a>, James Piavis, Shital Shah<\/strong><\/a>, Robert Hannaford, Arvind Iyer, Lucas Joppa<\/strong><\/a>, Milind Tambe<\/p>\n

Workshops<\/h2>\n

Humanizing AI
\nSunday, July 15, 2018 | 8:30 AM-5:30 PM | T3<\/h4>\n

Organizers: Dr. Radhakrishnan Srikanth, Niranjan Nayak, Dr. Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Puneet Agrawal<\/strong><\/p>\n

FAIM\u201918 Workshop on CausalML
\nSunday, July 15, 2018 | 8:30 AM-6:00 PM | A6<\/h4>\n

Organizer: Adith Swaminathan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks with Merge-and-Run Mappings
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 10:15 AM\u201311:15 AM | ML-NN1 \u2013 Neural Networks | C7<\/h4>\n

Liming Zhao, Mingjie Li, Depu Meng, <\/strong>Xi Li, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Yueting Zhuang, Zhuowen Tu, Jingdong Wang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Revisiting the Arcade Learning Environment: Evaluation Protocols and Open Problems for General Agents
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 10:15 AM\u201311:15\u00a0AM | SGP-GPS \u2013 Game Playing and Search | K2<\/h4>\n

Marlos C. Machado, Marc G. Bellemare, Erik Talvitie, Joel Veness, Matthew Hausknecht<\/strong><\/a>, Michael Bowling<\/p>\n

Combinatorial Pure Exploration with Continuous and Separable Reward Functions and Its Applications<\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 11:25 AM\u201312:50 PM | ML-ONL \u2013 Online Learning | K11<\/h4>\n

Weiran Huang, Jungseul Ok, Liang Li, Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

An Axiomatic View of the Parimutuel Consensus Mechanism
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | HAI-HCC \u2013 Human Computation and Crowdsourcing | C2<\/h4>\n

Rupert Freeman, David M. Pennock<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Evaluating and Complementing Vision-to-Language Technology for People who are Blind with Conversational Crowdsourcing
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | HAI-HCC \u2013 Human Computation and Crowdsourcing | C2<\/h4>\n

Elliot Salisbury, Ece Kamar<\/strong><\/a>, Meredith Ringel Morris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Differential Equations for Modeling Asynchronous Algorithms
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | ML-LT \u2013 Learning Theory | K2<\/h4>\n

Li He, Qi Meng, Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a>, Zhi-Ming Ma, Tie-Yan Liu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Get The Point of My Utterance! Learning Towards Effective Responses with Multi-Head Attention Mechanism
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | NLP-DIA1 \u2013 Dialogue, Conversation Models | T2<\/h4>\n

Chongyang Tao, Shen Gao, Mingyue Shang, Wei Wu<\/strong><\/a>, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan<\/p>\n

Towards Better Representation Learning for Personalized News Recommendation: a Multi-Channel Deep Fusion Approach
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | MUL-CFR \u2013 Collaborative Filtering, Recommender Systems | C3<\/h4>\n

Jianxun Lian, Fuzheng Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Guangzhong Sun<\/p>\n

Sequential Recommender System based on Hierarchical Attention Networks
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | MUL-REC \u2013 Recommender Systems | C3<\/h4>\n

Haochao Ying, Fuzhen Zhuang, Fuzheng Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, Yanchi Liu, Guandong Xu, Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Hui Xiong, Jian Wu<\/p>\n

Near Real-Time Detection of Poachers from Drones in AirSim
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | Demos1 \u2013 Demos 1: Planning, Robotics, Vision | Victoria<\/h4>\n

Elizabeth Bondi, Ashish Kapoor<\/strong><\/a>, Debadeepta Dey<\/strong><\/a>, James Piavis<\/strong>, Shital Shah<\/strong><\/a>, Robert Hannaford, Arvind Iyer, Lucas Joppa<\/strong><\/a>, Milind Tambe<\/p>\n

Galaxy Network Embedding: A Hierarchical Community Structure Preserving Approach
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u20131:00 PM | MLA-NET \u2013 Machine Learning Applications: Networks | C3<\/h4>\n

Lun Du, Zhicong Lu, Yun Wang, Guojie Song, Yiming Wang, Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Reinforced Mnemonic Reader for Machine Reading Comprehension
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | ML-ROL \u2013 Reinforcement Learning and Online Learning | K11<\/h4>\n

Minghao Hu, Yuxing Peng, Zhen Huang, Xipeng Qiu, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Multiway Attention Networks for Modeling Sentence Pairs
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | NLP-CLA \u2013 Sentence and Text Classification, Text Segmentation | T2<\/h4>\n

Chuanqi Tan, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Wenhui Wang, Weifeng Lv, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Episodic Memory Deep Q-Networks
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | SGP-ML \u2013 Heuristic Search and Learning | K21<\/h4>\n

Zichuan Lin, Tianqi Zhao<\/strong>, Guangwen Yang, Lintao Zhang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Show, Observe and Tell: Attribute-driven Attention Model for Image Captioning
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:20 PM | NLP-CV2 \u2013 Language and Vision: Image Captioning, Visual Question Answering | T2<\/h4>\n

Hui Chen, Guiguang Ding, Zijia Lin<\/strong><\/a>, Sicheng Zhao, Jungong Han<\/p>\n

EZLearn: Exploiting Organic Supervision in Automated Data Annotation
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | NLP-SEC \u2013 Sentence Embedding, Text Classification | T2<\/h4>\n

Maxim Grechkin, Hoifung Poon<\/strong><\/a>, Bill Howe<\/p>\n

Predicting Activity and Location with Multi-task Context Aware Recurrent Neural Network
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | ML-TAM2 \u2013 Transfer, Adaptation, Multi-Task Learning 2 | K2<\/h4>\n

Dongliang Liao, Weiqing Liu<\/strong>, Yuan Zhong, Jing Li, Guowei Wang<\/p>\n

Unbiased Learning-to-Rank with Biased Feedback
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | SIS-WEB \u2013 Sister Conferences: Web, Recommendation, Retrieval | C2<\/h4>\n

Thorsten Joachims, Adith Swaminathan<\/strong><\/a>, Tobias Schnabel<\/p>\n

Advancements in Dueling Bandits
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | SUR-ML \u2013 Survey, Track: Machine Learning | Victoria<\/h4>\n

Yanan Sui, Masrour Zoghi, Katja Hofmann<\/strong><\/a>, Yisong Yue<\/p>\n

Core-Guided Minimal Correction Set and Core Enumeration
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | CSAT-CSAT \u2013 Constraints and Satisfiability | K2<\/h4>\n

Nina Narodytska, Nikolaj Bj\u00f8rner<\/strong><\/a>, Maria-Cristina Marinescu, Mooly Sagiv<\/p>\n

Unsupervised Deep Hashing via Binary Latent Factor Models for Large-scale Cross-modal Retrieval
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | ML-FLS Feature Selection, Learning Sparse Models | K11<\/h4>\n

Gengshen Wu, Zijia Lin<\/strong><\/a>, Jungong Han, Li Liu, Guiguang Ding, Baochang Zhang, Jialie Shen<\/p>\n

Predicting the Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Chronic Diseases in Population with Human Mobility Data
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | MLA-BM \u2013 Biomedical Applications | C3<\/h4>\n

Yingzi Wang, Xiao Zhou, Anastasios Noulas, Cecilia Mascolo, Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Enhong Chen<\/p>\n

View-Volume Network for Semantic Scene Completion from a Single Depth Image
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:20 PM | CV-3D \u2013 2d and 3d Computer Vision | T5<\/h4>\n

Yuxiao Guo, Xin Tong<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Differentiable Submodular Maximization
\nThursday, July 18, 2018 | 10:25 AM\u201311:40 AM | ML-PRO \u2013 Probabilistic Machine Learning | K11<\/h4>\n

Sebastian Tschiatsche<\/strong>k<\/a>, Aytunc Sahin, Andreas Krause<\/p>\n

Attention-Fused Deep Matching Network for Natural Language Inference
\nThursday, July 18, 2018 | 11:40 AM\u201312:45 PM | NLP-PTS \u2013 Natural Language Processing: Parsing, Tagging, Word Segmentation, Speech | T2<\/h4>\n

Chaoqun Duan, Lei Cui<\/strong><\/a>, Xinchi Chen, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Conghui Zhu, Tiejun Zhao<\/p>\n

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Venue: <\/strong> Stockholmsm\u00e4ssan (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>
\nM\u00e4ssv\u00e4gen 1 \u00c4lvsj\u00f6
\nSweden<\/p>\n

Website: <\/strong>IJCAI 2018 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Microsoft is proud to be a Silver sponsor of the 27th<\/sup> International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence<\/a> July 13 \u2013 19 in Stockholm, Sweden. Swing by our booth to learn more about available opportunities with Microsoft.<\/p>\n

Invited Talk<\/h2>\n

Maximizing the Social Good: Markets without Money
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 10:25 AM\u201311:10 AM | Victoria<\/h4>\n

Nicole Immorlica<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Demo Session<\/h2>\n

Near Real-Time Detection of Poachers from Drones in AirSim
\nThursday, July 19, 2018 | Morning session<\/h4>\n

Elizabeth Bondi, Ashish Kapoor<\/strong><\/a>, Debadeepta Dey<\/strong><\/a>, James Piavis, Shital Shah<\/strong><\/a>, Robert Hannaford, Arvind Iyer, Lucas Joppa<\/strong><\/a>, Milind Tambe<\/p>\n

Workshops<\/h2>\n

Humanizing AI
\nSunday, July 15, 2018 | 8:30 AM-5:30 PM | T3<\/h4>\n

Organizers: Dr. Radhakrishnan Srikanth, Niranjan Nayak, Dr. Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Puneet Agrawal<\/strong><\/p>\n

FAIM\u201918 Workshop on CausalML
\nSunday, July 15, 2018 | 8:30 AM-6:00 PM | A6<\/h4>\n

Organizer: Adith Swaminathan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks with Merge-and-Run Mappings
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 10:15 AM\u201311:15 AM | ML-NN1 \u2013 Neural Networks | C7<\/h4>\n

Liming Zhao, Mingjie Li, Depu Meng, <\/strong>Xi Li, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Yueting Zhuang, Zhuowen Tu, Jingdong Wang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Revisiting the Arcade Learning Environment: Evaluation Protocols and Open Problems for General Agents
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 10:15 AM\u201311:15\u00a0AM | SGP-GPS \u2013 Game Playing and Search | K2<\/h4>\n

Marlos C. Machado, Marc G. Bellemare, Erik Talvitie, Joel Veness, Matthew Hausknecht<\/strong><\/a>, Michael Bowling<\/p>\n

Combinatorial Pure Exploration with Continuous and Separable Reward Functions and Its Applications<\/a>
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 11:25 AM\u201312:50 PM | ML-ONL \u2013 Online Learning | K11<\/h4>\n

Weiran Huang, Jungseul Ok, Liang Li, Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

An Axiomatic View of the Parimutuel Consensus Mechanism
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | HAI-HCC \u2013 Human Computation and Crowdsourcing | C2<\/h4>\n

Rupert Freeman, David M. Pennock<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Evaluating and Complementing Vision-to-Language Technology for People who are Blind with Conversational Crowdsourcing
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | HAI-HCC \u2013 Human Computation and Crowdsourcing | C2<\/h4>\n

Elliot Salisbury, Ece Kamar<\/strong><\/a>, Meredith Ringel Morris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Differential Equations for Modeling Asynchronous Algorithms
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | ML-LT \u2013 Learning Theory | K2<\/h4>\n

Li He, Qi Meng, Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a>, Zhi-Ming Ma, Tie-Yan Liu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Get The Point of My Utterance! Learning Towards Effective Responses with Multi-Head Attention Mechanism
\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | NLP-DIA1 \u2013 Dialogue, Conversation Models | T2<\/h4>\n

Chongyang Tao, Shen Gao, Mingyue Shang, Wei Wu<\/strong><\/a>, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan<\/p>\n

Towards Better Representation Learning for Personalized News Recommendation: a Multi-Channel Deep Fusion Approach
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | MUL-CFR \u2013 Collaborative Filtering, Recommender Systems | C3<\/h4>\n

Jianxun Lian, Fuzheng Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Guangzhong Sun<\/p>\n

Sequential Recommender System based on Hierarchical Attention Networks
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | MUL-REC \u2013 Recommender Systems | C3<\/h4>\n

Haochao Ying, Fuzhen Zhuang, Fuzheng Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, Yanchi Liu, Guandong Xu, Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Hui Xiong, Jian Wu<\/p>\n

Near Real-Time Detection of Poachers from Drones in AirSim
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | Demos1 \u2013 Demos 1: Planning, Robotics, Vision | Victoria<\/h4>\n

Elizabeth Bondi, Ashish Kapoor<\/strong><\/a>, Debadeepta Dey<\/strong><\/a>, James Piavis<\/strong>, Shital Shah<\/strong><\/a>, Robert Hannaford, Arvind Iyer, Lucas Joppa<\/strong><\/a>, Milind Tambe<\/p>\n

Galaxy Network Embedding: A Hierarchical Community Structure Preserving Approach
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u20131:00 PM | MLA-NET \u2013 Machine Learning Applications: Networks | C3<\/h4>\n

Lun Du, Zhicong Lu, Yun Wang, Guojie Song, Yiming Wang, Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Reinforced Mnemonic Reader for Machine Reading Comprehension
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | ML-ROL \u2013 Reinforcement Learning and Online Learning | K11<\/h4>\n

Minghao Hu, Yuxing Peng, Zhen Huang, Xipeng Qiu, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Multiway Attention Networks for Modeling Sentence Pairs
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | NLP-CLA \u2013 Sentence and Text Classification, Text Segmentation | T2<\/h4>\n

Chuanqi Tan, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Wenhui Wang, Weifeng Lv, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Episodic Memory Deep Q-Networks
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | SGP-ML \u2013 Heuristic Search and Learning | K21<\/h4>\n

Zichuan Lin, Tianqi Zhao<\/strong>, Guangwen Yang, Lintao Zhang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Show, Observe and Tell: Attribute-driven Attention Model for Image Captioning
\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:20 PM | NLP-CV2 \u2013 Language and Vision: Image Captioning, Visual Question Answering | T2<\/h4>\n

Hui Chen, Guiguang Ding, Zijia Lin<\/strong><\/a>, Sicheng Zhao, Jungong Han<\/p>\n

EZLearn: Exploiting Organic Supervision in Automated Data Annotation
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | NLP-SEC \u2013 Sentence Embedding, Text Classification | T2<\/h4>\n

Maxim Grechkin, Hoifung Poon<\/strong><\/a>, Bill Howe<\/p>\n

Predicting Activity and Location with Multi-task Context Aware Recurrent Neural Network
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | ML-TAM2 \u2013 Transfer, Adaptation, Multi-Task Learning 2 | K2<\/h4>\n

Dongliang Liao, Weiqing Liu<\/strong>, Yuan Zhong, Jing Li, Guowei Wang<\/p>\n

Unbiased Learning-to-Rank with Biased Feedback
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | SIS-WEB \u2013 Sister Conferences: Web, Recommendation, Retrieval | C2<\/h4>\n

Thorsten Joachims, Adith Swaminathan<\/strong><\/a>, Tobias Schnabel<\/p>\n

Advancements in Dueling Bandits
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | SUR-ML \u2013 Survey, Track: Machine Learning | Victoria<\/h4>\n

Yanan Sui, Masrour Zoghi, Katja Hofmann<\/strong><\/a>, Yisong Yue<\/p>\n

Core-Guided Minimal Correction Set and Core Enumeration
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | CSAT-CSAT \u2013 Constraints and Satisfiability | K2<\/h4>\n

Nina Narodytska, Nikolaj Bj\u00f8rner<\/strong><\/a>, Maria-Cristina Marinescu, Mooly Sagiv<\/p>\n

Unsupervised Deep Hashing via Binary Latent Factor Models for Large-scale Cross-modal Retrieval
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | ML-FLS Feature Selection, Learning Sparse Models | K11<\/h4>\n

Gengshen Wu, Zijia Lin<\/strong><\/a>, Jungong Han, Li Liu, Guiguang Ding, Baochang Zhang, Jialie Shen<\/p>\n

Predicting the Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Chronic Diseases in Population with Human Mobility Data
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | MLA-BM \u2013 Biomedical Applications | C3<\/h4>\n

Yingzi Wang, Xiao Zhou, Anastasios Noulas, Cecilia Mascolo, Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Enhong Chen<\/p>\n

View-Volume Network for Semantic Scene Completion from a Single Depth Image
\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:20 PM | CV-3D \u2013 2d and 3d Computer Vision | T5<\/h4>\n

Yuxiao Guo, Xin Tong<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Differentiable Submodular Maximization
\nThursday, July 18, 2018 | 10:25 AM\u201311:40 AM | ML-PRO \u2013 Probabilistic Machine Learning | K11<\/h4>\n

Sebastian Tschiatsche<\/strong>k<\/a>, Aytunc Sahin, Andreas Krause<\/p>\n

Attention-Fused Deep Matching Network for Natural Language Inference
\nThursday, July 18, 2018 | 11:40 AM\u201312:45 PM | NLP-PTS \u2013 Natural Language Processing: Parsing, Tagging, Word Segmentation, Speech | T2<\/h4>\n

Chaoqun Duan, Lei Cui<\/strong><\/a>, Xinchi Chen, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Conghui Zhu, Tiejun Zhao<\/p>\n

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Invited Talk<\/h2>\r\n

Maximizing the Social Good: Markets without Money\r\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 10:25 AM\u201311:10 AM | Victoria<\/h4>\r\n

Nicole Immorlica<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Demo Session<\/h2>\r\n

Near Real-Time Detection of Poachers from Drones in AirSim\r\nThursday, July 19, 2018 | Morning session<\/h4>\r\n

Elizabeth Bondi, Ashish Kapoor<\/strong><\/a>, Debadeepta Dey<\/strong><\/a>, James Piavis, Shital Shah<\/strong><\/a>, Robert Hannaford, Arvind Iyer, Lucas Joppa<\/strong><\/a>, Milind Tambe<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Workshops<\/h2>\r\n

Humanizing AI\r\nSunday, July 15, 2018 | 8:30 AM-5:30 PM | T3<\/h4>\r\n

Organizers: Dr. Radhakrishnan Srikanth, Niranjan Nayak, Dr. Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Puneet Agrawal<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n

FAIM\u201918 Workshop on CausalML\r\nSunday, July 15, 2018 | 8:30 AM-6:00 PM | A6<\/h4>\r\n

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Deep Convolutional Neural Networks with Merge-and-Run Mappings\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 10:15 AM\u201311:15 AM | ML-NN1 \u2013 Neural Networks | C7<\/h4>\r\n

Liming Zhao, Mingjie Li, Depu Meng, <\/strong>Xi Li, Zhaoxiang Zhang, Yueting Zhuang, Zhuowen Tu, Jingdong Wang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Revisiting the Arcade Learning Environment: Evaluation Protocols and Open Problems for General Agents\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 10:15 AM\u201311:15\u00a0AM | SGP-GPS \u2013 Game Playing and Search | K2<\/h4>\r\n

Marlos C. Machado, Marc G. Bellemare, Erik Talvitie, Joel Veness, Matthew Hausknecht<\/strong><\/a>, Michael Bowling<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Combinatorial Pure Exploration with Continuous and Separable Reward Functions and Its Applications<\/a>\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 11:25 AM\u201312:50 PM | ML-ONL \u2013 Online Learning | K11<\/h4>\r\n

Weiran Huang, Jungseul Ok, Liang Li, Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

An Axiomatic View of the Parimutuel Consensus Mechanism\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | HAI-HCC \u2013 Human Computation and Crowdsourcing | C2<\/h4>\r\n

Rupert Freeman, David M. Pennock<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Evaluating and Complementing Vision-to-Language Technology for People who are Blind with Conversational Crowdsourcing\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | HAI-HCC \u2013 Human Computation and Crowdsourcing | C2<\/h4>\r\n

Elliot Salisbury, Ece Kamar<\/strong><\/a>, Meredith Ringel Morris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Differential Equations for Modeling Asynchronous Algorithms\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | ML-LT \u2013 Learning Theory | K2<\/h4>\r\n

Li He, Qi Meng, Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a>, Zhi-Ming Ma, Tie-Yan Liu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Get The Point of My Utterance! Learning Towards Effective Responses with Multi-Head Attention Mechanism\r\nMonday, July 16, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:05 PM | NLP-DIA1 \u2013 Dialogue, Conversation Models | T2<\/h4>\r\n

Chongyang Tao, Shen Gao, Mingyue Shang, Wei Wu<\/strong><\/a>, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Towards Better Representation Learning for Personalized News Recommendation: a Multi-Channel Deep Fusion Approach\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | MUL-CFR \u2013 Collaborative Filtering, Recommender Systems | C3<\/h4>\r\n

Jianxun Lian, Fuzheng Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Guangzhong Sun<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Sequential Recommender System based on Hierarchical Attention Networks\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | MUL-REC \u2013 Recommender Systems | C3<\/h4>\r\n

Haochao Ying, Fuzhen Zhuang, Fuzheng Zhang<\/strong><\/a>, Yanchi Liu, Guandong Xu, Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Hui Xiong, Jian Wu<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Near Real-Time Detection of Poachers from Drones in AirSim\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | Demos1 \u2013 Demos 1: Planning, Robotics, Vision | Victoria<\/h4>\r\n

Elizabeth Bondi, Ashish Kapoor<\/strong><\/a>, Debadeepta Dey<\/strong><\/a>, James Piavis<\/strong>, Shital Shah<\/strong><\/a>, Robert Hannaford, Arvind Iyer, Lucas Joppa<\/strong><\/a>, Milind Tambe<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Galaxy Network Embedding: A Hierarchical Community Structure Preserving Approach\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u20131:00 PM | MLA-NET \u2013 Machine Learning Applications: Networks | C3<\/h4>\r\n

Lun Du, Zhicong Lu, Yun Wang, Guojie Song, Yiming Wang, Wei Chen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Reinforced Mnemonic Reader for Machine Reading Comprehension\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | ML-ROL \u2013 Reinforcement Learning and Online Learning | K11<\/h4>\r\n

Minghao Hu, Yuxing Peng, Zhen Huang, Xipeng Qiu, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Multiway Attention Networks for Modeling Sentence Pairs\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | NLP-CLA \u2013 Sentence and Text Classification, Text Segmentation | T2<\/h4>\r\n

Chuanqi Tan, Furu Wei<\/strong><\/a>, Wenhui Wang, Weifeng Lv, Ming Zhou<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Episodic Memory Deep Q-Networks\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 2:55 PM\u20134:10 PM | SGP-ML \u2013 Heuristic Search and Learning | K21<\/h4>\r\n

Zichuan Lin, Tianqi Zhao<\/strong>, Guangwen Yang, Lintao Zhang<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Show, Observe and Tell: Attribute-driven Attention Model for Image Captioning\r\nTuesday, July 17, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:20 PM | NLP-CV2 \u2013 Language and Vision: Image Captioning, Visual Question Answering | T2<\/h4>\r\n

Hui Chen, Guiguang Ding, Zijia Lin<\/strong><\/a>, Sicheng Zhao, Jungong Han<\/p>\r\n\r\n

EZLearn: Exploiting Organic Supervision in Automated Data Annotation\r\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | NLP-SEC \u2013 Sentence Embedding, Text Classification | T2<\/h4>\r\n

Maxim Grechkin, Hoifung Poon<\/strong><\/a>, Bill Howe<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Predicting Activity and Location with Multi-task Context Aware Recurrent Neural Network\r\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | ML-TAM2 \u2013 Transfer, Adaptation, Multi-Task Learning 2 | K2<\/h4>\r\n

Dongliang Liao, Weiqing Liu<\/strong>, Yuan Zhong, Jing Li, Guowei Wang<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Unbiased Learning-to-Rank with Biased Feedback\r\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 8:30 AM\u20139:55 AM | SIS-WEB \u2013 Sister Conferences: Web, Recommendation, Retrieval | C2<\/h4>\r\n

Thorsten Joachims, Adith Swaminathan<\/strong><\/a>, Tobias Schnabel<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Advancements in Dueling Bandits\r\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | SUR-ML \u2013 Survey, Track: Machine Learning | Victoria<\/h4>\r\n

Yanan Sui, Masrour Zoghi, Katja Hofmann<\/strong><\/a>, Yisong Yue<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Core-Guided Minimal Correction Set and Core Enumeration\r\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | CSAT-CSAT \u2013 Constraints and Satisfiability | K2<\/h4>\r\n

Nina Narodytska, Nikolaj Bj\u00f8rner<\/strong><\/a>, Maria-Cristina Marinescu, Mooly Sagiv<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Unsupervised Deep Hashing via Binary Latent Factor Models for Large-scale Cross-modal Retrieval\r\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | ML-FLS \\ Feature Selection, Learning Sparse Models | K11<\/h4>\r\n

Gengshen Wu, Zijia Lin<\/strong><\/a>, Jungong Han, Li Liu, Guiguang Ding, Baochang Zhang, Jialie Shen<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Predicting the Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Chronic Diseases in Population with Human Mobility Data\r\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 11:20 AM\u201312:45 PM | MLA-BM \u2013 Biomedical Applications | C3<\/h4>\r\n

Yingzi Wang, Xiao Zhou, Anastasios Noulas, Cecilia Mascolo, Xing Xie<\/strong><\/a>, Enhong Chen<\/p>\r\n\r\n

View-Volume Network for Semantic Scene Completion from a Single Depth Image\r\nWednesday, July 18, 2018 | 4:40 PM\u20136:20 PM | CV-3D \u2013 2d and 3d Computer Vision | T5<\/h4>\r\n

Yuxiao Guo, Xin Tong<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Differentiable Submodular Maximization\r\nThursday, July 18, 2018 | 10:25 AM\u201311:40 AM | ML-PRO \u2013 Probabilistic Machine Learning | K11<\/h4>\r\n

Sebastian Tschiatsche<\/strong>k<\/a>, Aytunc Sahin, Andreas Krause<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Attention-Fused Deep Matching Network for Natural Language Inference\r\nThursday, July 18, 2018 | 11:40 AM\u201312:45 PM | NLP-PTS \u2013 Natural Language Processing: Parsing, Tagging, Word Segmentation, Speech | T2<\/h4>\r\n

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