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Thursday, February 4<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Time (PST)<\/strong><\/td>\r\nName, Title<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
11:00\u201311:45<\/td>\r\nAmy Siebenthaler, Recruiting<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
11:45\u201312:30<\/td>\r\nAmy Siebenthaler, Recruiting\r\nTristan Naumann, ML & NLP for Health<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
19:00\u201319:45<\/td>\r\nSoroush Mehri, Machine Learning<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Friday, February 5<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Time (PST)<\/strong><\/td>\r\nName, Title<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
3:45\u20134:30<\/td>\r\nKrzysztof Maziarz, Generative Chemistry, GNNs<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
10:00 \u201311:00<\/td>\r\nAmy Siebenthaler, Recruiting\r\nLar Liden, NLP, Conversational AI<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
11:00\u201311:45<\/td>\r\nAmy Siebenthaler, Recruiting<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
11:45\u201312:30<\/td>\r\nTristan Naumann, ML & NLP for Health<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
18:00\u201319:00<\/td>\r\nBesmira Nushi, Reliable & Robust ML, Human-AI Collaboration<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Saturday, February 6<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Time (PST)<\/strong><\/td>\r\nName, Title<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
10:00\u201311:45<\/td>\r\nAmy Siebenthaler, Recruiting<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
11:45\u201312:30<\/td>\r\nCammy Vasquez, Recruiting<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
18:00\u201320:30<\/td>\r\nCammy Vasquez, Recruiting\r\nJiayi Song, Recruiting\r\nYun Chen, Recruiting<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>"},{"id":1,"name":"Schedule","content":"All times are displayed in Pacific Time (UTC-08:00)<\/em>\r\n

Wednesday, February 3<\/h3>\r\n8:30 \u2013 11:45 | Tutorial\r\nResponsible AI in Industry: Practical Challenges and Lessons Learned<\/strong>\r\nKrishnaram Kenthapadi, Ben Packer, Mehrnoosh Sameki<\/strong>, Nashlie Sephus\r\n\r\n
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Thursday, February 4<\/h3>\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Demonstration\r\nIntegrating Pre-trained Model into Rule-based Dialogue Management<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJun Quan<\/strong>, Meng Yang<\/strong>, Qiang Gan<\/strong>, Deyi Xiong, Yiming Liu<\/strong>, Yuchen Dong<\/a>, Fangxin Ouyang<\/strong>, Jun Tian<\/a>, Ruiling Deng<\/strong>, Yongzhi Li<\/strong>, Yang Yang<\/strong>, Daxin Jiang<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Demonstration\r\nIntegrating Pre-trained Model into Rule-based Dialogue Management<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJun Quan<\/strong>, Meng Yang<\/strong>, Qiang Gan<\/strong>, Deyi Xiong, Yiming Liu<\/strong>, Yuchen Dong<\/a>, Fangxin Ouyang<\/strong>, Jun Tian<\/a>, Ruiling Deng<\/strong>, Yongzhi Li<\/strong>, Yang Yang<\/strong>, Daxin Jiang<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Intelligent Robots \/ Vision for Robotics\r\nLearning Monocular Depth in Dynamic Scenes via Instance-Aware Projection Consistency<\/strong>\r\nSeokju Lee, Sunghoon Im, Stephen Lin<\/strong>, In So Kweon\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Reinforcement Learning\r\nSuccessor feature sets: generalizing successor representations across policies<\/strong>\r\nKiant\u00e9 Brantley, Soroush Mehri<\/a>, Geoff Gordon<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Discourse \/ Dialog \/ Summarization\r\nData Augmentation for Abstractive Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization<\/strong>\r\nRamakanth R Pasunuru, Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a>, Michel Galley<\/a>, Chenyan Xiong<\/a>, Yizhe Zhang<\/a>, Mohit Bansal, Jianfeng Gao<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Ethics\r\nHow Linguistically Fair are Multilingual Pre-Trained Language Models?<\/strong><\/a>\r\nMonojit Choudhury<\/a>, Amit Deshpande<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Information Extraction\r\nDenoising Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition via a Hypergeometric Probabilistic Model<\/strong>\r\nHongyu Lin, Wenkai Zhang, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Huidan Liu, Nicholas Yuan<\/strong>, Zhicheng Wei\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI\r\nThe Importance of Modeling Data Missingness in Algorithmic Fairness: A Causal Perspective<\/strong>\r\nNaman Goel, Alfonso Amayuelas, Amit Deshpande<\/a>, Amit Sharma<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI\r\nHow Does Data Augmentation Affect Privacy in Machine Learning?<\/strong>\r\nDa Yu, Huishuai Zhang<\/a>, Wei Chen<\/a>, Jian Yin, Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI\r\nIs the Most Accurate AI the Best Teammate? Optimizing AI for Teamwork<\/strong><\/a>\r\nGagan Bansal, Besmira Nushi<\/a>, Ece Kamar<\/a>, Eric Horvitz<\/a>, Daniel Weld\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Vision: Scene Analysis & Understanding\r\nHolistic Multi-View Building Analysis in the Wild with Projection Pooling<\/strong>\r\nZbigniew Bogdan Wojna, Krzysztof Maziarz<\/a>, Lukasz Jocz, Robert Paluba, Robert Kozikowski, Iason Kokkinos\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Demonstration\r\nIntegrating Pre-trained Model into Rule-based Dialogue Management<\/strong><\/a>\r\nJun Quan<\/strong>, Meng Yang<\/strong>, Qiang Gan<\/strong>, Deyi Xiong, Yiming Liu<\/strong>, Yuchen Dong<\/a>, Fangxin Ouyang<\/strong>, Jun Tian<\/a>, Ruiling Deng<\/strong>, Yongzhi Li<\/strong>, Yang Yang<\/strong>, Daxin Jiang<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Discourse \/ Dialog \/ Summarization\r\nData Augmentation for Abstractive Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization<\/strong>\r\nRamakanth R Pasunuru, Asli Celikyilmaz<\/a>, Michel Galley<\/a>, Chenyan Xiong<\/a>, Yizhe Zhang<\/a>, Mohit Bansal, Jianfeng Gao<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Information Extraction\r\nDenoising Distantly Supervised Named Entity Recognition via a Hypergeometric Probabilistic Model<\/strong>\r\nHongyu Lin, Wenkai Zhang, Xianpei Han, Le Sun, Huidan Liu, Nicholas Yuan<\/strong>, Zhicheng Wei\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Reinforcement Learning\r\nSuccessor feature sets: generalizing successor representations across policies<\/strong>\r\nKiant\u00e9 Brantley, Soroush Mehri<\/a>, Geoff Gordon<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI\r\nHow Does Data Augmentation Affect Privacy in Machine Learning?<\/strong>\r\nDa Yu, Huishuai Zhang<\/a>, Wei Chen<\/a>, Jian Yin, Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI\r\nIs the Most Accurate AI the Best Teammate? Optimizing AI for Teamwork<\/strong><\/a>\r\nGagan Bansal, Besmira Nushi<\/a>, Ece Kamar<\/a>, Eric Horvitz<\/a>, Daniel Weld\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Vision: Image and Video Retrieval\r\nExploiting Sample Uncertainty for Domain Adaptive Person Re-Identification<\/strong>\r\nKecheng Zheng, Cuiling Lan<\/a>, Wenjun Zeng<\/a>, Zhizheng Zhang, Zheng-Jun Zha\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Vision: Scene Analysis & Understanding\r\nHolistic Multi-View Building Analysis in the Wild with Projection Pooling<\/strong>\r\nZbigniew Bogdan Wojna, Krzysztof Maziarz<\/a>, Lukasz Jocz, Robert Paluba, Robert Kozikowski, Iason Kokkinos\r\n\r\n
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Friday, February 5<\/h3>\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Intelligent Robots \/ Vision for Robotics\r\nLearning Monocular Depth in Dynamic Scenes via Instance-Aware Projection Consistency<\/strong>\r\nSeokju Lee, Sunghoon Im, Stephen Lin<\/strong>, In So Kweon\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Ethics\r\nHow Linguistically Fair are Multilingual Pre-Trained Language Models?<\/strong><\/a>\r\nMonojit Choudhury<\/a>, Amit Deshpande<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Philosophy and Ethics of AI\r\nThe Importance of Modeling Data Missingness in Algorithmic Fairness: A Causal Perspective<\/strong>\r\nNaman Goel, Alfonso Amayuelas, Amit Deshpande<\/a>, Amit Sharma<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Vision: Image and Video Retrieval\r\nExploiting Sample Uncertainty for Domain Adaptive Person Re-Identification<\/strong>\r\nKecheng Zheng, Cuiling Lan<\/a>, Wenjun Zeng<\/a>, Zhizheng Zhang, Zheng-Jun Zha\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Applications\r\nUniversal Trading for Order Execution with Oracle Policy Distillation<\/strong>\r\nYuchen Fang, Kan Ren<\/a>, Weiqing Liu<\/strong>, Dong Zhou<\/a>, Weinan Zhang, Jiang Bian<\/a>, Yong Yu, Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Fair Division\r\nFair and Truthful Mechanisms for Dichotomous Valuations<\/strong>\r\nMoshe Babaioff<\/a>, Tomer Ezra, Uriel Feige\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Game Theory and Economic Paradigms\r\nEstimating alpha-Rank by Maximizing Information Gain<\/strong><\/a>\r\nTabish Rashid, Cheng Zhang<\/a>, Kamil Ciosek<\/strong>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Heuristic and Greedy Search\r\nNuQClq: An Effective Local Search Algorithm for Maximum Quasi-Clique Problem<\/strong>\r\nJiejiang Chen, Shaowei Cai, Shiwei Pan, Yiyuan Wang, Qingwei Lin<\/a>, Mengyu Zhao, Minghao Yin\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Generation\r\nCopy That! Editing Sequences by Copying Spans<\/strong>\r\nSheena L Panthaplackel, Miltiadis Allamanis<\/a>, Marc Brockschmidt<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Generation\r\nA Controllable Model of Grounded Response Generation<\/strong>\r\nZeqiu Wu, Michel Galley<\/a>, Chris Brockett<\/a>, Yizhe Zhang<\/a>, Xiang Gao<\/a>, Chris Quirk<\/a>, Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Mari Ostendorf, Bill Dolan<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Search and Optimization\r\nOpEvo: An Evolutionary Method for Tensor Operator Optimization<\/strong>\r\nXiaotian Gao<\/strong>, Wei Cui<\/a>, Lintao Zhang<\/strong>, Mao Yang<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | 3D Computer Vision\r\nUnsupervised 3D Learning for Shape Analysis via Multiresolution Instance Discrimination<\/strong>\r\nPeng-Shuai Wang<\/strong>, Yuqi Yang, Qianfang Zou, Zhirong Wu<\/a>, Yang Liu<\/a>, Xin Tong<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Applications\r\nUniversal Trading for Order Execution with Oracle Policy Distillation<\/strong>\r\nYuchen Fang, Kan Ren<\/a>, Weiqing Liu<\/strong>, Dong Zhou<\/a>, Weinan Zhang, Jiang Bian<\/a>, Yong Yu, Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Game Theory and Economic Paradigms\r\nEstimating alpha-Rank by Maximizing Information Gain<\/strong><\/a>\r\nTabish Rashid, Cheng Zhang<\/a>, Kamil Ciosek<\/strong>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Bandits \/ RL \/ Imitation Learning\r\nCombinatorial Pure Exploration with Full-Bandit or Partial Linear Feedback<\/strong>\r\nYihan Du, Yuko Kuroki, Wei Chen<\/strong>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Unsupervised & Self-Supervised Learning\r\nDistilling Localization for Self-Supervised Representation Learning<\/strong>\r\nNanxuan Zhao, Zhirong Wu<\/a>, Rynson W.H. Lau, Stephen Lin<\/strong>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Conversational AI\/Dialog Systems\r\nLearning an Effective Context-Response Matching Model with Self-Supervised Tasks for Retrieval-based Dialogues<\/strong>\r\nRuijian Xu, Chongyang Tao<\/strong>, Daxin Jiang<\/a>, Xueliang Zhao, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Generation\r\nCopy That! Editing Sequences by Copying Spans<\/strong>\r\nSheena L Panthaplackel, Miltiadis Allamanis<\/a>, Marc Brockschmidt<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Information Extraction\r\nA Supervised Multi-Head Self-Attention Network for Nested Named Entity Recognition<\/strong>\r\nYongxiu Xu<\/strong>, Heyan Huang, Chong Feng, Yue Hu\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Information Extraction\r\nA Controllable Model of Grounded Response Generation<\/strong>\r\nZeqiu Wu, Michel Galley<\/a>, Chris Brockett<\/a>, Yizhe Zhang<\/a>, Xiang Gao<\/a>, Chris Quirk<\/a>, Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Mari Ostendorf, Bill Dolan<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Search and Optimization\r\nOpEvo: An Evolutionary Method for Tensor Operator Optimization<\/strong>\r\nXiaotian Gao<\/strong>, Wei Cui<\/a>, Lintao Zhang<\/strong>, Mao Yang<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Speech & Signal Processing\r\nInteractive Speech and Noise Modeling for Speech Enhancement<\/strong>\r\nChengyu Zheng, Xiulian Peng<\/a>, Yuan Zhang, Sriram Srinivasan<\/a>, Yan Lu<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Speech & Signal Processing\r\nUWSpeech: Speech to Speech Translation for Unwritten Languages<\/strong>\r\nChen Zhang, Xu Tan<\/a>, Yi Ren, Tao Qin<\/a>, Kejun Zhang, Tieyan Liu<\/strong>\r\n\r\n
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Saturday, February 6<\/h3>\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | 3D Computer Vision\r\nUnsupervised 3D Learning for Shape Analysis via Multiresolution Instance Discrimination<\/strong>\r\nPeng-Shuai Wang<\/strong>, Yuqi Yang, Qianfang Zou, Zhirong Wu<\/a>, Yang Liu<\/a>, Xin Tong<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Fair Division\r\nFair and Truthful Mechanisms for Dichotomous Valuations<\/strong>\r\nMoshe Babaioff<\/a>, Tomer Ezra, Uriel Feige\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Heuristic and Greedy Search\r\nNuQClq: An Effective Local Search Algorithm for Maximum Quasi-Clique Problem<\/strong>\r\nJiejiang Chen, Shaowei Cai, Shiwei Pan, Yiyuan Wang, Qingwei Lin<\/a>, Mengyu Zhao, Minghao Yin\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Bandits \/ RL \/ Imitation Learning\r\nCombinatorial Pure Exploration with Full-Bandit or Partial Linear Feedback<\/strong>\r\nYihan Du, Yuko Kuroki, Wei Chen<\/strong>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Unsupervised & Self-Supervised Learning\r\nDistilling Localization for Self-Supervised Representation Learning<\/strong>\r\nNanxuan Zhao, Zhirong Wu<\/a>, Rynson W.H. Lau, Stephen Lin<\/strong>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Conversational AI\/Dialog Systems\r\nLearning an Effective Context-Response Matching Model with Self-Supervised Tasks for Retrieval-based Dialogues<\/strong>\r\nRuijian Xu, Chongyang Tao<\/strong>, Daxin Jiang<\/a>, Xueliang Zhao, Dongyan Zhao, Rui Yan\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Information Extraction\r\nA Supervised Multi-Head Self-Attention Network for Nested Named Entity Recognition<\/strong>\r\nYongxiu Xu<\/strong>, Heyan Huang, Chong Feng, Yue Hu\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Speech & Signal Processing\r\nInteractive Speech and Noise Modeling for Speech Enhancement<\/strong>\r\nChengyu Zheng, Xiulian Peng<\/a>, Yuan Zhang, Sriram Srinivasan<\/a>, Yan Lu<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Speech & Signal Processing\r\nUWSpeech: Speech to Speech Translation for Unwritten Languages<\/strong>\r\nChen Zhang, Xu Tan<\/a>, Yi Ren, Tao Qin<\/a>, Kejun Zhang, Tieyan Liu<\/strong>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Applications\r\nTowards Balanced Defect Prediction with Better Information Propagation<\/strong>\r\nXianda Zheng, Yuan-Fang Li, Huan Gao<\/strong>, Yuncheng Hua, Guilin Qi\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Language and Vision\r\nVIVO: Visual Vocabulary Pre-Training for Novel Object Captioning<\/strong>\r\nXiaowei Hu<\/a>, Xi Yin<\/strong>, Kevin Lin<\/a>, Lei Zhang<\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Lijuan Wang<\/a>, Zicheng Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Learning Theory \/ Optimization\r\nFrugal Optimization for Cost-related Hyperparameters<\/strong>\r\nQingyun Wu<\/a>, Chi Wang<\/a>, Silu Huang<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Neural Network Algorithms\r\nLearning to Reweight with Deep Interactions<\/strong>\r\nYang Fan, Yingce Xia<\/a>, Lijun Wu<\/a>, Shufang Xie<\/a>, Weiqing Liu<\/a>, Jiang Bian<\/a>, Tao Qin<\/a>, Xiangyang Li\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Information Extraction\r\nRe-TACRED: Addressing Shortcomings of the TACRED Dataset<\/strong>\r\nGeorge I Stoica, Emmanouil Antonios Platanios<\/strong>, Barnabas Poczos\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Vision: Computational Photography, Image & Video Synthesis\r\nObject-Centric Image Generation from Layouts<\/strong><\/a>\r\nTristan Sylvain, Pengchuan Zhang<\/a>, Yoshua Bengio, R Devon Hjelm<\/a>, Shikhar Sharma<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Applications\r\nCorrelation-Aware Heuristic Search for Intelligent Virtual Machine Provisioning in Cloud Systems<\/strong>\r\nChuan Luo<\/strong>, Bo Qiao<\/a>, Wenqian Xing<\/strong>, Xin Chen<\/strong>, Pu Zhao<\/strong>, Chao Du<\/strong>, Randolph Yao<\/strong>, Hongyu Zhang, Wei Wu, Shaowei Cai, Bing He, Saravanakumar Rajmohan<\/strong>, Qingwei Lin<\/strong>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Applications\r\nTowards Balanced Defect Prediction with Better Information Propagation<\/strong>\r\nXianda Zheng, Yuan-Fang Li, Huan Gao<\/strong>, Yuncheng Hua, Guilin Qi\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Humans and AI\r\nImproving the Performance-Compatibility Tradeoff with Personalized Objective Functions<\/strong>\r\nJonathan Martinez, Kobi Gal, Ece Kamar<\/a>, Levi H. S. Lelis\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Language and Vision\r\nVIVO: Visual Vocabulary Pre-Training for Novel Object Captioning<\/strong>\r\nXiaowei Hu<\/a>, Xi Yin<\/strong>, Kevin Lin<\/a>, Lei Zhang<\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Lijuan Wang<\/a>, Zicheng Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Learning Theory \/ Optimization\r\nFrugal Optimization for Cost-related Hyperparameters<\/strong>\r\nQingyun Wu<\/a>, Chi Wang<\/a>, Silu Huang<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Conversational AI\/Dialog Systems\r\nCo-GAT: A Co-Interactive Graph Attention Network for Joint Dialog Act Recognition and Sentiment Classification<\/strong>\r\nLibo Qin, Zhouyang Li, Wanxiang Che, Minheng Ni<\/strong>, Ting Liu\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Information Extraction\r\nRe-TACRED: Addressing Shortcomings of the TACRED Dataset<\/strong>\r\nGeorge I Stoica, Emmanouil Antonios Platanios<\/strong>, Barnabas Poczos\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Learning & Optimization\r\nSimpson's Bias in NLP Training<\/strong>\r\nFei Yuan, Longtu Zhang, Huang Bojun, Yaobo Liang<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Semantics\r\nIterative Utterance Segmentation for Neural Semantic Parsing<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYinuo Guo, Zeqi Lin<\/a>, Jian-Guang Lou<\/a>, Dongmei Zhang<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Vision: Object Detection & Categorization\r\nVery Important Person Localization in Unconstrained Conditions: A New Benchmark<\/strong>\r\nXiao Wang, Zheng Wang, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Wenjun Zeng<\/a>\r\n\r\n
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Sunday, February 7<\/h3>\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Applications\r\nCorrelation-Aware Heuristic Search for Intelligent Virtual Machine Provisioning in Cloud Systems<\/strong>\r\nChuan Luo<\/strong>, Bo Qiao<\/a>, Wenqian Xing<\/strong>, Xin Chen<\/strong>, Pu Zhao<\/strong>, Chao Du<\/strong>, Randolph Yao<\/strong>, Hongyu Zhang, Wei Wu, Shaowei Cai, Bing He, Saravanakumar Rajmohan<\/strong>, Qingwei Lin<\/strong>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Humans and AI\r\nImproving the Performance-Compatibility Tradeoff with Personalized Objective Functions<\/strong>\r\nJonathan Martinez, Kobi Gal, Ece Kamar<\/a>, Levi H. S. Lelis\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Neural Network Algorithms\r\nLearning to Reweight with Deep Interactions<\/strong>\r\nYang Fan, Yingce Xia<\/a>, Lijun Wu<\/a>, Shufang Xie<\/a>, Weiqing Liu<\/a>, Jiang Bian<\/a>, Tao Qin<\/a>, Xiangyang Li\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Conversational AI\/Dialog Systems\r\nCo-GAT: A Co-Interactive Graph Attention Network for Joint Dialog Act Recognition and Sentiment Classification<\/strong>\r\nLibo Qin, Zhouyang Li, Wanxiang Che, Minheng Ni<\/strong>, Ting Liu\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Learning & Optimization\r\nSimpson's Bias in NLP Training<\/strong>\r\nFei Yuan, Longtu Zhang, Huang Bojun, Yaobo Liang<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Semantics\r\nIterative Utterance Segmentation for Neural Semantic Parsing<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYinuo Guo, Zeqi Lin<\/a>, Jian-Guang Lou<\/a>, Dongmei Zhang<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Vision: Object Detection & Categorization\r\nVery Important Person Localization in Unconstrained Conditions: A New Benchmark<\/strong>\r\nXiao Wang, Zheng Wang, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Wenjun Zeng<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Vision: Computational Photography, Image & Video Synthesis\r\nObject-Centric Image Generation from Layouts<\/strong><\/a>\r\nTristan Sylvain, Pengchuan Zhang<\/a>, Yoshua Bengio, R Devon Hjelm<\/a>, Shikhar Sharma<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Reinforcement Learning\r\nReinforcement Learning with Trajectory Feedback<\/strong>\r\nYonathan Efroni<\/a>, Nadav Merlis, Shie Mannor\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | ML: Transfer\/Adaptation\/Multi-task\/Meta\/Automated Learning\r\nMeta Label Correction for Noisy Label Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\nGuoqing Zheng<\/a>, Ahmed Awadallah<\/a>, Susan Dumais<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | Neuro-Symbolic AI\r\nSelf-Supervised Self Supervision by Combining Deep Learning and Probabilistic Logic<\/strong>\r\nHunter Lang, Hoifung Poon<\/a>\r\n\r\n8:45 \u2013 10:30 AM | NLP: Deep Learning\r\nReinforced Multi-Teacher Selection for Knowledge Distillation<\/strong>\r\nFei Yuan, Linjun Shou<\/a>, Jian Pei, Wutao Lin<\/strong>, Ming Gong<\/a>, Yan Fu, Daxin Jiang<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Data Mining & Knowledge Management\r\nFairness-aware News Recommendation with Decomposed Adversarial Learning<\/strong>\r\nChuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu<\/a>, Xiting Wang<\/a>, Yongfeng Huang, Xing Xie<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Active \/ Weakly-Supervised \/ Semi-Supervised Learning\r\nRevisiting Iterative Back-Translation from the Perspective of Compositional Generalization<\/strong>\r\nYinuo Guo, Hualei Zhu, Zeqi Lin<\/a>, Bei Chen<\/a>, Jian-Guang Lou<\/a>, Dongmei Zhang<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Active \/ Weakly-Supervised \/ Semi-Supervised Learning\r\nPULNS: Positive-Unlabeled Learning with Effective Negative Sample Selector<\/strong>\r\nChuan Luo<\/strong>, Pu Zhao<\/a>, Chen Chen<\/a>, Bo Qiao<\/a>, Chao Du<\/strong>, Hongyu Zhang, Wei Wu, Shaowei Cai, Bing He, Saravanakumar Rajmohan<\/strong>, Qingwei Lin<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Matrix & Tensor Methods\r\nScalable and Explainable 1-Bit Matrix Completion via Graph Signal Learning<\/strong>\r\nChao Chen, Dongsheng Li<\/a>, Junchi Yan, Hanchi Huang, Xiaokang Yang\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | ML: Transfer\/Adaptation\/Multi-task\/Meta\/Automated Learning\r\nMeta Label Correction for Noisy Label Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\nGuoqing Zheng<\/a>, Ahmed Awadallah<\/a>, Susan Dumais<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Neuro-Symbolic AI\r\nSelf-Supervised Self Supervision by Combining Deep Learning and Probabilistic Logic<\/strong>\r\nHunter Lang, Hoifung Poon<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Applications\r\nAutomatic Song Writing with Pre-training and Alignment Constraint<\/strong>\r\nZhonghao Sheng, Kaitao Song, Xu Tan<\/a>, Yi Ren, Wei Ye, Shikun Zhang, Tao Qin<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Conversational AI \/ Dialog Systems\r\nOpen Domain Dialogue Generation with Latent Images<\/strong>\r\nZe Yang, Wei Wu, Huang Hu<\/strong>, Can Xu<\/strong>, Wei Wang, Zhoujun Li\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Generation\r\nCode Completion by Modeling Flattened Abstract Syntax Trees as Graphs<\/strong>\r\nYanlin Wang<\/strong>, Hui Li\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Generation\r\nTowards Topic-aware Slide Generation for Academic Papers with Unsupervised Mutual Learning<\/strong>\r\nDa-Wei Li, Danqing Huang<\/a>, Tingting Ma, Chin-Yew Lin<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Language Models\r\nSelf-Attention Attribution: Interpreting Information Interactions Inside Transformer<\/strong>\r\nYaru Hao, Li Dong<\/a>, Furu Wei<\/a>, Ke Xu\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | NLP: Language Models\r\nFILTER: An Enhanced Fusion Method for Cross-lingual Language Understanding<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYuwei Fang<\/a>, Shuohang Wang<\/strong>, Zhe Gan<\/a>, Siqi Sun<\/a>, Jingjing Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n4:45 \u2013 6:30 PM | Vision: Video Understanding & Activity Analysis\r\nWeakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization by Uncertainty Modeling<\/strong>\r\nPilhyeon Lee, Jinglu Wang<\/a>, Yan Lu<\/a>, Hyeran Byun\r\n\r\n
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Monday, February 8<\/h3>\r\nWorkshop\r\n9th Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC-9)\r\nMulti-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II<\/strong>\r\nBaolin Peng<\/a>, Jianfeng Gao<\/a>, Jinchao Li<\/a>, Lars Liden<\/a>, Minlie Huang, Qi Zhu, Runze Liang, Ryuichi Takanobu, Shahin Shayandeh<\/a>, Swadheen Shukla<\/a>, Zheng Zhang<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Data Mining & Knowledge Management\r\nFairness-aware News Recommendation with Decomposed Adversarial Learning<\/strong>\r\nChuhan Wu, Fangzhao Wu<\/a>, Xiting Wang<\/a>, Yongfeng Huang, Xing Xie<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Active \/ Weakly-Supervised \/ Semi-Supervised Learning\r\nRevisiting Iterative Back-Translation from the Perspective of Compositional Generalization<\/strong>\r\nYinuo Guo, Hualei Zhu, Zeqi Lin<\/a>, Bei Chen<\/a>, Jian-Guang Lou<\/a>, Dongmei Zhang<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Active \/ Weakly-Supervised \/ Semi-Supervised Learning\r\nPULNS: Positive-Unlabeled Learning with Effective Negative Sample Selector<\/strong>\r\nChuan Luo<\/strong>, Pu Zhao<\/a>, Chen Chen<\/a>, Bo Qiao<\/a>, Chao Du<\/strong>, Hongyu Zhang, Wei Wu, Shaowei Cai, Bing He, Saravanakumar Rajmohan<\/strong>, Qingwei Lin<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Matrix & Tensor Methods\r\nScalable and Explainable 1-Bit Matrix Completion via Graph Signal Learning<\/strong>\r\nChao Chen, Dongsheng Li<\/a>, Junchi Yan, Hanchi Huang, Xiaokang Yang\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | ML: Reinforcement Learning\r\nReinforcement Learning with Trajectory Feedback<\/strong>\r\nYonathan Efroni<\/a>, Nadav Merlis, Shie Mannor\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Applications\r\nAutomatic Song Writing with Pre-training and Alignment Constraint<\/strong>\r\nZhonghao Sheng, Kaitao Song, Xu Tan<\/a>, Yi Ren, Wei Ye, Shikun Zhang, Tao Qin<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Conversational AI \/ Dialog Systems\r\nOpen Domain Dialogue Generation with Latent Images<\/strong>\r\nZe Yang, Wei Wu, Huang Hu<\/strong>, Can Xu<\/strong>, Wei Wang, Zhoujun Li\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Deep Learning\r\nReinforced Multi-Teacher Selection for Knowledge Distillation<\/strong>\r\nFei Yuan, Linjun Shou<\/a>, Jian Pei, Wutao Lin<\/strong>, Ming Gong<\/a>, Yan Fu, Daxin Jiang<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Generation\r\nCode Completion by Modeling Flattened Abstract Syntax Trees as Graphs<\/strong>\r\nYanlin Wang<\/strong>, Hui Li\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Generation\r\nTowards Topic-aware Slide Generation for Academic Papers with Unsupervised Mutual Learning<\/strong>\r\nDa-Wei Li, Danqing Huang<\/a>, Tingting Ma, Chin-Yew Lin<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Language Models\r\nSelf-Attention Attribution: Interpreting Information Interactions Inside Transformer<\/strong>\r\nYaru Hao, Li Dong<\/a>, Furu Wei<\/a>, Ke Xu\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | NLP: Language Models\r\nFILTER: An Enhanced Fusion Method for Cross-lingual Language Understanding<\/strong><\/a>\r\nYuwei Fang<\/a>, Shuohang Wang<\/strong>, Zhe Gan<\/a>, Siqi Sun<\/a>, Jingjing Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n12:45 \u2013 2:30 AM | Vision: Video Understanding & Activity Analysis\r\nWeakly-supervised Temporal Action Localization by Uncertainty Modeling<\/strong>\r\nPilhyeon Lee, Jinglu Wang<\/a>, Yan Lu<\/a>, Hyeran Byun\r\n\r\n
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