{"id":761314,"date":"2021-11-18T08:05:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T16:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&p=761314"},"modified":"2021-12-09T13:48:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:48:29","slug":"neurips-2021","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/neurips-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft at NeurIPS 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time zone:<\/strong> Pacific Time<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> NeurIPS 2021 (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft is proud to be a platinum-level sponsor of the Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":798118,"template":"","meta":{"msr-url-field":"","msr-podcast-episode":"","msrModifiedDate":"","msrModifiedDateEnabled":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","msr_startdate":"2021-12-06","msr_enddate":"2021-12-14","msr_location":"Virtual","msr_expirationdate":"","msr_event_recording_link":"","msr_event_link":"","msr_event_link_redirect":false,"msr_event_time":"","msr_hide_region":false,"msr_private_event":false,"footnotes":""},"research-area":[13556],"msr-region":[256048],"msr-event-type":[197941],"msr-video-type":[],"msr-locale":[268875],"msr-program-audience":[],"msr-post-option":[],"msr-impact-theme":[],"class_list":["post-761314","msr-event","type-msr-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","msr-research-area-artificial-intelligence","msr-region-global","msr-event-type-conferences","msr-locale-en_us"],"msr_about":"Time zone:<\/strong> Pacific Time\r\n\r\nWebsite:<\/strong> NeurIPS 2021<\/a>","tab-content":[{"id":0,"name":"About","content":"This year marks the Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021).<\/a> NeurIPS 2021 is a virtual-only conference.\r\n

Outstanding Paper Award<\/h3>\r\nA Universal Law of Robustness via Isoperimetry<\/strong><\/a>\r\nS\u00e9bastien Bubeck<\/a>, Mark Sellke\r\n\r\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/ujMvnQpP528\r\n\r\n \r\n

Board Member<\/h3>\r\nHanna Wallach<\/a>\r\n

Program Co-Chair<\/h3>\r\nJenn Wortman Vaughan<\/a>\r\n

Workshop Chair<\/h3>\r\nTristan Naumann<\/a>\r\n

Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Chair<\/h3>\r\nLester Mackey<\/a>"},{"id":1,"name":"Tutorials & workshops","content":"

Tuesday, December 7, 2021<\/h3>\r\n10:00 \u2013 15:00 | Affinity Workshop\r\nLatinX in AI (LXAI) Research @ NeurIPS 2021 (2)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Maria Luisa Santiago, Andres Munoz, Laura Montoya, Karla Caballero, Isabel Metzger, Jose Gallego-Posada, Juan Banda, Gabriela Vega, Amanda Duarte, Patrick Feeney, Lourdes Ram\u00edrez Cerna, Walter M Mayor, Omar U. Florez, Rosina Weber, Rocio Zorrilla\r\nMicrosoft Gold Sponsored<\/em>\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 14:33 | Affinity Workshop\r\nNew in ML (2)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Haozhe Sun, Wenzhuo Liu, Joseph Pedersen\r\nSpeaker: Yale Song<\/a>\r\n

Wednesday, December 8, 2021<\/h3>\r\n18:00 \u2013 23:00 | Affinity Workshop\r\nWiML Workshop (1)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve G\u00fcrel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney\r\n

Thursday, December 9, 2021<\/h3>\r\n18:00 \u2013 23:00 | Affinity Workshop\r\nWiML Workshop (2)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve G\u00fcrel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney\r\n

Friday, December 10, 2021<\/h3>\r\n02:00 \u2013 07:00 | Affinity Workshop\r\nWiML Workshop (3)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve G\u00fcrel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney\r\n\r\n11:00 \u2013 15:00 | Affinity Workshop\r\nWiML Workshop (4)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Soomin Aga Lee, Meera Desai, Nezihe Merve G\u00fcrel, Boyi Li, Linh Tran, Akiko Eriguchi, Jieyu Zhao, Salomey Osei, Sirisha Rambhatla, Geeticka Chauhan, Nwamaka (Amaka) Okafor, Mariya Vasileva, Patrick Feeney\r\n

Monday, December 13, 2021<\/h3>\r\n01:00 \u2013 12:30 | Workshop\r\nAlgorithmic Fairness through the lens of Causality and Robustness<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Jessica Schrouff, Awa Dieng, Golnoosh Farnadi, Mark Kwegyir-Aggrey, Miriam Rateike\r\nPanelist: Solon Barocas<\/a>\r\n\r\n04:50 \u2013 14:10 | Workshop\r\nI (Still) Can't Believe It's Not Better: A workshop for \u201cbeautiful\u201d ideas that \"should\" have worked<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Aaron Schein,\u00a0Melanie F. Pradier<\/a>, Jessica Forde,\u00a0\u00a0Stephanie Hyland<\/a>, Francisco Ruiz\r\nSenior Advisory Board: Hanna Wallach<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 12:10 | Workshop\r\nMachine Learning Meets Econometrics (MLECON)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: David Bruns-Smith, Arthur Gretton, Limor Gultchin, Niki Kilbertus, Krikamol Muandet, Evan Munro, Angela Zhou\r\nSpeaker: Vasilis Syrgkanis<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 17:00 | Workshop\r\nAI for Science: Mind the Gaps<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Payal Chandak, Yuanqi Du, Tianfan Fu, Wenhao Gao, Kexin Huang, Shengchao Liu, Ziming Liu, Gabriel Spadon, Max Tegmark, Hanchen Wang, Adrian Weller, Max Welling, Marinka Zitnik\r\nSpeaker: Tie-Yan Liu<\/a>\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 15:30 | Workshop\r\nMachine Learning and the Physical Sciences<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Anima Anandkumar, Kyle Cranmer, Mr. Prabhat, Lenka Zdeborov\u00e1, Atilim Gunes Baydin, Juan Carrasquilla, Emine Kucukbenli, Gilles Louppe, Benjamin Nachman, Brian Nord, Savannah Thais\r\nSteering Committee: Prabhat Ram\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 16:45 | Workshop\r\nHuman Centered AI<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Michael Muller, Plamen P Angelov, Shion Guha, Marina Kogan, Gina Neff, Nuria Oliver, Manuel Rodriguez, Adrian Weller\r\nProgram Committee: Samir Passi, Longqi Yang<\/a>\r\n\r\n08:00 \u2013 00:00 | Workshop\r\nCtrlGen: Controllable Generative Modeling in Language and Vision<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Steven Y. Feng, Dor Arad Hudson, Tatsunori Hashimoto, DONGYEOP Kang, Varun Prashant Gangal, Anusha Balakrishnan<\/a>, Joel Tetreault\r\n\r\n09:00 \u2013 18:00 | Workshop\r\nDistribution shifts: connecting methods and applications (DistShift)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Shiori Sagawa, Pang Wei Koh, Fanny Yang, Hongseok Namkoong, Jiashi Feng, Kate Saenko, Percy Liang, Sarah Bird<\/a>, Sergey Levine\r\n

Tuesday, December 14, 2021<\/h3>\r\n03:45 \u2013 15:00 | Workshop\r\nAdvances in Programming Languages and Neurosymbolic Systems (AIPLANS)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Breandan Considine, Disha Shrivastava, David Yu-Tung Hui, Chin-Wei Huang, Shawn Tan, Xujie Si, Prakash Panangaden, Guy Van den Broeck, Daniel Tarlow\r\nSpeaker: Daniel Selsam<\/a>\r\n\r\n04:55 \u2013 16:30 | Workshop\r\nYour Model is Wrong: Robustness and misspecification in probabilistic modeling<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Diana Cai, Sameer Deshpande, Michael Hughes, Tamara Broderick, Trevor Campbell, Nick Foti, Barbara Engelhardt, Sinead Williamson\r\nSpeaker: Lester Mackey<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 12:20 | Workshop\r\nOut-of-distribution generalization and adaptation in natural and artificial intelligence<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Joshua T Vogelstein, Weiwei Yang<\/a>, Soledad Villar, Zenna Tavares, Johnathan Flowers, Onyema Osuagwu\r\nSpeakers: Eric Traut, Doug Burger<\/a>, Chris White<\/a>, Sujeeth Bharadwaj<\/a>, Emre Kiciman<\/a>, Amit Sharma<\/a>, Max Welling\r\nProgram Committee: Chris White<\/a>, Sujeeth Bharadwaj<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 14:10 | Workshop\r\nEcological Theory of Reinforcement Learning: How Does Task Design Influence Agent Learning?<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Manfred D\u00edaz, Hiroki Furuta, Elise van der Pol, Lisa Lee, Shixiang (Shane) Gu, Pablo Samuel Castro, Simon Du, Marc Bellemare, Sergey Levine\r\nSpeaker: Katja Hofmann<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 14:30 | Workshop\r\nBridging the Gap: from Machine Learning Research to Clinical Practice<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Julia Vogt, Ece Ozkan, Sonali Parbhoo, Melanie F. Pradier<\/a>, Patrick Schwab, Shengpu Tang, Mario Wieser, Jiayu Yao\r\nSpeakers: Rich Caruana<\/a>, Stephanie Hyland<\/a>\r\n\r\n05:00 \u2013 14:00 | Workshop\r\nLearning Meaningful Representations of Life (LMRL)<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Elizabeth Wood, Adji Bousso Dieng, Aleksandrina Goeva, Anshul Kundaje, Barbara Engelhardt, Chang Liu, David Van Valen, Debora Marks, Edward Boyden, Eli N Weinstein, Lorin Crawford<\/a>, Mor Nitzan, Romain Lopez, Tamara Broderick, Ray Jones, Wouter Boomsma, Yixin Wang\r\n\r\n05:20 \u2013 14:00 | Workshop\r\nMedical Imaging meets NeurIPS<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: DOU QI, Marleen de Bruijne, Ben Glocker, Aasa Feragen, Herve Lombaert, Ipek Oguz, Jonas Teuwen, Islem Rekik, Darko Stern, Xiaoxiao Li\r\nProgram Committee: Ozan Oktay<\/a>\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 15:00 | Workshop\r\nDeep Generative Models and Downstream Applications<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Jos\u00e9 Miguel Hern\u00e1ndez-Lobato, Yingzhen Li, Yichuan Zhang, Cheng Zhang, Austin Tripp, Weiwei Pan, Oren Rippel\r\nMicrosoft sponsored workshop<\/em>\r\n\r\n06:00 \u2013 14:35 | Workshop\r\nSecond Workshop on Quantum Tensor Networks in Machine Learning<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Xiao-Yang Liu, Qibin Zhao, Ivan Oseledets, Yufei Ding, Guillaume Rabusseau, Khadijeh Najafi, Andrzej Cichocki, Masashi Sugiyama, Anwar Walid\r\nSpeaker: Anima Anandkumar (2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship)\r\n\r\n07:00 \u2013 14:10 | Workshop\r\nMachine learning from ground truth: New medical imaging datasets for unsolved medical problems<\/strong><\/a>\r\nOrganizers: Katy Haynes, Ziad Obermeyer, Emma Pierson, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Matthew Lungren, Sendhil Mullainathan, Matthew McDermott"},{"id":2,"name":"Competitions","content":"

Competitions<\/h2>\r\n