TTIC Student Workshop
February 8, 2019
Update
Congratulations to the award winners!Best Talk Award: Pedro Savarese and Omar Montasser
Best Poster Award: Shubham Toshniwal
The 3rd TTIC Student workshop will take place on February 8, 2019 on the 5th floor at TTIC. Talks and panel will be in room 526. Posters and refreshments will be in the 5th floor common area. There are a total of 9 talks and 4 poster presentations. Talks will be 25 minutes long: 20 min talk, 4 min questions, 1 min turnover. There will be awards for the best poster and best talk.
Organizing Committee: Blake Woodworth, Shubham Toshniwal, Karen Livescu, Madhur Tulsiani, Erica Cocom
Talk Award Committee: Sam Wiseman, Steve Hanneke, Mesrob Ohannessian
Poster Award Committee: Michael Yu, Arturs Backurs
Schedule
| 09:00-09:20 | Breakfast refreshments | |
| 09:20-09:30 | Opening Remarks | |
| 09:30-10:30 | Talk Session 1 (Chair: Matthew Walter) | |
| 09:30-09:55 | Kevin Stangl | Fairness Constraints with Concrete Bias Models |
| 09:55-10:20 | Pedro Savarese | How do infinite-width, bounded-norm ReLU networks look in function space? |
| 10:20-10:45 | Sumeet Katariya | Adaptive Sampling for Ranking and Clustering |
| 10:45-11:30 | Poster Session | |
| Hai Wang | Evidence Sentence Extraction for Machine Reading Comprehension | |
| Ruotian Luo | Context-aware zero-shot recognition | |
| Zewei Chu | Zero shot text classification with a million Wikipedia categories | |
| Shubham Toshniwal | Inter-Language Relationships in Cross-Lingual Embedding Spaces | |
| 11:30-12:45 | Talk Session 2 (Chair: Kevin Gimpel) | |
| 11:30-11:55 | Davis Yoshida | Analyzing Natural Language Understanding Models |
| 11:55-12:20 | Nick Kolkin | Style Transfer by Relaxed Optimal Transport and Self-Similarity |
| 12:20-12:45 | Shane Settle | Acoustically Grounded Word Embeddings for Improved Acoustics-to-Word Speech Recognition |
| 12:45-13:45 | Lunch + Poster session (same posters) | |
| 13:45-15:00 | Talk Session 3 (Chair: Madhur Tulsiani) | |
| 13:45-14:10 | Falcon Z. Dai | Maximum Expected Hitting Cost of a Markov Decision Process and its Conditioning by Potential-based Reward Shaping |
| 14:10-14:35 | Mrinalkanti Ghosh | Approximability of Matrix p to q Norms |
| 14:35-15:00 | Omar Montasser | Adversarially Robust Learnability |
| 15:00-15:20 | Break + refreshments | |
| 15:20-15:30 | Awards | |
| 15:30-whenever | Panel discussion: Allyson Ettinger, David McAllester, Greg Shakhnarovich, Rebecca Willett |
