IFML Workshop on Generative AI

The University of Texas at Austin

Mulva Auditorium | Engineering Education & Research Center (EERC)

Nov 29th - Dec 1st, 2023

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Scheduled Speakers:

Perspectives on Generative AI from leading academic and industrial researchers. Topics include foundation models, fine-tuning, LLMs, diffusion, vision, optimization and related applications. Hosted at UT Austin by IFML.

Surbhi Goel
Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
Zico Kolter
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
John Duchi
Statistics & Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Mathews Jacob
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Iowa
Zaid Harchaoui
Department of Statistics, Allen School in Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Daniel Hsu
Department of Computer Science
Columbia University
Dylan Foster
Reinforcement Learning Group
Microsoft Research
Aditi Raghunathan
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Georgia Gkioxari
Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Caltech
Jon Barron
Senior Staff Research Scientist
Google Research
Sitan Chen
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Aryan Mokhtari
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
UT Austin
Alex Dimakis (IFML Co-Director)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
UT Austin
Sujay Sanghavi
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
UT Austin
Jon Tamir
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
UT Austin

Participating Organizations:

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Organizers:

Adam Klivans (Director)
Department of Computer Science, Machine Learning Lab
UT Austin
Alex Dimakis (IFML Co-Director)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
UT Austin
Sanjay Shakkottai
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
UT Austin
Sujay Sanghavi
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
UT Austin
Jon Tamir
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
UT Austin
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Workshop Program & Agenda

Our multi-day workshop will cover a variety of topics across generative AI research. Find our full interactive agenda with topic titles and abstracts below. Remember to register above to save your seat! We will continue to update the agenda in the coming weeks.

Breakfast and lunch will be provided as part of your registration.

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Foundational Datasets

Foundational, open source datasets underpin research and development in machine learning and generative AI, providing benchmarks and training data for a wide range of applications, from computer vision to natural language understanding.

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Diffusion

Diffusion methods are crucial for advancing generative AI, providing a pathway to create realistic and diverse multi-modal data while addressing training challenges and promoting fine-tuned control over the generated outputs.

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Large Language Models

LLMs are essential in generative AI for their capacity to understand, generate, and adapt human language, leading to breakthroughs in a wide range of natural language understanding and generation tasks.

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