Workshop Schedule


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Day 1: Tue Dec 14th

10:00 - 13:00 - meet at Mila/ drive to Tremblant /check-in to the hotel

13:00 -14:00 - lunch

15:00 - 16:00 - Intelligence Beyond the Brain by Michael Levin (Tufts U) video (chapter 1)

16:00 - 16:30 - Q&A session / discussion

17:30 - 18:30 - recap & overview by Irina Rish video (chapter 2)

18:30 - 19:30 - discussion: open questions / future directions

19:30-20:30 - dinner

20:00 - pool/spa/bar/fireplace near the lake/visiting Tremblant village


Day 2: Wed Dec 15th

7:30-9:00 - breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 - invited talk: AI Sweden slides

10:00 -11:00 - invited talk: EleutherAI - Stella Biderman, Connor Leahy

11:00 - 12:00 - invited talk: LAION - Jenia Jitsev, Christoph Schumann slides

12:00 - 12:30 - discussion Recordings of the whole morning session: video - chapter1 and chapter2

12:30-13:30 - lunch

13:30-18:00 - free time: skiing/visit village/pool/gym/spa

18:00 - 19:30 - presentations of ongoing projects by Mila students (not recorded)

19:30-20:30 - dinner


Day 3: Thu Dec 16th

7:30-9:00 - breakfast

9:30 - 10:30 - invited talk: Julien Launay @ lighton.ai video (chapter 1)

10:30 -12:30 - tutorial on Phase Transitions by Guillaume Dumas video (chapter 2) slides

This is a continuation of the tutorials given at the 1st NSL workshop :

Brief Overview: Physics meets ML (Guillaume Dumas, Maximilian Puelma Touzel, Irina Rish) video

Critical views about critical phenomena: from complex systems to machine learning (Guillaume Dumas) slides

Phase Transitions in AI (Irina Rish) slides

12:30 - 13:00 - discussion

13:00-14:00 - lunch

14:00 - 15:00 - presentations of ongoing projects at Mila (not recorded)

15:00-16:00 - invited talk: David Krueger video (chapter 5)

16:00-17:00 - invited talk: Yasaman Bahri video (chapter 6)

17:00 - 18:00 - invited talk: Ethan Dyer video (chapter 7)

18:00 - 19:30 - panel discussion: Jared Kaplan, Yasaman Bahri, David Krueger, Ethan Caballero, Guillaume Dumas, Irina Rish video (chapter 8)

19:30-20:30 - dinner


Day 5: Fri 17th

7:30-9:00 - breakfast

9:00 -11:00 - wrap-up

11:00 - 16:00 - skiing


Day 4: Sat Dec 17th

7:30-9:00 - breakfast

9:00 -12:00 - workshop summary/writeup

12:00 - 16:00 - skiing