The Southern California Machine Learning Symposium brings together students and faculty to promote machine learning in the southern California region. The workshop serves as a forum for researchers from a variety of fields working on machine learning to share and discuss their latest findings.
Topics to be covered at the SoCal ML symposium include but are not limited to:
The majority of workshop will be focused on student and postdoc contributions, in the form of contributed talks and posters.
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:10 Welcome
9:10-9:50 Invited Talk: Learning-driven Algorithms for Discrete Optimization by Bistra Dilkina (USC)
9:50-10:00 Q&A, Discussion
10:00-10:15 Contributed Talk: Synthesized Policies for Transfer and Adaptation across Tasks and Environments by Liyu Chen
10:15-10:30 Contributed Talk: The Forest Mixture Bound by Neal Lawton
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break and poster setup
11:00-11:40 Invited talk: by Alex Smola (AWS)
11:40-11:50 Q&A, Discussion
11:50-12:05 Contributed Talk: What relations are reliably embeddable in Euclidean space? by Robi Bhattacharjee
12:05-2:00 Lunch and first poster session
2:00-2:40 Invited Talk: Emergence of analogy from relation learning: From computational models to the brain by Hongjing Lu (UCLA Departments of Psychology & Statistics)
2:40-2:50 Q&A, Discussion
2:50-3:05 Contributed Talk: A General Framework for Multi-fidelity Bayesian Optimization with Gaussian Processes by Jialin Song
3:05-3:20 Contributed Talk: Minimizing Regularized Cholesky Score for Learning Topological Sorts of Directed Acyclic Graphs by Qiaoling Ye
3:20-3:40 Coffee Break
3:40-4:05 Invited talk: Regulating the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Alicia Solow-Niederman (UCLA School of Law)
4:05-4:20 Q&A, Discussion
4:20-5:00 Invited Talk: Visipedia: combining data, machines and experts to distill knowledge and offer truth to the people by Pietro Perona (Caltech)
5:00-6:30 Second poster session
WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Computer Science
University of Southern California (USC)
Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Professor
Departments of Psychology & Statistics
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA )
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Event Location: The Mong Auditorium
Address: 404 Westwood Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90095
Visitors can access Wi-Fi the on UCLA_WEB Network.
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 27 2019, 11:59 PM PST (extended)
Registration Deadline: March 11 2019, 11:59 PM PST (subject to availability)
Workshop: March 15, 2019
AWS Best Poster Awards: $1000 and $750 cloud credits
AWS Nominated Paper Award: $250 cloud credits
We invite contributions in the form of extended abstracts, which will be lightly reviewed prior to selection for inclusion in the workshop. Contributions that are selected for inclusion will be presented during a poster session, with some contributions being selected for oral presentation. Abstracts can describe published work. We invite submissions of 1 to 2-pages in NeurIPS format.
Contributions should be submitted by February 27 on the workshop's easychair page .
We recommend poster dimensions to be less than 48" X 48". All posters will be presented in both poster sessions to leave ample time for discussion.
Guy Van den Broeck, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Sriram Sankararaman, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles