Schedule

(Tentative - Best viewed with laptops)

Day 1

September 28

Day 2

September 29

Breakfast: 8:00 a.m.– 8:45 a.m.

Breakfast 8:00 a.m.– 9:00 a.m.

Introduction: 8:45 a.m.– 9:00 a.m.

9:15 a.m.– 10:05 a.m.

Angelia Nedich


Characterizing Trust and Resilience in Distributed Optimization for Cyberphysical

Systems

9:00 a.m.– 9:50 a.m.

Zachary Charles


Towards Federated Foundation Models


10:10 a.m.– 10:30 a.m.

Jorge Poveda


Prescribed-Time Nash Equilibrium-Seeking in Switching Games: Synergies between Non-smooth, Time-Varying, and Momentum-based Techniques

9:50 a.m.– 10:10 a.m.

Zhaozhuo Xu


Zen: Near-Optimal Communications for Sparse and Distributed DNN Training



Coffee break until 11:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.– 11:50 a.m.

Anna Scaglione


Distributed network utility maximization in large scale hierarchical systems

11:00 a.m.– 11:50 a.m.

Mike Rabbat


Benchmarking Neural Network Training Algorithms



11:50 a.m.– 12:10 p.m.

Praneeth Vepakomma


Distributed and private matrix inverses, correlations and flow embeddings

11:50 a.m.– 12:10 p.m.

Tianbao Yang


FeDXL:Provable Federated Learning for Deep X-Risk Optimization

Lunch break until 2:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m.2:50 p.m.

Ahmed H. Awadallah



Redefining small language models performance

2:00 p.m.– 2:50 p.m.


Gauri Joshi


Heterogeneity-aware Algorithms for Federated Optimization

2:50 p.m.– 3:40 p.m.

Shiqian Ma


Decentralised Bilevel Optimization

2:50 p.m.– 3:40 p.m.


Farinaz Koushanfar



Provably Private and Robust Federated Learning

3:50 p.m.– 5:30 p.m.

Poster session

3:40 p.m.– 4:30 p.m.


Concluding remarks + coffee

6:00 p.m.– 

Social event at Valhalla