Domain adaptation, transfer learning, multitask learning, federated learning, meta learning, representation learning, few-shots learning, lifelong learning, robust optimization, the list goes on: these are all important recent directions in machine learning that are concerned with learning in heterogeneous and ever-changing environments, as motivated by modern applications.
While these areas are often studied separately, they naturally share many central questions: for instance, what information a data distribution may have about another, and how to leverage such information to speed up learning across related environments. Our understanding of these problems is still fledgling, and design decisions remain ad-hoc despite many successes observed in practice.
The workshop aims to bring together theoretical and applied researchers at the forefront of these areas, from both academia and industry, to not only present their latest findings, but to also identify common threads and foster new collaboration on important future directions.
If you require special accommodation, please contact our access coordinator at simonsevents@berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible.
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As part of the workshop, we will have a poster session open to advanced PhD Students and Postdocs. The workshop organizers will review all submissions and will contact applicants directly if their submission is selected.
The poster session will be held on Tuesday, November 12 from 4-5 PM, i.e., on the first day of the workshop.
Please apply here: https://forms.gle/oywbgZkXAoeQ68js7
Sara Beery (MIT), Shai Ben-David (University of Waterloo), Emma Brunskill (Stanford University), Trevor Darrell (UC Berkeley), Nika Haghtalab (UC Berkeley), Steve Hanneke (Purdue University), Zaid Harchaoui (University of Washington), Judy Hoffman (Georgia Institute of Technology), Robin Jia (University of Southern California), Samory Kpotufe (Columbia University), Jason Lee (Princeton University), Zachary Lipton (Carnegie Mellon University), Tengyu Ma (Stanford University), Maggie Makar (University of Michigan), Mehryar Mohri (Google Research & NYU), Hongseok Namkoong (Stanford University), Johannes Schmidt-Hieber (University of Twente), Clayton Scott (University of Michigan), Yuekai Sun (University of Michigan), Victor Veitch (University of Chicago), Kaizheng Wang (Columbia University), Yi Yu (University of Warwick), Richard Zemel (Columbia University)