Schedule (PST), 07:00 AM – 04:30 PM, Dec 14, 2021


For the contributed talks, the corresponding papers can be viewed in the Accepted Papers page.

Morning Program: 07:00 - 11:00

07:00 - 07:10 Opening remarks
07:10 - 07:40 Invited Talk 1 (Stefanie Jegelka)
Shortcuts and Example Selection in Contrastive Learning
07:40 - 08:10 Invited Talk 2 (Sanjeev Arora)
Self-supervised Learning: What Can Theory Do?
08:10 - 08:40 Invited Talk 3 (Jie Tang)
WuDao: Pretrain the World
08:40 - 09:40 Poster Session I: posters can be viewed in the Accepted Papers. If interested in a poster, you can click on the corresponding Zoom link. The authors will be presenting their posters in their Zoom.
09:40 - 09:50 Contributed Talk 1 (Guojun Zhang)
$f$-Mutual Information Contrastive Learning
09:50 - 10:00 Contributed Talk 2 (Ching-Yun Ko)
Revisiting Contrastive Learning through the Lens of Neighborhood Component Analysis: an Integrated Framework
10:00 - 10:30 Invited Talk 4 (Tengyu Ma)
Understanding Self-supervised Learning: Analysis and Robustness to Imbalance Dataset
10:30 - 11:00 Invited Talk 5 (Ian Fischer)
Compression and Self-Supervised Learning
11:00 - 12:00 Lunch Break

Afternoon Program: 12:00 - 16:30

12:00 - 12:30 Invited Talk 6 (Louis-Philippe Morency)
Towards Multimodal AI
12:30 - 13:00 Invited Talk 7 (Jason Lee)
Provable Self-Supervised Learning
13:00 - 13:30 Invited Talk 8 (Mihaela van der Schaar)
Self-supervised Learning for Genomics
13:30 - 14:30 Poster Session II: posters can be viewed in the Accepted Papers. If interested in a poster, you can click on the corresponding Zoom link. The authors will be presenting their posters in their Zoom.
14:30 - 14:40 Contributed Talk 3 (Mehdi Azabou)
Mine your own view: A self-supervised approach for learning representations of neural activity
14:40 - 14:50 Contributed Talk 4 (Fangyu Liu)
Trans-Encoder: Unsupervised sentence-pair modelling through self-and mutual-distillations
14:50 - 15:00 Contributed Talk 5 (Jiahong Liu)
Enhancing Hyperbolic Graph Embeddings via Contrastive Learning
15:00 - 15:30 Invited Talk 9 (Samuel Bowman)
When Combating Hype, Proceed with Caution
15:30 - 15:35 Closing remarks