CIFAR Workshop: "World Models: Causality, Neuroscience, and AI Safety"
In conjunction with the ELLIS Institute Tübingen and Max Planck for Intelligent Systems
In-person attendance is by invitation only; however, we will stream the two-day event in two meeting rooms at MPI-IS Tübingen: N 4.022 & N -1.030 - No registration needed.
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Max-Planck-Ring 4, Tübingen, Germany (Lecture Hall N0.002)
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Tuesday, June 18, 2024 |
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9:00-9:25 |
Welcome Coffee |
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9:25-9:30 |
Welcome from CIFAR, ELLIS and workshop organizers |
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9:30-10:00 |
Leon Bottou (Meta) Memory Mosaics |
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10:00-10:30 |
Chris Williams (U. Edinburgh) Structured Generative Models for Scene Understanding |
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10:30-11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00-11:15 |
Angela Zhou (U. Southern California) |
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11:15-11:45 |
Max Welling (U. Amsterdam) Spatiotemporal Neural Representations |
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11:45-12:15 |
Simon Lacoste-Julien (U. Montreal / Mila) Some New Identifiability Results for Causal Representation Learning |
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12:15-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-14:00 |
Yann LeCun (Meta) |
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14:00-14:30 |
Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI-IS / ELLIS Institute) What makes a representation causal? |
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14:30-14:45 |
Sonali Parbhoo (Imperial College London) |
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14:45-15:15 |
Coffee Break |
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15:15-15:45 |
Rediet Abebe (Harvard) - virtual talk When Does Resource Allocation Require Prediction? |
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15:45-16:00 |
Dhanya Sridhar (U. Montreal / Mila) - virtual talk Causal modeling in the era of in-context learning: challenges and generalization benefits |
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16:00-17:00 |
Panel Discussion on Causality Moderator: Stefan Bauer (TU München / Helmholtz AI) Panelists: Bernhard Schölkopf, Max Welling, Angela Zhou, Sonali Parbhoo |
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Wednesday, June 19, 2024 |
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8:30-8:55 |
Coffee and pastries available at MPI |
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8:55-9:00 |
Welcome back |
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9:00-9:30 |
Eva Dyer (Georgia Tech) |
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9:30-10:00 |
SueYeon Chung (NYU / Flatiron CCN) Neural manifold capacity: theory of concept representations in biological and artificial neural networks |
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee break |
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10:30-11:00 |
Aapo Hyvärinen (U. Helsinki) Painful Intelligence: What AI can tell us about human suffering |
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11:00-11:30 |
Brett Kagan (Cortical Labs) Culturing Intelligence: Methods to Harness Information Processing from Biological Neurons |
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11:30-12:00 |
Thomas Parr (Oxford) Generative world models for active inference |
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12:00-13:30 |
Lunch |
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13:30-14:00 |
Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge) Mechanisms against climate change |
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14:00-14:30 |
Richard Zemel (Columbia) LLMs: Uncertainty Quantification and Responsible Deployment |
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14:30-15:00 |
Coffee Break |
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15:00-15:30 |
Yoshua Bengio (U. Montreal / Mila) - virtual talk |
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15:30-16:30 |
Panel Discussion Moderator: Baobao Zhang (U. Syracuse) |
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16:30-16:45 |
Open Discussion |
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16:45-17:00 |
Concluding Remarks |