Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL)
January 2024, HKU
Program at a Glance
All times below are in HKT (GMT+8).
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Day 1 (Jan 3)
Wednesday- 10:00 AM–11:00 AM"Representation and Control of Meanings in Large Language Models and Multimodal Foundation Models"
- Coffee Break
- 11:20 AM–12:20 PM
- Lunch Break
- 1:30 PM–2:30 PM"Flat Minima and Generalization in Learning: The Case of Low-rank Matrix Recovery"
- 2:30 PM–3:30 PM
- Coffee Break
- 4:00 PM–5:00 PM"Accurate Model Compression at GPT Scale"
- Reception5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Day 2 (Jan 4)
Thursday- 8:00 AM–8:40 AM
- 9:00 AM–10:00 AM"In-Context Convergence of Transformers"
- 10:00 AM–11:00 AM
- Coffee Break
- 11:20 AM–12:20 PM
- Lunch Break
- 1:30 PM–2:30 PM"Parsimony through Equivariance"
- 2:30 PM–3:30 PM
- Coffee Break
- 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
- Banquet7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Day 3 (Jan 5)
Friday- 8:00 AM–8:40 AM
- 9:00 AM–10:00 AM"Enlarging the Capability of Diffusion Inverse Solvers by Guidance"
- 10:00 AM–11:00 AM
- Coffee Break
- 11:20 AM–12:20 PM
- Lunch Break
- 1:30 PM–2:30 PM"Teaching arithmetic to small language models"
- 2:30 PM–3:30 PM
- Coffee Break
- 4:00 PM–5:00 PM
- 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
- Tram Tour7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Day 4 (Jan 6)
Saturday- 8:00 AM–8:40 AM
- 9:00 AM–10:00 AM"Statistical methods for addressing safety and security issues of generative models"
- 10:00 AM–11:00 AM"Multi-level theory of neural representations: Capacity of neural manifolds in biological and artificial neural networks"
- Coffee Break
- Lunch Break
- Coffee Break