May 4, 2021 - May 7, 2021

Microsoft at ICLR 2021

Location: Virtual

Accepted papers

*All times are displayed in PDT

Monday, May 3

01:00 – 03:00 AM | Poster

What Makes Instance Discrimination Good for Transfer Learning?

Nanxuan Zhao, Zhirong Wu, Rynson W. H. Lau, Stephen Lin

09:00 – 11:00 AM | Poster

Learning-based Support Estimation in Sublinear Time

Talya Eden, Piotr Indyk, Shyam Narayanan, Ronitt Rubinfeld, Sandeep Silwal, Tal Wagner

Spotlight Session: May 4

Parameter Efficient Multimodal Transformers for Video Representation Learning

Sangho Lee, Youngjae Yu, Gunhee Kim, Thomas Breuel, Jan Kautz, Yale Song

Shapley Explainability on the Data Manifold

Christopher Frye, Damien de Mijolla, Tom Begley, Laurence Cowton, Megan Stanley, Ilya Feige

InfoBERT: Improving Robustness of Language Models from An Information Theoretic Perspective

Boxin Wang, Shuohang Wang, Yu Cheng, Zhe Gan, Ruoxi Jia, Bo Li, Jingjing Liu

12:35 – 12:45 PM | Spotlight

Systematic Generalisation with Group Invariant Predictions

Faruk Ahmed, Yoshua Bengio, Harm van Seijen, Aaron Courville

Poster Session: May 4

05:00 – 07:00 PM | Poster

VA-RED$^2$: Video Adaptive Redundancy Reduction

Bowen Pan, Rameswar Panda, Camilo Luciano Fosco, Chung-Ching Lin, Alex J Andonian, Yue Meng, Kate Saenko, Aude Oliva, Rogerio Feris

SCoRe: Pre-Training for Context Representation in Conversational Semantic Parsing

Tao Yu, Rui Zhang, Alex Polozov, Christopher Meek, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah

DEBERTA: Decoding-Enhanced BERT with Disentangled Attention

Pengcheng He, Xiaodong Liu, Jianfeng Gao, Weizhu Chen

Learning a Latent Simplex in Input Sparsity Time

Ainesh Bakshi, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Ravi Kannan, David Woodruff, Samson Zhou

Spotlight Session: May 6

Taking Notes on the Fly Helps Language Pre-Training

Qiyu Wu, Chen Xing, Yatao Li, Guolin Ke, Di He, Tie-Yan Liu

MixKD: Towards Efficient Distillation of Large-scale Language Models

Kevin J Liang, Weituo Hao, Dinghan Shen, Yufan Zhou, Weizhu Chen, Changyou Chen, Lawrence Carin

Rethinking Positional Encoding in Language Pre-training

Guolin Ke, Di He, Tie-Yan Liu


Tuesday, May 4

01:00 – 03:00 AM | Poster

GraphCodeBERT: Pre-training Code Representations with Data Flow

Daya Guo, Shuo Ren, Shuai Lu, Zhangyin Feng, Duyu Tang, Shujie Liu, Long Zhou, Nan Duan, Alexey Svyatkovskiy, Shengyu Fu, Michele Tufano, Shao Kun Deng, Colin Clement, Dawn Drain, Neel Sundaresan, Jian Yin, Daxin Jiang, Ming Zhou

09:00 – 11:00 AM | Poster

Self-Supervised Learning of Compressed Video Representations

Youngjae Yu, Sangho Lee, Gunhee Kim, Yale Song

Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Self-Predictive Representations

Max Schwarzer, Ankesh Anand, Rishab Goel, R Devon Hjelm, Aaron Courville, Philip Bachman

Spotlight Session: May 6

Provable Rich Observation Reinforcement Learning with Combinatorial Latent States

Dipendra Misra, Qinghua Liu, Chi Jin, John Langford

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Negative Contrastive Learning for Dense Text Retrieval

Lee Xiong, Chenyan Xiong, Ye Li, Kwok-Fung Tang, Jialin Liu, Paul N. Bennett, Junaid Ahmed, Arnold Overwikj

Systematic Generalisation with Group Invariant Predictions

Faruk Ahmed, Yoshua Bengio, Harm van Seijen, Aaron Courville

Spotlight Session: May 3

01:28 – 01:38 PM | Spotlight

Learning-based Support Estimation in Sublinear Time

Talya Eden, Piotr Indyk, Shyam Narayanan, Ronitt Rubinfeld, Sandeep Silwal, Tal Wagner

Poster Session: May 3

05:00 – 07:00 PM | Poster

CoDA: Contrast-enhanced and Diversity-promoting Data Augmentation for Natural Language Understanding

Yanru Qu, Dinghan Shen, Yelong Shen, Sandra Sajeev, Weizhu Chen, Jiawei Han

Knowledge Distillation as Semiparametric Inference

Tri Dao, Govinda M Kamath, Vasilis Syrgkanis, Lester Mackey

Debiasing Concept-based Explanations with Causal Analysis

Mohammad Taha Bahadori, David Heckerman

Aligning AI with Shared Human Values

Dan Hendrycks, Collin Burns, Steven Basart, Andrew Critch, Jerry Li, Dawn Song, Jacob Steinhardt


Wednesday, May 5

01:00 – 03:00 AM | Poster

Active Contrastive Learning of Audio-Visual Video Representations

Shuang Ma, Zhaoyang Zeng, Daniel McDuff, Yale Song

Dance Revolution: Long-Term Dance Generation with Music via Curriculum Learning

Ruozi Huang, Huang Hu, Wei Wu, Kei Sawada, Mi Zhang, Daxin Jiang

Return-Based Contrastive Representation Learning for Reinforcement Learning

Guoqing Liu, Chuheng Zhang, Li Zhao, Tao Qin, Jinhua Zhu, Li Jian, Nenghai Yu, Tie-Yan Liu

Byzantine-Resilient Non-Convex Stochastic Gradient Descent

Zeyuan AllenZhu, Faeze Ebrahimianghazani, Jerry Li, Dan Alistarh

09:00 – 11:00 AM | Poster

Learning to Represent Action Values as a Hypergraph on the Action Vertices

Arash Tavakoli, Mehdi Fatemi, Petar Kormushev

Optimism in Reinforcement Learning with Generalized Linear Function Approximation

Yining Wang, Ruosong Wang, Simon Shaolei Du, Akshay Krishnamurthy

SEED: Self-supervised Distillation For Visual Representation

Zhiyuan Fang, Jianfeng Wang, Lijuan Wang, Lei Zhang, Yezhou Yang, Zicheng Liu

05:00 – 07:00 PM | Poster

Filtered Inner Product Projection for Crosslingual Embedding Alignment

Vin Sachidananda, Ziyi Yang, Chenguang Zhu

Economic Hyperparameter Optimization With Blended Search Strategy

Chi Wang, Qingyun Wu, Silu Huang, Amin Saied

ALFWorld: Aligning Text and Embodied Environments for Interactive Learning

Mohit Shridhar, Xingdi Yuan, Marc-Alexandre Cote, Yonatan Bisk, Adam Trischler, Matthew Hausknecht

AdaFuse: Adaptive Temporal Fusion Network for Efficient Action Recognition

Yue Meng, Rameswar Panda, Chung-Ching Lin, Prasanna Sattigeri, Leonid Karlinsky, Kate Saenko, Aude Oliva, Rogerio Feris

AdaSpeech: Adaptive Text to Speech for Custom Voice

Mingjian Chen, Xu Tan, Bohan Li, Yanqing Liu, Tao Qin, Sheng Zhao, Tie-Yan Liu

Revisiting Dynamic Convolution via Matrix Decomposition

Yunsheng Li, Yinpeng Chen, Xiyang Dai, Mengchen Liu, Dongdong Chen, Ye Yu, Lu Yuan, Zicheng Liu, Mei Chen, Nuno Vasconcelos

07:25 – 07:35 PM | Spotlight

Large Scale Image Completion via Co-Modulated Generative Adversarial Networks

Shengyu Zhao, Jonathan Cui, Yilun Sheng, Yue Dong, Xiao Liang, Eric I-Chao Chang, Yan Xu

Poster Session: May 6

07:55 – 08:10 PM | Oral

Deformable DETR: Deformable Transformers for End-to-End Object Detection

Xizhou Zhu, Weijie Su, Lewei Lu, Bin Li, Xiaogang Wang, Jifeng Dai

Poster Session: May 6


Thursday, May 6

01:00 – 03:00 AM | Poster

Do not Let Privacy Overbill Utility: Gradient Embedding Perturbation for Private Learning

Da Yu, Huishuai Zhang, Wei Chen, Tie-Yan Liu

IOT: Instance-wise Layer Reordering for Transformer Structures

Jinhua Zhu, Lijun Wu, Yingce Xia, Shufang Xie, Tao Qin, Wengang Zhou, Houqiang Li, Tie-Yan Liu

Deformable DETR: Deformable Transformers for End-to-End Object Detection

Xizhou Zhu, Weijie Su, Lewei Lu, Bin Li, Xiaogang Wang, Jifeng Dai

Oral Session: May 5

09:00 – 11:00 AM | Poster

Initialization and Regularization of Factorized Neural Layers

Mikhail Khodak, Neil A. Tenenholtz, Lester Mackey, Nicolo Fusi

Learning to Recombine and Resample Data For Compositional Generalization

Ekin Akyürek, Afra Feyza Akyürek, Jacob Andreas

Adversarial score matching and improved sampling for image generation

Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau, Rémi Piché-Taillefer, Ioannis Mitliagkas, Remi Tachet des Combes

Improving Zero-Shot Voice Style Transfer via Disentangled Representation Learning

Siyang Yuan, Pengyu Cheng, Ruiyi Zhang, Weituo Hao, Zhe Gan, Lawrence Carin

12:40 – 12:50 PM | Spotlight

Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Self-Predictive Representations

Max Schwarzer, Ankesh Anand, Rishab Goel, R Devon Hjelm, Aaron Courville, Philip Bachman

Poster Session: May 4

05:00 – 07:00 PM | Poster

Representing Partial Programs with Blended Abstract Semantics

Maxwell Nye, Yewen Pu, Matthew Bowers, Jacob Andreas, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Armando Solar-Lezama

FastSpeech 2: Fast and High-Quality End-to-End Text to Speech

Yi Ren, Chenxu Hu, Xu Tan, Tao Qin, Sheng Zhao, Zhou Zhao, Tie-Yan Liu

Large Scale Image Completion via Co-Modulated Generative Adversarial Networks

Shengyu Zhao, Jonathan Cui, Yilun Sheng, Yue Dong, Xiao Liang, Eric I-Chao Chang, Yan Xu

Spotlight Session: May 5

DynaTune: Dynamic Tensor Program Optimization in Deep Neural Network Compilation
Minjia Zhang, Menghao Li, Chi Wang, Mingqin Li

08:58 – 09:08 PM | Spotlight

Learning a Latent Simplex in Input Sparsity Time

Ainesh Bakshi, Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, Ravi Kannan, David Woodruff, Samson Zhou

Poster Session: May 3