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April 20, 2021 - May 20, 2021

Joint Research Center Workshop 2021

Location: Virtual

Artificial Intelligence (AI) | 20 May | 17:00 – 19:00 CEST

Time (CEST) Session Speaker
17:00–17:05 Welcome Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche​, Microsoft
17:05–17:25 Perspective on AI Research: Human-centered AI and Robustness | Video Emre Kiciman, Microsoft
17:25–18:20 AI Session I Chair: Guy Leroy, Microsoft
Monitoring, Modelling, and Modifying Dietary Habits and Nutrition Based on Large-Scale Digital Traces | Video Kristina Gligoric, EPFL
(collaboration with Robert West, EPFL, Arnaud Chiolero, University of Fribourg and Eric Horvitz, Emre Kiciman, Ryen White, Microsoft)
Grounding Spatio-temporal Language with Transformers | Video Laetitia Teodorescu, INRIA
(collaboration with Tristan Karch, Clément Moulin-Frier, Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, INRIA and Katja Hofmann, Microsoft)
Statistical Preconditioning for Distributed Optimization | Video Hadrien Hendrikx, INRIA
(collaboration with Francis Bach, Laurent Massoulié, INRIA and Sébastien Bubeck, Microsoft)
Information Theory for Representation Learning Marco Federici, University of Amsterdam
(collaboration with Patrick Forré, Max Welling, University of Amsterdam and Ryota Tomioka, Microsoft)
18:20–19:00 AI Session II Chair: Evelyn Zuniga, Microsoft
Information Directed Reward Learning for Reinforcement Learning | Video David Lindner, ETH Zurich
(collaboration with Andreas Krause, ETH Zurich and Katja Hofmann, Microsoft)
Probabilistic DAG Search | Video Julia Grosse, University of Tübingen
(collaboration with Philipp Hennig, University of Tübingen and Cheng Zhang, Microsoft)
Teacher Algorithms for Deep Reinforcement Learning Students | Video Rémy Portelas, INRIA
(collaboration with Pierre-Yves Oudeyer, INRIA and Katja Hofmann, Microsoft)
19:00 Conclusions Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche​, Microsoft