Affinity Workshop
LatinX in AI (LXAI) Research @ NeurIPS 2021
Maria Luisa Santiago · Andres Munoz Medina · Laura Montoya · Karla Caballero Barajas · Isabel Metzger · Jose Gallego-Posada · Juan Banda · Gabriela Vega · Amanda Duarte · Patrick Feeney · Lourdes Ramírez Cerna · Walter M Mayor · Omar U. Florez · Rosina Weber · Rocio Zorrilla
Abstract:
The workshop is a one-day event with invited speakers, oral presentations, and posters. The event brings together faculty, graduate students, research scientists, and engineers for an opportunity to connect and exchange ideas. There will be a panel discussion and a mentoring session to discuss current research trends and career choices in artificial intelligence and machine learning. While all presenters will identify primarily as latinx, all are invited to attend.
Chat is not available.
Schedule
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Tue 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
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Welcome Session
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Initial Remarks
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SlidesLive Video |
Maria Luisa Santiago 🔗 |
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Tue 10:31 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
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Meditations on First Deployment: A Practical Guide to Responsible Machine Learning
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Keynote Presentation
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SlidesLive Video |
Alejandro Saucedo · Seyed Ali Alavi Bajstan 🔗 |
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Tue 11:01 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.
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Question & Answering Session
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Q & A
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Alejandro Saucedo 🔗 |
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Tue 11:16 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
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Lifting the veil on hyper-parameters for value-baseddeep reinforcement learning
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Oral
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SlidesLive Video |
João Madeira Araújo · Johan Obando Ceron · Pablo Samuel Castro 🔗 |
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Tue 11:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
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On the Pitfalls of Label Differential Privacy
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Oral
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SlidesLive Video |
Andres Munoz Medina · Róbert Busa-Fekete · Umar Syed · Sergei Vassilvitskii 🔗 |
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Tue 11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Exploring the Limits of Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification in Low-Shot Settings
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Oral
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SlidesLive Video |
Matias Valdenegro-Toro 🔗 |
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Tue 12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m.
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Q&A Oral presentations
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Q&A
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Matias Valdenegro-Toro · Andres Munoz Medina · Johan Obando Ceron · Anil Batra 🔗 |
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Tue 12:15 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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Lunch Break
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Tue 12:31 p.m. - 1:01 p.m.
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Connecting the dots between industry and research
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Keynote Presentation
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SlidesLive Video |
Ana Paula Appel 🔗 |
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Tue 1:00 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
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Q&A Anna Appel
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Q&A
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Ana Paula Appel 🔗 |
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Tue 1:16 p.m. - 1:21 p.m.
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Flexible Learning of Sparse Neural Networks via Constrained $L_0$ Regularization
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Spotlight
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SlidesLive Video |
Jose Gallego-Posada · Juan Ramirez · Akram Erraqabi 🔗 |
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Tue 1:21 p.m. - 1:26 p.m.
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Performance Analysis of Quantum Machine Learning Classifiers
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Spotlight
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SlidesLive Video |
Pablo Rivas · Javier Orduz 🔗 |
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Tue 1:26 p.m. - 1:31 p.m.
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Curating the Twitter Election Integrity Datasets forBetter Online Troll Characterization
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Spotlight
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SlidesLive Video |
Albert Orozco Camacho · Reihaneh Rabbany 🔗 |
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Tue 1:31 p.m. - 1:36 p.m.
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Investigating generative neural-network models for building pest insect detectors in sticky trap images for the Peruvian horticulture
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Spotlight
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SlidesLive Video |
Joel Cabrera Rios · Edwin Villanueva 🔗 |
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Tue 1:36 p.m. - 1:41 p.m.
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A Pharmacovigilance Application of Social Media Mining: An Ensemble Approach for Automated Classification and Extraction of Drug Mentions in Tweets
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Spotlight
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SlidesLive Video |
Luis Alberto Robles Hernandez · Juan Banda 🔗 |
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Tue 1:41 p.m. - 1:46 p.m.
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A novel stochastic model based on echo state networks for hydrological time series forecasting
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Spotlight
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SlidesLive Video |
Edson F. Luque 🔗 |
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Tue 1:41 p.m. - 1:46 p.m.
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Vehicle Speed Estimation Using Computer Vision And Evolutionary Camera Calibration
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Spotlight
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SlidesLive Video |
Hector Mejia 🔗 |
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Tue 1:46 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Q & A Spotlight Presentations
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Q&A
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Hector Mejia · Juan Banda · Javier Orduz · Joel Cabrera Rios · Reihaneh Rabbany · Jose Gallego-Posada · Edson F. Luque 🔗 |
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Tue 2:00 p.m. - 2:01 p.m.
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Introduction Joaquin Salas
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Intro
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Tue 2:01 p.m. - 2:31 p.m.
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Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, Human Vulnerability: The Role of AI in Challenging Times
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Keynote Presentation
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SlidesLive Video |
Joaquin Salas 🔗 |
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Tue 2:31 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
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Q&A Joaquin Salas
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Q&A
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Joaquin Salas 🔗 |
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Tue 2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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Closing Remarks
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Closing
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SlidesLive Video |
Andres Munoz Medina 🔗 |
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LatinX Social, Wed 2 am UTC (Tue 6 pm pacific) ( Social - Gathertown ) > link | 🔗 |
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Lifting the veil on hyper-parameters for value-baseddeep reinforcement learning
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Poster
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João Madeira Araújo · Johan Obando Ceron · Pablo Samuel Castro 🔗 |
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On the Pitfalls of Label Differential Privacy
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Poster
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Andres Munoz Medina · Róbert Busa-Fekete · Umar Syed · Sergei Vassilvitskii 🔗 |
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Exploring the Limits of Epistemic Uncertainty Quantification in Low-Shot Settings
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Poster
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Matias Valdenegro-Toro 🔗 |
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Flexible Learning of Sparse Neural Networks via Constrained $L_0$ Regularization ( Poster ) > link | Jose Gallego-Posada · Juan Ramirez · Akram Erraqabi 🔗 |
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A novel stochastic model based on echo state networks for hydrological time series forecasting ( Poster ) > link | Edson F. Luque 🔗 |
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Curating the Twitter Election Integrity Datasets forBetter Online Troll Characterization ( Poster ) > link | Albert Orozco Camacho · Reihaneh Rabbany 🔗 |
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Investigating generative neural-network models for building pest insect detectors in sticky trap images for the Peruvian horticulture ( Poster ) > link | Joel Cabrera Rios · Edwin Villanueva 🔗 |
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Performance Analysis of Quantum Machine Learning Classifiers ( Poster ) > link | Pablo Rivas · Javier Orduz 🔗 |
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A Pharmacovigilance Application of Social Media Mining: An Ensemble Approach for Automated Classification and Extraction of Drug Mentions in Tweets ( Poster ) > link | Luis Alberto Robles Hernandez · Juan Banda 🔗 |
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Vehicle Speed Estimation Using Computer Vision And Evolutionary Camera Calibration ( Poster ) > link | Hector Mejia 🔗 |