NeurIPS has been in existence for more than 3 decades, each one marked by a dominant trend. The pioneering years saw the burgeoning of back-prop nets, the coming-of-age years blossomed with convex optimization, regularization, Bayesian methods, boosting, kernel methods, to name a few, and the junior years have been dominated by deep nets and big data. And now, recent analyses conclude that using ever bigger data and deeper networks is not a sustainable way of progressing. Meanwhile, other indicators show that Machine Learning is increasingly reliant upon good data and benchmarks, not only to train more powerful and/or more compact models, but also to soundly evaluate new ideas and to stress test models on their reliability, fairness, and protection against various attacks, including privacy attacks.
Simultaneously, in 2021, the NeurIPS Dataset and Benchmark track was launched and the Data-Centric AI initiative was born. This kickstarted the "data-centric era". It is gaining momentum in response to the new needs of data scientists who, admittedly, spend more time on understanding problems, designing experimental settings, and engineering datasets, than on designing and training ML models.
We will retrace the enormous collective efforts made by our community since the 1980's to share datasets and benchmarks, putting forward important milestones that led us to today's effervescence. We will pick a few hot topics that have raised controversy and have engendered novel thought-provoking contributions. Finally, we will highlight some of the most pressing issues that must be addressed by the community.
The Forward-Forward Algorithm for Training Deep Neural Networks
I will describe a training algorithm for deep neural networks that does not require the neurons to propagate derivatives or remember neural activities. The algorithm can learn multi-level representations of streaming sensory data on the fly without interrupting the processing of the input stream. The algorithm scales much better than reinforcement learning and would be much easier to implement in cortex than backpropagation.
Haben, The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
We’d love to come together for an un-bookclub at NeurIPS 2022. We’ve been learning a lot in the cross-continental book club out of the book Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law.
We’d love to give you the gift of connection, conversation, and reflection the author and disability rights lawyer Haben Girma gave us. We ask participants to watch Haben's powerful talk at the US National Book Festival in preparation.
Join us for a discussion on accessibility and intersectionality, and the roles and responsibilities of the machine learning research community in building a world where disabled people thrive.
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K-Pop in NeurIPS
Korean wave (aka K-wave or Hanryu) has become popular and familiar with global people. In particular, K-pop such as Butter and Gangnam-style and artists such as BTS and Blackpink are greatly loved by many global people around the world. We'd like to welcome researchers who love K-pop in NeurIPS to our social "K-pop in NeurIPS". We'd like to gather together and share our favorite K-pop, artists, and our special experiences related to K-pop. We expect that our Social would be an opportunity for researchers in NeurIPS around the world to become more intimate.
"Join the team at Rora and 81cents, to get the tools, information, and data you need to negotiate your next offer in AI more confidently.
Some of the topics we'll cover in a 1.5 hr. period (with 1/2 an hour for Q&A) are:
- Understanding the fundamentals of compensation in tech (particularly around equity, bonus structures, etc.)
- How to get over your fears of negotiating
- How to decide which company / offer is right for you
- How to negotiate without counter offers and without knowing ""market value""
- How to respond to pushback from recruiters and other guilt tripping / lowballing /pressure tactics
- How to avoid having an offer rescinded
- How to negotiate deadline of an offer
- Walking through a timeline of the negotiation process for a new offer"
Open Mic Night
"Machine learning is a field without ongoing feuds, without heterogeneity of thought, without competing opinions, and without uncertainty over where the field is and where it is going. We all know this. We all use the same tools, have the same opinion about which libraries are the best, and what tools are best for tracking at train time. Yet, in this social event, we aim to find that rare soul in the AI/ML community with a primarily technical opinion that goes against the status quo, to give them a stage, and to curate engagement with an audience of NeurIPS members. Is symbolic reasoning dead? Who knows – but this discussion sure won’t be. Our goal here is to encourage a lively discussion, while ensuring that the speakers adhere to the NeurIPS Code of Conduct; in particular, by keeping the discussion respectful and professional.
The first half-hour of this social will be a reception, during which the organizers will pass around a sign-up for topics and for participants. We will ensure that the mic is accessible to everyone who wishes to participate, and we will aim for a diverse range of ideas, perspectives, and demographics. Then, we will have several rounds of open mic debates and response. The winners of each debate -- chosen by the audience -- will have eternal bragging rights."
Interdisciplinary ML Mixer
Given the many disciplines that encompass ML/DL, it is important that we as researchers better understand academics with differing backgrounds than our own to produce valued contributions. In this in-person 2-hour social, we pair participants together based on differing levels of experience in related disciplines of ML/DL. These pairings would be determined by having participants write their domain of experience on a nametag, then asking participants to find and chat with another person with differing experience. For example, suppose Researcher A identifies as being highly experienced in Neuroscience but has little to no experience in Semi-Supervised Learning. Researcher A could then be paired with Researcher B, who has a great background in Semi-Supervised Learning but has had no exposure to Neuroscience. These interactions could allow us to form better connections across disciplines and build a better understanding of the vast landscape of ML/DL.
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