Mila researchers contributed ten publications at the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)

September 2, 2020

While COVID-19 has forced conferences and events around the world to go virtual, members of the Mila ecosystem continue to successfully contribute their research and expertise in the field. We are proud to announce that ten publications were accepted and presented at the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), which was held online from August 26-28.

The AISTATS conference is an interdisciplinary gathering of researchers stemming from the fields of computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning and statistics. The scope of accepted papers from Mila members encompassed areas of machine learning, optimization and control, and data structures and algorithms. Please see below for the complete list of accepted publications:

  1. Fast and Furious Convergence: Stochastic Second Order Methods under Interpolation

    2. Si Yi Meng, Sharan Vaswani, Issam Hadj Laradji, Mark Schmidt, Simon Lacoste-Julien

    https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04920

  2. Accelerating Smooth Games by Manipulating Spectral Shapes

    3. Waïss Azizian, Damien Scieur, Ioannis Mitliagkas, Simon Lacoste-Julien, Gauthier Gidel

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00602

  3. Old Dog Learns New Tricks: Randomized UCB for Bandit Problems

    4. Sharan Vaswani, Abbas Mehrabian, Audrey Durand, Branislav Kveton

    https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04928

  4. GAIT: A Geometric Approach to Information Theory

    5. Jose D Gallego Posada, Ankit Vani, Max Schwarzer, Simon Lacoste-Julien

    https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08325

  5. Efficient Planning under Partial Observability with Unnormalized Q Functions and Spectral Learning

    6. Tianyu Li, Bogdan Mazoure, Doina Precup, Guillaume Rabusseau

    https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.05010

  6. A Tight and Unified Analysis of Gradient-Based Methods for a Whole Spectrum of Differentiable Games

    7. Waïss Azizian, Ioannis Mitliagkas, Simon Lacoste-Julien, Gauthier Gidel

    https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05945

  7. Tensorized Random Projections

    8. Beheshteh T Rakhshan, Guillaume Rabusseau

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.05101

  8. On the interplay between noise and curvature and its effect on optimization and generalization

    9. Valentin Thomas, Fabian Pedregosa, Bart van Merriënboer, Pierre-Antoine Manzagol, Yoshua Bengio, Nicolas Le Roux

    https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07774

  9. Stochastic Neural Network with Kronecker Flow

    10. Chin-Wei Huang, Ahmed Touati, Pascal Vincent, Gintare Karolina Dziugaite, Alexandre Lacoste, Aaron Courville

    https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04282

  10. Value Preserving State-Action Abstractions

    11. David Abel, Nathan Umbanhowar, Khimya Khetarpal, Dilip Arumugam, Doina Precup, Michael L. Littman

    https://david-abel.github.io/papers/aistats2020_vpsa-full.pdf

AISTATS 2021 will be tentatively held next year in San Diego, California, from April 13-15.