Responsible Machine Learning Summit 2023

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Summit poster
Date
Friday, October 20, 2023 8:00 AM
Location
Henley Hall 1010

Responsible Generative AI: Opportunities and Challenges

This year's summit will cover topics including: Advances in Generative AI and its Applications, Potential Abuse of the new technology, Copyright and Attribution, Co-existing with AI: The Human Alignment Problem, as well as algorithmic solutions to these problems.

Live stream: https://youtu.be/UoEHvcZ5Ck8

Talk abstracts: 2023 RML Summit 

 

AGENDA

8:00 am

Registration & Breakfast

   

9:00 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Yu-Xiang Wang Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, CRML Co-Director

William Wang Mellichamp Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of California Santa Barbara, CRML Director

   
9:10 am

AI Institute (ACTION)

Giovanni Vigna Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, ACTION Director

   

9:15 am

Distinguished Talk #1

Tatsu Hashimoto Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Stanford University

Empowering Instruction Following Research with Language Models as Simulators

(Session Chair: Shiyu Chang Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara)

   

10:00 am

Distinguished Talk #2:

Scott Aaronson Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science and Director of Quantum Information Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Watermarking LLMs

(Session Chair: Yu-Xiang Wang)

   

10:45 am

Coffee Break

11:00 am

Short Talks Session #1

Yao Qin Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Barbara

Effective Robustness against Natural Distribution Shifts for Models with Different Training Data

Xuandong Zhao Ph.D. Student, Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Barbara 

AI Attacks Against Invisible Watermarks

(Session Chair: William Wang)

   

12:00 pm

Lunch Reception

   

1:00 pm

Distinguished Talk #3

Eric Wong Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Science Department, University of Pennsylvania

Robustness of Adversarial Attacks for LLM

(Session Chair: Yao Qin)

   

1:50 pm

Distinguished Talk #4

Yan Liu Professor, Computer Science Department and Director of USC Machine Learning Center, University of Southern California

Deciphering Neural Networks through the Lenses of Feature Interactions

(Session Chair: Xifeng Yan Professor, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara)

   
2:35 pm Coffee Break
   
2:50 pm

Short Talks Session #2

Haewon Jeong Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Barbara

From Dirty Data to Fair Prediction: The Role of Data Preprocessing for Equitable AI

Tevfik Bultan Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California, Santa Barbara

Software Engineering in the Age of AI

(Session Chair: Xifeng Yan)

   
3:30 pm

Panel Discussion

Topic: Shaping a Responsible AI-Drive Future

Panelists: Tatsu Hashimoto, Eric Wong, Scott Aaronson, Yan Liu, Ivan Bercovich, and Karina Montilla Edmonds

Moderated by: Giovanni Vigna

   

4:45 pm

Closing Remarks & Acknowledgements

Shiyu Chang
Yao Qin

 

Sponsored by the Center for Responsible Machine Learning, the Mellichamp Initiative in Mind and Machine Intelligence, the AI Institute for Agent-based Cyber Threat Intelligence and Operation (ACTION), SAP, and ScOp Venture Capital.

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