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Give and receive advice, gain knowledge, and make connections. Our annual long-term mentorship program fosters meaningful long-term connections and provides targeted advice to early career researchers. MENTORSHIP Give and receive advice, gain knowledge, and make connections WiML is committed to advancing the careers of women and non-binary people studying and working in machine learning. Many of our events have mentorship roundtables that bring together mentors and attendees in close conversation on technical and career topics. Outside of events, our annual long-term mentorship program fosters meaningful long-term connections and provides targeted mentorship on specific topics that are selected every year, ranging from PhD applications to job seeking. Mentorship History 5th WiML Mentorship: Post-graduate degree applicants and job seeker 2025–2026 The goal of this program is to provide mentorship to early-career women and non-binary people studying and/or working in machine learning. The program will run between September 2025 and May 2026. Application deadlines are indicated in the "Timeline" section. The website for the 5th mentorship can be found here . 4th WiML Mentorship: Ph.D. Applications and Job Seekers 2024–2025 The 2024-2025 mentorship grew its focus not only to support graduate degree program applicants, but job seekers, in partnership with WiML corporate partners. The website for the 4th mentorship can be found here [website ]. 3rd WiML Mentorship: PhD Applications, 2023–2024 The 2023-2024 mentorship continued with a focus on supporting members of our community applying to research-oriented degree programs in machine learning, including PhD and Masters programs. This year, WiML also received a grant from NeurIPS to support this work, and started funding mentees’ application fee expenses. The website for the 3rd mentorship can be found here [website ]. The success of the mentorship so far was described here [NeurIPS website ]. 2nd WiML Mentorship: PhD Applications, 2022–2023 Building on the success of our pilot, the 2022–2023 mentorship narrowed its focus to support PhD applicants. This allowed us to provide tailored guidance throughout the PhD application process. 1st WiML Mentorship: Pilot, 2021–2022 Our pilot program in 2021–2022 was our first step toward establishing a formal, long-term mentorship community within WiML. The focus of the pilot was on general career development in machine learning, and the participants ranged from students to professionals.

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Enhance the experience of women in machine learning. Toward this goal, we create opportunities for women to engage in substantive technical and professional conversations in a positive, supportive environment. We also work to increase awareness and appreciation of the achievements of women in machine learning. Our programs help women build their technical confidence and their voice so that their achievements are known in the community. Our Mission Enhance the experience of women in machine learning Increase the number of women in machine learning Help women in machine learning succeed professionally Increase the impact of women in machine learning in the community Our Mission Toward this goal, we create opportunities for women to engage in substantive technical and professional conversations in a positive, supportive environment (e.g. annual workshop, small events, mentoring program). We also work to increase awareness and appreciation of the achievements of women in machine learning (e.g. directory and profiles of women in machine learning). Our programs help women build their technical confidence and their voice, and our publicity efforts help ensure that women in machine learning and their achievements are known in the community. WiML is proud to support and promote all women in machine learning, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, or politics.

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WiML is dedicated to providing an experience for all participants that is free from harassment, bullying, discrimination, and retaliation. WiML Code of Conduct The open exchange of ideas, the freedom of thought and expression, and respectful scientific debate are central to the goals of Women in Machine Learning, Inc. (“WiML”) activities; this requires a community and an environment that recognizes and respects the inherent worth of every person. The purpose of this Code of Conduct (CoC) is to outline expected standards of behaviour during WiML activities. Scope This CoC applies to all WiML activities, including but not limited to: Events organized, hosted, co-branded, or in cooperation with WiML Submissions and reviewing processes run by WiML. Communications sent through communication channels associated with WiML, including but not limited to social media. Meetings and discussions associated with WiML activities. If an activity is in cooperation with another organization, if the other organization has its own CoC, the union of both CoCs apply. Responsibility All attendees, speakers, mentors, panelists, area chairs, reviewers, sponsors, contractors, organizers, volunteers, members of the WiML Board of Directors and Senior Advisory Council (referred to as “Participants” collectively throughout this document) involved in WiML activities as described above are required to comply with this CoC. Reviews should actively avoid subtle discrimination, however inadvertent. In particular, reviewers should avoid comments in reviews about English style or grammar that may be interpreted as implying that the author is “foreign” or “non-native”. Sponsors are equally subject to this CoC. In particular, sponsors should not use images, activities, or other materials that reinforce gender stereotypes or are of a sexual, racial, or otherwise offensive nature at WiML events. Booth staff, including but not limited to volunteers, should not create a sexualized environment. Unacceptable Behavior WiML is dedicated to providing an experience for all participants that is free from harassment, bullying, discrimination, and retaliation. This includes offensive comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), politics, technology choices, or any other personal characteristics or considerations made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws, ordinances, or regulations. Inappropriate or unprofessional behavior that interferes with another participant’s full participation will not be tolerated. This includes bullying, intimidation, personal attacks, harassment, sustained disruption of talks or other events, sexual harassment, stalking, following, harassing photography or recording, inappropriate physical contact, unwelcome sexual attention, public vulgar exchanges, derogatory name-calling, or diminutive characterizations, all of which are unwelcome in this community. Advocating for, or encouraging, any of the above behaviour, is also considered harassment. No use of images, activities, or other materials that are of a sexual, racial, or otherwise offensive nature that may create an inappropriate or toxic environment is permitted. Disorderly, boisterous, or disruptive conduct including but not limited to fighting, coercion, theft, damage to property, or any mistreatment or non-businesslike behavior towards other participants is not tolerated. Scientific misconduct—including but not limited to fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism of paper submissions or research presentations—is prohibited. Reporting If you have concerns related to your participation or interaction at a WiML activity, observe someone else’s difficulties, or have any other concerns you wish to share, you can make a report: Anytime: By email at codeofconduct@wimlworkshop.org ‬ During an event: In-person to organizers, volunteers, or any member of the WiML Board of Directors. They will then direct you to the designated responder(s) for that event. Organizers and volunteers can be identified by special badges marked as “ORGANIZER” or “VOLUNTEER”. Members of the WiML Board of Directors can be identified by special badges marked as “WiML Board”. There is no deadline by which to make a report. If the person receiving your report is not the designated responder for that event, they will direct you to a designated responder and/or provide you immediate medical or security help and assist you to feel safe for the duration of the activity. Designated responders will follow WiML procedures to respond to and investigate your report. Enforcement Any participant asked by any member of the community to stop any unacceptable behavior is expected to comply immediately. A response of “just joking” will not be accepted; behavior can be harassing without an intent to offend. If a participant engages in behaviour that violates this CoC, WiML retains the right to take any action deemed appropriate, including but not limited to: Formal or informal warnings Barring or limiting continued attendance and participation, including but not limited to expulsion from the event Barring from participating in or deriving benefits from future WiML activities Exclusion from WiML opportunities, e.g. leadership, organizing, volunteering, speaking, reviewing, sponsoring, etc. Reporting the incident to the offender’s local institution or funding agencies Reporting the incident to local law enforcement The same actions may be taken toward any individual who engages in retaliation or who knowingly makes a false allegation of harassment. If action is taken, an appeals process will be made available. Investigation Reports of violations will be handled at the discretion of the WiML Board of Directors, who will investigate reports and bring the issue to resolution. Reports made during the activity will be responded to within 24 hours; reports made at other times will be responded to in less than five weeks. All reports will be handled as confidentially as possible and information will be disclosed only as it is necessary to complete the investigation and bring to resolution. There may be situations (such as those involving Title IX issues in the United States and venue- or employer-specific policies) where the member of the WiML Board of Directors informed of the violation will be under an obligation to file a report with another individual or organization outside of WiML. Ongoing Review The WiML Board of Directors welcomes feedback from the community on this CoC policy and procedures; please contact us by email at info@wimlworkshop.org . Acknowledgements This CoC policy was written by adapting the wording and structure from other CoC policies and procedures by Geek Feminism Wiki (created by the Ada Initiative), NeurIPS , ACM , Montreal AI Symposium , and Deep Learning Indaba .

Empowering Women in Machine Learning: Amplifying Achievements, Elevating Voices, Building Leaders, and Bridging Gaps to enhance the experience of women in machine learning. 2nd Women in Machine Learning Un-Workshop The 2nd WiML virtual Un-Workshop is co-located with virtual ICML on Wednesday July 21st, 2021. Speakers Logistics Program Call for Participation Committee FAQ Code Of Conduct Machine learning is one of the fastest growing areas of computer science research. Search engines, text mining, social media analytics, face recognition, DNA sequence analysis, speech and handwriting recognition, healthcare analytics are just some of the applications in which machine learning is routinely used. In spite of the wide reach of machine learning and the variety of theory and applications, it covers, the percentage of female researchers is lower than in many other areas of computer science. Most women working in machine learning rarely get the chance to interact with other female researchers, making it easy to feel isolated and hard to find role models. The annual Women in Machine Learning Workshop is the flagship event of Women in Machine Learning . This technical workshop gives female faculty, research scientists, and graduate students in the machine learning community an opportunity to meet, network and exchange ideas, participate in career-focused panel discussions with senior women in industry and academia and learn from each other. Underrepresented minorities and undergraduates interested in machine learning research are encouraged to attend. We welcome all genders; however, any formal presentations, i.e. talks and posters, are given by women. We strive to create an atmosphere in which participants feel comfortable to engage in technical and career-related conversations. The workshop started at the 2006 Grace Hopper Celebration and moved to NeurIPS in 2008. A History of WiML poster was created in 2015 to celebrate the 10th workshop. This is the 2nd WiML Un-Workshop and is co-located with ICML . This event along with ICML are virtual events due to COVID-19. The term “un-workshop” is based on the concept of an “un-conference”, a form of discussion on a pre-selected topic that is primarily driven by participants. The overall goal of the un-workshop is to advance research through collaboration and increased interaction among participants from diverse backgrounds. Different from the workshop, the un-workshop’s main focus is topical breakout sessions, with short invited talks and casual, informal poster presentations. Besides this un-workshop and annual workshop which is co-located with NeurIPS, Women in Machine Learning also organizes events such as lunch at AAAI conference, maintains a public directory of women active in ML, profiles the research of women in ML, and maintains a list of resources for women working in ML. Invited Speakers Celia Cintas Research Scientist, IBM Research - Nairobi Yingzhen Li Lecturer at Department of Computing. Imperial College London, UK Sarah Hooker Research Scientist at Google Brain Luciana Benotti Associate Professor at the Universidad National de Cordoba (UNC) Argentina Location This un-workshop takes place virtually due to COVID-19. Please check the program book for a complete overview of the program. Rocket.chat info desk and tech support If you have general questions or technical difficulties on the day of the event, drop by the Rocket.chat window on the workshop page on icml.cc . Best Practices for virtual events Virtual conferences can be tricky, and there are a lot of unintuitive ways to make your experience (and the experience of others) a little better. You can read some of our tips here . Information on Talks, Panel and Breakout Sessions We will be hosting the talks, panel as a Zoom webinar. We will also host breakout sessions on Zoom. You can join these sessions by clicking the links on the ICML Un-Workshop webpage . As an attendee, you will not be able to unmute yourself. If you have questions about the content of the talk, please submit the questions using the Zoom Q&A feature. Time permitting, and depending on the volume of questions, the moderator will either ask your question for you or confirm with you to ask the question yourself and unmute you at a suitable time. Note that Q&A will be moderated by us so you will only be able to see some of the questions of the other attendees. If you want to send messages to the moderators during the seminar, please use the Zoom chat feature. If you have not used Zoom before, we highly recommend downloading and installing the Zoom client before the meeting. Additional instructions on how to use Zoom during a webinar can be found here . Information on Poster Session and Mentorship Social The WIML Un-Workshop poster session, mentorship social and The Joint Affinity Groups Poster Session takes place in Gather.Town. You can join these sessions by clicking the links on the ICML Un-Workshop webpage . See Gather.Town guidelines to troubleshoot common access issues. If you face any issues, check these common video/audio issues or Gather.Town FAQ . An Important Note on ICML Registration Please note that the application form does not constitute registration for the WiML Un-Workshop. To attend the un-workshop, you need to register for ICML at https://icml.cc . There is no separate registration for the un-workshop. PROGRAM PANELISTS MENTORS ACCEPTED POSTERS The 2021 WiML Un-Workshop at ICML will be held virtually on Wednesday, July 21th, 2021. WiML will also participate in the ICML Affinity Groups Joint Poster Session with Queer in AI on Monday, July 19th. All participants are required to abide by the WiML Code of Conduct . Please use this link to access the Un-Workshop on ICML. Wednesday, July 21th, 2021 Time (ET/New York ) - Event 09:40 – 09:50: Introduction and Opening Remarks 09:50 – 10:00: WiML D&I Chairs Remarks 10:00 – 10:25: Invited talk – Yingzhen Li 10:25 – 11:30: Breakout sessions #1 11:30 – 12:00: Virtual Coffee Break and Poster Session #1 12:00 – 12:25: Invited Talk – Celia Cintas 12:25 – 13:30: Breakout Sessions #2 13:30 – 14:30: Sponsor Expo: Presentations by Microsoft, QuantumBlack, Apple, and Facebook 14:30 – 15:30: Mentoring Social 15:30 – 18:45: Break + Informal Social 18:45 – 19:25: Invited Talk – Sara Hooker 19:25 – 20:30: Breakout Sessions #3 20:30 – 21:00: Virtual Coffee Break and Poster Session #2 21:00 – 21:25: Invited Talk – Luciana Benotti 21:25 – 22:30: Breakout Sessions #4 22:30 – 23:30: Panel Discussion – Sarah Dean, Sarah Aerni, Sylvia Herbert, Kalesha Bullard, Amy Zhang (moderator) 23:30 – 23:45: Closing Remarks Our sponsor booths are open during the Un-Workshop. Please find information on their schedules and events here . For more details about the breakout sessions (e.g. affiliations), please use this link . You can submit your questions to the panelists through this link . Breakout session #1, 10:25 AM – 11:30 AM ET ID - Session title - Leaders - Facilitators 1.1 Catching Out-of-Context Misinformation with Self-supervised LearningShivangi AnejaMamatha Thota, Vishwali Mhasawade 1.2 School mapping using computer vision technologySafa SulimanMaryam Daniali 1.3 Data Integration and Predictive Modeling for Precision Medicine in OncologyMehreen Ali Esther Oduntan 1.4 Unsupervised Learning in Computer VisionAyca Takmaz, Clara Fernandez Labrador Naina Dhingra 1.5 Machine Learning for Privacy: An Information Theoretic PerspectiveEcenaz Erdemir, Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah Cemre Cadir 1.6 Fundamentals of Contrastive Learning in VisionSamrudhdhi Rangrej, Ibtihel Amara, Zahra Vaseqi Farzaneh Askari 1.7 Exploring probabilistic sparse inferencing through the triangulation of neuroscience, computing and philosophyGagana B, Stuti Gupta Akash Smaran 1.8 Neural Machine Translation for Low-Resource LanguagesEn-Shiun Annie Lee, Surangika Ranathunga, Rishemjit Kaur, Marjana Prifti SkenduliNiti M KC, Jivat Neet Kaur Breakout session #2, 12:25 PM – 1:30 PM ET ID - Session title - Leaders - Facilitators 2.1 Geometry and Machine LearningMelanie WeberAnkita Shukla 2.2 Leveraging Open-Source Tools for Natural Language ProcessingJennifer Glenskii RanaAneri Rana, Niti M KC 2.3 Challenges and Opportunities in ML for Health Care: How to address interpretability in clinical decision making?Annika Marie Schoene, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Peiyuan Zhou Malinda Vania 2.4 Leading the Way for the Next Generation of Black Women in STEMLouvere Walker-Hannon, Dr. Tracee Gilbert Mozhgan Saeidi 2.5 Un-bookclub Algorithms of OppressionRajasi Desai, Esther Oduntan, Anoush Najarian Sindhuja Parimalarangan 2.6 Research within community: how to cultivate a nurturing environment for your researchRosanne LiuMehreen Ali 2.7 Explainable machine learning: do we have the right tools?Michal Moshkovitz, Chhavi Yadav Shreya Ghosh 2.8 Decision-Making in Social Settings: Addressing Strategic Feedback EffectsMeena Jagadeesan, Celestine Mendler-Dünner Frances Ding Breakout session #3, 7:25 PM – 8:30 PM ET ID - Session title - Leaders - Facilitators 3.1 Does your model know what it doesn’t know? Uncertainty estimation and out-of-distribution (OOD) detection in deep learningJie Ren, Polina Kirichenko, Sharon Yixuan Li, Sergul Aydore, Haleh Akrami Liyan Chen 3.2 ML Applications in Big CodeSonia Kim, Mozhgan Saeidi Shima Shahfar 3.3 Connecting Novel Perspectives on GNNs: A Cross-Domain OverviewIlke Demir, Nesreen Ahmed, Vasuki Narasimha Swamy, Subarna Tripathi Ancy Tom 3.4 Bridging the gap between academia and industryChip Huyen, Sharon Zhou Sasha Luccioni 3.5 Variational Inference for Neural NetworksSahar Karimi, Audrey Flower Gargi Balasubramaniam 3.6 Responsible AI in production: Technical and Ethical considerationsParul Pandey, Himani Agrawal Wanda Wang Breakout session #4, 9:25 PM – 10:30 PM ET ID - Session title - Leaders - Facilitators 4.1 AI and Creativity: Approaches to Generative ArtAneta NeumannAncy Tom 4.2 Attrition of women and minoritized individuals in AIJeff Brown, Christine Custis, Madu Srikumar, Himani AgrawalJeff Brown, Christine Custis, Madu Srikumar 4.3 Safely navigating scalability-reliability trade-offs in ML methodsRuqi Zhang, A. Feder CooperMonica Munnangi Sponsor Expo Presentations, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET Time (ET/New York ) - Sponsor - Speaker - Title 13:30 – 13:45 Microsoft Jennifer Neville Improving Productivity with Graph ML over Content-Interaction Networks 13:45 – 14:00 Quantum Black Viktoriia Oliinyk Algorithmic Fairness: Machine Learning with a Human Face 14:00 – 14:15 Apple Lizi Ottens Machine Learning at Apple 14:15 – 14:30 Facebook Ning Zhang Future of AI-Powered Shopping Mentorship Social, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM ET ID - Mentor - Topic 1 Dina Obeid (Harvard) A non-linear career path in Machine Learning 2 Shakir Mohamed (DeepMind) Socio-Technical AI Research 3 Been Kim (Google Brain) Industry Research and Managing Up 4 Anna Goldenberg (U Toronto) Two body problem in academia, Raising a family, Grant strategies, Looking for a job to deploying ML in a hospital setting 5 Lalana Kagal (MIT) Maintaining work-life balance 6 Angelique Taylor (Cornell University) Transitioning from PhD to Assistant Professor Invited talk: Celia Cintas Towards fairness & robustness in machine learning for dermatology Abstract: Recent years have seen an overwhelming body of work on fairness and robustness in Machine Learning (ML) models. This is not unexpected, as it is an increasingly important concern as ML models are used to support decision-making in high-stakes applications such as mortgage lending, hiring, and diagnosis in healthcare. Currently, most ML models assume ideal conditions and rely on the assumption that test/clinical data comes from the same distribution of the training samples. However, this assumption is not satisfied in most real-world applications; in a clinical setting, we can find different hardware devices, diverse patient populations, or samples from unknown medical conditions. On the other hand, we need to assess potential disparities in outcomes that can be translated and deepen in our ML solutions. In this presentation, we will discuss how to evaluate skin-tone representation in ML solutions for dermatology and how we can enhance the existing models’ robustness by detecting out-out-distribution test samples (e.g., new clinical protocols or unknown disease types) over off-the-shelf ML models. Invited talk: Yingzhen Li Evaluating approximate inference for BNNs Abstract:Bayesian Neural Network is one of the major approaches for obtaining uncertainty estimates for deep learning models. Key to the success is the selection of the approximate inference algorithms used to compute the approximate posterior, with mean-field variational inference (MFVI) and MC-dropout being the most popular variants. But is the good downstream uncertainty estimation performance of BNNs attributed to good approximate inference? In this talk I will discuss some of our recent results towards answer this question. I will also discuss briefly the computational reasons of the preference of MFVI/MC-dropout and describe our latest work to make BNNs more memory efficient. Invited talk: Sara Hooker Characterizing the Generalization Trade-offs Incurred By Compression Abstract: To-date, a discussion around the relative merits of different compression methods has centered on the trade-off between level of compression and top-line metrics such as top-1 and top-5 accuracy. Along this dimension, compression techniques such as pruning and quantization are remarkably successful. It is possible to prune or heavily quantize with negligible decreases to test-set accuracy. However, top-line metrics obscure critical differences in generalization between compressed and non-compressed networks. In this talk, we will go beyond test-set accuracy and discuss some of my recent work measuring the trade-offs between compression, robustness and algorithmic bias. Characterizing these trade-offs provide insight into how capacity is used in deep neural networks — the majority of parameters are used to represent a small fraction of the training set. Formal auditing tools like Compression Identified Exemplars (CIE) also catalyze progress in training models that mitigate some of the trade-offs incurred by compression. Invited talk: Luciana Benotti Errors are a crucial part of dialogue Abstract: Collaborative grounding is a fundamental aspect of human-human dialogue which allows people to negotiate meaning; in this talk, I argue that current deep learning approaches to dialogue systems don’t deal with it adequately. Making errors, and being able to recover from them collaboratively, is a key ingredient in grounding meaning, but current dialogue systems can’t do this. I will illustrate the pitfalls of being unable to ground collaboratively, discuss what can be learned from the language acquisition and dialog systems literature, and reflect on how to move forward. I will urge the community to proceed by addressing a research gap: how clarification mechanisms can be learned from data. Novel research methodologies which highlight the importance of the role of clarification mechanisms are needed for this. I will present an annotation methodology, based on a theoretical analysis of clarification requests, which unifies a number of previous accounts. Dialogue clarification mechanisms are an understudied research problem and a key missing piece in the giant jigsaw puzzle of natural language understanding. I will conclude this talk with an open call for collaborators that share the vision presented. WiML Accepted Posters in Poster Session s (11:30 AM – 12:00 PM ET and 20:30 PM – 21:00 PM ET) and Joint Affinity Poster Session on Gather.Town (Monday 19 Jul 9:00 PM — 11:00 PM ET) Machine Learning Applications in Animal Sciences A mbreen Hamadani* (PhD Scholar, Animal Genetics and Breeding, SKUAST-K), Nazir A Ganai (Professor, Animal Genetics and Breeding, SKUAST-K) Emulating Aerosol Microphysics with Machine Learning Paula Harder* (University of Kaiserslautern) Duncan Watson-Parris (University of Oxford), Domink Strassel (Fraunhofer ITWM), Nicolas Gauger (University of Kaiserslautern), Philip Stier (University of Oxford), Janis Keuper (Offenburg University) Network Experiment Design for estimating Direct Treatment Effects Zahra Fatemi*(University of Illinois at Chicago), Elena Zheleva (Universty of llinois at Chicago) Adversarial Robust Model Compression using In-Train Pruning Manoj Rohit Vemparala (BMW Group), Nael Fasfous (Technical University of Munich), Alexander Frickenstein (BMW Group), Sreetama Sarkar* (BMW Group), Qi Zhao (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Sabine Kuhn (BMW Group), Lukas Frickenstein (BMW Group), Anmol Singh (BMW Group), Christian Unger (BMW), Naveen Shankar Nagaraja (BMW Group), Christian Wressnegger (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), WALTER STECHELE (Technical University of Munich) Iterative symbolic regression for learning transport equations Mehrad Ansari*, Heta A. Gandhi*, David Foster, Andrew D. White; Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 Cost Aware Asynchronous Multi-Agent Active Search Arundhati Banerjee*(School of Computer Science,Carnegie Mellon University), Ramina Ghods (School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University), Jeff Schneider (School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University) Exploration and preference satisfaction trade-off in reward-free learning Noor Sajid (WCHN, U CL), Panagiotis Tigas (OATML, Oxford University), Alexey Zakharov (Huawei, Imperial College), Zafeirios Fountas (Huawei, WCHN, UCL), Karl Friston (WCHN, UCL) HYBRIDNET: A NETWORK THAT LEVERAGES ON CLASSICAL AND NON-CLASSICAL COMPUTER VISION TECHNIQUES FOR FEW SHOT LEARNING ON INFRARED IMAGERY Maliha Arif * (PhD Candidate, Center for Research in Computer Vision – UCF) , Abhijit Mahalanobis ( Associate Professor, Center for Research in Computer Vision – UCF) Reinforcement Learning from Formal Specifications Kishor Jothimurugan (University of Pennsylvania), Suguman Bansal* (University of Pennsylvania), Obsert Bastani (University of Pennsylvania), Rajeev Alur (University of Pennsylvania) Clustering With Financial Fundamentals Jennifer Glenski* (Georgia Institute of Technology), Sara Srivastav (Georgia Institute of Technology), Rachel Riitano (Georgia Institute of Technology), Blake Heimann (Georgia Institute of Technology), Jenil Patel (Georgia Institute of Technology) Application of Knowledge Graph in Industry Samira Korani Contrastive Domain Adaptation Mamatha Thota(University of Lincoln), Georgios Leontidis(University of Aberdeen) Risk Analytics for Renewal of Purchase OrdersRisk Analytics for Renewal of Purchase Orders Shubhi Asthana (IBM Research), Pawan Chowdhary(IBM Research), Taiga Nakamura(IBM Research), Roberta Fadden (IBM) On the (Un-)Avoidability of Adversarial Examples Sadia Chowdhury* (York University), Ruth Urner (Assistant Professor, EECS Department, York University) Extraction of Adverse Drug Reactions from Tweets using Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis Sukannya Purkayastha (TCS Innovation Labs, Kolkata) Interpretation and transparency in acoustic emotion recognition Sneha Das* (Technical University of Denmark), Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center, Copenhagen University Hospital, Capital Region), Anne Katrine Pagsberg (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center, Copenhagen University Hospital, Capital Region & Faculty of Health, Department of Clinical Medicine, Copenhagen University), Line H. Clemmensen (Technical University of Denmark) Seasonal forecasts of New Zealand’s local climate conditions with limited GCM inputs using Convolutional Neural Networks Fareeda Begum*(University of Canterbury), Varvara Vetrova (University of Canterbury), Nicolas Fauchereau (NIWA), Eibe Frank (University of Waikato), Tiger Xu(University of Waikato) Assessing the Carbon Intensity of Models Across Different Languages Gauri Gupta [1] (Manipal Institute of Technology), Krithika Ramesh* [1](Manipal Institute of Technology), Mirza Yusuf [1] (Manipal Institute of Technology), Praatibh Surana [1](Manipal Institute of Technology) (Equal contribution for all) A Low-rank Support Tensor Network Kirandeep Kour, Dr. Sergey Dolgov (University of Bath, UK), Prof. Dr. Martin Stoll (TU Chemnitz, Germany), Prof. Dr. Peter Benner (Max Planck Institute and TU Chemnitz, Germany) CricNet : Segment and Classify Cricket Events Sai Siddhartha Maram, Shambhavi Mishra*(Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University) Episodically optimized dynamical networks for robust motor control Sruti Mallik(*) (Electrical & Systems Engineering, Washington University in St Louis), ShiNung Ching (Electrical & Systems Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis) Open Set Detection via Similarity Learning Sepideh Esmaeilpour* (University of Illinois at Chicago), Lei Shu (Amazon AWS AI), Bing Liu(University of Illinois at Chicago) A modified limited memory Nesterov’s accelerated quasi-Newton *S. Indrapriyadarsini (Shizuoka University), Shahrzad Mahboubi (Shonan Institute of Technology), Hiroshi Ninomiya (Shonan Institute of Technology), Takeshi Kamio (Hiroshima University), Hideki Asai (Shizuoka University) Time-series Forecasting of Ionospheric Space Weather using Ensemble Machine Learning Randa Natras* (Technical University of Munich, Germany), Michael Schmidt (Technical University of Munich, Germany) SocialBERT : An Effective Few Shot Learning Framework Applied to a Social TV Setting Debarati Das* (Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota Twin Cities), Roopana Chenchu (Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota Twin Cities), Maral Abdollahi (Hubbard School of Journalism, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Jisu Huh (Hubbard School of Journalism, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) and Jaideep Srivastava (Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota Twin Cities) Explainable Prediction of Text Complexity: The Missing Preliminaries for Text Simplification Cristina Garbacea (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), Mengtian Guo (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Samuel Carton (University of Colorado Boulder), Qiaozhu Mei (University of Michigan Ann Arbor) Alignment of Language Agents in V ideogames Gema Parreno ( Mempathy ) Using Weak Supervision to Identify Drug Mentions from Class Imbalanced Twitter Data Ramya Tekumalla* (Georgia State University), Juan M Banda (Georgia State University)) Call for Participation The 2nd WiML Un-Workshop is co-located with ICML on Wednesday, July 21st, 2021. The Women in Machine Learning will be organizing the second “un-workshop” at ICML 2021. This is an event format to encourage more participant interaction, especially with ICML going virtual this year. The un-workshop is based on the concept of an “un-conference”, a form of discussion on a pre-selected topic that is primarily driven by participants. Different from the workshop, the un-workshop’s main focus is topical breakout sessions, with short invited talks and casual, informal poster presentations. The overall goal of the un-workshop is to advance research through collaboration and increased interaction among participants from diverse backgrounds. Students, postdocs and researchers in all areas of Machine Learning who primarily identify as a woman and/or nonbinary are encouraged to submit one-page proposal to lead a breakout session on a certain research topic. While all presenters will identify primarily as a woman and/or nonbinary, all genders are invited to attend. Important dates June 14th, 2021 – Application form opens July 4th, 2021 – Deadline (anywhere on Earth) to apply for a breakout session, poster, registration fee funding, facilitating or volunteering July 10th, 2021 – Notification of acceptance of breakout session’s proposals July 10th, 2021 – Notification of acceptance of posters, registration fee funding, facilitators, volunteers July 21st, 2021 – WiML Un-Workshop Day Various ways of participating in WiML un-workshop Lead a breakout session: submit a proposal to lead a breakout session on a certain research topic. Facilitate a breakout session: assist breakout session leaders by taking notes and encouraging participant interactions and taking attendance. Present a poster: present a poster in a casual, informal setting. Volunteer: help with technical setup and in-event needs. Attend: participate in breakout session discussions. Breakout session proposals A breakout session is a 1-hour free-form discussion overseen by 1-3 leaders and with assistance from 1-2 facilitators to take notes and encourage participant interactions. We strongly encourage students, postdocs, and researchers who primarily identify as women and/or nonbinary in all areas of machine learning to submit a proposal to lead a topical breakout session. A complete proposal consists of a 1 page blind PDF (example here ) and the names and bios of leaders submitted separately in the application form. We strongly recommend having at least 2 leaders, with a diverse set of leaders preferred (see selection criteria below). The names of facilitators can also be provided if known at submission time. Otherwise, the organizers will match facilitators to breakout sessions. Breakout session leaders must identify primarily as women and/or nonbinary; facilitators can be of any gender. Only one proposal submission per leader is allowed. If there are multiple leaders, only one leader needs to submit the proposal. There are no proceedings. WiML registration fee funding is prioritized for accepted breakout session leaders who fulfill certain eligibility criteria (see details below) and do not have any other sources of funding. Breakout session guidelines: Role of leaders: Point-out key characteristics of your topic and make connections with other topics. Describe the key challenges in this research area on a high-level. Describe the key approaches on a high-level to provide intuition. Highlight possible points of discussion/goals to achieve during the session. Use graphics/imagery and materials e.g. slides as needed Encourage inclusive (rather than unilateral) discussions Role of facilitators: take notes and encourage participant interactions. Leaders and facilitators should anticipate a small additional time commitment before the un-workshop to receive briefing/training and a possible dry run. While the exact technology is still being determined, we anticipate using video-conferencing software (e.g. Zoom). Submission instructions for breakout sessions: Proposals must be no more than 1 page (including any references, tables, and figures) submitted as a PDF. Main body text must be minimum 11 point font size and page margins must be minimum 0.75 inches (all sides). Your proposal should stand alone, without linking to a longer paper or supplement. You should provide a brief description of the topics you’d like to discuss, any relevant references, a plan for how you’d organize the time (1 hour) allocated for a session, as well as some ideas on how you’d encourage discussion and participant interaction during the session. The PDF must not include identifying information, as it will be reviewed blind. In particular, the PDF should not contain information of the leaders or facilitators. Instead, submit their information in the application form. Selection criteria for breakout sessions: The degree to which it is expected that participants will find the topic interesting and valuable. Diversity of leaders and facilitators, including diversity of experience/seniority, affiliation, race, viewpoint and thinking regarding the topic, etc. Plans for encouraging discussion and participant interaction during the session. Facilitators If you are interested in facilitating a breakout session but have not yet connected with anyone submitting a breakout session proposal, you can indicate your interest in the application form. Organizers will match selected facilitators to breakout sessions. Facilitators should anticipate a small additional time commitment before the un-workshop to receive briefing/training and a possible dry run. Posters If you wish to present a poster, submit EITHER a short abstract (max 1500 characters) OR a PDF of the poster (only if you have it already). The poster may describe new, previously, concurrently published, or work-in-progress research. Posters in theory, methods, and applications are welcome. The poster presenter must identify primarily as a woman and/or nonbinary; other authors can be of any gender. The poster presenter does not need to be the first author of the work. Only one poster submission per presenter is allowed. Accepted posters will be presented in a casual, informal setting. This setting is very different from formal poster sessions, e.g. at WiML Workshop at NeurIPS. While the exact presentation format is still being determined, it may be as simple as a webpage with poster PDF and pre-recorded video. There are no oral or spotlight presentations. There are no proceedings. Submission instructions for posters: Submitted materials may contain identifying information, as posters for this un-workshop are not reviewed blind. Your submission should stand alone, without linking to a longer paper or supplement. You should convey motivation and give some technical details of the approach used. While we acknowledge that space is limited, some experimental results are likely to improve reviewers’ opinions of your poster. Registration fee funding The virtual nature of ICML and this un-workshop allows individuals from all over the world to attend. By funding a number of ICML registrations, WiML hopes to further expand the range of participants at this un-workshop. To apply for funding, you should: identify primarily as a woman and/or nonbinary; be a student, postdoc, or have an equivalent position (equivalent positions include unemployed recent grads and early career researchers from underrepresented geographical regions). Accepted breakout session leaders who fulfill the above eligibility criteria and do not have any other sources of funding will be prioritized for WiML funding. Other participants are also encouraged to apply. Priority will be given to individuals from underrepresented regions or groups, first-time attendees of ICML or similar conferences, and individuals who would benefit the most from this funding. Funding recipients must participate in at least one breakout session as a leader, facilitator, or attendee. Due to limited funding, we may not be able to support everyone eligible; however, we hope to support as many eligible applicants as possible. We also encourage you to apply for ICML volunteer and funding opportunities, which are separate and independent of WiML funding. Check the ICML website directly for details. Volunteering We are seeking volunteers to help with technical setup and virtual technology testing before the event, as well as help during the event, e.g. letting people into Zoom rooms, etc. We may also need emergency reviewers for breakout session proposals. You can indicate if you can help in any way in the application form here . Participation instructions To participate in ANY of the above roles and/or apply for registration fee funding, please fill in this application form by **July 4, 2021**. Selected breakout session leaders, facilitators, poster presenters, volunteers, and funding recipients will be notified individually by the dates mentioned above. If you only wish to attend, we still recommend you fill in this form to provide your timezone and topic preferences. All participants are required to abide by the WiML Code of Conduct . Important note: This form does not constitute registration for the WiML Un-Workshop. To attend the un-workshop, you need to register for ICML at https://icml.cc . Submission is now open! Organizers Beliz Gokkaya, Facebook Wenshuo Guo, University of California, Berkeley Arushi Majha, University of Cambridge Liyue Shen, Stanford Olivia Choudhury, Amazon Berivan Isik, Stanford Hadia Mohmmed Osman Ahmed Samil, Mila Vaidheeswaran Archana, Continental Automotive Questions? Check out the FAQs or reach us at workshop[at]wimlworkshop[dot]org PLATINUM SPONSORS Committee ORGANIZERS Beliz Gokkaya Software Engineer at Facebook, General Chair Wenshuo Guo PhD Student at University of California, Berkeley, Program Chair Hadia Mohmmed Osman Ahmed Samil Breakout Program and Logistics Co-Chair Berivan Isik PhD Student at Stanford University, Breakout Program and Logistics Co-Chair Olivia Choudhury Researcher at Amazon, Senior Program and Networking Chair Arushi Majha PhD Student at University of Cambridge, Finance and Sponsorship Chair Liyue Shen PhD Student at Stanford University, Funding and Volunteers Chair Vaidheeswaran Archana AI Engineer at Continental Automotive, Virtual Experience Chair Diversity and Inclusion Chair Danielle Belgrave, Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research Supervolunteers We would like to acknowledge and warmly thank our super-volunteers who worked tirelessly to ensure a high quality un-workshop. Belen Saldias, MIT Elre Oldewage, University of Cambridge Mandana Samiei, McGill and Mila Niveditha Kalavakonda, University of Washington Seattle Weiwei Zong, Henry Ford Health System FAQs How do I register for the un-workshop? You need to register to ICML to attend to WiML and then please fill the application form provided. Please refer to call for participation for more details. Is filling the application form enough for register to WiML? No, you need to register to ICML . What is an un-workshop? The un-workshop is based on the concept of an “un-conference”, a form of discussion on a pre-selected topic that is primarily driven by participants. The overall goal of the un-workshop is to advance research through collaboration and increased interaction among participants from diverse backgrounds. How is an un-workshop different from WiML workshop at NeurlPS? WiML Workshop at NeurIPS is a one-day event with invited speakers, oral presentations, and posters. This year WiML is bringing a new event format to ICML to encourage more participant interaction, especially with ICML going virtual this year. Different from the workshop, the un-workshop’s main focus is topical breakout sessions, with short invited talks and casual, informal poster presentations. I'm a man. Can I attend WiML? Yes. All genders are welcome to attend! To do so, please register for ICML and fill the application form . Note, however, that all speakers, breakout session leaders and poster presenters will primarily identify as a woman and/or nonbinary, as our goal is to promote them and their work within the machine learning community. Where will the un-workshop take place? This is a virtual event. How much funding is available? Funding is distributed based on geographic location. Support varies from year to year and this year due to COVID-19, it will be a virtual event and ICML registration fee funding is available for participants who fulfill eligibility criteria. Is there a code of conduct? Yes. WiML requires all participants and reviewers to abide by our code of conduct . Is WiML an archival venue? No, WiML is a non-archival venue. This means that, if your contribution is accepted, we will not be asking you to submit a camera-ready version of it, nor will we publish it anywhere (neither online nor in proceedings of any sort). We will only make the title and authors’ names available in the program book. How can I get more information on un-workshop logistics? Please check out the logistics page! I want to support WiML by providing sponsorship / recruiting at the un-workshop. Who should I talk to? Thank you for your support! Please contact us . How can I join the WiML network? Join our Google Group . When and where do I submit my proposal? You can find more information on call for participation. Submission to the 2021 WiML un-workshop is now closed. How many breakout sessions will be on the day of the un-workshop? There are 4-time slots for 1-hour breakout sessions (marked as Breakout Sessions #1 to #4). Each of these 4-time slots will have several parallel breakout sessions. Why do breakout sessions involve Zoom and Slack? Zoom rooms are mainly for the breakout sessions for the specific one hour period. However, leaders can use Slack a few days before and after to ask participants to read some papers, ask them specific questions and keep the discussions going. Also, participants can ask questions regarding the breakout session’s topic in the Slack channel before the actual session. Can I make breakout rooms in the breakout session as a leader? Yes, leaders can make smaller breakout rooms to engage participants in smaller group discussions. How many attendees will be in each breakout session? We can’t promise the exact number but we are hoping for smaller groups (max 20) to increase interaction between participants. What is the whiteboard in Zoom rooms? Whiteboard is like a digital board and leaders and participants can write on it and explain a specific topic. More instructions are available here. Will we as leaders be given a chance to advertise our proposal topic before the un-workshop? Sure, you can advertise your session’s topic on Twitter for example and tag us on @WiMLworkshop and we can retweet that. Also, attendees will have access to the breakout session topics at least a week before the un-workshop. Can anyone who did not fill the WiML form still join the un-workshop? Anyone who is registered to ICML can join the un-workshop. I am new to the Gather.town platform being used for the live poster session. How can I prepare for it? Check out these guidelines. I have a question that's not answered here. How do I reach you? Contact us . Back To Top

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