Program
The workshop will take place on the 1st of December 2020 and be co-ordinated by Stefanos Laskaridis.
| GMT Time | Description |
|---|---|
| 13.30 - 13.40 | Opening (presentation by Mario Almeida) |
| 13.45 - 14.30 | Keynote #1: Personalised Federated Learning (video) Ameet Talwalkar (CMU and DeterminedAI) |
| 14.30 - 15.00 | Session #1: Federated Learning (co-ordinated by Paul Patras) - FEWER: Federated Weight Recovery (video) Yongjin Shin (KAIST Industrial & systems Engineering); Gihun Lee (KAIST Graduate School of AI); Seungjae Shin (KAIST Industrial & systems Engineering); Se-young Yun (KAIST Graduate School of AI); Il-chul Moon (KAIST Industrial & systems Engineering) - FLaaS: Federated Learning as a Service (video) Nicolas Kourtellis, Kleomenis Katevas, Diego Perino (Telefonica Research) |
| 15.00 - 15.15 | Break |
| 15.15 - 16.00 | Keynote #2: Wearables, IoT and You - The Compelling World of Augmented Perception Fahim Kawsar (Nokia Bell Labs and TU Delft) |
| 16.00 - 16.30 | Session #2: Network-centric optimisations (co-ordinated by Mario Almeida) - Accelerating Intra-party Communication in Vertical Federated Learning with RDMA (video) Duowen Liu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Peng Cheng Lab) - Huffman Coding Based Encoding Techniques for Fast Distributed Deep Learning (video) Rishikesh R. Gajjala, Shashwat Banchhor, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem Aritra Dutta, Marco Canini, Panos Kalnis (KAUST) |
| 16.30 - 16.45 | Break |
| 16.45 - 17:30 | Keynote #3 Lessons learned from industrial research at the intersection of ML and Networks (video) Ilias Leontiadis (Samsung AI Center Cambridge) |
| 17.30 - 18.00 | Session #3: Applied Distributed ML (co-ordinated by Rui Li) - Maggy: Scalable Asynchronous Parallel Hyperparameter Search (video) Moritz Meister (Logical Clocks AB); Sina Sheikholeslami, Amir H. Payberah, Vladimir Vlassov, Jim Dowling (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) - Neural Enhancement in Content Delivery Systems: The State-of-the-Art and Future Directions (video) Royson Lee, Stylianos I. Venieris (Samsung AI Center Cambridge); Nicholas D. Lane (University of Cambridge and Samsung AI) |
| 18.00 - 18.15 | Break |
| 18.15 - 19.30 | Panel session (video) (co-ordinated by Stefanos Laskaridis) Amanda Prorok (University of Cambridge), Dimitris Papailiopoulos (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ameet Talwalkar (CMU and DeterminedAI), Fahim Kawsar (Nokia Bell Labs and TU Delft), Ilias Leontiadis (Samsung AI Center Cambridge) |