Sydney - RIKEN AIP Joint AI Workshop

Venue: F19.03.315 Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre 315 (map) at the University of Sydney, 7-8 July 2025.
WIFI to UniSydney-Guest: Username: sydney_riken; Password: 648271
Zoom Link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/my/a5507203

Overview

The AI community is developing very fast. Efficient and effective communication is essential for exchanging ideas, building collaborations, and conducting impactful research, etc. This regional workshop aims to bring together some AI researchers to facilitate communication. In this workshop, we propose to showcase a variety of recent advances from presenters, with three emphases, i.e., (1) exchanging ideas; (2) inspiring the juniors to do better research; (3) promoting potential collaborations.

Program

Day one (7th July)

09:00-09:25am Welcome and opening remarks
09:25-09:50am Speaker: Takashi Ishida
Title: Data-Centric Machine Learning via Bayes Accuracy Estimation
09:50-10:15am Speaker: Ling Chen
Title: Generalist Graph Anomaly Detection on Unseen Graphs
10:15-10:45am Tea break
10:45-11:10am Speaker: Mihoko Otake
Title: AI Robots for Cognitive Intervention and Prediction of Cognitive Decline
11:10-11:35am Speaker: Joseph Davis
Title: Common Sense Q&A Based on Augmented Large Language Models
11:35-12:00pm Speaker: Van-Quang Nguyen
Title: Multimodal LLM Applications for Domain-specific Tasks
12:00-14:00pm Lunch and poster session
Light lunch will be provided onsite
14:00-14:25pm Speaker: Xiaohan Yu
Title: Ultra-Fine-Grained Visual Categorization
14:25-14:50pm Speaker: Dadong Wang
Title: Translating Vision into Impact: Real-World Applications of Imaging and Computer Vision
14:50-15:15pm Speaker: Haonan Huang
Title: Adversarial Multi-view Learning
15:15-15:45pm Tea break
15:45-16:10pm Speaker: Lina Yao
Title: Evolution toward agentic AI systems in the context of LLMs
16:10-16:35pm Speaker: Benjamin Heinzerling
Title: Analyzing and Interpreting the Internals of LLMs
16:35-17:00pm Speaker: Jiaxian Guo
Title: An Overview of Large Language Model Efficiency

Day two (8th July)

09:00-09:25am Speaker: Yiming Ying
Title: Generalization analysis for Contrastive Representation Learning
09:25-09:50am Speaker: Wei Huang
Title: Understanding the Optimization and Generalization of Transformers
09:50-10:15am Speaker: Andi Han
Title: Towards understanding diffusion models via feature learning
10:15-10:45am Tea break
10:45-11:10pm Speaker: Okan Koc
Title: Domain Adaptation and Entanglement: an Optimal Transport Perspective
11:10-11:35am Speaker: Dong Gong
Title: Continual Learning of Foundation Models through Modularized Updating
11:35-12:00pm Speaker: Clement Canonne
Title: Better Privacy-Preserving Inference by Leveraging Unverified Side Data
12:00-14:00pm Lunch and poster session
Light lunch will be provided onsite
14:00-14:25pm Speaker: Junbin Gao
Title: Operator-based Implied Volatility Smoothing: An Approach to Improve GNO Efficiency Using Bivariate Cubic B-Splines
14:25-14:50pm Speaker: Sherief Hashima
Title: AI-Driven RIS: Unleashing the Full Potential of 6G Networks
14:50-15:15pm Speaker: Yu Yao
Title: Reliable Orchestration for AI Agent Systems
15:15-15:45pm Tea break
15:45-16:10pm Speaker: Guodong Long
Title: Federated Foundation Models
16:10-16:35pm Speaker: Xin-Qiang Cai
Title: Reward Modeling in Reinforcement and Imitation Learning: Overcoming Challenges of Dimensionality, Imperfection, and Uncertainty
16:35-17:00pm Speaker: Alexander Soen
Title: Learning to Reject by Distributionally Examining the Hypothetical
17:00-17:05pm Closing

List of confirmed participants

Masashi Sugiyama (RIKEN AIP)
Mihoko Otake (RIKEN AIP)
Benjamin Heinzerling (RIKEN AIP)
Gang Niu (RIKEN AIP)
Takashi Ishida (RIKEN AIP)
Wei Huang (RIKEN AIP)
Sherief Hashima (RIKEN AIP)
Okan Koc (RIKEN AIP)
Xin-Qiang Cai (RIKEN AIP)
Zhen-Yu Zhang (RIKEN AIP)
Ming-Kun Xie (RIKEN AIP)
Haonan Huang (RIKEN AIP)
Mingyuan Bai (RIKEN AIP)
Yuning Qiu (RIKEN AIP)
Clifford Broni-Bediako (RIKEN AIP)
Van-Quang Nguyen (RIKEN AIP)
Andi Han (RIKEN AIP & USYD)
Wei Wang (RIKEN AIP)
Yuting Tang (RIKEN AIP)
Eshant English(RIKEN AIP)
Alexander Soen (RIKEN AIP & ANU & Google)
Tongliang Liu (USYD)
Tony Wirth (USYD)
Joseph Davis (USYD)
Clement Canonne (USYD)
Yu Yao (USYD)
Chang Xu (USYD)
Xiu Wang (USYD)
Joy Qiping Yang (USYD)
Aditya Vikram Singh (USYD)
Ziming Hong (USYD)
Suqin Yuan (USYD)
Zhuo Huang (USYD)
Yexiong Lin (USYD)
Zhenyang Ren (USYD)
Longjie Zhao (USYD)
Yuhao Wu (USYD)
Muyang Li (USYD)
Junbin Gao (USYD)
Yiming Ying (USYD)
Hongwei Wen (USYD)
Ling Chen (UTS)
Guodong Long (UTS)
Zhen Fang (UTS)
Maoying Qiao (UTS)
Junyu Xuan (UTS)
Shoujin Wang (UTS)
Xiaoyu Yang (UTS)
Ningyuan Zhang (UTS)
Tianyi Ma (UTS)
Lei Wang (University of Wollongong)
Wenjie Zhang (UNSW)
Dong Gong (UNSW)
Xiaohan Yu (Macquarie University)
Xuhui Fan (Macquarie University)
Xuyun Zhang (Macquarie University)
Liang Zheng (ANU)
Weijian Deng (ANU)
Dadong Wang (CSIRO Data61)
Lina Yao (CSIRO Data61)
Jiaxian Guo (Google Research Australia)

Workshop Co-chairs

A/Prof Tongliang Liu; University of Sydney

Dr Gang Niu; RIKEN

Prof Ling Chen; University Technology Sydney

Prof Masashi Sugiyama; RIKEN / University of Tokyo

Sponsors