Venue: F19.03.315 Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre 315 (map) at the University of Sydney, 7-8 July 2025.
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Sydney - RIKEN AIP Joint AI Workshop
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: Lei Wang Title: From Representation to Generation: Selected Advances in Computer Vision Research at CAI UOW |
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 |
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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
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