Dear all,

We have set a date and preliminary program for this year's (online)NeurIPS debriefing, wherein PhD students and/or senior researchers will briefly present the paper they found the most interesting atNeurIPS2021.

*Tue March 15, 2022**, 14h00-17h00** ***This year’s meeting will be online, via *zoom*: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/84087666831

14:00-14:30 Mustafa Celikok (TU Delft) Bayesian Bellman Operators https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/7180cffd6a8e829dacfc2a31b3f72ece-Abstract.html by Fellows, Hartikainen, Whiteson 14:30-15:00 Julia Olkhovskaya (VU) Efficient First-Order Contextual Bandits: Prediction, Allocation, and Triangular Discrimination https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/9d684c589d67031a627ad33d59db65e5-Abstract.html by Foster, Krishnamurthy 15:00-15:30 Break 15:30-16:00 Ahmad Hammoudeh (University of Mons, ISIA Lab & MAIA artificial intelligence Lab) On the Frequency Bias of Generative Models https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2021/hash/96bf57c6ff19504ff145e2a32991ea96-Abstract.html by Schwarz, Liao, Geiger 16:00-16:30 Hidde Fokkema (UvA) Framing RNN as a kernel method: A neural ODE approach https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/hash/18a9042b3fc5b02fe3d57fea87d6992f-Abstract.html by Fermanian, Marion, Vert, Biau

The format is to have 2.5 hours of short talks (in English). It is not required to have attendedNeurIPS, and presenters would usually not present their own papers. Talks are generally quite informal, and we like to keep a friendly atmosphere, so this is an ideal opportunity for PhD students to gain experience in presenting.

For up to date information and an overview of past meetings, see www.timvanerven.nl/neurips-debriefing/ https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timvanerven.nl%2Fneurips-debriefing%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cj.j.mayo%40uva.nl%7C9a52b268a8444a36d02308d8bb9e13b2%7Ca0f1cacd618c4403b94576fb3d6874e5%7C1%7C0%7C637465634897224404%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=M4mu0WyJ%2Fzjn49VadwcghNcSzR6DyHDabpKzgv%2BSGqk%3D&reserved=0

Best regards,

Jack J. Mayo http://jackjmayo.nl (j.j.mayo@uva.nl)

Tim van Erven http://www.timvanerven.nl/ (tim@timvanerven.nl)