Hiroki Naganuma

Day1 (7/22 Mon)

• Towards Efficient Generative Large Language Model Serving: A Tutorial from Algorithms to Systems

  • arxiv
  • speaker: Xupeng Miao
    • from the system research area
  • overview
    • Various methods are updated daily, mainly to improve LLM inference (computational cost, token scale, and quality).
    • Systematic explanation of the recent evolution of algorithms and systemic aspects
  • thought
    • It is important to be able to organize taxonomy in any field (otherwise, it is impossible to cite correct papers and to create correct research directions).
    • It is also important for both practical and research purposes to know how to make good use of current methods (MoE, LoRA, Continual Learning, etc.) under the constraints of numerous speed-up and efficiency-enhancing methods.
      • e.g. QLoRA
  • details related to my interest
    • Survey of Automatic Parallelism
    • How to deal with GPU preemption

• Lunch w/ researchers from RIKEN

  • Taiji Suzuki
  • Shinji Ito

Day2 (7/23 Tue)

• Opening Remarks

  • Acceptance rate: 27%
  • trend: LLM

• Coffee break

  • meet
    • Masatoshi Uehara (UW Madison)
    • Ryuichiro Hataya (RIKEN)
    • Yuka Hashimoto (RIKEN)
    • Arthur Gretton (UCL, DeepMind)

• Poster Session

  • meet
    • Charles Guille-Escuret (Mila)
    • Amine Elhattami (ServiceNow)
    • Trenton Chang (MSR)
    • Kaito Ariu (KTH)
  • work
    • WIP
      • tons of interesting works

• Lunch

  • Andreas Madsen (PolyTech)
    • Are self-explanations from Large Language Models faithful?
  • Rio Yokota (Tokyo Tech)

Day3 (7/24 Wed)

• Our poster presentation (13:00-)

  • No Wrong Turns: The Simple Geometry Of Neural Networks Optimization Paths
  • ICML portal
  • paper
• I felt sick and stayed in my room almost all day.
• I was diagnosed as COVID-19 positive.

Day4 (7/25 Thu)

• Stay Hotel due to COVID-19

Day5 (7/26 Fri)

• Stay Hotel due to COVID-19

Papers

Industry

Google DeepMind

• home page

• papers

  • Information Complexity of Stochastic Convex Optimization: Applications to Generalization and Memorization
  • LEVI: Generalizable Fine-tuning via Layer-wise Ensemble of Different Views
  • Interpretability Illusions in the Generalization of Simplified Models
  • Position: Leverage Foundational Models for Black-Box Optimization
    • With Sakana.AI

Microsoft Research

• home page

• papers

  • Precise Accuracy / Robustness Tradeoffs in Regression: Case of General Norms
  • Tag-LLM: Repurposing General-Purpose LLMs for Specialized Domains
  • Selective Mixup Helps with Distribution Shifts, But Not (Only) because of Mixup
    • Author: Damien Teney
  • DoRA: Weight-Decomposed Low-Rank Adaptation
  • Open-Vocabulary Calibration for Vision-Language Models
  • Breaking through the learning plateaus of in-context learning in Transformer

Apple MLR

• home page

• papers

  • Optimization Without Retraction on the Random Generalized Stiefel Manifold
  • Knowledge Transfer from Vision Foundation Models for Efficient Training of Small Task-specific Models
  • Careful With That Scalpel: Improving Gradient Surgery With an EMA
  • Revealing the Utilized Rank of Subspaces of Learning in Neural Networks

Amazon Science

• home page

• papers

  • MADA: Meta-adaptive optimizers through hyper-gradient descent
  • Multicalibration for confidence scoring in LLMs
  • Transferring knowledge from large foundation models to small downstream models
  • Using uncertainty quantification to characterize and improve out-of-domain learning for PDEs
  • Variance-reduced zeroth-order methods for fine-tuning language models

Acknowlegements

I want to thank my PhD supervisor Ioannis Mitliagkas (Mila, UdeM) for supporting my participation in the ICML.