Neural Compression @ICLR 2021
Neural Compression Workshop @ ICLR 2021
From Information Theory to Applications
Data compression is a problem of great practical importance and a new frontier for machine learning research that combines empirical findings with fundamental theoretical insights. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from deep learning, information theory, and probabilistic modeling in oder to learn from each other and to encourage exchange on fundamentally novel issues related to neural data compression.
Important update: The entire ICLR conference and all workshops have been pushed up by one day. The workshop is now scheduled for Friday, May 7, 2021.
Topics
The workshop solicits work related to neural data compression ranging from information-theoretical aspects to solving issues related to applications.
Submissions are invited for topics on, but not limited to:
- Image/Video/Audio Compression with AutoEncoders, Flows, AutoRegressive models, Generative Adversarial networks, etc.
- Neural Network Compression
- Probabilistic Modeling and Variational Inference for Compression
- Entropy Coding
- Minimal Description Length Theory
- Information Theory and Source Coding
Important Dates
- Submission deadline:
Feb 26, 2021extended to Feb 28, 2021 (11:59pm anywhere on earth) - Notification data: March 26, 2021
- New Workshop date:
May 8, 2021May 7, 2021 (please note that ICLR has been pushed up by one day)
Submission Instructions
We solicit short workshop paper submissions of up to 4 pages + unlimited references/appendices. Please format submissions in ICLR style. Submissions will be double blind: reviewers cannot see author names when conducting reviews, and authors cannot see reviewer names.
Some accepted papers will be accepted as contributed talks. All accepted papers will be given a slot in the poster presentation session and published via Openreview after the workshop.
Paper submissions should be made through OpenReview and further information will be available at CFP. Please send your inquiries by email to the organizers at neural.compression.workshop@gmail.com.
Speakers
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| Fabian Mentzer ETH Zurich |
Naftali Tishby Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Rianne van den Berg Google Brain |
Oren Rippel WaveOne |
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| Jonathan Ho |
Johannes Ballé |
Panelists
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| Alex Alemi Senior Research Scientist, Google |
Irina Higgins DeepMind |
Philipp Krähenbühl University of Texas at Austin |
Jakub Tomczak Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
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| Leonardo Chiariglione Co-founder and chair of MPEG; MPAI |
Scott Labrozzi VP, Core Media Technology/Engineering Fellow, Disney Streaming Services |
Organizers
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| Stephan Mandt University of California, Irvine |
Robert Bamler University of Tübingen, Germany |
Yingzhen Li Imperial College London, UK |
Christopher Schroers Disney Research Studios |
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| Max Welling University of Amsterdam; Qualcomm AI Research |
Yang Yang Qualcomm AI Research |
Taco Cohen Qualcomm AI Research |
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