IdePHICS @ NeurIPS 2020

© 2020 EPFL

© 2020 EPFL

Six IdePHICS papers have been accepted to thirty-fourth conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), putting the lab among the top academic contributors to the conference. Due to Covid-19, this year NeurIPS edition will be a virtual-only conference held from Sunday, December 6th through Saturday, December 12th, 2020.
The accepted IdePHICS papers are as follows:

Direct Feedback Alignment Scales to Modern Deep Learning Tasks and Architectures
Julien Launay (LightOn) · Iacopo Poli (LightOn) · François Boniface (LightOn) · Florent Krzakala (ENS Paris, Sorbonnes Université & EPFL)

Generalization error in high-dimensional perceptrons: Approaching Bayes error with convex optimization
Benjamin Aubin (Ipht Saclay) · Florent Krzakala (ENS Paris, Sorbonnes Université & EPFL) · Yue Lu (Harvard University) · Lenka Zdeborová (University Paris-Saclay & EPFL)

Reservoir Computing meets Recurrent Kernels and Structured Transforms
Jonathan Dong (Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel) · Ruben Ohana (Ecole Normale Supérieure & LightOn) · Mushegh Rafayelyan (Kastler-Brossel Laboratory (ENS, Sorbonne U., PSL U., CNRS, Collège de France)) · Florent Krzakala (ENS Paris, Sorbonnes Université & EPFL)

Phase retrieval in high dimensions: Statistical and computational phase transitions
Antoine Maillard (Ecole Normale Supérieure) · Bruno Loureiro (IPhT Saclay) · Florent Krzakala (ENS Paris, Sorbonnes Université & EPFL) · Lenka Zdeborová (University Paris-Saclay & EPFL)

Dynamical mean-field theory for stochastic gradient descent in Gaussian mixture classification
Francesca Mignacco (IPhT, CEA Saclay) · Florent Krzakala (ENS Paris, Sorbonnes Université & EPFL) · Pierfrancesco Urbani (Institut de Physique Théorique) · Lenka Zdeborová (University Paris-Saclay & EPFL)

Complex Dynamics in Simple Neural Networks: Understanding Gradient Flow in Phase Retrieval
Stefano Sarao Mannelli (Institut de Physique Théorique) · Giulio Biroli (ENS) · Chiara Cammarota (King's College London) · Florent Krzakala (ENS Paris, Sorbonnes Université & EPFL) · Pierfrancesco Urbani (Institut de Physique Théorique) · Lenka Zdeborová (University Paris-Saclay & EPFL)