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Deep Declarative Networks

CVPR 2020 Workshop

Deep Declarative Networks

CVPR 2020 Workshop, 14 June, Seattle, Washington, USA


:information_source: (15 June 2020): All recorded talks are available here.


Program | Speakers | Papers | Submission | Dates | Organizers

Conventional deep learning architectures involve composition of simple feedforward processing functions that are explicitly defined. Recently, researchers have been exploring deep learning models with implicitly defined components. To distinguish these from conventional deep learning models we call them deep declarative networks, borrowing nomenclature from the programming languages community (Gould et al., 2019).

Processing nodes in deep declarative networks involve solving an optimization problem in the forward pass. End-to-end learning back-propagates gradients through the node, which requires the optimization problem to be differentiable. A few recent works have studied various optimization problem classes and shown how backpropagation is possible even without the knowledge of the algorithm used for solving the problem in the first place (Agrawal et al., 2019b; Agrawal et al., 2019a; Amos, 2019; Pfau et al. 2019; Amos and Kotler, 2017; Gould et al., 2016). The ideas have been applied to various problems including video classification (Fernando and Gould, 2016; Cherian et al., 2017, Wang and Cherian, 2019), attribute ranking (Santa Cruz et al., 2018), meta-learning (Lee et al., 2019), and model predictive control (Amos et al., 2018).

Variants of deep declarative networks have also been studied recently such as methods for imposing hard constraints on the output of neural network models (Neila et al., 2017), novel models based on back-propagating through ordinary differential equations (Chen et al., 2018), approximating maximum satisfiability (MAXSAT) problems (Wang et al., 2019), and combinatorial submodular functions (Tschiatschek et al., 2018).

Topics

This workshop explores the advantages (and potential shortcomings) of declarative networks and their variants, bringing ideas developed in different contexts under a common umbrella. We will discuss technical issues that need to be overcome in developing such models and applications of these models to computer vision problems that show benefit over conventional approaches. Topics include:

Program

The workshop is 100% virtual and will run as a 12+12 format, 9:15am (14 June) to 4:00pm (14 June) PDT and repeating 9:15pm (14 June) to 4:00am (15 June) PDT. The program includes a mix of live and pre-recorded talks, Q&A and poster sessions, and asynchronous discussion forums. Times below are given for the first instance; add 12 hours for the repeated sessions.

Time (PDT) Time (EDT) Time (CEST) Time (AEST) Session
9:15am 12:15pm 6:15pm 2:15am Welcome
9:30am 12:30pm 6:30pm 2:30am Invited talk #1 (Amos)
10:00am 1:00pm 7:00pm 3:00am Invited talk #2 (Chen)
10:30am 1:30pm 7:30pm 3:30am Invited talk #3 (Finn)
11:00am 2:00pm 8:00pm 4:00am Break
11:15am 2:15pm 8:15pm 4:15am Paper orals
12:30pm 3:30pm 9:30pm 5:30am Poster session
2:00pm 5:00pm 11:00pm 7:00am Invited talk #4 (Fua)
2:30pm 5:30pm 11:30pm 7:30am Invited talk #5 (Maji)
3:00pm 6:00pm 12:00am 8:00am Invited talk #6 (Kolter)
3:30pm 6:30pm 12:30am 8:30am Closing remarks

Invited Speakers

Brandon Amos
Facebook AI
Ricky TQ Chen
University of Toronto
Chelsea Finn
Stanford

Accepted Papers

Submission

We invite paper submissions of up to four (4) pages describing work in areas related to the workshop topics.

Accepted submissions will be presented as short orals or posters at the workshop and will appear on the workshop website. Authors will be given an opportunity to revise the submission before posting on the website. Papers should follow the CVPR formatting guidelines and emailed as a single PDF to cvpr2020@deepdeclarativenetworks.com, with subject line Paper: <title>. Submissions are not anonymous (and should include all authors’ names and affiliations). References are to be included in the 4-page limit.

Dual Submissions

We encourage submissions of preliminary or ongoing work. Accepted papers will not appear in the official IEEE proceedings but will be made public on this website. Relevant work that has previously been published or is to be presented at the main conference is also welcome.

Important Dates

Organizers


Contact: cvpr2020@deepdeclarativenetworks.com