All talks listed in Pacific Time. Schedule subject to change.

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Coffee and Check-in
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Opening Remarks
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Combining innate concepts with learning to perceive the world
Shimon Ullman (Weizmann Institute)
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Break
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Reverse engineering the human brain mechanisms of object perception and object learning
Jim DiCarlo (MIT)
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Lightning Talk: Shiry Ginosar
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Lunch (on your own)
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Neural computations for geometric reasoning
Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley)
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Characterizing the impact of noise on neural computation
Alex Williams (NYU, Flatiron Institute)
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Toward a Theory of Perspective Perception in Pictures
Aaron Hertzmann (Adobe)
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Break
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Seeing Faces in Things: A Model and Dataset for Pareidolia
Bill Freeman (MIT)
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Discussion (Lead: Shiry Ginosar)
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Reception
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Coffee and Check-in
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Audio-visual self-supervised baby learning
Andrew Zisserman (Oxford University)
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Lightning Talk: Eunice Yiu
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Break
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Linking Learning and Control via the Apical Dendrites
Blake Richards (McGill University)
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Lunch (on your own)
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Empowerment Gain as Causal Learning
Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley)
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How does human and primate intelligence compare?
Amanda Seed (University of St Andrews)
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Break
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Lightning Talk: Louis Kang
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Putting ourselves out of business
Ted Adelson (MIT)
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Discussion (Lead: Shimon Ullman)
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Coffee and Check-in
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Manipulation teaches perception about abstraction
Pietro Perona (California Institute of Technology)
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Break
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Climbing the Ladder of Causation Toward Mid-Level Vision
Dan Yamins (Stanford University)
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A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent
Antonio Torralba (MIT)
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Lunch (on your own)
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Physical problem-solving in minds and machines
Kelsey Allen (DeepMind)
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Relational Predictive Reasoning in Brains and Machines
Kim Stachenfeld (DeepMind, Columbia)
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Break
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Going beyond the here and now: Counterfactual simulation in human cognition
Tobias Gerstenberg (Stanford University)
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Through a glass, darkly: Approximations, hacks, and workarounds in intuitive physics and imagination
Tomer Ullman (Harvard University)
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Discussion (Lead: Blake Richards)
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New Models of Human Hearing via Machine Learning
Josh McDermott (MIT)
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Auditory cortex plasticity supports social learning
Dan Sanes (Center for Neural Science, New York University)
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Break
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Principles of learning in distributed neural networks
Andrew Saxe (University College London)
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The Evolutionary Sweet-Spot for Cognition
Thomas Morgan (Arizona State)
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Discussion (Lead: Alyosha Efros)
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Coffee and Check-in
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A Bottom-up Approach to Sensorimotor Learning
Deepak Pathak (CMU)
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Pathway to Robot Intelligence
Pulkit Agrawal (MIT)
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Break
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The Role of Prior Data in Rapid Learning of Motor Skills
Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley)
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Lightning Talk: Gily Ginosar
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Lunch (on your own)
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Talk by
Jitendra Malik (UC Berkeley)
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The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
Phillip Isola (MIT)
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Break
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Lightning Talks: Tongzhou Wang, Antonio Loquercio, and Annya Dahmani
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Discussion (Lead: Amanda Seed)
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Closing Words
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