The times are given in the local Montreal time (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-5).
The conference will take place at the Agora of Mila, which is located at 6650, Rue Saint-Urbain, Montreal, QC, H2S 3H1.
Day 1 - Background - November 8th 2023
This session is designed to provide pre-requisites on graphs and probability theory. It aims to level the audience who may feel a little behind on these topics or would like a refresher. It covers the essential requirements to understand the material presented on Day 2 and Day 3.
| Time (EST) | Session | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Registration | ||
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Opening Remarks | ||
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Talk | Vitória Barin Pacela | Introduction to Probability |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Talk | Tristan Deleu | Probabilistic Modeling |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Talk | Sébastien Lachapelle | Probabilistic Inference |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Talk | Pablo Lemos | Sampling Methods |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Talk | Padideh Nouri | Sampling with Reinforcement Learning |
Day 2 - Fundamentals - November 9th 2023
The focus is to provide motivation and introduce basic to moderate theory related to GFlowNets. The sessions will delve into the fundamental concepts and principles, ensuring a solid theoretical foundation.
Both practical sessions can be done on Google Colab ( Session 1 Problem Set, Session 1 Solutions, Session 2 Problem Set, Session 2 Solutions, ), or locally using the IPython notebooks found on GitHub,
| Time (EST) | Session | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Registration | ||
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Talk | Yoshua Bengio | Opening Remarks |
| 09:30 - 10:15 | Talk | Emmanuel Bengio | Introduction to GFlowNets: Part 1 |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Talk | Nikolay Malkin | Introduction to GFlowNets: Part 2 |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Break | ||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Talk | Jarrid Rector-Brooks | Training GFlowNets |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Talk | Joseph Viviano | Hands-on: Training GFlowNets |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 - 14:40 | Talk | Moksh Jain | Parameterization and Conditioning |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Talk | Léna Néhale Ezzine | Maximum Likelihood Training |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Break | ||
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Talk | Salem Lahlou | Continuous GFlowNets |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Break | ||
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Talk | Joseph Viviano | Hands-on: Continuous GFlowNets |
| 17:30 - 20:30 | Social |
Day 3 - Applications - November 10th 2023
This section will include a code tutorial, practical applications, and engaging discussions. Participants will have the opportunity to apply the concepts learned on Day-1 to real-world scenarios, enhancing their understanding through hands-on practice.
| Time (EST) | Session | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Registration | ||
| 09:00 - 11:15 | Short talks | GFlowNets for scientific discovery | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Talk | Introduction | |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Talk | Moksh Jain | Biological sequence design |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Talk | Emmanuel Bengio | Molecular design |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Talk | Léna Néhale Ezzine, Alexandra Volokhova | Molecular and protein conformation generation |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Break | ||
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Talk | Alex Hernandez-Garcia | Materials discovery |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Talk | Mizu Nishikawa-Toomey | Causal discovery |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Talk | Dinghuai Zhang | Combinatorial optimisation |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Talk | Nikolay Malkin | Language models |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Break | ||
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Talk | Emmanuel Bengio | Evaluation metrics for GFlowNets |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Tutorial | Alex Hernandez-Garcia | Live coding of a GFlowNet environment |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Break | ||
| 15:15 - 16:30 | Interactive | Organisers | GFlowNets Clinic: what it is for and what it is not |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Break | ||
| 16:45 - 17:30 | Talk | Yoshua Bengio | Open problems and future perspective |