Apple sponsored the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). It was held virtually from April 25 to 29. ICLR is a gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of deep learning.

Accepted Papers

Information Gain Propagation: A New Way to Graph Active Learning with Soft Labels Wentao Zhang, Yexin Wang, Zhenbang You, Meng Cao, Ping Huang, Jiulong Shan, Zhi Yang, Bin Cui

MobileViT: Light-weight, General Purpose, and Mobile-friendly Vision Transformer Sachin Mehta, Mohammad Rastegari

Neural Fisher Kernel: Low-rank Approximation and Knowledge Distillation Ruixiang Zhang, Shuangfei Zhai, Etai Littwin, Josh Susskind

Train-time Weight Clustering for Neural Network Compression with Differentiable K-Means Minsik Cho, Keivan Alizadeh-Vahid, Saurabh Adya, Mohammad Rastegari

Talks and Workshops

“Meet Apple” is an opportunity to hear from the authors of our accepted paper, as well as a few hiring managers and recruiters from our AIML teams. This talk will be held virtually on April 26 at 2:00 pm PDT.

All registered ICLR attendees are invited to attend this event. Visit our virtual booth for more information on how to join.

Affinity Events

Apple is a sponsor of LatinX in AI, who will be holding a social at ICLR on Monday, April 25 at 8:00 am PDT.

Apple is also a sponsor of Women in Machine Learning and Queer in AI. Women in Machine Learning will be holding a social on Monday, April 25 at 11:00 am PDT. Queer in AI will be holding socials on Tuesday, April 26 at 11:00 am and 7:00 pm PDT.

Learn more about Apple’s company-wide efforts in inclusion and diversity.

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