Schedule (EST Time)




Session 1
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Pre-workshop networking on Slack/Zoom
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM Opening Remarks
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM Invited Talk 1: Building a New Economy: Federated Learning and Beyond (Alex Pentland)
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM Contributed Talk 1:
A Unified Framework to Understand Decentralized and Federated Optimization Algorithms:
A Multi-Rate Feedback Control Perspective
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM Contributed Talk 2:
Personalized Neural Architecture Search for Federated Learning
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Contributed Talk 3:
Architecture Personalization in Resource-constrained Federated Learning
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM Invited Talk 2: Permutation Compressor for Provably Faster Distributed Nonconvex Optimization (Peter Richtarik)
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM Invited Talk 3: Bringing Differential Private SGD to Practice: On the Independence of Gaussian Noise and the Number of Training Rounds (Marten van Dijk)
Session 2
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM Virtual lunch break with opportunities
for socialization on Slack/Zoom
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Invited Talk 4: Fair or Robust: Addressing Competing Constraints in Federated Learning (Virginia Smith)
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Contributed Talk 4:
Sharp Bounds for Federated Averaging (Local SGD) and Continuous Perspective
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Contributed Talk 5:
Efficient and Private Federated Learning with Partially Trainable Networks
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Contributed Talk 6:
FLoRA: Single-shot Hyper-parameter Optimization for Federated Learning
Session 3
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Poster session with opportunities
for socialization on Slack/Zoom
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM Invited Talk 5: Towards Building a Responsible Data Economy (Dawn Song)
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM Invited Talk 6: Personalization in Federated Learning: Adaptation and Clustering (Asu Ozdaglar)
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM Closing Remarks
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM Post-workshop networking on Slack/Zoom
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