Rump Session

Saturday, 16 January 2027

Rump Session I

Start time Speaker & Title End time Assigned time Actual time
18:00 Dr. A. Sharma
Why Gradient Descent Still Surprises Us 		18:05 5 min
18:05 Prof. V. Singh
Convexity: Myth or Reality? 		18:10 5 min
18:10 Dr. N. Gupta
When Optimization Fails Gracefully 		18:15 5 min
18:15 Prof. A. Mehta
Deep Learning Without Optimization? 		18:20 5 min
18:20 Dr. S. Iyer
Noise is Not Always the Enemy 		18:25 5 min
18:25 Prof. K. Verma
RL Optimization: Still an Open Problem 		18:30 5 min
18:30 Open Floor & Lightning Discussions

Rump Session II

Start time Speaker & Title End time Assigned time Actual time
19:00 Dr. P. Nair
Scaling Optimization to Billions of Parameters 		19:05 5 min
19:05 Prof. R. Das
Second-Order Methods Are Back? 		19:10 5 min
19:10 Dr. R. Malhotra
Probabilistic Optimization: Where Next? 		19:15 5 min
19:15 Prof. A. Banerjee
Generalization vs Optimization 		19:20 5 min
19:20 Dr. K. Roy
Vision Models and Optimization Limits 		19:25 5 min
19:25 Prof. M. Iyer
NLP Optimization at Scale 		19:30 5 min
19:30 Open Floor, Debate & Informal Interaction