Tutorials
Hands-On Tutorial
| Hands-On Tutorial List |
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| Aug. 9 Morning Hands-on Tutorials |
| Building Agentic AI Systems with LangGraph: From LLM Pipelines to Multi-Agent Decision Workflows Mohammad Amin Kuhail (Zayed Univ.) |
| Aug. 9 Afternoon Hands-on Tutorials |
| End-to-End Learning for Partially-Observed Time Series with PyPOTS Wenjie Du (PyPOTS Research) · Yiyuan Yang (Oxford) · Tianxiang Zhan (UESTC), et al. |
| Aug. 10 Morning Hands-on Tutorials |
| Taming Structured Data Foundation Models with AutoML: A Hands-On Guide Boran Han (AWS) · Nick Erickson (Prior Labs) · Abdul Ansari (AWS), et al. |
| Aug. 10 Afternoon Hands-on Tutorials |
| Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models: From Theory to Practice with Amazon SageMaker AI Zhe Wang (Amazon) · Sapana Chaudhary (Amazon) · Jiayu Li (Amazon), et al. |
| Aug. 11 Afternoon Hands-on Tutorials |
| Evidencing LLM Misuse: A Hands-on Forensic Tutorial on Copyright Infringement and Plagiarism Detection Denghui Zhang (Stevens Inst. of Tech.) · Guangwei Zhang (Pine AI) · Dongwon Lee (Penn State) |
| OneEHR: Reproducible and AI Agent-Ready Longitudinal EHR Analysis Toolkit Yinghao Zhu (Univ. of Zurich) · Zixiang Wang (Peking Univ.) · Lei Gu (Peking Univ.), et al. |
| Building Reliable Industrial Agents with MCP: A Hands-on AssetOpsBench Tutorial for AI-Driven Operations Dhaval Patel (IBM Research) · Chathurangi Shyalika (USC) · Shuxin Lin (IBM Research), et al. |
| A Hands-on Tutorial for Diffusion Language Models with dLLM Zhanhui Zhou (UC Berkeley) · Lingjie Chen (UIUC) · Hanghang Tong (UIUC), et al. |
| Aug. 12 Afternoon Hands-on Tutorials |
| Systematic Diagnosis and Benchmarking of Memory Systems in Autonomous AI Research Agents: A Low-Resource Framework Nur Arifin Akbar (Univ. of Palermo) |
Lecture-Style Tutorial
| Lecture-Style Tutorial List |
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| Aug. 9 Morning Lecture-Style Tutorials |
| Foundation Models for Time Series Analysis: Concepts, Methodologies, and Applications Yuxuan Liang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)) · Haomin Wen (CMU) · Yushan Jiang (University of Connecticut) · Ming Jin (Griffith University ) · Dongjin Song (University of Connecticut) · Min Wu (A*STAR) · Shirui Pan (Griffith University) · Qingsong Wen (Squirrel Ai Learning) |
| Beyond Graph Distribution Shifts: LLMs, Adaptation, and Generalization Xin Wang (Tsinghua University) · Haoyang Li (Tsinghua University) · Haibo Chen (Tsinghua University) · Wenwu Zhu (Tsinghua University) |
| Tutorial on Generative Recommendation: Foundations and Frontiers Xiaopeng Li (City University of Hong Kong) · Yejing Wang (City University of Hong Kong) · Honghui Bao (Kuaishou Technology) · Bo Chen (Kuaishou Technology) · Kuo Cai (Kuaishou Technology) · Wenlin Zhang (City University of Hong Kong) · Ziwei Liu (City University of Hong Kong) · Sheng Zhang (City University of Hong Kong) · Binhao Wang (City University of Hong Kong) · Qinglin Jia (Kuaishou Technology) · Qiang Luo (Kuaishou Technology) · Ruiming Tang (Kuaishou Technology) · Xiangyu Zhao (City University of Hong Kong) |
| Data Valuation for Generative Models Bingxue ZHANG (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology) · Feida ZHU (Singapore Management University) · Zhenzhe ZHENG (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) · Jian PEI (Duke University) |
| AI for Precision Medicine: Histopathology-centered Computational analysis of Spatial Omics: Integration, Mapping, and Foundation Models Ninghui Hao (Massachusetts General Hospital) · Boshen Yan (Carnegie Mellon University) · Dong Li (Baylor University) · Xintao Wu (University of Arkansas) · Chen Zhao (Baylor University) · Guihong Wan (University of Chicago) |
| Toward Generalist Models for Structured Data: Fundamentals, Emerging Trends and Applications Peng Cui (Tsinghua University) · Xingxuan Zhang (Tsinghua University) · Han-Jia Ye (Nanjing University) · Jintai Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)) · Shuyang Li (Tsinghua University) |
| Hyperbolic Learning for Structured Data, Knowledge, and Memory: A Tutorial Jiahong Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) · Menglin Yang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)) · Irwin King (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| Aug. 9 Afternoon Lecture-Style Tutorials |
| A Tutorial on Retrieval-Augmented Generation for LLM-based Recommender Systems Sunwoo Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) · Geon Lee (KAIST) · Kyungho Kim (KAIST) · Liam Collins (Snap Incorporation) · Neil Shah (Snap Incorporation) · Kijung Shin (KAIST) |
| Agents in the Wild: Where Research Meets Deployment Grace Yang (Georgetown University) · Pranav Venkit (Salesforce) · Hooman Sedghamiz (Bayer) · Enrico Santus (Bloomberg) · Victor Dibia (Microsoft Research) · Ioana Baldini (Bloomberg) |
| Interpretability in the Era of Large Language Models: Mechanistic Methodology, Empirical Practices, and Applications Wei Zhang (Alibaba Cloud) · Zhengfu He (Fudan University) · Lulu Zhang (Alibaba Cloud) · Xuanjing Huang (Fudan University) · Jieping Ye (Alibaba Cloud) · Xu Shen (Alibaba Cloud) |
| Trustworthy LLM-Based Agents for Data-Centric AI Tianlong Chen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · Jian Pei (Duke University) · Minxing Zhang (Duke University) · Liang Zhao (Emory University) |
| When Models Leave the Training Distribution: A Tutorial on OOD Detection Suranga Seneviratne (University of Sydney) · Dishanika Denipitiyage (University of Sydney) · Sanjay Chawla (Qatar Computing Research Institute) · Aditya Menon (Google) |
| Teaching LLMs to Write System Kernels for AI Accelerators: Post-Training, Reasoning, and Agentic Optimization Youngsuk Park (Amazon Research) · Rajarshi Saha (Amazon Research) · Kaan Ozkara (Amazon Research) · Ziyang Xu (Amazon Research) · Shaowei Zhu (Amazon Research) · Jiin Woo (Carnegie Mellon University) · Lingfan Yu (Amazon Research) · Wei Tang (Amazon Research) · Zhen Jia (Amazon Research) · Emily Webber (Amazon Research) · Yida Wang (Amazon Research) |
| Aug. 10 Morning Lecture-Style Tutorials |
| From Generic Intelligence to Personalized AI: A Tutorial on Foundations of LLM Personalization Ruijie Wang (Beihang University) · Qingkai Zeng (Nankai University) · Xuefei Wang (Beihang University) · Yutong Ye (Beihang University) · Li Sun (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) · Jianxin Li (Beihang University) · Philip Yu (University of Illinois Chicago) |
| Generative AI and Large Language Models for Financial Markets: From Behavioral Prediction to Autonomous Trading Zangir Iklassov (MBZUAI) · Hachem Madmoun (MBZUAI) · Jean-Jacques Duhot (Brevan Howard) · Salem Lahlou (MBZUAI) |
| Structure Shapes the Future of DataxLLM Systems: Retrieval, Structuring, and Reasoning Pengcheng Jiang (UIUC) · Jiashuo Sun (UIUC) · Wonbin Kweon (UIUC) · Jiawei Han (UIUC) |
| Deep Multiple Clustering: From Foundations to Context-Aware Approaches Bangyu Zou (University of California, Irvine) · Jiawei Yao (Airbnb) · Huiji Gao (Airbnb) · Qi Qian (Meta) · Jian Pei (Duke University) · Juhua Hu (University of Washington) |
| Generative AI in Healthcare: Temporal Data Analysis and Sequential Decision-Making Kai Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology) · Alexander Rodríguez (University of Michigan) · Ananya Joshi (Johns Hopkins University) · Aparna Taneja (Google DeepMind) |
| Aug. 10 Afternoon Lecture-Style Tutorials |
| Discovery, Validation and Editing of Large Language Models Mechanisms: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives Yinhan He (UVA) · Wendy Zheng (Universty of Virginia) · Tianyi Zhao (University of Virginia) · Chen Chen (University of Virginia) · Jundong Li (University of Virginia) |
| Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)— From Modular to Agentic Systems Xin Luna Dong (amazon.com, fb.com) · Sanat Sharma (Meta) · Kai Sun (Meta) · Jiaqi Wang (Meta) · Yinglong Xia (Meta) · Xiao Yang (Meta) · Scott Wen-tau Yih (Meta) · Franklin Zhang (UW CSE) |
| Knowledge Discovery with Knowledge Graphs: From Structural Embeddings to Generative Reasoning Joyce Whang (KAIST) |
| From VAEs to Diffusion and LLMs: Modern Generative Models for Molecular Discovery Kehan Guo (University of Notre Dame) · Yili Shen (University of Notre Dame) · Jeeyhun Hwang (University of California, Los Angeles) · Yue Huang (University of Notre Dame) · Chijie Gao (University of Notre Dame) · Olexandr Isayev (Carnegie Mellon University) · Olaf Wiest (University of Notre Dame) · Wei Wang (University of California, Los Angeles) · Xiangliang Zhang (University of Notre Dame) |
| Beyond Prediction: Toward Verifiable Physiological Waveform Reasoning: Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions Xiaoda Wang (Emory University) · Ching Chang (University of California, Los Angeles) · Defu Cao (University of Southern California) · Kaiqiao Han (University of California, Los Angeles) · Fang Sun (University of California, Los Angeles) · Yue Huang (University of Notre Dame) · Minxiao Wang (Emory University) · Chang Xu (Microsoft Research) · Xiao Luo (University of Wisconsin–Madison) · Runze Yan (Emory University) · Xiangliang Zhang (University of Notre Dame) · Xiao Hu (Emory University) · Yan Liu (University of Southern California) · Yizhou Sun (University of California, Los Angeles) · Wei Wang (University of California, Los Angeles) · Carl Yang (Emory University) |