PyTorch Conference 2024

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PyTorch Conference 2024

September 18-19, 2024
San Francisco, California
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7:30am PDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up Gateway Pavilion - Foyer

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Welcome & Opening Remarks - Matt White, Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation Festival Pavilion - Keynote Room

9:12am PDT

Keynote: PyTorch Technical Deep Dive - Piotr Bialecki, NVIDIA; Peng Wu, Will Constable, Kartikay Khandelwal & Mengtao (Martin) Yuan, Meta Festival Pavilion - Keynote Room

10:14am PDT

Keynote: Open Language Models (OLMo): Accelerating the Science of Language Modeling - Hanna Hajishirzi, Senior Director NLP Research, Allen Institute for AI Festival Pavilion - Keynote Room

10:30am PDT

Keynote: Enabling Generative AI on the Edge - Cormac Brick, Principal Engineer, Google Festival Pavilion - Keynote Room

10:45am PDT

Coffee Break Gateway Pavilion - Sponsor Showcase Sponsor Showcase Gateway Pavilion - Sponsor Showcase

11:10am PDT

Lightning Talk: What’s New in Export? - Angela Yi, Tugsbayasgalan Manlaibaatar, Avik Chaudhuri & Yidi Wu, Meta Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room A Meta Llama 3 and the Future of Responsible AI Development - Spencer Whitman & Vincent Gonguet, Meta Gateway Pavilion - Cowell Theater Sponsored Session: NeMo-Aligner: A Scalable Toolkit for Model Alignment - Gerald Shen & Jimmy Zhang, NVIDIA Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room B

11:25am PDT

Lightning Talk: Low Precision Dtypes in PyTorch - Vasiliy Kuznetsov, Meta Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room A

11:40am PDT

Lightning Talk: HieroGlyph2Text: A PyTorch-Powered Pipeline for Automated Egyptian Hieroglyph Translation from Image - Susi Gentsch, University of Bonn Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room B Building Scientific Computing Infrastructure Software with the PyTorch Ecosystem - Bharath Ramsundar, Deep Forest Sciences Gateway Pavilion - Cowell Theater ExecuTorch Beta and on-Device Generative AI Support - Mergen Nachin & Mengtao (Martin) Yuan, Meta Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room A

11:55am PDT

Lightning Talk: Mobile Computational Photography with PyTorch: Low-Light Denoising - Alexis Baudron, Sony Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room B

12:05pm PDT

Lunch (Provided Onsite for All Attendees) Gateway Pavilion - Sponsor Showcase

12:10pm PDT

Women and Non-Binary in PyTorch Lunch - Sponsored by Google Gateway Pavilion - Gallery 2

1:15pm PDT

Sponsored Keynote: The Lightning AI OSS Stack for Accelerating the AI Lifecycle - Luca Antiga, CTO, Lightning AI Festival Pavilion - Keynote Room

1:20pm PDT

Sponsored Keynote: Enabling AI Everywhere with PyTorch and Intel - Kismat Singh,VP of Engineering for AI Frameworks, Intel Festival Pavilion - Keynote Room

1:30pm PDT

Sponsored Keynote: From Containers to Cognition: Conducting the AI Orchestra - Taylor Dolezal, Head of Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Festival Pavilion - Keynote Room

1:35pm PDT

Keynote Panel Discussion: Responsible AI - Kate Rooney, CNBC; Kush Varshney, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center; Sara Hooker, C4AI; Aleksander Madry, OpenAI; Rishi Bommasani, Stanford University Festival Pavilion - Keynote Room

2:10pm PDT

Maximizing Training Throughput Using Torch.Compile and FSDP - Linsong Chu & Antoni Viros i Martin, IBM Research; Brian Vaughan, IBM Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room B State of PyTorch - Ji Li & Damien Sereni, Meta Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room A The Impact and Challenges of Open Source Generative Datasets and Models - Aaron Gokaslan, Cornell University Gateway Pavilion - Cowell Theater

2:40pm PDT

Lightning Talk: Beyond Zero: Eliminating Vulnerabilities in PyTorch Container Images - Patrick Smyth, Dan Fernandez & Srishti Hegde, Chainguard Gateway Pavilion - Cowell Theater Running State-of-Art Gen AI Models on-Device with NPU Acceleration - Felix Baum, Qualcomm Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room B Sponsored Session: Accelerating AI Innovation: High Performance PyTorch at AMD - Robert Suderman & Ian Nordeng, AMD Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room A

2:55pm PDT

Lightning Talk: Sparsifying Vision Transformers with Minimal Accuracy Loss - Jesse Cai, Meta Gateway Pavilion - Cowell Theater

3:10pm PDT

Lightning Talk: A Whirlwind Tour of PyTorch Extension Points - Alban Desmaison, Meta Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room A Lightning Talk: PyTorch/XLA Auto-Sharding - Yeounoh Chung, Google Gateway Pavilion - Cowell Theater TorchInductor CPU Backend Advancements: New Features and Performance Improvements - Jiong Gong & Leslie Fang, Intel Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room B

3:25pm PDT

Lightning Talk: Extending PyTorch with Custom Python/C++/CUDA Operators - Richard Zou, Meta Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room A Lightning Talk: Introduction to Torch.Distributed.Pipelining - Howard Huang & Ke Wen, Meta Gateway Pavilion - Cowell Theater

3:35pm PDT

Coffee Break Gateway Pavilion - Sponsor Showcase

3:45pm PDT

Sponsor Scavenger Hunt Raffle Drawing Gateway Pavilion - Sponsor Showcase

4:00pm PDT

Welcome to the PyTorch Ecosystem for LLM Fine-tuning Mini Summit - Kartikay Khandelwal, Meta Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room A [HALIDE] A Halide Backend for TorchInductor - Jason Ansel, Meta Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room B Lightning Talk: On-Device Profiling and Debugging with ExecuTorch - Olivia Liu & Vaun Puri, Meta Gateway Pavilion - Cowell Theater

4:05pm PDT

The State of the Llama Ecosystem - Joe Spisak, Meta Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room A

4:10pm PDT

[MLIR] Enabling Composition of Kernels and Compilers - Jacques Pienaar, Google Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room B

4:15pm PDT

The Challenges of Building an Opinionated Open Source LLM Framework - Wing Lian, Axolotl AI Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room A Lightning Talk: In-Transit Machine Learning Using PyTorch on Frontier Exascale System - Vineeth Gutta, University of Delaware Gateway Pavilion - Cowell Theater

4:20pm PDT

[TRITON] Maximizing Kernel Development Productivity Under Performance Constraints - Philip Tillet, OpenAI Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room B

4:25pm PDT

Hacks to Make LLM Training Faster - Daniel Han, Unsloth AI Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room A

4:30pm PDT

[TVM] Universally Deploy Large-language Models via ML Compilation - Tianqi Chen, CMU & OctoAI Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room B A Distributed Stateful Dataloader for Large-Scale Pretraining - Davis Wertheimer, IBM & Linsong Chu, IBM Research Gateway Pavilion - Cowell Theater

4:35pm PDT

torchtune: Easy and Accessible Finetuning in Native PyTorch - Evan Smothers, Meta Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room A

4:40pm PDT

[MOJO] Lifting PT to New Heights with MAX and Mojo - Mikhail Zolotukhin, Modular Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room B

4:45pm PDT

Panel Discussion - Tim Dettmers, AI2/Carnegie Melon; Hailey Schoelkopf, EleutherAI; Aakanksha Chowdhery, Meta; Alexis Conneau, OpenAI; Moderated by Kartikay Khandelwal, Meta Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room A

4:50pm PDT

Together Goes Brrr: Threading Research & Production with Torch Compile - Pragaash Ponnusamy, together.ai Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room B

5:00pm PDT

Pushing the Performance Envelope: An Optimization Study for 3D Generative Modelling with PyTorch - Suvaditya Mukherjee & Shireen Chand, University of Southern California Gateway Pavilion - Cowell Theater DL Compiler Panel Discussion - Philip Tillet, OpenAI; Jason Ansel, Meta; Jacques Pienaar, Google; Tianqi Chen, CMU & OctoAI; Mikhail Zolotukhin, Modular; Peng Wu, Meta Festival Pavilion - Breakout Room B

5:30pm PDT

Attendee Welcome Reception Sponsored by Lightning AI Gateway Pavilion - Sponsor Showcase Poster Presentations Gateway Pavilion - Sponsor Showcase