M3S Presents Advancements in Deep Learning at the International Conference on Learning Representations 2025

The M3S team participated at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2025, a globally renowned conference for cutting-edge research on all aspects of deep learning used in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI), statistics and data science; and important application areas including machine vision, computational biology, speech recognition, text understanding, gaming, and robotics from the 24th - 28th April 2025.

The conference brought together a diverse group of professionals dedicated to the advancement of deep learning, from academic and industrial researchers, to entrepreneurs, engineers, graduate students and postdocs. The conference provided an invaluable platform for the M3S researchers to not only present their groundbreaking papers but also to engage in insightful discussions with industry leaders and fellow innovators.

Dr Yunhan Zheng, Senior Postdoctoral Associate at M3S, at ICLR 2025

Dr Arun Verma, Postdoctoral Associate at M3S (first from left), engaging in a discussion on the research paper

The M3S researchers presented several impactful research papers, developed in collaboration with researchers from partner institutions, and showcased their research findings across a wide spectrum of deep learning topics — from innovative neural contextual dueling bandit frameworks to advancements in large language models. Key papers presented include:

• ‘Group-robust Sample Reweighting for Subpopulation Shifts via Influence Functions’

• ‘Neural Dueling Bandits: Preference-Based Optimization with Human Feedback’

• ‘GETS: Ensemble Temperature Scaling for Calibration in Graph Neural Networks’

• ‘Understanding the Relationship between Prompts and Response Uncertainty in Large Language Models’

• ‘Active Human Feedback Collection via Neural Contextual Dueling Bandits’

Rui Qiao, Postdoctoral Associate at M3S (middle), and Dr Zhaoxuan Wu, Postdoctoral Associate at M3S (most right) at ICLR 2025

M3S’ participation at the ICLR 2025 underscores their commitment to pushing the boundaries of AI, automation and robotics through impactful research and meaningful collaborations.