Introduction

Machine Learning for Creativity and Design

NeurIPS 2019 Workshop, Vancouver, Canada

Saturday December 14ᵗʰ 8:30 — 18:00

Image credit: Mario Klingemann's Neural Glitch from the NeurIPS 2018 creativity art gallery.

Introduction

Generative machine learning and machine creativity have continued to grow and attract a wider audience to machine learning. Generative models enable new types of media creation across images, music, and text - including recent advances such as StyleGAN, MuseNet and GPT-2. This one-day workshop broadly explores issues in the applications of machine learning to creativity and design. We will look at algorithms for generation and creation of new media, engaging researchers building the next generation of generative models (GANs, RL, etc). We investigate the social and cultural impact of these new models, engaging researchers from HCI/UX communities and those using machine learning to develop new creative tools. In addition to covering the technical advances, we also address the ethical concerns ranging from the use of biased datasets to the use of synthetic media such as “DeepFakes”. Finally, we’ll hear from some of the artists and musicians who are adopting machine learning including deep learning and reinforcement learning as part of their own artistic process. We aim to balance the technical issues and challenges of applying the latest generative models to creativity and design with philosophical and cultural issues that surround this area of research.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in advancing art and music generation to present new work, foster collaborations and build networks.

Invited Speakers

Sougwen Chung
Claire Evans (YACHT)
Giorgio Patrini (Deeptrace)
Alec Radford (OpenAI)

Important Dates

9 September 2019: Submission date for papers and art

1 October 2019: Acceptance notification for papers and art

1 December 2019: Deadline for final copy of accepted papers

8–14 December 2019: NeurIPS Conference

14 December 2019: Workshop

Contact

If you have any questions, please contact us at neurips2019creativity@gmail.com

Workshop website: https://neurips2019creativity.github.io

Schedule

Time	Event
Session 1	Livestream/Recording
8:15 AM	Welcome and Introduction
8:30 AM	Invited Talk Alec Radford (OpenAI) Transfer Learning for Text Generation
9:00 AM	Invited Talk Giorgio Patrini (Deeptrace) Deepfakes: commodification, consequences and countermeasures.
9:30 AM	AI art gallery overview Luba Elliott
9:45 AM	Art / Coffee Break
Session 2	Livestream/Recording
10:30 AM	Invited Talk Yann LeCun (?)
10:30 AM	Artist Lightning Talks
11:00 AM	Neural Painters: A learned differentiable constraint for generating brushstroke paintings Rei Nakano
11:10 AM	Transform the Set: Memory Attentive Generation of Guided and Unguided Image Collages Nikolay Jetchev, Roland Vollgraf
11:20 AM	Paper Dreams: An Interactive Interface for Generative Visual Expression Guillermo Bernal, Lily Zhou
11:30 AM	Deep reinforcement learning for 2D soft body locomotion Junior Rojas
11:40 AM	Towards Sustainable Architecture: 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation and Reverse Design Workflow Josef Musil
11:50 AM	Human and GAN collaboration to create haute couture dress Jun Seita, Tatsuki Koga
12:00 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	Poster Session 1 (papers 1-13, 23) Han-Hung Lee, Asir Saeed, Terence Broad, Jon Gillick, Aaron Hertzmann, Gunjan Aggarwal, Eun Jee Sung, Junghyun Park, John Mellor, Vincent Herrmann, Da Gin Wu, Seri Lee, Park Jieun, TaeJae Han, Wonseok Jung, Seungil Kim
Session 3	Livestream/Recording
2:30 PM	Invited Talk Claire Evans (YACHT) How to Chain Trip
3:00 PM	Invited Talk Sougwen Chung
3:30 PM	Art / Coffee Break
Session 4	Livestream/Recording
4:15 PM	MidiMe: Personalizing a MusicVAE model with user data Monica Dinculescu
4:25 PM	First Steps Towards Collaborative Poetry Generation David Uthus, Maria Voitovich
4:35 PM	Open discussion
5:00 PM	Poster Session 2 (papers 14-22, 24-28) Mayur Saxena, Nicholas Frosst, Vivien Cabannes, Gene Kogan, Austin Dill, Anurag Sarkar, Joel Ruben Antony Moniz, Vibert Thio, Scott Sievert, Lia Coleman, Frederik De Bleser, Brian Quanz, Jonathon Kereliuk, Panos Achlioptas, Mohamed Elhoseiny, Songwei Ge, Aidan Gomez, Jamie Brew

Accepted papers

Papers 1-13 & 23 will be presented in the first poster session. Papers 14-22, 24-28 will be presented in the second poster session. Papers 29-31 will not be presented, as the authors are unable to attend.