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2024 Fall Schedule

2024-12-06: Knowledge in the grey zone: AI and cybersecurity, Stevens, 2024 (presented by Chris) and OmniFold: A Method to Simultaneously Unfold All Observables, Andreassen, et al 2020 (presented by Ethan)

2024-11-15: Multimodal contrastive learning for remote sensing tasks, Jain, et al 2022 (presented by Amila)

2024-11-08: Towards a Feminist Metaethics of AI, Siapka 2022 (presented by Kayla-Marie)

2024-11-01: SPECIAL IN-PERSON TALK (12-1pm): Lenore Pipes, Univ. of Hawaii Manoa

2024-10-25: On Learning to Think: Algorithmic Information Theory for Novel Combinations of Reinforcement Learning Controllers and Recurrent Neural World Models , Schmidhuber (presented by Peter)

2024-10-18: Hopfield Networks is All You Need, Ramsauer, et al. 2020 (presented by Peter)

2024-10-11: Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Multiphysics Data Assimilation with Application to Subsurface Transport He, et al. 2020 (presented by Kevin Egan)

2024-10-04: TALK: Karthika Mohan, Oregon State University, Causal Inference with Missing Data: Missingness Graphs, Recoverability and Testability (register here)

2024-09-27: Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women, Erscoi, et al. (presented by Arianna)

2024-09-20: Generative Adversarial Nets, Goodfellow, et al. 2014 (Classic paper, presented by Zain)

2024-09-13: Stochastic Neural Network Symmetrisation in Markov Categories, Cornish (presented by Mitchell)

2024-09-06: SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos website, Ravi, et al. (presented by Joel)

2024-08-30: The Hidden Uniform Cluster Prior in Self-Supervised Learning, Assran, et al. (presented by Nick)

2024-08-27: SPECIAL IN-PERSON TALK (2pm in MSB 100): Michael Ito, University of Michigan

2024-08-23: No meeting scheduled.

Todo: Aurora: A Foundation Model of the Atmosphere

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Past Seminars

2024-07-26: SPECIAL IN-PERSON TALK: Nikita Zhivotovskiy, Improving Risk Bounds with Unbounded Losses via Data-Dependent Priors.

2024-07-19: Generative Model by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution (presented by Yusuke Hatanaka)

2024-07-10: SPECIAL IN-PERSON TALK (11am in POST): Deva Ramanan, Perceiving and Understanding a Dynamic 3D World

2024-06-28: RankMe: Assessing the downstream performance of pretrained self-supervised representations by their rank (presented by Yannik Glaser)

2024-06-21: Transcendence: Generative Models Can Outperform The Experts That Train Them (presented by Mitchell Dennis)

2024-06-14: Ranks underlie outcome of combining classifiers: Quantitative roles for diversity and accuracy (presented by Arianna Bunnell)

2024-06-07: KL is All You Need (presented by Peter Sadowski)

2024-05-31: In What Ways Are Deep Neural Networks Invariant and How Should We Measure This? (presented by Yash Lodha)

2024-04-19: Stitchable Neural Networks (Amila leads)

2024-04-12: A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits (Levi leads)

2024-04-05: TALK: Dusko Pavlovic

2024-03-15: TALK: Andrey Popov

2024-03-08: Superintelligence

2024-03-01: UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection for Dimension Reduction (Arianna leads)

2024-02-16: MLP-Mixer: An All-MLP Architecture for Vision (Yosub leads)

2024-02-09: Revisiting the Calibration of Modern Neural Networks (Nick leads)

2024-02-02: 3D Gaussian Splatting (also check out blog post here; Peter leads)

2024-01-26: Sources of Uncertainty in ML: A Statistician’s View (Arianna leads)

2024-01-19: SPECIAL IN-PERSON TALK: Roberto Tamassia, Brown University, on Advances in Searchable Encryption

2023-12-01: Hyena Hierarchy: Towards Larger Convolutional Language Models, Poli, et al. 2023 (presented by Levi)

2023-11-17: GradMax: Growing Neural Networks using Gradient Information, Evci, et al. 2022 (presented by Amila)

2023-11-03: SPECIAL IN-PERSON TALK: Keolohilani Lopes Jr

2023-11-03: SPECIAL IN-PERSON TALK: Ieva Daukantas

2023-10-27: Active Learning for Computationally Efficient Distribution of Binary Evolution Simulations, Rocha, et al. 2022 (presented by Mitchell)

2023-10-20: Coupled adversarial learning for fusion classification of hyperspectral and LiDAR data, Lu, et al. 2023 (presented by Sophia)

2023-10-13: Fourier Neural Operator for Parametric Partial Differential Equations, Li, et al. 2020 (presented by Linnea)

2023-10-06: Leveraging Protein Language Models for Accurate Multiple Sequence Alignments, McWhite, et al. 2023 (presented by Will)

2023-09-29: Self-Supervised Learning from Images with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture, Assran, et al. 2023 (presented by Moseli)

2023-09-22: MSA Transformer, Rao, et al. 2023 (presented by Rajan)

2023-09-22: Deep Cox Mixtures for Survival Regression, Nagpal, et al. 2021 (presented by Arianna)

2023-09-08: SPECIAL IN-PERSON TALK: John Shepherd, UH Cancer Center, Director of AI Precision Health Institute

2023-08-25: Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows, Liu, et al. 2021 (presented by Nick)