Niket Tandon from AI2 will be visiting Zurich in June and will be giving a talk titled Commonsense injection in large language models. Please RSVP below! Abstract: Large LMs, while powerful, are not immune to mistakes which are obvious to humans, but they can be prohibitively costly to retrain. Our goal is to effectively correct …
Join us for our third meetup this time with an exciting fireside chat between Tim Scarfe and Zeerak Talat on democratization of AI, policy and ethics. The panel is being rescheduled to sometime this fall. Please RSVP, spots are limited!
We're back with an exciting fourth meetup! We are thrilled to be hosting two talks: "Reinforced Active Learning for Text classification" by Katya Mirylenka from IBM Research. "AI Summarizers for Lawyers and the People" by Prof. Dr. Elliott Ash from ETH Zurich RSVP soon as spots are limited, we hope to see you there!
ETH Zurich Distinguished Computer Science Colloquium Christos Papadimitriou, Columbia University Host: Emo Welzl ABSTRACT: There is little doubt that cognitive phenomena are the result of neural activity, and yet there has been slow progress toward articulating a computational theory of how exactly this happens. I will discuss a simplified mathematical model of the brain, which …
Meetup #5 is fast approaching and will be our best one yet! It's our pleasure to announce the following speakers: Jonas Pfeiffer, Research Scientist at Deepmind presenting "Modular Deep Learning" Eiso Kant, CTO and Co-founder of Poolside presenting "Roadmap for AI progress by learning from code" RSVP soon as spots are limited, last time we …
Meetup #6 is coming soon and will be our best one yet! It's our pleasure to announce the following speakers: Lucas Beyer (Google DeepMind/Brain) Ana Kotarcic (University of Zurich) RSVP soon as spots are limited, the last few times we maxed out capacity. Hope to see you there!
Happy new year! We are kicking off 2024 with Meetup #7 on January 16th! It's our pleasure to announce the following speakers: Martina Forster and Luca Campanella from Typewise Tiago Pimentel from ETH Zurich RSVP soon as spots are limited, the last few times we maxed out capacity. Talk details: Speaker #1: Martina Forster and …
We are continuing strong in 2024 with Meetup #8 on February 27th! We're happy to announce the following speakers: Brian DuSell, Postdoc @ ETH Zurich Leandro von Werra, Chief Loss Officer @ Hugging Face RSVP soon as spots are limited, the last few times we maxed out capacity. Talk details: Speaker #1: Brian DuSell Title: …
With all of the success with ZurichNLP we are now kicking off our first ZurichCV meetup this upcoming March 14th (Pi day)! Our first meetup will feature the following speakers: Felix Bauer, Senior R&D Engineer at SynSense Songyou Peng, Senior Researcher/Postdoc at ETH Zurich Please RSVP as soon as possible because spots fill up quick, …
Our computer vision series is continuing strong: ZurichCV #2 on April 16th at 17:00 will feature an in depth talk by Lucas Beyer from Google Brain/DeepMind about structured computer vision in the age of LLMs, specifically: "Structured output tasks in computer vision are tasks which require more "complicated" output than just a probability, and need …
We're happy to announce ZurichNLP #9 on April 25th with the following speakers: Lewis Tunstall (MLE @ HuggingFace) on How to Align Your LLM Vilém Zouhar (PhD @ ETH Zurich) on Pride and BPE: How We Solved Tokenization but Got It Wrong "Tokenization is present in almost all NLP pipelines, but rarely examined mathematically. We …
We're happy to announce ZurichNLP #10 on May 28th with the following speakers: Kacper Lukawski (Senior Developer Advocate @ Qdrant) on optimizing RAG applications: "LLM outputs in the Retrieval Augmented Generation pipelines are only as good as the documents we provide for answer generation. We will review the strategies of semantic search optimization depending on …