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SUMMARY:ZurichNLP Meetup #6
DESCRIPTION:Meetup #6 is coming soon and will be our best one yet! It’s our pleasure to announce the following speakers: \n\nLucas Beyer (Google DeepMind/Brain)\nAna Kotarcic (University of Zurich)\n\nRSVP soon as spots are limited\, the last few times we maxed out capacity. Hope to see you there!
URL:https://zurich-nlp.ch/event/zurich-nlp-meetup-6/
LOCATION:OAT ETH Zürich (14th Floor)\, Andreasstrasse 5 (14th floor)\, Zurich\, 8050
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SUMMARY:ZurichNLP Meetup #7
DESCRIPTION:Happy new year! We are kicking off 2024 with Meetup #7 on January 16th! It’s our pleasure to announce the following speakers: \n\nMartina Forster and Luca Campanella from Typewise\nTiago Pimentel from ETH Zurich\n\nRSVP soon as spots are limited\, the last few times we maxed out capacity. Talk details: \nSpeaker #1: Martina Forster and Luca Campanella \nTitle: Life in an NLP Startup: A Glimpse into Typewise’s Journey in Revolutionizing Customer Service\nAbstract: Ever wondered what it’s like to work in an NLP startup in Switzerland? Join us as we share our experiences at Typewise\, a Zurich-based startup that’s transforming customer service with AI. We’ll give you a taste of our day-to-day\, the challenges we face\, and the excitement of working in the rapidly evolving field of NLP. You’ll also get a sneak peek of our text prediction technology and how it’s making customer service communication more efficient. Plus\, we’ll dive into one of the NLP tasks we work on – Grammatical Error Correction. If you’re curious about the practical applications of AI and the realities of working in an NLP startup\, this talk is for you. \nSpeaker #2: Tiago Pimentel \nTitle: Revisiting the Optimality of Word Lengths\nZipf posited that wordforms are optimized to minimize utterances’ communicative costs. He supported this claim by showing that words’ lengths are inversely correlated with their frequencies. This correlation\, however\, is only expected if one assumes that a words’ communicative cost is given by its length. We explore this assumption\, comparing the predictive power over word lengths we get when assuming different operationalisations of communicative cost. \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://zurich-nlp.ch/event/zurich-nlp-meetup-7/
LOCATION:OAT ETH Zürich (14th Floor)\, Andreasstrasse 5 (14th floor)\, Zurich\, 8050
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SUMMARY:ZurichNLP Meetup #8
DESCRIPTION:We are continuing strong in 2024 with Meetup #8 on February 27th! We’re happy to announce the following speakers: \n\nBrian DuSell\, Postdoc @ ETH Zurich\nLeandro von Werra\, Chief Loss Officer @ Hugging Face\n\nRSVP soon as spots are limited\, the last few times we maxed out capacity. Talk details: \nSpeaker #1: Brian DuSell\nTitle: Stack Attention: Improving the Ability of Transformers to Model Hierarchical Patterns\nSummary: Language contains hierarchical syntactic patterns\, but transformers do not have a mechanism for dealing with hierarchies of arbitrary depth. In this talk I will present my work on Stack Attention\, a kind of self-attention with a latent model of syntax that addresses this limitation and allows transformers to model any context-free language. \nSpeaker #2: Leandro von Werra \nTitle: BigCode: Building LLM’s for Code in an Open and Responsible Way \nHope to see you there!
URL:https://zurich-nlp.ch/event/zurichnlp-meetup-8/
LOCATION:OAT ETH Zürich (14th Floor)\, Andreasstrasse 5 (14th floor)\, Zurich\, 8050
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SUMMARY:ZurichCV Meetup #1
DESCRIPTION: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: \n\nFelix Bauer\, Senior R&D Engineer at SynSense\nSongyou Peng\,  Senior Researcher/Postdoc at ETH Zurich\n\nPlease RSVP as soon as possible because spots fill up quick\, hope to see you there!
URL:https://zurich-nlp.ch/event/zurichcv-meetup-1/
LOCATION:OAT ETH Zürich (14th Floor)\, Andreasstrasse 5 (14th floor)\, Zurich\, 8050
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SUMMARY:ZurichCV Meetup #2
DESCRIPTION: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: \n“Structured output tasks in computer vision are tasks which require more “complicated” output than just a probability\, and need to be “globally consistent”. Examples are detection\, (panoptic) segmentation\, colorization\, tracking\, and many more. Classically\, communities have formed around each such task\, with their very specialized approaches. We take a step back\, understand why\, and devise a general solution\, that is surprisingly similar to LLMs\, hence bringing the communities closer together. Papers covered: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10337 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08242.” \nRSVP soon. See you there! \n 
URL:https://zurich-nlp.ch/event/zurichcv-meetup-2/
LOCATION:OAT ETH Zürich (14th Floor)\, Andreasstrasse 5 (14th floor)\, Zurich\, 8050
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SUMMARY:ZurichNLP Meetup #9
DESCRIPTION:We’re happy to announce ZurichNLP #9 on April 25th with the following speakers: \n\nLewis Tunstall (MLE @ HuggingFace) on How to Align Your LLM\nVilém Zouhar (PhD @ ETH Zurich) on Pride and BPE: How We Solved Tokenization but Got It Wrong\n“Tokenization is present in almost all NLP pipelines\, but rarely examined mathematically. We formalize and show boundaries to the most popular tokenization algorithm\, Byte-Pair Encoding. Then\, with information theory\, we show what makes some tokenization better than others and how to use this as a metric before training your expensive models. Lastly\, we admit how we got this hypothesis wrong.”\n\n  \nSlides from Lewis’s presentation can be found here! \nRSVP soon as spots are limited.
URL:https://zurich-nlp.ch/event/zurichnlp-meetup-9/
LOCATION:OAT ETH Zürich (14th Floor)\, Andreasstrasse 5 (14th floor)\, Zurich\, 8050
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SUMMARY:ZurichNLP Meetup #10
DESCRIPTION:We’re happy to announce ZurichNLP #10 on May 28th with the following speakers: \n\nKacper Lukawski (Senior Developer Advocate @ Qdrant) on optimizing RAG applications:\n“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 your speed\, memory\, and quality requirements”\nTannon Kew (PhD student @ University of Zurich) on tuning English-centric LLMs into polyglots\n\nRSVP soon as spots are limited.
URL:https://zurich-nlp.ch/event/zurichnlp-meetup-10/
LOCATION:OAT ETH Zürich (14th Floor)\, Andreasstrasse 5 (14th floor)\, Zurich\, 8050
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SUMMARY:ZurichCV Meetup #3
DESCRIPTION:ZurichCV #3 on June 13th at 18:00 will feature two talks: \n\nJulian Schilliger from ETH Zurich on deciphering ancient papyrus for the Scroll Prize (Vesuvius Challenge):\n“On how to unroll and read a 2000 year old papyrus scroll that was buried by the Vesuvius eruption with computer vision\, from ancient Rome to a modern particle accelerator and into an high resolution and large CT scan of the scroll.”\nNicolas Muntwyler from nunu.ai on building visual agents to playtest video games\n\nRSVP soon. See you there! \n 
URL:https://zurich-nlp.ch/event/zurichcv-meetup-3/
LOCATION:OAT ETH Zürich (14th Floor)\, Andreasstrasse 5 (14th floor)\, Zurich\, 8050
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