Description
The reading group in CSE at MSU is being coordinated by Professor Vishnu Boddeti. The purpose of the group is to provide an informal platform for intellectual discussions on the latest topics in machine learning and computer vision. The reading group consists of a weekly meeting and a mailing list.
You can subscribe to the mailing list. When registering, please use your MSU email. Non-MSU emails will be rejected.
Schedule for Fall 2023
| Date | Presenter | Topic/Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 08 Sep 2023 | Gautam Sreekumar | On the Versatile Uses of Partial Distance Correlation in Deep Learning (ECCV 2022 Best Paper) |
| 22 Sep 2023 | Mashrur Morshed | Analytic-DPM: An Analytic Estimate of the Optimal Reverse Variance in Diffusion Probabilistic Models (ICLR 2022 Outstanding Paper) |
| 06 Oct 2023 | Sachit Gauti | Generalization on the Unseen, Logic Reasoning and Degree Curriculum (ICML 2023 Outstanding Paper) |
| 20 Oct 2023 | Lan Wang | DreamBooth: Fine Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Subject-Driven Generation (CVPR2023 Honorable Mention (Student)) |
| 03 Nov 2023 | Ramin Ghouchani | Gradient descent: the ultimate optimizer (NeurIPS2022 outstanding paper) |
| 17 Nov 2023 | Sepehr Dehdashtian | Visual Programming: Compositional visual reasoning without training (CVPR 2023 Best Paper) |
| 01 Dec 2023 | Wei Ao | Hyperparameter Tuning with Renyi Differential Privacy (ICLR2022 Outstanding Paper) |
Schedule for Spring 2023
| Date | Presenter | Topic/Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 03 Feb 2023 | Lan Wang (HAL) | Compositional Temporal Grounding with Structured Variational Cross-Graph Correspondence Learning |
| 03 Mar 2023 | Yihua Zhang (OPTML) | Git Re-Basin: Merging Models modulo Permutation Symmetries |
| 17 Mar 2023 | Ruisi Cai (invited) | Robust Weight Signatures: Gaining Robustness as Easy as Patching Weights? |
| 31 Mar 2023 | Minchul Kim (CVL) | Data Distributional Properties Drive Emergent In-Context Learning in Transformers |
| 14 Apr 2023 | Gautam Sreekumar (HAL) | |
| 28 Apr 2023 | TBD |