2/18/22: Read "Attention ..." paper

Agenda & minutes:

• Welcome to the 6th meeting.
• Report on AI study group at Arkansas State U.
• MM: list of benefits for members of UA Little Rock AI and ML group -

• 1) Free membership to International Association of Pattern Recognition, https://iapr.org/
• The benefits are
• 1.1 Conference and Workshop FEEs Discount for all events organized by IAPR, https://iapr.org/conferences/
• 1.2 Free IAPR Newsletter
• 1.3 Free membership for https://iapr.org/committees/pattern-recognition-in-human-machine-interaction and https://neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de/TC9/
• 1.4 Fees discount for all events organized by IAPR TC-(summer scoops, access to datasets)
• 2) We offer FREE NVIDIA Online classes and also Free NVIDIA workshops MM and AM are NVIDIA Certified Instructors and Ambassadors: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/training/
• ... happy to explain to you and we need to discuss how to promote all FREE activities
• Any other updates/news/inputs/comments?
• Organizational reminders
• This agenda and minutes is on a blog, https://AIntwhatitusedtobe.blogspot.com. You can add comments if you like, just like for many other blogs.
• This meeting will be automatically ended by Zoom after 40 min.
• Future meetings:
• Feb. 25 meeting: Any ideas/requests? 
• MM may have some video material that shows animation of the transformer algorithm. Alternatively we could continue with the paper that we started reading today.
• Reading: 
• "Attention is all you need," https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/file/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Paper.pdf. Attention is all you need, A Vaswani, N Shazeer, N Parmar… - Advances in neural …, 2017 - proceedings.neurips.cc … Cited by 35,980 
• We finished through section 1.
• Future reading possibilities:
• MM suggests explainable AI as a reading/discussion topic.
• Anticipative Video Transformer, https://facebookresearch.github.io/AVT/?fbclid=IwAR1RurSM33v8baN10H9JCX_dvVNtscydsLupaB8NMgKOmNIPjIwD3XO2vOA.
• "Deep learning—a first meta-survey of selected reviews across scientific disciplines, their commonalities, challenges and research impact," https://peerj.com/articles/cs-773.
• We read the abstract. It is not clear whether we should continue reading material from it. Any opinions/thoughts/comments?
• Some quantum computing references we could read as needed (from VW):
• - Quantum crossing threshold (free): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04273-w
• - Crossing threshold in silicon: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04182-y
• - Three-qubit donor processor in Si: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04292-7