9/15/23: HuggingFace lab

 

Machine Learning Study Group

Welcome! We start at 4:00, and go for 40 minutes. New members are always welcome and anyone can join. You may attend any or all sessions. Feel free to ask to be removed from the invite list at any time, as we have no wish to send unneeded emails which we all certainly get too many of.

 

Agenda & Minutes

• Welcome to the 80th meeting, Sept. 15, 2023.
• Status updates/news/inputs/comments
• Student and project updates? 
• BL will defend his PhD proposal in two weeks, Friday 9/29, at 4:00. The videoconference link is different. It will be at: 
• Google Meet, https://meet.google.com/dib-fyhb-odw.
• Therefore, we will meet next  week as usual, but the following week we will not meet at the usual Zoom link like we are today, but instead everyone is invited to the Google Meet link for BL's proposal defense.
  
• Schedule of activities:
• We are now in "week" 2 of the 3-week quasi-cycle (which consists of reading in week 1, and HuggingFace labs in weeks 2 and 3, interspersed with weeks with other activities, like next week's proposal). This means we will do a Huggingface lab today. Then we will do more on it in week 3, next time.
• Next week we will take a break from the quasi-cycle with a presentation by EG on multithreading.
• The following week will be the ML proposal (at a different videoconference link).
• The week after that - back to week 3 of our quasi-cycle with more on the HuggingFace lab we've been working through.
  

• Status of the threads of activity:
• Here is where we are with the Huggingface lab exercises:
• To continue with the Huggingface lab program, this time we got up to the section "Mask Filling" in chapter 1,  part 3, https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter1/3?fw=tf. We can start with that next time we do it, reading about it briefly and then trying it in the running code window.
  

• Readings: We will discuss the top ranked item from the page of evaluated items next time we do readings.