Machine Learning Study Group
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Contacts: jdberleant@ualr.edu and mgmilanova@ualr.edu
Agenda & Minutes
118th meeting, June 28, 2024
- Schedule:
- Updates, news, or comments?
- Today: Presentation by JK.
- Current
activity: Here are some potential readings and viewings, ranked with the highest evaluated ones first. We will read/view from the first one or two soon.
- Visual intro to transformers | Chapter 5, Deep Learning, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M.We viewed the first two segments. 6/7/24, vote was 4 6.75/8.
- LLMs and the singularity: https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=ISHLLM&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FISHLLM.pdf (summarized at: https://poe.com/s/WuYyhuciNwlFuSR0SVEt). 6/7/24: vote was 4 3/7. We read the abstract.
- Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDUC-LqVrPU (suggested by BL). We got up to time 4:25. 5/24/24 vote to finish it was 3 5.234/6.
- https://ai-challenges.nist.gov/genai. 6/7/24 vote was 3 2/7. We ended at "fake or misleading information."
- We've been reading "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early Experiments ..." starting at "2.3 Music" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712). We got up to "We then asked the model to describe the tune in musical terms." 5/24/24 vote to read more of the paper was 3 1/5.
- https://www.nist.gov/ai-test-evaluation-validation-and-verification-tevv. We read up to "NIST aims to expand these efforts, driving AI research and enabling progress by:". 6/7/24 vote was 3 1.75/8.
- Chapter 1 part 4: https://huggingface.co/learn/nlp-course/chapter1/4. We read up to "Transformers are language models" and evaluated on 6/14/24 at: 3 1.75/9.
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04125. We read up to "This trend persists even when controlling for sample-level similarity between pretraining and downstream datasets, and testing on purely synthetic data distributions." in the abstract. Evaluation on 6/14/24 was: 2 8.5/9.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lawnmower_Man_(film). We read up to "The film was originally marketed" on 6/14/24. Vote to read more was: 1.4.
- Updates, announcements, questions, etc.?
- Anything else?