Friday, March 11, 2022

3/18/22: Browsing for concepts

    Agenda & minutes:

  • Welcome to the 9th meeting.
  • Any other updates/news/inputs/comments?
  • Should we try assigning a reading one week, and then discussing it the next week, or stay with the current format where we read together and discuss, a little bit at a time?
  • Future meetings:
    • Next meeting(s): Any suggestions or requests? 
  • Readings, viewings, etc.: 
    • We read the first three paragraphs of https://www.marktechpost.com/2022/03/07/an-introduction-to-saliency-maps-in-deep-learning/ last and could potentially continue with it next time.
    • Should we try reading the first paragraph or so of several sources, and then pick one to do in more depth? Or go with picking something and trying to get through it? We could vote on this.
  • Future reading possibilities:
    • CNN basics: https://towardsdatascience.com/the-most-intuitive-and-easiest-guide-for-convolutional-neural-network-3607be47480
    • https://e2eml.school/transformers.html: "Transformers From Scratch"
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BolevVGJk18
    • Jonschkowski, Brock, Learning State Representations with Robotic Priors, on disk
    • Ni et al., Learning Good State and Action Representations via Tensor Decomposition, on disk
    • MM would like to step us through some of the resources available from NVIDIA.
    • MM suggests explainable AI as a reading/discussion topic.
    • MM suggests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bdc55j80l8&ab_channel=The A.I.Hacker-MichaelPhi as a transformer video.
    • 2021 Turing Award lecture paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448250
    • 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?
    • "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 have read through section 3 so we could start with 3.1 next time we look at it. However this paper seems dense for our current state of understanding, so we'll put it on hold.
    • Featured resource: Short and long videos - 
    • 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

Friday, March 4, 2022

3/11/22: Focus on a video about the transformers paper

   Agenda & minutes:

  • Welcome to the 8th meeting.
  • Any other updates/news/inputs/comments?
  • Future meetings:
    • Next meeting(s): Any suggestions or requests? 
  • Readings, viewings, etc.: 
    • We viewed and discussed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bdc55j80l8
    • We read the first two paragraphs of https://www.marktechpost.com/2022/03/07/an-introduction-to-saliency-maps-in-deep-learning/ and could potentially continue with it next time.
Meeting ended here.
  • Future reading possibilities:
    • https://e2eml.school/transformers.html: "Transformers From Scratch"
    • MM would like to step us through some of the resources available from NVIDIA.
    • MM suggests explainable AI as a reading/discussion topic.
    • MM suggests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bdc55j80l8&ab_channel=The A.I.Hacker-MichaelPhi as a transformer video.
    • 2021 Turing Award lecture paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448250
    • 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?
    • "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 have read through section 3 so we could start with 3.1 next time we look at it. However this paper seems dense for our current state of understanding, so we'll put it on hold.
    • Featured resource: Short and long videos - 
    • 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

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

3/4/22: Getting bogged down...

  Agenda & minutes:

  • Welcome to the 7th meeting.
  • Any other updates/news/inputs/comments?
  • Future meetings:
    • Next meeting(s): Any suggestions or requests? 
  • Readings, viewings, etc.: 
  • Future reading possibilities:
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bdc55j80l8
    • MM would like to step us through some of the resources available from NVIDIA.
    • MM suggests explainable AI as a reading/discussion topic.
    • MM suggests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bdc55j80l8&ab_channel=TheA.I.Hacker-MichaelPhi as a transformer video.
    • 2021 Turing Award lecture paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448250
    • 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

Monday, February 21, 2022

2/25/22: Started on our first videos

 Agenda & minutes:

  • Welcome to the 7th meeting.
  • (No report on AI study group at Arkansas State U. this week)
  • Any other updates/news/inputs/comments?
  • Organizational reminders
    • This agenda and minutes is on a blog, https://AIntwhatitusedtobe.blogspot.com
    • This meeting will be automatically ended by Zoom after 40 min.
    • Demo: The blog has been reconfigured to permit anonymous and semi-anonymous comments. Now you can discuss things after the meetings even more freely!
  • Future meetings:
    • Next meeting: Any suggestions or requests? 
  • Readings, viewings, etc.: 
  • Future reading possibilities:
    • MM would like to step us through some of the resources available from NVIDIA.
    • MM suggests explainable AI as a reading/discussion topic.
    • MM suggests https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bdc55j80l8&ab_channel=TheA.I.Hacker-MichaelPhi as a transformer video.
    • 2021 Turing Award lecture paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3448250
    • 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

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

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 -
  • 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: 
  • 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

Friday, February 11, 2022

2/11/22: VW videos and discussion


   Agenda & minutes:

  • Welcome to the 5th meeting! 
  • Any updates/news/inputs/comments?
    • VW getting ready for candidacy exam.
  • Organizational issues
    • 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. 18 meeting: We will focus on "Attention is All You Need" and read and discuss it together.
      • Feb. 25 meeting: Any ideas/requests?
  • VW presented his 1-minute videos and accompanying discussion: 
  • Readings and etc. that have been suggested:
    • "Attention is all you need," https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2017/file/3f5ee243547dee91fbd053c1c4a845aa-Paper.pdf
      • We read the first sentence of the abstract and discussed it quite a bit. This is a classic and important paper. We will devote a future meeting to reading through more of it, bit by bit. 
      •  Attention is all you needA Vaswani, N Shazeer, N Parmar… - Advances in neural …, 2017 - proceedings.neurips.cc  attention-weighted positions, an effect we counteract with Multi-Head Attention as described in section 3.2. Self-attention, sometimes called intra-attention is an attention … In Table 3 rows (A), we vary the number of attention heads and the attention key and value dimensions,… Cited by 35980 Related articles All 35 versions

    • 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 last time and scanned more this time. 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

Friday, February 4, 2022

2/4/22: Presentation by AM

   Agenda & minutes:

  • Welcome to the 4th meeting! 
  • Any updates/news/inputs/comments?
    • MM would like to offer some opportunities to our group as these opportunities arise. Thanks!
  • Presentation by AM on her research work. There is no video recording but the chat window transcript is available.
  • Organizational issues
    • 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. 11 meeting: We will focus on "Attention is All You Need" and read and discuss it together.
      • Feb. 18 meeting: Any ideas/requests? 
        • MM suggests explainable AI as a topic.
        • VW videos can be part of the meeting.
  • Readings and etc. that have been suggested: