Public repo for The Alan Turing Institute's reading group on foundation models as part of the activities of Foundational AI theme.
If you're based at the Turing, follow #robots-in-disguise on the Turing Slack for the most recent updates.
To see all the slides and reading materials for previous sessions, see the archive.
Note that this originated from the Research Engineering Team's reading group on Transformers.
The group meets every week on Mondays at 11-12. Everyone is welcome to join! If you have any questions email Ryan or Fede and remember to go through our Code of Conduct before joining.
Please get in touch if you would like to give a talk (either about your research or a topic you think is relevant to the reading group) add suggestions and emoji preferences to the list of proposed topics on HackMD!
| Date | Topic | Room | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/07/24 | Invited Talk: Open science projects for open-source models and transparent open datasets | Cipher | Christopher Klamm |
| 22/07/24 | Invited Talk: Designing a Value-driven GAI Framework for Social Good: Embedding Social Good Values into GAI Models | Ursula Franklin | Victor OK Li, Jacqueline CK Lam and Jon Crowcroft |
| 29/07/24 | TBC | Ursula Franklin | TBC |
| 05/08/24 | Invited Talk: The growth of parallelism in machine learning inference | Ursula Franklin | Tim Harris (Microsoft) |
| 12/08/24 | TBC | Ursula Franklin | TBC |
| 19/08/24 | Overview of Knowledge Graphs | David Blackwell | Navdeep Kaur |
| 26/08/24 | TBC | David Blackwell | TBC |
| 02/09/24 | TBC | David Blackwell | TBC |
| 09/09/24 | TBC | Ursula Franklin | TBC |
| 16/09/24 | TBC | David Blackwell | TBC |
| 23/09/24 | TBC | David Blackwell | TBC |