GHOST Day 2024

Exciting news from our partner! 🗣️

We’ve received word that they’re currently open registration for Call for Contributions for the upcoming GHOST Day: Applied Machine Learning Conference 2024.


This is a fantastic opportunity to join community of machine learning researchers, share insights, and expand your network.
For those eager to present their work, the submission deadline is 5th February.


However, submitting before the 22th of January ensures an earlier evaluation. 

Save the dates, April 5-6, for that event at the Lecture Center, Piotrowo 2 street, Poznań University of Technology.


Submit your talk or poster via website: ghostday.pl/#cfc

MLGdansk #140 – Building & Managing High Performance Analytics Teams

We would like to invite you to 140. MLGdańsk meeting on Monday, 22nd May 2023 at 18.00 CEST (UTC+2)

The meeting will be held online on jitsi: https://meet.jit.si/MLGdansk_nb141_building_analytics_teams

Our guest speaker will be:
John K. Thompson
Global Head, Artificial Intelligence (AI), EY
https://lnkd.in/dPN5yv6H

The topic of the meeting is:
Building & Managing High Performance Analytics Teams

About speaker:
“John is an experienced technology executive with over 35 years of expertise in the fields of data, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence. He is currently the Global Head of AI at EY and has been responsible for the global advanced analytics and AI function at a leading biopharmaceutical company. He was also an Executive Partner at Gartner and was responsible for the advanced analytics business unit of the Dell Software Group.

John is a prolific author and has written several books, including “Building Analytics Teams,” “Analytics: How to win with Intelligence,” and his latest book, “Data for All,” which is a Revolutionary Manifesto for Data. The book instructs people on how to protect and manage their data and the data of their loved ones.

Mr Thompson’s technology expertise includes all aspects of advanced analytics and information management, including descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics, artificial intelligence, big data, simulation, optimization, and high-performance computing. He has built start-up organizations and reengineered business units of Fortune 500 firms to reach their potential.

John has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Ferris State University and an MBA in Marketing from DePaul University. He is a technology leader with expertise and experience spanning all operational areas with a focus on strategy, product innovation, growth, and efficient execution. One of his primary areas of focus and interest has been to create innovative technologies to increase the value derived by organizations around the world.

Abstract of the talk:
“Over the past decade, the speed at which data and analytics has been reshaping our lives is accelerating. Now, it is even more important for enterprises to build and implement analytics in an intelligent manner.

One of the key ingredients to the success of data and analytics efforts is the team driving and informing the analytics process and resulting transformational change. A salient question that has been asked is – how does an enterprise build an effective analytics team?

In this session, we will walk through the process of succeeding in the analytics journey. We will examine the best approach to building a corporate analytics function and a high performing analytics team. We will describe and discuss the Artisanal and Modular approaches to hiring and building a team.

We will also examine how to evolve from the Artisanal and/or Modular model to a Hybrid model. We will examine how to manage a high performing analytics team to deliver analytical models and applications that are implemented and used in daily operations to improve organizational efficiency and effectiveness.

Be ready to ask questions, this will be an interactive and open discussion.”

The meeting is open to all interested – feel free to join!

MLGdańsk #139 – DCID: Deep Canonical Information Decomposition

We would like to invite you to 139. MLGdańsk meeting on Monday, 17th April 2023 at 18.00 CET

The meeting will be held online on jitsi: https://meet.jit.si/MLGdansk_20032023_nb139

Our guests speaker is:
Alexander Rakowski
Hasso Plattner Institute, Poczdam
https://hpi.de/research-schools/hpi-dse/mitglieder/research-pages/alexander-rakowski.html

The topic of the meeting is:
DCID: Deep Canonical Information Decomposition

Abstract:
“We consider the problem of separating the signal shared between two scalar variables, from their individual signals. In the case of non-scalar, multivariate variables, the probabilistic interpretation of CCA allows to retrieve the shared signal. However, in the univariate case, CCA can only yield trivial solutions. Inspired by the field of Deep Multi-Task Learning, we propose to overcome this problem by approximating the variables of interest with Deep Neural Network classifiers and using their latent features as multivariate decompositions of the variables, allowing us to utilize the standard CCA machinery to discover the shared signal.

The meeting is open to all interested – feel free to join!

GHOST Day 2023

❗Registration for this year’s edition of Ghost Day: Applied Machine Learning Conference is now open!

🔥 If you want to participate in one of Poland’s largest machine learning conferences, which takes place at Poznan University of Technology on April 21-22, don’t hesitate to fill out the form at the link: https://ghostday.pl/index.php/register/.

❗Registration is only open until March 24 and due to high demand the number of seats is limited – final decisions on obtaining a ticket from the current pool will be sent after the registration closes.

👥 Participation in the conference is an opportunity to meet and listen to speakers from the largest technology companies such as DeepMind, Allegro, Amazon, Microsoft, and many others.

👩🏼‍🏫 We have also invited specialists from important research institutions, including Tinbergen Institute, University of Tübingen, and Luleå University of Technology.

🌐 Attendees can expect two days full of interesting topics and innovations in the world of machine learning. You can also expect a poster sessions and a student session promoting the achievements of young researchers. In between lectures, there will also be time to meet other participants and enjoy refreshments.

ℹ MLGdańsk group is a media partner of the GHOST Day 2023 conference.

❗See you in April!

MLGdańsk #137 – Overview of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

We would like to invite you to 135. MLGdańsk meeting on Monday, 6th March 2023 at 18.00 CET

The meeting will be held online on jitsi::
https://meet.jit.si/MLGdansk_06032023_nb137

Our guests speaker is:
Nikita Pavlichenko
Toloka.AI

The topic of the meeting is:
“Overview of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Nikita Pavlichenko is a Research Scientist at Toloka, where he works on connecting deep learning models with the crowdsourcing and human evaluation of generative models.

Abstract:
Recent progress on Large Language Models introduced a new machine learning technique: reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). RLHF powers models such as InstructGPT and ChatGPT.

In this talk, we are going to provide an introduction to why this technique is necessary, the basics of reinforcement learning, why RL needs human feedback, and how to solve practical tasks with RLHF.

The meeting is open to all interested – feel free to join!

MLGdańsk #135 – Transforming Enterprise Data Science with Transformers

We would like to invite you to 135. MLGdańsk meeting on Monday, 6th February 2023 at 18.00 CEST

The meeting will be held online on jitsi:
https://meet.jit.si/MLGdansk_06022023_nb135

Our guests speakers are:
Rajiv Shah
Andrew Jardin
HuggingFace

The topic of the meeting is:
“Transforming Enterprise Data Science with Transformers

Rajiv Shah is a leading expert on practical AI. At Hugging Face, his primary focus is on enabling enterprises to succeed with AI. He previously led data science enablement efforts across hundreds of data scientists at DataRobot and has been part of data science teams at Snorkel AI, Caterpillar, and State Farm.
He is a widely recognized speaker on AI, has received many patents, and published research papers in several domains, including sports analytics, deep learning, and interpretability. He received a Ph.D. and a J.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

Andrew is an Account Executive at Hugging Face where he helps enterprise customers understand how to leverage the 🤗 open-source resources to build state of the art ML. Outside of Hugging Face Andrew is the Toronto chapter lead for MLOps.Community and has a background in NLP, MLOps and engineering.

Abstract:
“Large-scale models drive the most innovative and exciting AI technologies like Alexa, Dalle, and Github’s Copilot.
Rajiv shares how large-scale models are reshaping analytics and how enterprises are unlocking value in new use cases, such as auto-completion, semantic search, and document AI.
The talk will include code snippets for getting started and addressing societal concerns with these models.”

The meeting is open to all interested – feel free to join!

MLGdańsk #134 – Autoencoders and Contrastive Learning for honeybee state detection

We would like to invite you to 134. MLGdańsk meeting on Monday, 5th December 2022 at 18.00 CEST

The meeting will be held online on jitsi:
https://meet.jit.si/MLGdansk_05122022_nb134


Our guest is Tymoteusz Cejrowski
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tcejrowski/

The topic of the meeting is:
“Autoencoders and Contrastive Learning for honeybee state detection”

Honey bees are one of the world’s valuable insects.

They have accompanied man for centuries and their work contributes to increasing crop yields.

But how do we talk to them and understand their behavior?

An approach based on sound analysis and the autoencoders to analyze the bees state will be presented.

See you there!

AWS Pop up Hub in Warsaw!

AWS is excited to see you at the 5-day AWS Pop-up Hub in Warsaw, October 10-14th 🇵🇱

You’ll have a chance to join more than 20 sessions, more than 6 Hands-on workshops, Training & Certification labs and a one-on-one with AWS experts. 

This time our key topics are:

  • Innovating with Cloud: Data, ML, AI;
  • Modern Cloud Operations;
  • Modern Cloud Application Development.
  • Participation is free!

    Discover the agenda and opportunities:https://www.aws-hub.pl

    MLGdańsk is media partner of this event.

MLGdańsk #132 – How to transform a notebook model into a system pipeline

MLGdańsk online meeting will be held on Monday, 2022.10.03, at 18:00 CEST.

link to the meeting: https://meet.jit.si/MLGdansk_03102022_nb132

Our speaker will be:
Francisco Pinto-Santos, MSc
➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/franpintosantos/
➡️ https://github.com/GandalFran
➡️ https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=oX-eoqoAAAAJ&hl=es

The topic of the talk is:
How to transform a notebook model into a system pipeline

Abstract:
“In the world of data analysis, there is a lot of information on the Internet about building models of various kinds to solve all kinds of problems. However, when a complex model is developed, it is necessary to implement it in a software system.

In this step, most of the people dedicated to data science, need the help of software architects and engineers, MLOps, etc. Therefore, in this workshop, we intend to show the first steps to identify how to segment a model in processing stages, and implement a distributed pipeline, managed by basic continuous integration techniques, allowing the creation and maintenance of a comprehensive system that serves the model.

To do so, we will first introduce the concept of microservice architectures and event-driven architectures, and then explain what an event broker is and start working with a real one, Apache Kafka.

Once the work base is established, we will teach how to create microservices in Python integrated with Apache Kafka, with a model (or part of it) integrated in these, as well as the necessary scripts for the continuous integration of these.

Finally, we will explain the possibilities offered when integrating ingest, storage, etc. so that attendees can expand their knowledge in this area later.”

The meeting is open to all interested – feel free to join!

MLGdańsk #131 – Legal Document Summarization and AI Explainability

MLGdańsk online meeting will be held on Monday, 2022.09.19, at 18:00 CEST.

link to the meeting: https://meet.jit.si/MLGdansk_19092022_nb131

Our speaker:
Claudia Schulz, PhD
Thomson Reuters Labs
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claudia-schulz-phd/

The topic of the talk is:
Legal Document Summarization and AI Explainability

Abstract:
“Legal research is a highly manual and time-consuming process. Legal professionals, for example, have to read court cases that are up to 100 pages long, just to identify the most important aspects in order to decide whether their firm should represent the case.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques like information extraction and summarisation thus provide great opportunities to save law firms time. However, applying NLP to legal documents is highly challenging due to the domain-specific terminology and variability in the legal document layout.

In this talk, we show how Thomson Reuters Labs tackles these challenges and present our work on summarising court cases and providing human-understandable explanations thereof.”

The meeting is open to all interested – feel free to join!

 
 
 
 

PS: More information about Thomson Reuters Labs and current job openings: https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/artificial-intelligence/join-thomson-reuters-labs.html

MLGdańsk #130 – AI Governance, Standards and Regulation for a Trustworthy AI ecosystem

MLGdańsk online meeting will be held on Monday, 2022.09.05, at 18:00 CEST.

link to the meeting: https://meet.jit.si/MLGdansk_05092022_nb130

Our speaker:
Dr. Ansgar Koene
Global AI Ethics and Regulatory Leader at EY
https://www.linkedin.com/in/akoene/

The topic of the talk is:
AI Governance, Standards and Regulation for a Trustworthy AI ecosystem

Abstract:
“The increasing use of algorithmic decision-making technologies (colloquially referred to as “AI”) in industry, commerce and public service provision are giving rise to concerns about potential negative impacts on individuals (e.g. algorithmic discrimination bias) and the wider socio-economic fabric of society (e.g. displacement of jobs).

With trust in the technology being cited as a key barrier for successful deployment, both in the public and private sector, there is a growing push toward translating AI ethics principles into actionable practice.

This talk will review current initiatives towards the development of AI governance frameworks, ethics and oversight related standards and regulations, and discuss the role each of these can play within a wider ecosystem of trustworthiness for the use of AI.”

The meeting is open to all interested – feel free to join!

MLGdańsk #125 – AI for autonomy of blind and visually impaired people

MLGdańsk online meeting will be held on Monday, 2022.05.09, at 18:00 CET.

link to the meeting: https://meet.jit.si/MLGdansk_09052022_nb125

The topic of his talk is:
AI for autonomy of blind and visually impaired people

Our speakers:
Artur Godlewski, Jarosław Mąka, Monika Falk, dr Wojciech Figiel, Agnieszka Mikołajczyk

They represent Zatoichi company https://zatoichi.pl/

Few words about presentation:
“We would like to talk about our development of an application for blind that will read expiration dates from food packages.

Moreover we will talk about how it is connected with the autonomy of blind and visually impaired people.”

Our meetings are open for all interested – feel free to join!

MLGdańsk #121 – Predicting the Unpredictable: Mathematical Models and the Covid 19 Pandemic

MLGdańsk online meeting be take place on Monday, 2022.03.07, at 18:00 CET

link to meeting: https://meet.jit.si/MLGdansk_07032022_nb121

Our speaker will be prof. Tyll Krüger
https://scholar.google.pl/citations?user=4_ads5kAAAAJ&hl=en

The topic of his talk is:
Predicting the Unpredictable: Mathematical Models and the Covid 19 Pandemic

Abstract of the presentation:
“Predicting the future of the COVID-19 pandemic is a challenging task and can not be done without mathematical models describing the progression of the epidemic.

Despite large uncertainties about epidemiological relevant medical and social key parameters, mathematical models can provide deep insights into the dependency of the epidemic dynamics on those parameters.

Epidemiological models can furthermore be used to develop and improve rational strategies for controlling the COVID-19 epidemics.

We focus in the talk on fundamental mathematical features of individual based epidemic models and highlight the close relation to problems in percolation and random graph theory.

We emphasize the special role of households and discuss some results and conjectures in first passage percolation and their impact on epidemic processes.

Finally we present some outcomes of the MOCOS microsimulation model for the COVID -19 epidemic in Poland and Germany and reflect on problems related to model based policy advice for epidemic control.”

Serdecznie zapraszamy!

Top 10 Women in Artificial Intelligence in Poland

Perspektywy Women in Tech is preparing a list „TOP 10 Women in AI in Poland”.

Feel invited to take part in this initiative and nominate, use the form: https://li9slmnufa5.typeform.com/to/wAnBClCx

Nomination’s form is open until 31th January 2022.

In the context of improving our society and giving equal opportunities for women in tech – as a community we support warmly such initiatives.

To find more resources on topic we recommend reading https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/the-empowering-guide-for-women-in-tech/

MLGdańsk Logo

After three years of operation of our group, it’s time to take care of how we are perceived!

The first initiative related to this is the presentation of the new logo of our group.

MLGdańsk group logo

The creators of the logo are Natalia Rogowska and Łukasz Ołtuszewski, to whom we thank you!