Public repo for The Alan Turing Institute's reading group on foundation models as part of the activities of Foundational AI theme.
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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 |
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24/06/24 | Invited Talk: Improving LLMs for low-resource African languages | Ursula Franklin (3pm) | Ed Bayes and others |
01/07/24 | Technical: A perspective on the fundamentals of transformers | Ursula Franklin | Ed Gunn |
08/07/24 | Invited Talk: [TBC] | David Blackwell | Gavin Abercrombie |
15/07/24 | TBC: Conference Overview: Coling/LREC | Cipher | Fede Nanni |
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 | TBC | Ursula Franklin | TBC |
12/08/24 | TBC | Ursula Franklin | TBC |
19/08/24 | TBC | David Blackwell | TBC |
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 |