AI Reading Group @ Unibuc
A reading group on the latest developments in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing and connected domains
Schedule
33. Evolution of Design Generation in the Age of AI: GenAI’s Creative Transformation
Date: May 16th (Friday), 2025
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Ionuț Mironică
Room: Google
32. Curriculum Direct Preference Optimization
Date: May 9th (Friday), 2025
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Alin Croitoru
Room: Google
31. Self-Rewarding Language Models
Date: April 4th (Friday), 2025
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Alexandru Apostu
Room: Google
30. Cross the Gap: Exposing the intra-modal misalignment in CLIP via modality inversion
Date: March 21st (Friday), 2025
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Mădălina Poșchină
Room: Google
29. Multi-Level Feature Distillation of Joint Teachers Trained on Distinct Image Datasets
Date: February 14th (Friday), 2025
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Adrian Iordache
Room: Google
28. Generative Data Expansion via Diffusion for Clothes-Changing Person Re-ID
Date: January 31st (Friday), 2025
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Alin Croitoru
Room: Google
27. Rho-1: Not All Tokens Are What You Need
Date: January 17th (Friday), 2025
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Diana Grigore
Room: Google
26. Towards Geospatial Foundation Models via Continual Pretraining
Date: December 6th (Friday), 2024
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Hugo Carlesso
Room: Google
25. Rich Human Feedback for Text-to-Image Generation
Date: November 22nd (Friday), 2024
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Vlad Hondru
Room: Google
24. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of MRI Skull-Stripping
Date: November 8th (Friday), 2024
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Ciprian Ceaușescu
Room: Google
23. The Psycholinguistics of Large Language Models
Date: June 7th (Friday), 2024
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Sergiu Nisioi
Room: Google
22. Methods and benchmarks for low-resource natural language processing
Date: May 24th (Friday), 2024
Time: 12:00-13:30
Speaker: Mihaela Găman
Room: Google
21. Scalable real-time abnormal event detection
Date: April 26th (Friday), 2024
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Alin Croitoru
Room: Google
20. Current state of Automatic Speech Recognition
Date: April 12th (Friday), 2024
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Antonio Bărbălău
Room: Google
19. Retrieval Augmented Generation
Date: March 29th (Friday), 2024
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Eduard Poesina
Room: Google
18. Large Language Models and Interaction with Tools, Functions and Agents (II)
Date: March 22nd (Friday), 2024
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Ciprian Păduraru
Room: Google
17. Large Language Models and Interaction with Tools, Functions and Agents (I)
Date: March 8th (Friday), 2024
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Ciprian Păduraru
Room: Google
16. Curriculum-Learned Masked Autoencoders
Date: January 12th (Friday), 2024
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Radu Tudor Ionescu
Room: Google
15. Quantifying and Controlling the Effects of Context in Classification and Segmentation
Date: December 8th (Friday), 2023
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Alexandra Diaconu
Room: Google
14. Parity Regression
Date: November 17th (Friday), 2023
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Vali Asimit
Room: Google
13. Consistency Models
Date: November 3rd (Friday), 2023
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Alin Croitoru
Room: Google
12. Visual Programming: Compositional Visual Reasoning without Training
Date: October 20th (Friday), 2023
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Vlad Hondru
Room: Google
11. Towards Total Recall in Industrial and Medical Anomaly Detection
Date: October 6th (Friday), 2023
Time: 11:00-12:30
Speaker: Ciprian Ceaușescu
Room: Google
10. Deep Introduction to Policy Gradients Methods
Date: June 23rd (Friday), 2023
Time: 11:00-13:00
Speaker: Ciprian Păduraru
Room: Google
9. An Overview of Reinforcement Learning Methods
Date: June 9th (Friday), 2023
Time: 11:00-13:00
Speaker: Ciprian Păduraru
Room: Google
8. DiffEdit: Diffusion-Based Semantic Image Editing with Mask Guidance
Date: May 26th (Friday), 2023
Time: 11:00-12:00
Speaker: Elisabeta Oneață
Room: Google
7. A ConvNet for the 2020s
Date: May 12th (Friday), 2023
Time: 11:00-12:00
Speaker: Adrian Iordache
Room: Google
6. MarginMatch: Improving Semi-Supervised Learning with Pseudo-Margins
Date: April 28th (Friday), 2023
Time: 11:00-12:00
Speaker: Cornelia Caragea
Room: Google
5. Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents
Date: April 7th (Friday), 2023
Time: 11:00-12:00
Speaker: Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu
Room: Google
4. Realtime Acoustic Echo Cancellation: from Research to Production
Date: March 31st (Friday), 2023
Time: 11:00-12:00
Speaker: Nicolae-Cătălin Ristea
Room: Google
3. Physics-Based Character Control with Reinforcement Learning
Date: March 17th (Friday), 2023
Time: 11:00-12:00
Speaker: Ciprian Păduraru
Room: Google
2. Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision
Date: March 3rd (Friday), 2023
Time: 11:00-12:00
Speaker: Eduard Poesina
Room: Google
1. Diffusion Models in Vision
Date: February 17th (Friday), 2023
Time: 11:00-12:00
Speaker: Alin Croitoru
Room: Google
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Regular Members
Bogdan Alexe
Radu Tudor Ionescu
Marius Popescu
Mariana-Iuliana Georgescu
Sergiu Nisioi
Petru Soviany
Florinel-Alin Croitoru
Nicolae-Cătălin Ristea
Antonio Bărbălău
Vlad Hondru
Elisabeta Oneață
Ciprian Păduraru
Bogdan Ichim
Alexandra Diaconu
Eduard Poesina
Ana Rogoz