2024 presentations
Machine Learning in Health Club

29 November 2024
UNSW CBDRH Presentation:
Enhanced Outcome Prediction through deep learning to Assist Clinician Decision-making in Patients with Stroke Due to Intracerebral Haemorrhage (ICH)
Leibo Liu
Senior Data Scientist
CBDRH UNSW
22 November 2024
Keynote interview with Geoffrey Hinton and Nicholas Thompson
Geoffrey Hinton
AI for GOOD
15 November 2024
Discussion on the Google DeepMind The Podcast:
The Ethics of AI Assistants with Iason Gabriel
Professor Hannah Fry
Google DeepMind
8 November 2024
Discussion on the Simons Institute presentation:
Limitations of attention mechanism, with implications in generalization and optimization
Andrew Gordon Wilson
New York University
1 November 2024
UNSW Presentation:
Dynamic Graph Representation Learning Based on Deep Generative Models and Its Application to EHR Dataset
Ghazaleh Niknam Shirvan
Postdoctoral Researcher UNSW
18 October 2024 and 25 October 2024
Discussion on the Simons Institute presentation:
Limitations of attention mechanism, with implications in generalization and optimization
Bingbin Liu
Carnegie Mellon University
11 October 2024
Discussion on the video:
How might LLMs store facts | Chapter 7, Deep Learning
Grant Sanderson '3Blue1Brown'
Math content creator
4 October 2024
Discussion on the HuggingFace presentation:
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback: From Zero to chatGPT
Nathan Lambert
HuggingFace
13 September 2024
Discussion on the DeepLearningAI presentation:
Prompt-Engineering for Open-Source LLMs
Sharon Zhou
Stanford University
6 September 2024
Discussion on the University of Tübingen presentation:
Statistical learning theory: finite function classes
Prof. Dr. Ulrike von Luxburg
University of Tübingen
30 August 2024
Discussion on the University of Tübingen presentation:
Statistical learning theory: Convergence and consistency
Prof. Dr. Ulrike von Luxburg
University of Tübingen
23 August 2024
Discussion on the Simons Institute presentation:
An Observation on Generalization
Ilya Sutskever
OpenAI
16 August 2024
CBDRH Presentation:
Current challenges in digital representation of variation in cancer care
Presenter:
Ivy Cerelia Valerie, Sophia Kee
MSc Health Data Science, Centre for Big Data Research in Health (CBDRH), UNSW
9 August 2024
Presentation on the Natural article:
AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
Authors: Ilia Shumailov, Zakhar Shumaylov, Yiren Zhao, Nicolas Papernot, Ross Anderson & Yarin Gal
Presenter:
Larry (Bokang) Bi
MSc Health Data Science, Centre for Big Data Research in Health (CBDRH), UNSW.
2 August 2024
Discussion on the EAG Boston 23 presentation:
Lessons from reinforcement learning from human feedback
Stephen Casper
PhD(c), MIT
26 July 2024
Discussion on the Simons Institute presentation:
The Platonic Representation Hypothesis
Phillip Isola
Associate professor in EECS at MIT
19 July 2024
Featured presentation:
I Bet You Did Not Mean That: Testing Semantic Importance via Betting.
Jacopo Teneggi
PhD(c), Johns Hopkins University
12 July 2024
Discussion on the Mayo Clinic presentation:
How Machine Learning Can Help Designing the Optimal Therapeutic Phage Cocktails
Cedric Lood
PhD(c), KU Leuven University-Belgium
5 July 2024
Discussion on the AI for good summit:
Keynote interview with Geoffrey Hinton (remote) and Nicholas Thompson (in-person)
AI for good summit
28 June 2024
Kirby Institute presentation:
ML gonorrhoea antibiotic resistance gene identification
Mr Andrey Verich
PhD candidate Kirby Institute
14 June 2024 and 21 June 2024
Discussion on the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München presentation:
From Machine Learning to Autonomous Intelligence
Prof. Dr. Yann LeCun.
Professor at NYU. Chief AI Scientist at Meta.
7 June 2024
Attention in transformers, visually explained
Grant Sanderson ‘3Blue1Brown‘
Math content creator, MIT lecturer.
31 May 2024
But what is a GPT? Visual intro to transformers
Grant Sanderson ‘3Blue1Brown‘
Math content creator, MIT lecturer.
12 April 2024, 10 May 2024 and 17 May 2024
Discussion on the Cornell Tech presentation:
Do we need Attention? A Mamba Primer
Dr Alexander Rush
Associate Professor, Cornell Tech.
19 April 2024, 26 April 2024 and 3 May 2024
Discussion on the Standford MedAI presentation:
Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces
Dr Albert GU
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Standford MedAI
5 April 2024
Discussion on the EMLP: Big Picture Workshop presentation:
Is "Attention = Explanation"?
Sarah Wiegreffe and Sarthak Jain
EMNLP: Big Picture Workshop.
22 March 2024
Discussion on the MLT Artifical Intelligence presentation:
Transformers with Lucas Beyer, Google Brain
Dr Lucas Beyer
Google Brain, Google Deepmind, MLT Artificial Intelligence.
15 March 2024
Discussion on the Rich Ken Kennedy Institute presentation:
Exciting trends in machine learning
Dr Jeff Dean
Lead of Goolge AI, Rich Ken Kennedy Institute.
8 March 2024
NeurIPS Invited Talks 2
Dr Juan Quiroz Aguilera
Research Fellow, Centre for Big Data Research in Health (CBDRH), UNSW.
1 March 2024
NeurIPS Invited Talks 1
Dr Juan Quiroz Aguilera
Research Fellow, Centre for Big Data Research in Health (CBDRH), UNSW.
23 February 2024
QLoRA part 2
Larry (Bokang) Bi
Student MSc Health Data Science, Centre for Big Data Research in Health (CBDRH), UNSW.
16 February 2024
QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
Larry (Bokang) Bi
Student MSc Health Data Science, Centre for Big Data Research in Health (CBDRH), UNSW.
9 February 2024
Exploring Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA): Parameter-efficient LLM finetuning
Zhisheng (Sandy) Sa
Trainee Biostatistician, NSW Ministry of Health.
2 February 2024
What is NLP
Larry (Bokang) Bi
Student MSc Health Data Science, Centre for Big Data Research in Health (CBDRH), UNSW.