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ML Collective

Town Hall

7/10/22

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Welcome 🎉

2nd Town Hall

1st Town Hall

2021.10

2022.1

2022.5

3rd Town Hall

2022.7

4th Town Hall

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Agenda

  • Everyone say a quick hello!
  • A few slides to kick things off
  • Open discussion with notes
    • Four sections: New stuff, IG, Discord and everything else
    • Hear general thoughts
    • Brainstorm ideas together
    • Assign any actions

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How it started

2018.6

A reading group

2020.6

A bunch of us continued to have lab meetings even though we no longer worked together

2020.12

Discord server started after a successful NeurIPS Social

2020.8

2017.1

Deep Collective group at Uber

Renamed to “ML Collective”

2021.12

Received 501c(3) status from IRS

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1st Town Hall

2021.10

2022.1

2022.5

3rd Town Hall

2022.7

4th Town Hall

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How it’s going

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10/24/21

(1st Town Hall)

1/16/22

(2nd Town Hall)

5/1/22

(3rd Town Hall)

7/10/22

(4th Town Hall)

Discord members

2090

2560 (+22.5%)

3385 (+32.2%)

3754 (+10.9%)

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DLCT reading group

2086

2313 (+10.1%)

2598 (+12.3%)

2776 (+6.9%)

Twitter followers

4950

6055 (+22.3%)

7891 (+30.3%)

9084 (+15.1%)

YouTube subscribers

739

906 (+22.6%)

1120 (+23.6%)

1230 (+9.8%)

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Top of mind

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Section 1: Showing off MLC members and work

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Showing off MLC members and work!

  • The careers, learning, and development of MLC members move forward one small win (or sometimes big win!) at a time.
    • Not all wins are visible (e.g. personal aha moments when reading papers)
    • But many are, and for those that are, why not make them more visible?
  • What we could show off:
    • Papers (already doing this: https://mlcollective.org/projects/)
    • Blog posts
    • Demos, Code, Colab notebooks
    • Research Jam presentations (already doing this: https://mlcollective.org/research-jam-9/)
    • External events hosted by MLC members (Workshops, Socials, Meetups)
  • ⭐️ All the people that make up MLC (e.g. profile at https://mlcollective.org/people/YOU/)

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Trying out Discourse

  • Thanks to David Drakard, David Marx, Ender, AtsushiSaito, Charles Frye, Daniel Lam
    • In #mlc-organization
  • Give it a try if you want! We’ll check back next time and see if it was useful.
  • https://discourse.mlcollective.org/

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Section 2: Interest Groups

New IG since last time: robotics!

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Hear from Interest Group Leads and Attendees

  • Computer vision
  • Natural language processing
    • nlp_study_group
  • Explainable ai
  • ML theory
  • Ethical AI
  • Reinforcement Learning
    • RL implementation
    • RL beginners
  • Graph learning
  • OOD and Uncertainty Quantification
  • Physics informed ML
  • Automl
  • Production-in-ml
  • Robotics

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Hear from Interest Group Leads and Attendees

What’s the best way of showing the currently most active ones?

  • Computer vision
  • Natural language processing
    • nlp_study_group
  • Explainable ai
  • ML theory
  • Ethical AI
  • Reinforcement Learning
    • RL implementation
    • RL beginners
  • Graph learning
  • OOD and Uncertainty Quantification
  • Physics informed ML
  • Automl
  • Production-in-ml
  • Robotics

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Collect feelings and ideas and discuss:

MLC Town Hall notes 7/10/22

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Section 1: Showing off MLC members and work & Discourse

Section 2: Interest Groups & Discord

Section 3: Everything else

Switch to notes doc to type your feelings and ideas:

MLC Town Hall notes 7/10/22