PUBLIC - 2023 Master Seminar on Word Embedding Spaces

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1	Master Seminar on Word Embedding Spaces, Summer Term 2023
2	GitHub repository:		https://github.com/ben300694/word-embeddings
3	Detailed seminar program:		https://github.com/ben300694/word-embeddings/blob/main/notes/main.pdf
4	Room:		25.22.U1.72
5	Time:		Wednesdays, 12:30 - 14:00
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7	HHU students: Please contact "ruppik (at) hhu (dot) de" if you are interested in giving one of the talks!
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9		Date	Topic	Student	Student		Status
10	1	2023-04-05	First meeting & Introductory Talk	Ben R.		hybrid		Omar remote
11	2	2023-04-12	Static embeddings: Frequency based methods, word2vec, GloVe, fastText; cosine similarity	Lukas S.		hybrid		Omar remote
12	3	2023-04-19	Recurrent methods, ELMo, Attention mechanism	Jiye J.	Ana C.	hybrid		Omar remote
13	4	2023-04-26	Attention and Transformers	Mihamad A.	Diana M.	hybrid		Omar remote
14	5	2023-05-03	Masked Language Models (BERT, RoBERTa)	Lien C.	Luis L.	hybrid		Omar remote
15	6	2023-05-10	Contrastive Learning, Sentence embeddings (Sentence-BERT)	Malek A.	Sophia F.	hybrid		Omar remote
16	7	2023-05-17	Applications of Word Embeddings in Task-oriented Dialogue Systems	Mohamed A.	Elias K.	hybrid		Omar remote
17	8	2023-05-24	Dialogue Embeddings, Multimodal Embeddings (for example CLIP, Whisper)	Omar H.	Jan K.	hybrid
18	9	2023-05-31	RLHF, PPO, Aligning AI models (InstructGPT)	Bastian B.		hybrid
19	10	2023-06-07	Sparrow, ChatGPT, GPT-4	Alina K.	Marcus N.	hybrid
20	11	2023-06-14	Evaluation, Bias, Sentiment, Emotion	Athira S.	Saruna M.	hybrid
21	12	2023-06-21	Multilingual Embeddings	Emily B.	Parmis B.	hybrid
22	13	2023-06-28	Autoencoders, Data Manifold Hypothesis	Konrad L.	Shayan A.	hybrid
23	14	2023-07-05	Riemannian Manifold Learning, Hyperbolic Word Embeddings	Kaspar S.		hybrid
24	15	2023-07-12	Topological Data Analysis, Singularities, Dimensionality Reduction	Phillippe W.	Muhammad K.	hybrid
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26				still available
27				next talk
28				no credit points needed
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