Fall 2024
| Date | Title | Presenter | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 9th 2024 |
Agenda Discussion
planning |
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| September 16th 2024 |
Refresher on Reinforcement Learning, Deep RL, and Policy Gradient Methods
presentation |
Dr. Pingali |
📊 Slides 📄 Barto and Sutton Chapter 13 📚 DeepRL Bootcamp Lecture 4A 📚 DeepRL Bootcamp Lecture 4B 📚 David Silver Lecture 7 📚 Pieter Abbeel Lecture 3 🔗 Dr. Pingali's BOOST'24 Lectures on ML/RL with Demos |
| September 23rd 2024 |
Advanced Policy Gradient Methods
presentation |
Lain |
📊 Slides 📄 Barto and Sutton Chapter 13 📚 DeepRL Bootcamp Lecture 5 📚 David Silver Lecture 7 📚 Pieter Abbeel Lecture 3 |
| September 30th 2024 |
Gradient Computation in MLPs and KANs
presentation |
Dr. Pingali and Lain |
📊 Slides 📚 Neural Networks and Learning Machines, Haykin, 3rd edition 📚 Dr. Pingali's Bertinoro Talk on Backpropagation |
| October 7th 2024 |
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)
presentation |
Dr. Pingali |
📊 Slides |
| October 14th 2024 |
Effective Reinforcement Learning through Evolutionary Surrogate-Assisted Prescription
presentation |
Lain |
📊 Slides 📄 Effective Reinforcement Learning through Evolutionary Surrogate-Assisted Prescription by Francon et al. 2020 |
| October 21st 2024 |
Attention Variants and Optimization
presentation |
Kaizhao |
📊 Slides 📄 Attention paper |
| October 28th 2024 |
ML for Compiler Optimization
presentation |
Dr. Sadayappan |
📊 Slides |
| November 4th 2024 |
Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF)
presentation |
Lain |
📊 Slides 📄 Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback (Ouyang et al. 2022) 📄 Learning to summarize from human feedback (Stiennon et al. 2020) 📄 Deep Reinforcement Learning from Human Preferences (Christiano et al. 2023) |
| November 11th 2024 |
Graph Neural Networks (GNN)
presentation |
Sicong Che and Kate Zhang |
📊 Slides |
| November 18th 2024 |
Evolution and Applications to Systems by Dr. Risto Miikkulainen
guest |
Dr. Risto Miikkulainen |
📚 Dr. Miikkulainen on the Lex Fridman Podcast (Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation) |
| November 25th 2024 |
Learning Directed Operating System (LDOS)
presentation |
Dr. Rossbach |
📊 Slides |