Classic Contributions to Machine Learning

Dear Students,

The paper assignment is complete and almost all students got their first choice. The first round of presentations will be as follows:

Group 1 - Introduction - 30.05.22

• Mohamad Altamer      A Few Useful Things to Know About Machine Learning
• Yufeng Jiang                Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks                                             
• Max Biwersi                A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks                                            
• Severin Adler              Dropout: A Simple Way to Prevent Neural Networks from Overfitting                         

Group 2 - Methods and Applications - 13.06.22

• Leonard Butz              Deep Physical Neural Networks Trained with Backpropagation                                
• Albert Klimenko          Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation                          
• Xudong Zhang            Machine Learning and Phone Data Can Improve Targeting of Humanitarian Aid                                      

Group 3 - ML and Society - 20.06.22

• Thomas Boisvert         Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal                
• Emily Ries                   Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification    
• Zoi Giagtzoglou           Delphi: Towards Machine Ethics and Norms

The next step is to read the paper and prepare the first (practice) presentation. You shouldn't underestimate the workload -- we suggest that you start with the first read through of the paper as soon as possible. Remember you are free to use other resources (blogs, videos, lectures, etc.) to help you better understand the material. We also highly encourage you to consult the resources that we shared in the kick off meeting on how to prepare a good presentation. We will also share a few additional resources on machine learning basics in the next few days.

We ask you to submit your presentation here at least 3 days before your presentation date (i.e. by 27.05 for group 1, by 10.06 for group 2, and by 17.06 for group 3). You are still allowed to fine tune and improve your presentation after this deadline but the submission should not significantly deviate from what you present. You are allowed to use any software for your presentation (PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Docs, etc.) but please submit a PDF export.

Your presentation should be 15 minutes long. We highly recommended that you do at least one practice run to make sure that the story flows nicely and that you are on time!

If you have any questions do not hesitate to get in touch.

- Rebekka and Aleksandar