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Feb 2021

24 Feb

Can we automate our own work — or show that it is hard?

24/02/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Prof. Jukka Suomela
Computer scientists seek to understand what can be automated, but what do we know about automating our own work? Can we outsource our own research [...]
24 Feb

A Mathematical Theory of Communication: Discrete Noisy Systems (2)

24/02/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Fabien Mathieu
In 1948 Shannon published the article that defines modern information theory. For this reading group, we will briefly remind the first part of the article [...]
17 Feb

The impact of multi-user massive MIMO on resource allocation in 5G cellular networks

17/02/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Prof. Catherine Rosenberg
One of the very important technologies for 5G is multi-user massive MIMO. It has the potential to deliver excellent performance if used well. However, it [...]
17 Feb

A Mathematical Theory of Communication: Discrete Noisy Systems (1)

17/02/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Fabien Mathieu
In 1948 Shannon published the article that defines modern information theory. For this reading group, we will briefly remind the first part of the article [...]
10 Feb

Real-time Bidding in First and Second Price Auctions with Temporal and Targeting Constraints

10/02/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Professor Ravi R. Mazumdar
Please, find here the abstract and bibliography provided by Professor Mazumdar for his talk: http://www.lincs.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Bidding_LINCS_Jan2021.pdf Here, Professor Mazumdar's webpage with info on his academic path: [...]
10 Feb

Fastcore

10/02/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
François Durand
According to its website, fastcore is a set of "Python goodies to make your coding faster, easier, and more maintainable". "Fastcore [adds] to Python features [...]
03 Feb

Edit distances, string alignments and dynamic programming

03/02/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Marc-Olivier Buob
Edit distances quantify how dissimilar two strings are by counting the minimum number of edit operation (insertion, deletion, etc) to transform one string into the [...]

Jan 2021

27 Jan

Presentation of Huggingface Transformers library for Natural Language Processing

27/01/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Gérard Burnside
Transformers architectures have been dominating the benchmarks of most Natural Language Processing tasks for the past 3 years with new models popping up every week, [...]
20 Jan

"Secure and Robust MIMO Transceiver for Multicast Mission Critical Communications"

20/01/2021    
2:00 pm-3:00 pm
Deepa Jagyasi
Mission-critical communications (MCC) involve all communications between people in charge of the safety of the civil society. MCC have unique requirements that include improved reliability, [...]
20 Jan

A tutorial on Bayesian optimization with Gaussian processes

20/01/2021    
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Lorenzo Maggi
Bayesian optimization proves to be useful when our goal is to i) optimize an unknown function, that we can learn by sampling ii) our sample [...]