On Sunday 26.03.23, at 12:00 PM, we will have our third session of students’ presentations. In this session, four students from BIU will present their work. Note that, unlike regular learning club meetings, this meeting will last 2 hours, and will include lunch. It will take place at the Engineering building (1103) in room 329. ... Read more

Title:Efficient Rate Optimal Regret for Adversarial Contextual MDPs Using Online Function ApproximationAbstract:We study learning tabular finite-horizon Markov Decision Processes with adversarially-chosen contexts. Following latest literature, we assume a realizable function class that maps between context and MDP as well as access to online regression oracles that fits the best function given prior observations. This setting ... Read more

Location:Engineering building (1103), room 329Title:When Language Models Meet WordsAbstract:Over the last few years, deep neural models have taken over the field of natural language processing (NLP), brandishing great improvements on many of its sequence-level tasks. But the end-to-end nature of these models makes it hard to figure out whether the way they represent individual words ... Read more

Location:Building 1300 (students’ dorms), room 1Title:What is next in Vision and Language models?Abstract:In recent years, two mostly separated fields of machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing, have gradually become closer. Advancements in each field have greatly influenced the other, driven in part by the abundance of weekly annotated data in the form of ... Read more