ACDL2023, An Interdisciplinary Course: From Deep Learning to Foundation Models

If you want to learn  
Transformers,
Large language models (e.g. GPT family, BERT, Megatron-Turing NLG, …)
Vision – Large-scale vision models (e.g. MAE, SimCLR, …)
Vision and language (e.g. DALL.E, ALIGN, CLIP, …)
Beyond vision and language (e.g. video, Knowledge-Graph, structured data, multilingual, …)
and much more
then take part in ACDL 2023! 😉

Riva del Sole Resort & SPA – Tuscany, Italy, June 10-14
https://acdl2023.icas.cc   acdl@icas.cc

EARLY REGISTRATION: by April 23
https://acdl2023.icas.cc/registration/
Oral Presentation Submission Deadline: by April 23 (AoE)

LECTURERS:
Each Lecturer will hold up to four lectures on one or more research topics.
https://acdl2023.icas.cc/lecturers/

Luca Beyer, Google Brain, Zürich, Switzerland 
Lecture 1: “Large-Scale Pre-Training & Transfer in Computer Vision and Vision-Text Models 1/2”
Lecture 2: “Large-Scale Pre-Training & Transfer in Computer Vision and Vision-Text Models 2/2”
Lecture 3: “Transformers 1/2”
Lecture 4: “Transformers 2/2”

Aakanksha Chowdhery, Google Brain, USA     
Lecture 1: TBA
Lecture 2: TBA

Thomas Kipf, Google Brain, USA 
Lecture 1: “Graph Neural Networks 1/2”
Lecture 2: “Graph Neural Networks 2/2”
Lecture 3: “Structured Representation Learning for Perception 1/2”
Lecture 4: “Structured Representation Learning for Perception 2/2”

Pushmeet Kohli, DeepMind, London, UK                 
Lectures: TBA

Yi Ma, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Lecture 1: “An Overview of the Principles of Parsimony and Self-Consistency: The Past, Present, and Future of Intelligence”
Lecture 2: “An Introduction to Low-Dimensional Models and Deep Networks”
Lecture 3: “Parsimony: White-box Deep Networks from Optimizing Rate Reduction”
Lecture 4: “Self-Consistency: Closed-Loop Transcription of Low-Dimensional Structures via Maximin Rate Reduction”

Gerhard Paass, Fraunhofer Institute -IAIS, Germany
Lecture 1: “Introduction to Foundation Models”
Lecture 2: “Foundation Models for Retrieval Applications”
Lecture 3: “Combining Foundation Models with External Text Resources”
Lecture 4: “Approaches to Increase Trustworthiness of Foundation Models2

Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Lecture 1: TBA
Lecture 2: TBA

Qing Qu, University of Michigan, USA
Lecture 1: “Low-Dimensional and Nonconvex Models for Shallow Representation Learning”
Lecture 2: “Low-Dimensional Structures in Deep Representation Learning I”
Lecture 3: “Low-Dimensional Structures in Deep Representation Learning II”
Lecture 4: “Robust Learning of Overparameterized Networks via Low-Dimensional Models”

Alex Smola, Amazon, USA (TBC)

Zoltan Szabo, LSE, London, UK 
Lecture 1: “Shape-Constrained Kernel Machines and Their Applications”
Lecture 2: “Beyond Mean Embedding: The Power of Cumulants in RKHSs”

Michal Valko, DeepMind Paris & Inria France & ENS MVA
Lecture 1: “Reinforcement learning”
Lecture 2: “Deep Reinforcement Learning”
Lecture 3: “Learning by Bootstrapping: Representation Learning”
Lecture 4: “Learning by Bootstrapping: World Models”

TUTORIAL SPEAKERS:
Each Tutorial Speaker will hold more than four lessons on one or more research topics.

Raphaël Berthier, EPFL, Switzerland 
Lecture 1: “Implicit Regularization in Neural Networks”
Lecture 2: “Incremental Learning in Diagonal Linear Networks”
Lecture 3: “Approaches to Study Dynamics of Neural Networks”
Lecture 4: “The Fast-Slow Regime of Neural Networks”

Bruno Loureiro, École Normale Supérieure, France 
Lectures 1-10: “Wonders of high-dimensions: the maths and physics of Machine Learning”
              
Varun Ojha, Newcastle University, UK
Lecture 1: “Characterization of Deep Neural Networks”
Lecture 2: “Backpropagation Neural Tree”
Lecture 3: “Sensitivity Analysis of Deep Learning and Optimization Algorithms”

https://acdl2023.icas.cc/lecturers/

PAST LECTURERS: https://acdl2023.icas.cc/past-lecturers/

ACDL 2023 VENUE:
Riva del Sole Resort & SPA
Località Riva del Sole – Castiglione della Pescaia (Grosseto)
CAP 58043 – Tuscany – Italy
p: +39-0564-928111
f: +39-0564-935607
e: events@rivadelsole.it
w: www.rivadelsole.it
https://acdl2023.icas.cc/venue/

PAST EDITIONS: https://acdl2023.icas.cc/past-editions/

REGISTRATION: https://acdl2023.icas.cc/registration/

CERTIFICATE & 8 ECTS:
PhD students, PostDocs, Industry Practitioners, Junior and Senior Academics, and  will be typical profiles of the ACDL attendants.The Course will involve a total of 36–40 hours of lectures, according to the academic system the final achievement will be equivalent to 8 ECTS points for the PhD Students (and some strongly motivated master student) attending the Course.
At the end of the course, a formal certificate will be delivered indicating the 8 ECTS points.

Anyone interested in participating in ACDL 2023 should register as soon as possible. Similarly for accommodation at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA (the Course Venue), book your full board accommodation at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA as soon as possible. All course participants must stay at the Riva del Sole Resort & SPA.

See you in Riva del Sole in June!
                                Giuseppe Nicosia & Panos Pardalos – ACDL 2023 Directors.