About us
The Remote ML Paper Discussion Group (ex "ML Paper Discussion Group Karlsruhe") gets together virtually once a week to discuss a research paper. The discussions are online and very open, following roughly the structure of the paper and living from the questions and comments of the participants. If you are interested, please read the current paper before the discussion takes place and join our weekly meetings.
The papers are usually from the field of deep learning, reinforcement learning, meta learning, computer vision, natural language processing, or any other machine learning related topic.
If you have any questions, you can ask them on the corresponding meetup event page, in our slack channel #pdg at ml-ka.slack.com, or via email to mlpaperdiscussiongroupka@gmail.com.
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![[PDG 487] Unlocking In-Context Learning for Natural Datasets Beyond LMs](https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/d/f/5/0/highres_534237168.jpeg)
[PDG 487] Unlocking In-Context Learning for Natural Datasets Beyond LMs
·OnlineOnlineLink to article: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.06256
Title: Unlocking In-Context Learning for Natural Datasets Beyond Language Modelling
Content: The work studies why in-context learning emerges in autoregressive models, especially beyond text modalities where it is less automatic than in LLMs. It identifies exact token repetitions in training sequences and appropriate training-task difficulty as key factors that help models learn the mechanisms needed for stable ICL. Using these insights, the authors enable ICL on visual datasets and a harder EEG classification task.
Slack link: ml-ka.slack.com, channel: #pdg. Please join us -- if you cannot join, please message us here or to mlpaperdiscussiongroupka@gmail.com.In the Paper Discussion Group (PDG) we discuss recent and fundamental papers in the area of machine learning on a weekly basis. If you are interested, please read the paper beforehand and join us for the discussion. If you have not fully understood the paper, you can still participate – everyone is welcome! You can join the discussion or simply listen in. The discussion is in German or English depending on the participants.
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Past events
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![[PDG 486] Online Continual Learning on Intel Loihi 2 via a Co-designed SNN](https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/0/6/0/highres_534109248.jpeg)
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