Paris NLP saison 8 Meetup #2

📍8-10 rue du Renard 75004 Paris
📆 January 8th, 7:00 p.m.
⚠️ Limited spots available. Be sure to reserve your place in advance!

👥 Alexandre Brasseur - ML Engineer
➡️ Lost in the feed: how ask from billions of social media posts
Everyone knows what "RAG" means, but is it that simple ? Let's embark in our journey on building a Conversational Search Engine from scratch designed to deliver quick insights from billions of social media posts and news articles ingested daily. In this talk we will share the initiatives and failures we went through in order to build a production-grade RAG system.

👥 Léo Hunout & Kamel Guerda - AI Research Engineers @IDRIS
➡️ Jean Zay: Unlocking the Power of Supercomputing for Research
Summary: In this talk, we’ll introduce Jean Zay, the French supercomputer hosted at IDRIS, and explain how it can empower the NLP community. We will cover how researchers and developers working on open-source projects can access and leverage this powerful resource, as well as key strategies for optimizing the training and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) on supercomputers. Whether you’re new to supercomputing or exploring its possibilities for NLP, this session aims to demystify the process and equip you with the foundational knowledge and tools to get started.