PyData Heidelberg #11 - TimeSeries Forecasting & LLM Langchain

#TIMESERIES #FORECASTING #LLMS #LANGCHAIN

In person in Heidelberg and live on PyData.TV on YouTube

Agenda

18:00 Doors open

18:30 Welcome

18:45 Beyond Toy Datasets: Timeseries Forecasting for Real Business Problems - Robert Haase (AI Scientist @ paretos)

19:15 Break: Networking with snacks and beverages

20:00 How to Leverage the Full Potential of LLMs for Your Business with Langchain - Leon Ruddat (AI Research Specialist @ SNOCKS)

20:30 Lightning Talks

20:45 Networking with snacks and beverages

21:30 End

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About this meetup:

Talk #1

Robert Haase (AI Scientist @ paretos)

Beyond Toy Datasets: Timeseries Forecasting for Real Business Problems - Common Pitfalls and (Some) Solutions

Real-life timeseries datasets e.g. from retailer or logistic companies often come with high complexity such as a high level of sparsity and heterogenity as well as most of the times it is highly imbalanced and driven by external factors. In this talk Robert will give an overview of what are the common pitfalls when working with real-life data in a timeseries context and provide a set of possible solutions to turn these projects into a success-story.

Robert earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Physics from the University of Heidelberg, specializing in Condensed Matter Physics and Computational Physics. During his Master's thesis in 2020, he advanced existing NLP Transformer architectures for timeseries applications. This involved Robert working extensively with uncertainty quantifications and normalizing flows. Since the beginning of 2021, he has been employed at Paretos, where the primary focus of his work lies in Timeseries Forecasting, specifically demand forecasting. Robert has a keen interest in combining traditional statistical methods with deep learning techniques.

Talk #2

Leon Ruddat (AI Research Specialist @ SNOCKS)

How to Leverage the Full Potential of LLMs for Your Business with Langchain

In this talk, Leon will introduce Langchain, a framework for developing applications powered by language models. He'll explore how to work with it, which use cases are most suited for this framework, and most importantly, which features of Langchain can deliver the greatest value from his perspective.

Leon lives in Heidelberg. He holds a Master's degree in Mechatronics with a focus on Artificial Intelligence from Hochschule Mannheim. During his studies there, he was employed as an AI Scientist for almost three years, with his research mainly focusing on autonomous driving. Since April, he has been working at Snocks as an AI Scientist. There, he delves into the exciting world of Large Language Models (LLMs) and explores their applications in e-commerce. He currently leads a team of three developers with whom he collaborates on innovative AI solutions. His expertise lies particularly in working with PyTorch, CV-based AI frameworks, Langchain, and well-known LLMs such as GPT. What drives him? The "Why-Not-Spirit". His motto: "Just do it and build awesome AI tools."

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Lightning Talks:

1. Locating the spiral arms of the Milky Way using t-sne - Dr. Bertrand Lemasle

2. Developing an AI-based Business Data Analyst using OpenAI Function Calling - Bernhard Schäfer

3. Open-Source Science (OSSci) - Tim Bonnemann

Acknowledgements

Also a big thank you to our sponsors:

• NUMFOCS, for promoting open source software.
• KÖNIGSWEG, for supporting the organization.
• paretos, for hosting the meetup.

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