New format of the reading group

The format of the deep learning reading group has changed. From now on, instead of going into the details about one single basic aspect of deep learning, the main goal is to be aware of the most recent techniques and applications, and get ideas and inspiration from as many high-quality papers as possible. As pointed out by Andrej Karpathy in a recent post, the volume of papers published on the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence and computer vision is just becoming to be too vast (March of 2017 saw almost 2,000 submissions in arXiv for the fields of cs.AI,cs.LG,cs.CV,cs.CL,cs.NE,stat.ML). Therefore, this reading group will try to dedicate shared efforts to read, understand and explain to others some previously selected papers. Moreover, to face the difficulty of finding volunteers, the talks will be shorter and will not involve the preparation of additional material for the presentation.

The new reading group organization will be as follows:

  • 1 meeting every two weeks.
  • 6 presentations of 10 minutes maximum (presentation + questions).
  • During the presentation only the PDF of the paper will be displayed (no slides are necessary). The goal is not to give a complete presentation of the paper, but just to briefly introduce the main ideas and results. If people find the paper interesting can read it later more carefully. There is no problem if some parts of the paper are not presented or not fully understood by the speaker, because we expect the speaker spends 2 hours or less to prepare the presentation.
  • The papers are selected following this protocol:
    • everybody can add papers to the proposal list on https://framateam.org/signup_user_complete/?id=6jhpas4rgby19pm59kktcgkjfw (you need to create an account with your email address)
    • everybody can vote for the proposed papers by ‘liking’ it.
    • at least 24h before the meeting, the organizers of the reading group select the 6 most popular papers, and publish the list on framacalc: https://framacalc.org/=Deep-Learning-reading-group
    • people can add their name next to the paper they want to present.
    • if somebody wants to present and discuss a particular paper (even if this was not included in the aforementioned list), he/she can send an email to the organizers, discuss the interest of the specific paper and, almost certainly, the presentation would take place in that session or in one of the next ones

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