An introduction to sequential/session-based recommendation

17 May 2023 1:00pm
Speaker: Dr Shoujin Wang (University of Technology Sydney)
In recent years, sequential/session-based recommendations have emerged as a new recommendation paradigm to well model users’ dynamic and short-term preferences for more accurate and timely recommendations.

Building Experiment Tracking at Scale with Weights & Biases

10 May 2023 1:00pm
Speaker: Andrea Parker, Growth ML Engineer (Weights & Biases)
Join us to learn all about experiment tracking at scale with Pachyderm and Weights & Biases.

SEINE: SEgment-based Indexing for NEural Information Retrieval

3 May 2023 10:00am
Speaker: Dr Grace Hui Yang (Georgetown University)
We propose a novel SEgment-based Neural Indexing method, SEINE, which provides a general indexing framework that can flexibly support a variety of interaction-based neural retrieval methods.

Towards algorithms on grammar-compressed strings, trees, and graphs

28 April 2023 1:00pm
Speaker: Prof Stefan Böttcher - Universität Paderborn (Germany)
This talk gives an overview of the key ideas behind grammar-based compression techniques for strings, trees, and graphs.

Mobility Digital Twin for Connected and Automated Vehicles

26 April 2023 1:00pm
Speaker: Dr Ziran Wang (Purdue University)
In this talk, a Mobility Digital Twin (MDT) framework is introduced, which is defined as an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based data-driven cloud-edge-device framework for mobility services.

Towards Trustworthy AI

21 April 2023 11:00am
Speaker: Dr Qiongkai Xu, The University of Melbourne
This seminar will present research towards trustworthy AI systems.

Sparks between Data Analytics and Graphs

13 April 2023 2:00pm
Speaker: Dr Shixun Huang (RMIT University)
In this talk, recent advances under multiple fields (i.e., data mining, viral marketing and urban computing) of graph analytics will be introduced.

Optimising LiDAR-Based 3D Object Detection with Limited Labels

31 March 2023 1:30pm
Speaker: Zhuoxiao (Ivan) Chen
Our research focuses on optimising the model performance for 3D object detection, especially when the labelling budget is limited.

Concept drift adaptation for multiple streams with temporal dependence

27 March 2023 4:00pm
Speaker: Dr Yiliao Song, RMIT University
Real-time decision-making for streaming data is facing a common but challenging problem, concept drift.

A magic ingredient, a secret spice, a special blend, for it can all be nice!' The Human Quotient for Better AI Systems

22 March 2023 1:00pm
Speaker: A/Prof Ujwal Gadiraju (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
This talk will discuss the intriguing and pertinent role of human input in propelling better AI technology in the quickly evolving age of generative models.

Multi-Domain Few-Shot Image Classification

15 March 2023 1:00pm
Speaker: Dr Yanbin Liu (Australian National University)

AutoML for On-device Recommender Systems

14 March 2023 3:30pm
Speaker: Ruiqi Zheng

Efficient Distributed Complex Event Processing

9 March 2023 1:00pm
Speaker: Dr Matthias Weidlich (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU))
In this talk, we present some of our recent results on achieving such distribution with the model of MuSE graphs as well as optimizations that rely on push-pull-communication.

Score based Diffusion Models and Their Applications

8 March 2023 1:00pm
Speaker: Dr Jing Zhang (Australian National University)
In this talk, we will explain the basic idea of score-based diffusion models, and explore its potential in 2D/3D vision tasks.

Seven Algorithms for the Same Task (Testing Uniformity)

1 March 2023 1:00pm
Speaker: Dr Clément Canonne (University of Sydney)
In this talk, I will survey and discuss seven algorithms for uniformity testing, and explain some of their (dis)advantages.

Escaping the Echo Chamber: The Quest for Normative News Recommender Systems

22 February 2023 1:00pm
Speaker: Prof Abraham Bernstein (University of Zurich)
This talk highlights that computer science needs to increasingly engage with both the social and normative challenges of our work, possibly producing a new understanding of our discipline.

Improving Discriminative Retrieval Models Using Generative Tasks

20 February 2023 10:00am
Speaker: Professor Shane Culpepper, RMIT University
In this talk, we will discuss a novel multi-task learning approach which can be used to produce more effective neural ranking models.

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