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- (28.02.2023) Time and meeting place has changed to 11:00-13:00 at Seminar Room D (opposite MENSA)
- (20.02.2023) The 1st meeting will be held in the space right outside the CPS Chair.
- (01.02.2023) Meetings for Summer Semester 2023 start on Feb 24!

A Deep Dive into Deep Learning
Immerse yourself in the exciting world of Deep Learning at Neural Coffee!
Every Friday, we’ll gather to discuss the latest advancements and ideas in the field and expand our knowledge in a relaxed and friendly environment.
All discussions will be held in English.
Open to All, Welcome to All
Be Prepared, Be Involved
Take charge of your learning experience and bring a paper, video, or article to share and discuss at each meeting.
Engage in lively discussions and ask questions.
With coffee provided to keep you fueled, the only thing missing is you!
When? Where? Who?
Time: Every Friday 11:00 am – 13:00pm
Location: Seminar Room D, Franz Josef Street 18, 8700 Leoben
Organizer: Fotis Lygerakis, Doctoral Student at the Chair of Cyber-Physical Systems
Questions?
Feel free to address any questions regarding Neural Coffee to fotios.lygerakis@unileoben.ac.at
Not confident with Deep Learning yet?
That’s ok! We will be here for you when you’ve mastered DL. Here is a list of resources that can take you from zero to hero:
Meetings Agenda
- 24.02.2023 – Introduction of Neural Coffee Reading Group
- 03.03.2023 – David Ha, Jürgen Schmidhuber, World Models, 2018, NIPS [paper] [article]
- 10.03.2023 – Ian J. Goodfellow, Jean Pouget-Abadie, Mehdi Mirza, et al, Generative Adversarial Nets, 2014, NIPS [paper] [article]
- 17.03.2023
- Jonathan Ho, Ajay Jain, Pieter Abbeel, Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models, 2020, NeurIPS. [paper] [article 1] [article 2] [article 2]
- Introduction to Lambda calculus by Dr. Mario Weitzer
- 24.03.2023 Vaswani, A., Shazeer, et al. (2017). Attention is All you Need. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. Curran Associates, Inc. [paper] [article 1] [article 2] [video 1] [video 2]
- 31.03.2013 Geoffrey Hinton (2022). The Forward-Forward Algorithm: Some Preliminary Investigations. Presented at Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 2022. [paper][article 1][article 2][video 1][video 2]
Member Book Suggestions
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds, by Daniel C. Dennett, ISBN-10: 0393355500