Spring 2021 Discussions


We conduct two discussions every week where we dicuss the basic concepts and recent advancements in the field of Deep Learning.

Basic Discussions

We discuss a few fundamental concepts on Wednesdays.

Date Topic Resources
14-04-2021 Linear Algebra Slides
21-04-2021 Probability and Stats Slides
05-05-2021 Neural Networks and CNNs Slides-A Slides B

Advanced Discussions

We discuss the latest papers published in top tier conferences on Saturdays.

Date
Paper 1
Link
Paper 2
Link
20-02-2021 GIRAFFE: Representing Scenes as Compositional Generative Neural Feature Fields https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.12100 Swapping Autoencoder for Deep Image Manipulation https://taesung.me/SwappingAutoencoder/
27-02-2021 ActionBytes: Learning from Trimmed Videos to Localize Actions https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2020/papers/Jain_ActionBytes_Learning_From_Trimmed_Videos_to_Localize_Actions_CVPR_2020_paper.pdf The Importance of Modeling Data Missingness in Algorithmic Fairness: A Causal Perspective https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11448
13-03-2021 Ultra-Data-Efficient GAN Training: Drawing A Lottery Ticket First, Then Training It Toughly https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00397v1 An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929
24-04-2021 PREDICT & CLUSTER: Unsupervised Skeleton Based Action Recognition https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12409 Dynamic Convolutions: Exploiting Spatial Sparsity for Faster Inference https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.03203
01-05-2021 SCOUT: Self-aware Discriminant Counterfactual Explanations https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2020/papers/Wang_SCOUT_Self-Aware_Discriminant_Counterfactual_Explanations_CVPR_2020_paper.pdf High-performance brain-to-text communication via imagined handwriting https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.01.183384v1.full.pdf
Vision and Language Group
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