CS-UJ Seminar: "Foundations of Analytic Information Theory, Machine Learning, and AI"

When: October 21 till November 8 every day at 17:00 EU time and 11/12am EST USA time.

Zoom (same link for seminar dates except October 28 - November 1): https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/5418154976

A three-week seminar series by CSoI together with faculty and students at Jagiellonian University, Poland .

The following unpublished yet book will be used and students are encouraged to browse through it:

"Analytic Information Theory: From Compression to Learning" by M. Drmota and W. Szpankowski
(see https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/spa/temp/ait22.pdf )

The following two books will be useful:

1 "Analysis of Algorithms on Sequences" by W. Szpankowski, Willey 2001
(see https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/spa/mybook.pdf).

2 "Analytic Pattern Matching: From DNA to Twitter", by P. Jacquet and W. Szpankowski
(see https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/spa/temp/words15.pdf)

 

Schedule for October 21-November 8, 2024:

October 21, at 11:00/17:00
W. Szpankowski (Purdue) and Changlong Wu (Purdue)
Organizational Meeting

October 22, at 11:00/17:00
"What is information"

Recorded Lecture: https://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu/media/t/1_e2qlvsat

October 23 11:00/17:00
Analytic Information Theory: Parts I & II

Recorded Lecture: https://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu/media/t/1_47u9kkr0

October 23 11:00/17:00
Analytic Information Theory: Part II

Recorded Lecture: https://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu/media/t/1_rw88o14l

October 24 at 11:00/17:00
From Analytic Information Theory to Analytic Learning Theory

Recorded Lecture: https://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu/media/t/1_g1q6zx9a

October 25  at 11:00/17:00
Structural and Temporal Information

Recorded Lecture: https://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu/media/t/1_hwv6s8eh

 

For the week of October 28-November 1 please use this Zoom link: https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/93037573738?pwd=Fgv2l9C7RP63F77t0twhJbKzEZwwS5.1

October 28  at 12:00/17:00
Introduction to Machine Learning

• Slides: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/spa/uj24/lecture1-uj24.pdf
• Recorded Lecture: https://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu/media/t/1_i6ijt7e0
  

October 29  at 12:00/17:00
Minimax Value of Online Learning Games: Part I

• Slides: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/spa/uj24/lecture2-uj24.pdf
• Recorded Lecture: https://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu/media/CS-UJ+Seminar+on+%22Minimax+Value+of+Online+Learning+Games%3A+Part+I%22/1_np492qc9
  

October 30  at 12:00/17:00
Minimax Value of Online Learning Games: Part II

• Slides: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/spa/uj24/lecture3-uj24.pdf
• Recorded Lecture: https://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu/media/+CS-UJ+Seminar+on+%22Minimax+Value+of+Online+Learning+Games%3A+Part+II%22+/1_v0hlwljv
  

October 31  at 12:00/17:00
Online Learning under Logarithmic Loss

• Slides: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/spa/uj24/lecture4-uj24.pdf
• Recorded Lecture: https://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu/media/Online+Learning+under+Logarithmic+Loss/1_ahmnlwht
  

November 1  at 12:00/17:00
Introduction to Large Language Models

• Slides: https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/spa/uj24/lecture5-uj24.pdf
• Recorded Lecture: https://mediaspace.itap.purdue.edu/media/Introduction+to+Large+Language+Models/1_z2w0nxqt
  

November 4: Student presentations

 

November 5: Student presentations

 

November 6: Student presentations

18:00-18:20
18:20-18:40
18:40-19:00
19:20-19:40
19:40-20:00

November 7: Student presentations