4th Modelling Symposium:
Introducing Deep Neural Networks
organized by Felix Ball
supported by
Updates
Overview
I am pleased to announce the 4th Modelling Symposium which provides once more a mix of theoretical contents and application-oriented analyses. The next symposium will cover Deep Neural Networks
(DNNs) including basic introductions into DNNs, common building blocks, design patterns and architectures, best practices, optimization, applications etc. To this end, it is my pleasure to
welcome -- Prof. Dr. Sebastian Stober – as tutor for this year’s symposium.
Goal: Please note that DNNs are complex and that this course will help you to get started with DNN analyses. The workshop provides a general introduction into DNNs covering a wide range of
topics. After the 4 days you should have an overview of different DNNs, their strength and weaknesses and which parameters of the model might be important and which ones you might have to tweak.
The course will also help you to make decisions about which information/parameter can be important in steps XY and it also helps you to better understand the DNN literature (e.g. whether author's
omitted important information about the presented models).
Have a look on NoesseltLab.org, if you want to know more about previous events.
When & Where
When
- 26.07.2021 - 30.07.2021
Where
- This year likely ONLINE (unfortunately, it is not clear how the whole pandemic situation will develop and which restrictions might be imposed in the future).
Wednesday off!
- There needs to be some time to digest!
Detailed Program (can be subject to changes)
Please note that middle european time zone applies for all days (i.e. Berlin time zone)
1st half of the week
Monday
(Basics and CNNs)
09.00 - 10.30: General introduction
(machine learning basics)
Break
11.00 - 12.30: Convolutional Neural Networks I (Basics)
Break
14.00 - 15.30: Convolutional Neural Networks II (Hands-on)
Break
16.00 - 17.30: Convolutional Neural Networks III
(Advanced)
Break
17.40 - 18.30: OPTIONAL - Discussing your data models
Tuesday
(common building blocks, design patterns and architectures)
09.00 - 10.30: Recurrent Neural Networks I (Basics)
Break
11.00 - 12.30: Recurrent Neural Networks I (Hands-on)
Break
14.00 - 15.30: Attention mechanisms
Break
16.00 - 17.30: Transformers
Break
17.40 - 18.30: OPTIONAL - Discussing your data models
2nd half of the week
Thursday
(best practices [BP], optimization and introspection)
09.00 - 10.30: Best practices, optimisation and
regularization techniques I (Basics)
Break
11.00 - 12.30: Best practices, optimisation and
regularization techniques II
(Hands-on)
Break
14.00 - 15.30: Introspection I (Basics)
Break
16.00 - 17.30: Introspection II (Hands-on)
Break
17.40 - 18.30: OPTIONAL - Discussing your data models
Friday
(Applications, transfer learning and sneak peek)
09.00 - 10.30: Present your data
Break
11.00 - 12.30: Possible applications (EEG and fMRI)
Break
14.00 - 15.30: Model compression and transfer learning
Break
16.00 - 17.30: Sneak peek and summary
Software, Code, Equipment, & Requirements
All information will be regularly updated, so please check for updates!
Software: Hands-on sessions will be based on Python and Tensorflow.
Code & Equipment: The code will be provided during the symposium. We will use a computation cluster so you do not have to worry about software and installation. All you need
is a laptop/PC and a stable internet connection.
Requirements: The hands-on sessions require that you have general coding skills and are not an absolute beginner. You should have already written pieces of code, maybe a data
analysis or e.g. an experiment. You should know Python and also Numpy, you should know what loops and conditions are, different types of variables, n-dimensional arrays, what a function is etc.
Please note that we do not have time to cover basic programming.
Literature: This course will cover a variety of topics related to DNNs. To enhance your experience and avoid being overwhelmed (e.g. in case, you have never heard about DNNs
before), you should consider reading about DNNs beforehand. Here are suggestions for starting with DNNs and computational models (more might follow):
Paper and books
Storrs & Kriegeskorte; Kriegeskorte & Douglas; Cichy & Kaiser; Goodfellow, Bengio & Courville
Videos
TensorFlow and DNNs without PhD
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Stober
Foto Quelle: Jana Dünnhaupt / Universität Magdeburg
Sebastian Stober is an interdisciplinary researcher with a PhD in computer science and a background in (applied) machine learning, (music) information retrieval and cognitive neuroscience. He is especially interested in so-called “human-in-the-loop” scenarios, in which both humans and machines learn from each other and together contribute to the solution of a problem. Since October 2018, he is Professor for Artificial Intelligence at the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg. Before, he was head of a new junior research group on Machine Learning in Cognitive Science at the University of Potsdam and from 2013 to 2015, he was post-doctoral fellow in the labs of Adrian Owen and Jessica Grahn at the Brain and Mind Institute at Western University in London, Ontario.
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