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Abbas Mammadov (University of Oxford).
Tuesday 24 March 2026, 15:00-16:30
Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED
Reading Group in Division F of the Cambridge University Engineering Department. Run by Zoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen.
This reading group is also called 5CF6: Machine Learning Research and Communication Club.
Contact: Zoubin Ghahramani ; Carl Edward Rasmussen ; Dr R.E. Turner ; Andy Lin ; Isaac Reid ; Xianda Sun ; Yichao Liang ; 120952 ; 121990
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Cambridge Statistics Clinic
Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 II
The structure of curvature in neural networks
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Vision-language models (VLMs)
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Vision-language models (VLMs)
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Evaluating and Regulating Foundation Models
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Out-of-context reasoning/learning in LLMs and its safety implications
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Learning to See the World in 3D
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An Introduction to In-Context Learning
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ML for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting
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Influence Functions
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Sampling with diffusion models
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Geometric Deep Learning for Structure-Based Drug Design
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Diffusion Models Beyond Mean Prediction
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Unpacking UK’s New AI Action Plan: Ambition versus Reality
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An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation
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An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation
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Learning curve prediction for AutoML
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Learning curve prediction for AutoML
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Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them
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Task Alignment
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A Light Introduction to Topological Data Analysis
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Mean Field Theory of NNs
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Discussing the Stanford AI Report
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Discussing the Stanford AI Report
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AI Control
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Neural likelihood-free inference
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An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method
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An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes
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Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks
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GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather (or: How to ruin a numerical weather forecaster’s Christmas)
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Bayesian coresets
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Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between
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Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems
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A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo
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Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization
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Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction
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Learning linear models in-context with transformers
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Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks
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Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs
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The LLM Tidal Wave
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The LLM Tidal Wave
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Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification
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On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
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Reward Modelling
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Navigating the Future: Upcoming EU AI Regulation and its Potential Impact on the Field
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Learning-based multiscale modeling: computing, data science, and uncertainty quantification
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Neural Tangent Kernel
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No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning
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Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis
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Physics-informed machine learning
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Causal Machine Learning
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User Manipulation in Recommender Systems
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Random Features for Kernel Approximation
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An Overview of Differential Privacy, Membership Inference Attacks, and Federated Learning
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Bayesian Neural Networks
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Offline Reinforcement Learning
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{PF}^2ES: Parallel Feasible Pareto Frontier Entropy Search for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Under Unknown Constraints
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Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent
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Predicting generalization of ML models.
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Machine Learning Study Group
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 9 - Representation Learning
Machine Learning Study Group
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 8 - Autoencoders
Machine Learning Study Group
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 7 - Neural Turing Machines & Conditional Random Fields as RNNs
Machine Learning Study Group
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 6 - Recurrent Neural Networks
Machine Learning Study Group
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 5 - ResNets and DenseNets
Machine Learning Study Group
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 4 - Convolutional Networks
Machine Learning Study Group
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 3 - Optimization
Machine Learning Study Group
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 2 - Regularization
Machine Learning Study Group
Deep Learning Book - Meeting 1 - Deep Feedforward NNs
Computational Neuroscience
It's the Network Dummy: Exhuming the reticular theory while shoveling a little dirt on the neuron doctrine
Differentiable Data Structures and (if we have time) POMDPs
⚠️ NOTE Topic Change
Model selection in a large compositional space
⚠️ note: the first 45 mins will be planning and the talk will start at around 3:15pm
Information bottleneck
⚠️ Please note the change in time. This RCC will take place at 15:00-16.30pm.
Cancelled: No RCC
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Redirected to Rob Nowak, LR12
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Information Retrieval
⚠️ Room changed
Numerical Linear Algebra
⚠️ Room changed
Cancelled
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Cancelled
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Message Passing
⚠️ Note unusual time
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Sensible priors from finite linear models
⚠️ Note unusual time
Affinity Propagation and Hierarchical Beta Processes
⚠️ Room changed, Note unusual time
Change Point Problems in Linear Dynamical Systems
⚠️ Postponed (originally April 5)
Active Learning and Experimental Design
⚠️ Note unusual time
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