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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series

Protected: HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #19: Foundation Models as Embodied Agents: Towards AI That Talks to You and Acts on Your Behalf

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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #18: Towards understanding the representation learning of diffusion models

Register Now HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #18: Towards understanding the representation learning of diffusion models Speaker Prof Difan ZOU, Assistant Professor, HKU IDS & Department of Computer Science, School
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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #17: From Minds to Machines: Computational Discovery of Functional Specialization in Human Visual Cortex

Register Now HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #17: From Minds to Machines: Computational Discovery of Functional Specialization in Human Visual Cortex Speaker Prof Andrew LUO, Assistant Professor, HKU IDS &
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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #16: From Words to Action: AI Agents Powered by LLMs

HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #16: From Words to Action: AI Agents Powered by LLMs Title: From Words to Action: AI Agents Powered by LLMsSpeaker: Prof Chao HUANG, Assistant Professor,
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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #15: Efficiency versus Accuracy: the Optimal Level of Decentralization in Humanitarian Operations for Sudden-Onset Disasters

HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #15: Efficiency versus Accuracy: the Optimal Level of Decentralization in Humanitarian Operations for Sudden-Onset Disasters Title: Efficiency versus Accuracy: the Optimal Level of Decentralization in
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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #14: Learning Latent Structure In Sparse, Noisy Network Data With Information Theory

HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #14: Learning Latent Structure In Sparse, Noisy Network Data With Information Theory Title: Learning Latent Structure In Sparse, Noisy Network Data With Information TheorySpeaker: Professor
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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #13: The Path to AGI? A Detailed Introduction of Scaling Laws

HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #13: The Path to AGI? A Detailed Introduction of Scaling Laws Title: The Path to AGI? A Detailed Introduction of Scaling LawsSpeaker: Professor Bo DAI,
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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #12: Achilles’ Heel in Manipulation: Key Recipe and Missing Pieces towards Intelligent Embodied AI

HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #12: Achilles’ Heel in Manipulation: Key Recipe and Missing Pieces towards Intelligent Embodied AI Title: Achilles’ Heel in Manipulation: Key Recipe and Missing Pieces towards
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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #11: Personalizing Cancer Therapy by Modeling the Evolutionary Dynamics of the Tumor Immune

HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #11: Personalizing Cancer Therapy by Modeling the Evolutionary Dynamics of the Tumor Immune Microenvironment Title: Personalizing Cancer Therapy by Modeling the Evolutionary Dynamics of the
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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #10: Why Larger Language Models Do In-context Learning Differently?

HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #10: Why Larger Language Models Do In-context Learning Differently? Title: Why Larger Language Models Do In-context Learning Differently? Speaker: Prof. Yingyu LIANG, Associate Professor, IDS
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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #9: InfoBodied AI: Learning Mutual Information for Embodied AI

Title: InfoBodied AI: Learning Mutual Information for Embodied AISpeaker: Prof. Yanchao Yang, Assistant Professor, IDS & Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKUModerator: Prof. Yi Ma, Director of HKU IDS;
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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #8: Robust and Explainable Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning for Smart Cities

Title: Robust and Explainable Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning for Smart CitiesSpeaker: Dr. Chao Huang, Assistant Professor, IDS & Department of Computer Science, HKUModerator: Prof. Yi Ma, Director of HKU IDS; Professor,
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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #7: Generalized Power Methods for Group Synchronization Problems

June 19, 2023 Events, Gallery, Upcoming Events, What’s New HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series Title: Generalized Power Methods for Group Synchronization ProblemsSpeaker: Dr. Man Chung Yue, Assistant Professor, IDS &
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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #6: Constrained optimization: application, algorithm and complexity

Title: Constrained optimization: application, algorithm and complexitySpeaker: Dr. Yue Xie, Research Assistant Professor, IDS & Department of Mathematics, HKUDate: Jun 7, 2023Time: 10:30am – 11:30am Mode: Hybrid. Seats for on-site
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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #5: Denoising Diffusion-based Generative Modes for Visual Content Generation

April 17, 2023 Events, Gallery HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series Title: Denoising Diffusion-based Generative Modes for Visual Content GenerationSpeaker: Dr. Xihui Liu, Assistant Professor, IDS & Department of Electrical and
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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #4: Over-parameterization in Deep Learning: Kernel Regime and Beyond

March 22, 2023 Events, What’s New HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series Title: Over-parameterization in Deep Learning: Kernel Regime and BeyondSpeaker: Dr. Difan Zou, Assistant Professor, IDS & Department of Computer
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HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series #3: Model-free and Risk-aware Sequential Decision Making

February 22, 2023 Events, Recent Events HKU IDS Scholar Seminar Series Title: Model-free and Risk-aware Sequential Decision Making Speaker: Dr. Wenjie Huang, Research Assistant Professor, IDS & Department of Industrial
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HKU-IDS Scholar Seminar Series #2: Huge Language Models: Why They Matter, How They Work, And When They Fail

HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science (HKU-IDS) proudly presents the second event under the “HKU-IDS Scholar Seminar Series” which will run through the year of 2022-23.  The seminar series
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HKU-IDS Scholar Seminar Series #1: Complex network inference: Efficient algorithms and insights for urban spatial segregation

HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science (HKU-IDS) proudly presents the “HKU-IDS Scholar Seminar Series” which will run through the year of 2022-23.  The seminar series will feature the HKU-IDS
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