Welcome to the page of the reading groups at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Freiburg!
We host several regular reading groups focusing on different aspects of machine learning, robotics, and computer vision:
DLHO Reading Group (Deep Learning & Hyperparameter Optimization)
Time: Wednesdays, 15:00-16:00
Location: Building 052, Room 01-031 (LMB Seminar room/Kitchen)
Zoom: Join Zoom Meeting (Meeting ID: 683 8262 1585, Passcode: N10aUFYZq)
Type: Hybrid (always meeting in person, but also connecting to Zoom)
Organizers: Jelena Bratulić, Julien Siems
How to subscribe: Use the TF support page to subscribe to the mailing list.
Covering broad topics and recent trends from computer vision, deep learning and machine learning. Recently, we had In-context learning (ICL) focused sessions, but we are back to covering general papers which could be of interest to a wide audience.
Next Session: See email announcements and our Shared Schedule.
RL Reading Group (Reinforcement Learning)
Time: Thursdays (biweekly), 10:30 🕥
Location: Online
Zoom: Join Zoom Meeting
Type: Online
Organizers: Yuan Zhang, Erfan Azad, Julien Brosseit
How to subscribe: Contact organizers
Exploring latest developments in reinforcement learning and its applications.
Next Session: [28-11-2024 - 10:30am] - Presenter: Yuan Zhang - Paper: Efficient Online Reinforcement Learning with Offline Data
Recent Sessions:
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09-10-2024: “Is Value Learning Really the Main Bottleneck in Offline RL?”
Presenter: Erfan Azad
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30-10-2024: “The Surprising Ineffectiveness of Pre-Trained Visual Representations for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning”
Presenter: Moritz Schneider
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14-11-2024: “GenRL: Multimodal-foundation world models for generalization in embodied agents”
Presenter: Raghu Rajan
Diffusion Reading Group
Time: Tuesdays, 3pm-4pm
Location: Imbit, Botics Lounge
Type: in-person
Organizers: Jan Ole von Hartz
How to subscribe: Contact organizer
Theory and application of Diffusion and Flow Matching. Often with a robotics focus, but also including other topics, such as RL, image generation, and protein design.
Next Session: See email announcements and our Shared Schedule.
Robot Learning Reading Group
Time: Fridays, 3pm-4pm
Location: Building 080, Seminar Room (Ground Floor)
Type: in-person
Organizers: Martin Büchner, Maximilian Luz, Daniel Honerkamp
How to subscribe: Sign up to the mailing list
Exploring latest developments in robotics.
Next Session: See email announcements and our Shared Schedule.
Additional Information
Calendar Integration
All reading group sessions are available in our shared Google Calendar: Subscribe to Reading Groups Calendar.
Paper Suggestions and Sign-up
We maintain a shared Excel sheet where you can:
- View all scheduled papers
- Suggest papers for future sessions
- Sign up to present
- View presentation history
Page Maintenance
This page is maintained by the reading group organizers. For questions or suggestions, please contact any of the group organizers listed above.
Last updated: November 2024