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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Mar 22

🚀 The final day of the ELLIS FoMo Winter School 2025 featured talks by Wolfram Burgard and Amir Zamir, which inspired some participants to reflect and encouraged others to initiate further discussions. It was a great pleasure organizing this year's FoMo winter school!

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Mar 20

🚀 We had inspiring talks by Fahad Khan and Rita Cucchiara on the third day of the FoMo Winter School 2025. Following that, 28 posters on different Foundation Models topics were showcased at the poster session, which is combined with networking drinks

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Mar 19

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Mar 19

..for structured data, such as relational tables and spreadsheets, as well as knowledge graphs. The workshop held on February 27th, 2025, at the CWI, Amsterdam Science Park, received positive responses with a total of 70 participants attending from different parts of Europe.

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Mar 19

🚀 Under the recently established research theme on Table Representation Learning, @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social (CWI), @iacercalixto.bsky.social (Amsterdam UMC), Michael Cochez (VU) & Andrew Yates (UvA) organized a workshop focusing on representation learning and generative models

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Mar 18

🚀 A recap of the 2025 ELLIS Winter School on Foundation Models kickoff. The event featured prominent keynote speakers, including Jenia Jitsev, YukiAsano & Sagar Vaze. The participants received a warm and sunny welcome at the reception held on the rooftop of the Amsterdam Lookout

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Mar 10

The nomination process emphasizes fairness, diversity, and rigorous evaluation, ensuring that those selected are leaders in their field and contribute to the ELLIS Society’s vision.

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New ELLIS Scholars and Fellows Accepted via the 2024 Amsterdam Unit Nomination – ELLIS Unit Amsterdam

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Mar 10

📢 New ELLIS Scholars and Fellows Accepted via the 2024 Amsterdam Unit Nomination

🚀Becoming an ELLIS Fellow or Scholar is a significant achievement. It represents scientific excellence, a commitment to societal impact, and global collaboration.

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Simone Papicchio @spapicchio.bsky.social · Mar 8

🚀 Had an amazing time at the @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social for the Workshop on Representation Learning and Generative Models for Structured Data, presenting how ambiguity impacts performance in Text2SQL evaluation 😶‍🌫️

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Feb 24

📢 📢 Sign up now, the spots are limited! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Feb 24

🎯 Your mission:
With this hackathon, we want to introduce you to ENFs and challenge you to try figure out solutions for new encoding schemes resulting in meaningful positional features. We will work in teams on the hackathon and have a benchmark to evaluate.

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Feb 24

..schemes based on ENFs. ENFs try to overcome texture bias in CNNs and ViTs by grounding representations in geometry. Currently, geometry-grounded methods still struggle to create meaningful positional features and, at the same time, be as expressive as Sota models such as CNNs.

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Feb 24

🔹 David Knigge and David Wessels (UvA) will introduce cutting-edge research on ENFs and break down the hackathon details

🍲 We fuel up with a free lunch before diving into the challenge!

💡 The Hackathon Challenge: the hackathon focuses on developing new inference or encoding..

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Feb 24

🌆 Programs of the day
🔹 Dr. @erikjbekkers Bekkers (@UvA_Amsterdam) will dive into geometry-grounded representations & his vision for the future of representation learning

🔹Christian Shewmake (CEO of New Theory) will explore advances in foundation models &what’s still missing

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Feb 24

Join Us for an Exciting Hackathon on Equivariant Neural Fields (ENFs) & Geometry-Grounded Representations! ✨

The Deep Thinking Hour, ELLIS unit Amsterdam & the New Theory joint forces, and host a hackathon focused on ENFs and geometry-grounded representations

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Feb 4

📢 The Computational Linguistics Seminar series: the Interplay between Language and Reasoning is scheduled for Thursday, February 6th, 2025 (16:30) and will feature Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento ✨

📍 L0.06 of LAB42 UvA (live streaming on Zoom 🌍)

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Computational Linguistics Seminar Series at ILLC

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Jan 25

✨ The four-day immersive program features in-depth lectures by Europe's leading experts in foundation models, and offers opportunities to connect with academic and industry researchers worldwide 🌍

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#AI #ML #foundationmodels #ELLISforEurope #ELLISunitAmsterdam

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Jan 25

📢 The application deadline has been extended to Friday, 7 February 2025 (23:59 CET), giving applicants more time to finalize their submissions. There are limited spots left, so apply now!

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Jan 20

🔗 For more information, visit projects.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/

Computational Linguistics Seminar Series at ILLC

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Jan 20

1600 Arianna Bisazza (Groningen Univ.)'Studying Language Evolution and Acquisition with Modern Neural Networks'

1700: Goran Glavaš (Würzburg Univ.) 'How Many Words is A Picture Really Worth? On Training and Evaluating Multilingual Vision-Language Models'

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Jan 20

You're invited to ✨ the Mini-Workshop on the theme of Multilingual NLP (on the occasion of Rochelle Choenni's PhD defense) organised by the Computational Linguistics Seminar ✨

📆 Wednesday, 22 January 2025
⏰ 16:00-18:00
📍 OMHP C0.23 at Oude Manhuispoort 4-6, Amsterdam

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Jan 16

🔆 The ELLIS Winter School on Foundation Models is sponsored by #ELLISunitAmsterdam and ELIAS - Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability Project, organized by Prof. Dr. @cgmsnoek.bsky.social and Prof. @yukimasano.bsky.social

ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Jan 16

🚀 Apply here: forms.gle/RxKCLY24dKK8... (the closing date is 26 January 2025 at 23:59 CET)

🔗 Visit the event page for more information: ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/ellis/events...

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Jan 16

✨ The confirmed lineup of speakers for the FoMo so far are:
🔹 Rita Cucchiara, UNIMORE
🔹 Amir Zamir, EPFL
🔹 Wolfram Burgard, University of Technology Nuremberg
🔹 Tim Rocktäschel, GoogleDeepMind
🔹 Jenia Jitsev, LAION
🔹 Fahad Khan, MBZUAI & Linköping University

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ELLIS unit Amsterdam @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social · Jan 16

📢 There is still time to submit your application for the 2nd ELLIS Winter School on Foundation Models in 2025 which will be held from 18-21 March 2025 in Amsterdam!

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