The Mila Techaide event last Friday was a real success! We're thrilled to announce that we raised more than $100k in support of Centraide du Grand Montréal. A huge thank you to everyone for your generous donations, and special thanks to all our panellists and speakers. See you next year!

Last week, I gave a talk at MilaQuebec. The talk should be of interest to anyone working on predictive models, particularly in latent space. In collab. with Mahan Fathi Clement Gehring Jonathan Pilault David Kanaa Pierre-Luc Bacon. See you at ICLR 2024 in 🇦🇹!
drive.google.com/file/d/1mQSXFa…

📢 Don't forget! TMLR papers can be submitted to #CoLLAs2024 , too! 👇

Many thanks to our generous sponsors whose support makes this year's Mila Techaide AI Conference possible: Microsoft Google DeepMind Hydro-Québec OVHcloud Canada Kinetik Solutions and IVADO!

The event is this Friday. Secure your spot – Register now: mila.quebec/en/mila-techai…

I am very happy to announce that Gemma 1.1 Instruct 2B and “7B” are out! Here are a few details about the new models:
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I'll be giving a talk in Montreal next week! conference proceeds are donated to Centraide

C'est un véritable honneur d'être nommée parmi les entreprises les plus admirées au Québec, deux années de suite! On est fiers de servir les Québécois depuis maintenant 20 ans, et on a hâte de célébrer cet anniversaire marquant avec vous plus tard cette année. #FiersDetreIci …

📣📣📣 Please don't miss the TechAide AI Conference on April 12! Join us for presentations by Ian Goodfellow, Bruce Schneier, Hsiu-Chin Lin, Ryan Lowe, and Sara Sabour, as well as a panel discussion featuring Yoshua Bengio and Doina Precup.

mila.quebec/en/mila-techai…

This should be a fun day with a mix of AI research talks from industry and academic stars, keynotes including one on 'AI and Trust' from a world-renowned security and privacy specialist, another from a deep-learning pioneer, and a forward-looking panel with three AI leaders!

Don't miss the TechAide AI Conference on April 12! Join us for presentations by Ian Goodfellow, Bruce Schneier, Hsiu-Chin Lin, Ryan Lowe, and Sara Sabour, as well as a panel discussion featuring Yoshua Bengio and Doina Precup.

View the detailed program: ow.ly/X0Sn50R6Kf2

Registration is still open for the Mila Techaide event on April 12! We're delighted to announce that Ryan Lowe (ex OpenAI) and Bruce Schneier (Harvard Kennedy School and Inrupt) will be joining us as guest speakers.

Details and ticket purchase: pulse.ly/ivdrd0n4ba

Checkout our new work published in #CHI2024 where we provide a systematic way of thinking about intelligent and interactive writing assistants and most importantly how to design them. It was a pleasure to work with everyone and play a small part in bringing this together!

Want to get insights from your baby's cries? AI is here to help. Download the app, available on iPhone and Android.
apps.apple.com/ca/app/nanni-a…

The Computer and Software Engineering Dept. at Polytechnique Montreal is hiring for a tenure-track faculty position in Trustworthy AI!

Eligible candidates will be nominated to become affiliated with MilaQuebec!

Link to the official call in the next tweet!

Deadline: 8 April

The Mila Techaide event is just over a month away, and we’re delighted to announce that Sara Sabour, Research Scientist at Google will be joining us as a guest speaker!

Interested in attending her talk? Buy your ticket now: pulse.ly/0mypb2o47z

happy to announce our density estimation paper, led by Vincent Dumoulin and with Daniel Johnson Hugo Larochelle and Yann N. Dauphin is now on Transactions on Machine Learning Research !

twitter.com/dumoulinv/stat…

Journal tracks are the best way to publicize your high-quality journal papers at conferences! If you work on lifelong/continual/multi-task/transfer/few-shot/OOD/online/active/open-ended learning, consider submitting your best journal paper to CoLLAs 2024 2024 Journal Track!

(1/6) After hard work in CUBRIC , my first-author paper has been published (doi.org/10.1016/j.medi…)! This work is focused on the optimisation of the brain diffusion-relaxation MRI sequence with a physics-informed (machine) learning approach.

One thing people might be missing with the Gemma Open Models release is the section announcing grants given to academics that can help push the boundaries of LLM research. Apply before April 17! All academics (universities + non-profits / independent labs) are applicable!

New #FeaturedCertification :

ModuLoRA: Finetuning 2-Bit LLMs on Consumer GPUs by Integrating with Modular Quantizers

Junjie Yin, Jiahao Dong, Yingheng Wang, Christopher De Sa, Volodymyr Kuleshov

openreview.net/forum?id=r9p9C…

#quantizer #memory #quantizing