ÖAW AI Winter School 2025

20 Jan 2025, 08:30 → 24 Jan 2025, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Seminar room 1 + 2 (Campus Akademie, Bäckerstraße 13, 1010 Wien)

Claudius Krause (HEPHY Vienna (ÖAW))

Welcome to the 4th AI winter school of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and the Machine Learning Topical Platform MLA2S, which is held on January 20 – 24, 2025 in Vienna. Here you can find some general information about the event.

 

The topics of this installment are:

• Data Handling and Processing
• Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models
• Neuro-Symbolic AI
• Geometric Deep Learning

 

The school is open to people affiliated with or working closely with institutes of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. All levels of seniority are welcome: students (MSc, PhD), PostDocs, faculty and staff.

Registration is open until December 22, 2024. 
Due to high demand, there will be a selection process striving to balance the participants across institutes. Acceptance notifications will be sent by December 30, 2024.

 

Local organizers:

• Claudius Krause (HEPHY)
• Nicki Holighaus (ARI)
• Markus Kunzmann (ACDH-CH)
• Brigitte DeMonte (HEPHY)

20334D_OÖAW009468_Umbuchung_Teilnahmegebühren_AI_School_2025.pdf

Monday 20 January

13:00 → 14:00 Arrival and Registration

Speaker: Brigitte De Monte

14:00 → 14:15 Welcome

Speakers: Dr Claudius Krause (HEPHY Vienna (ÖAW)), Nicki Holighaus (Acoustics Research Institute)

Intro.pdf

14:15 → 15:45 Introduction (Lecture)

Speakers: Daniel Haider (ARI), Zsófia Katona (ARI)

Introduction to Deep Learning AI 2025.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 18:00 Introduction (Hands-On)

Notebook at
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1AFnuZynDbn-kJM8wgTRyF47lXm8aHOf8?usp=sharing

pre-trained model at
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16IeVo32THW3hQU2wZmgTaFzdGYuvQ788

Speakers: Daniel Haider (ARI), Zsófia Katona (ARI)

Tuesday 21 January

09:00 → 10:30 Explainability and Language Models (Lecture)

Speaker: Benjamin Roth (University of Vienna)

04_explainability.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Explainability and Language Models (Hands-On)

Slides with hands-on example:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HrLWGk7_a7a_sq44OF2wJDTut3TdPbPpowjQFK7dUqQ/edit?usp=sharing

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:45 Evaluation and Interpretability of NLP systems (Lecture)

Speaker: Pia Sommerauer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Evaluation and Interpretability of NLP systems.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 18:00 Evaluation and Interpretability of NLP systems (Hands-On)

Wednesday 22 January

09:00 → 10:30 A Crash-Course on the Lifecycle of Scientific Data I (Lecture)

Speakers: Massimiliano Carloni (ACDH-CH), Seta Štuhec (ACDH-CH)

2025-01-22_AIdataManagement_CarloniTrognitz.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 A Crash-Course on the Lifecycle of Scientific Data II (Lecture)

Speakers: Massimiliano Carloni (ACDH-CH), Seta Štuhec (ACDH-CH)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:45 A Crash-Course on the Lifecycle of Scientific Data III (Lecture)

Speaker: Stefan Resch (ACDH-CH)

VELD presentation - KI winterschool 2025.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 17:00 Open Science and Licensing (Lecture)

Speaker: Piotr Majdak (ARI)

2025 Open Science Majdak (print).pdf

17:00 → 18:00 The ÖAW Datathek (Lecture)

Speaker: Herwig Stöger (Verlag der ÖAW)

22_datathek.pdf

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner

Stöckl im Park
Prinz-Eugen-Straße 25, 1030 Wien

https://maps.app.goo.gl/zmohWNSdFj5hmTc2A

Thursday 23 January

09:00 → 10:30 Neuro-symbolic AI I (Lecture + Hands-On)

Speaker: Emanuel Sallinger (TU Vienna)

oaw-neuro-symbolic-ai-sallinger.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Neuro-symbolic AI II (Lecture + Hands-On)

Speaker: Emanuel Sallinger (TU Vienna)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:45 Neuro-symbolic AI III (Lecture + Hands-On)

Speaker: Emanuel Sallinger (TU Vienna)

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 18:00 Neuro-symbolic AI IV (Lecture + Hands-On)

Speaker: Emanuel Sallinger (TU Vienna)

Friday 24 January

09:00 → 10:30 Geometric Deep Learning I (Lecture)

Speaker: Michael Bronstein (AITHYRA and University of Oxford)

OAW Vienna - ML School 2025.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Geometric Deep Learning II (Lecture)

Speaker: Michael Bronstein (AITHYRA and University of Oxford)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:45 Geometric Deep Learning (Hands-On)

Speakers: Joey Bose, Oscar Davis

gnns_emptied.ipynb

gnns_solution.ipynb

OAI AI Winter school GGM.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 18:00 Geometric Deep Learning (Hands-On)

Speakers: Joey Bose, Oscar Davis

geometric_flow_matching.ipynb