[UCR_DataScience] Data Science talk by Prof. Greg Ver Steeg, Friday January 13th, 12-1pm, MRB Seminar Room

[Vassilis Tsotras]

The first Data Science seminar for 2023 will be this Friday, January 
13th, 12:00-1:00pm at the MRB Seminar Room (1st floor).

**** Pizza and refreshments will be provided ****

To keep track of the number of attendees, please *register* at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-science-talk-tickets-511073503607


The talk will be given by *Prof. Greg Ver Steeg*, Department of Computer 
Science and Engineering, UCR

*Title:*
The Age of Creative AI ?

*Abstract:*
Generative models have made significant advances in recent years, 
sparking an explosion of new applications with far-reaching societal 
implications. I will discuss the mathematical intuition behind diffusion 
models, the core technology behind recent art generation tools like 
DALL-E-2, Imagen, Stable Diffusion, Dreambooth, Lensa, and others. These 
applications introduce new technical challenges both for computational 
scalability and for controlling outputs to align results with users’ 
goals and ethical constraints. I will conclude by discussing an 
information-theoretic formulation of diffusion models that can be used 
to address these problems.



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Sponsored by the UCR Data Science Center, the purpose of the Data 
Science Seminars is to foster collaborations between "core" Data Science 
faculty (from CSE/ECE/Stat Departments) and faculty/visitors from other 
sciences that face Data Science problems in their research. These 
informal gatherings are open to interested faculty and graduate 
students. Each meeting will start with a talk describing research 
problems and then a discussion will follow for questions, open problems, 
ideas for possible collaborations etc.

A full list of previous seminars appears at: 
http://datascience.ucr.edu/seminars

Please forward this email to other colleagues or graduate students in 
your lab that may be interested. Moreover, if you are interested in 
giving a Data Science related talk, please contact me (tsotras at cs.ucr.edu).

Sincerely,
Vassilis Tsotras
Professor, CSE Department
Director, Data Science Major
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