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The first Data Science seminar for 2023 will be this Friday, January
13th, 12:00-1:00pm at the MRB Seminar Room (1st floor).<br>
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**** Pizza and refreshments will be provided ****<br>
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To keep track of the number of attendees, please *register* at:</div>
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The talk will be given by <b>Prof. Greg Ver Steeg</b>, Department
of Computer Science and Engineering, UCR<br>
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<b>Title:</b><br>
The Age of Creative AI ?<br>
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<b>Abstract:</b><br>
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.<br>
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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.<br>
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A full list of previous seminars appears at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://datascience.ucr.edu/seminars">http://datascience.ucr.edu/seminars</a><br>
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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 (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tsotras@cs.ucr.edu">tsotras@cs.ucr.edu</a>).<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
Vassilis Tsotras<br>
Professor, CSE Department<br>
Director, Data Science Major<br>
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