
Leverage Foundational Models for Black-Box Optimization
Where and how can we use foundation models in AutoML? Richard Song, researcher at Google DeepMind, has some answers. Starting off from his position paper on leveraging foundation models for optimizati...
22 Syys 202556min

Nyckel - Building an AutoML Startup
Oscar Beijbom is talking about what it's like to run an AutoML startup: Nyckel. Beyond that, we chat about the differences between academia and industry, what truly matters in application and more. Ch...
7 Maalis 20251h 20min

Neural Architecture Search: Insights from 1000 Papers
Colin White, head of research at Abacus AI, takes us on a tour of Neural Architecture Search: its origins, important paradigms and the future of NAS in the age of LLMs. If you're looking for a broad o...
3 Joulu 20241h 15min

Quick-Tune: Quickly Learning Which Pretrained Model to Finetune and How
There are so many great foundation models in many different domains - but how do you choose one for your specific problem? And how can you best finetune it? Sebastian Pineda has an answer: Quicktune c...
8 Elo 202453min

Discovering Temporally-Aware Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
Designing algorithms by hand is hard, so Chris Lu and Matthew Jackson talk about how to meta-learn them for reinforcement learning. Many of the concepts in this episode are interesting to meta-learni...
24 Kesä 202451min

X Hacking: The Threat of Misguided AutoML
AutoML can be a tool for good, but there are pitfalls along the way. Rahul Sharma and David Selby tell us about how AutoML systems can be used to give us false impressions about explainability metrics...
27 Touko 202454min

Introduction To New Co-Host, Theresa Eimer
In today's episode, we're introducing the very special Theresa Eimer to the show. Theresa will be taking over the hosting of many of the future episodes. Theresa has already recorded multiple episod...
27 Touko 202413min