Machine Learning and Modelling Seminar

Organized jointly by the Department of Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematical Logic, Faculty of Mathemeatics and Physics of the Charles University, and by the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

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Thursday 14:00 in the lecture room S8, Malostranské náměstí 2.

We shall start the sommer semester of our seminar on Thursday February 27.

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Years

Recent Talks

  • Storm Visser:

    Artificial Immune Systems: Multiclass Classification and Hybrid Methods

    15.10.2026 14:00Lecture room S8, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Malostranské náměstí 2

    Storm will explain the basics of Artificial Immune Systems, discuss some of the recent advances in the field, including multiclass and fine-grained classification, as well as potential future work

  • Isam Vrce:

    Reinforcement Learning Built for Acceleration: Sparse Topology Control, Stability, and Hardware-Aware Training

    01.10.2026 14:00Lecture room S8, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Malostranské náměstí 2

    Isam will explore how hardware-aware semi-structured sparsity can make deep reinforcement learning more computationally efficient while preserving final performance, using sparse training from scratch, sparse topology adaptation, and replay-aware mask updates

  • Noe Lallouet:

    Multi-objective Neural Architecture Design Using Monte Carlo Search

    14.05.2026 14:00Lecture room S8, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Malostranské náměstí 2

    In this talk, Noe investigates the use of Monte Carlo search for building neural network models satisfying multiple, possibly contradictory, objectives.

  • Dario Vajda:

    Scaling LLM Alignment Beyond Supervised Fine-Tuning: Solving the Data Reliance Bottleneck

    30.04.2026 14:00Lecture room S8, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Malostranské náměstí 2

    After reviewing LLM fundamentals and the limitations of Supervised Fine-Tuning, Dario explores how advanced RL-based alignment techniques like RLHF and DeepSeek's GRPO thrive in verifiable environments, culminating in his research demonstrating how Direct Preference Optimization outperforms classic supervised translation models.

  • Benjamin Moore:

    Automated and Robust Shape Optimisation of Industrial Wastewater Systems Using Multi-Objective Bayesian Methods

    16.04.2026 14:00Lecture room S8, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Malostranské náměstí 2

    Ben will show how modern machine learning algorithms can be coupled with CFD to enable the efficient multi-objective optimisation of complex industrial systems, and how optimisers can be built to work with noisy data, infeasible designs, and a limited computational budget.

  • Marcel Salvenmoser:

    Evolving Prompt Embeddings of Diffusion Models for Optimization and Exploration of Synthetic Images

    02.04.2026 14:00Lecture room S8, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Malostranské náměstí 2

    Marcel will show how to apply evolutionary algorithms to diffusion model conditioning to both explore diverse generated images via style mixing and to optimize the results using aesthetic, image-quality, and AI-detection scoring functions.

  • David Moe:

    Conformal Predictors meet Active Learning: Adaptive Systems for Efficient Industrial Monitoring in Non-Stationary Environments

    19.03.2026 14:00Lecture room S8, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Malostranské náměstí 2

    David will discuss how conformal predictors and active learning can be integrated into uncertainty-aware adaptive systems that maintain reliability under distribution shift, enabling efficient and scalable monitoring in real industrial environments.

  • Ondřej Maršálek and Pavol Šimko:

    Machine-learned interatomic potentials for molecular dynamics: committees and foundation models

    19.02.2026 14:00Lecture room S8, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Malostranské náměstí 2

    Ond?ej will give an introduction to machine-learned interatomic potentials and their application in molecular simulations and Pavol will explain their recent work on uncertainty quantification for message-passing graph neural network potentials using committees and foundation models

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