We're excited to share that one of our group members, Vladimir Starostin, was invited to lead a hands-on session on normalizing flows at the Active Training Course "Advanced Deep Learning." This event, organized by the DIG-UM community organization with support from the BMBF-funded ErUM-Data-Hub, took place from May 21 to May 24, 2024, at Bernhäuser Forst in Filderstadt. We thank the organizers for this amazing event and for inviting us in!
The four-day intensive course covered advanced topics such as transformers, normalizing flows, and autoencoders, at a level suitable for young researchers from the ErUM communities (Erforschung von Universum und Materie - Research on Universe and Matter) with prior knowledge of neural networks. Participants attended lectures and interactive hands-on sessions, and then applied their newfound knowledge in a challenging competition in subgroups to deepen their understanding of the techniques. Congratulations to Team Blue for generating the best images of galaxies that look like our Milky Way!
Our group is dedicated to advancing scientific discovery with machine learning, and we were very pleased to see participants develop all sorts of ideas of how they would apply their new deep-learning chops in their respective disciplines.
Check out our hands-on tutorial notebooks about normalizing flows!