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DILS Seminar

Summer Semester 2023

Tuesdays, 14:15, ekvv


Hybrid: U10-116/146 and online via Zoom.


This doctoral research seminar of the DILS graduate school is dedicated to PhD students of the Bielefeld Institute for Bioinformatics Infrastructure (BIBI) and ZB MED - Information Centre for Life Sciences. Guests are always welcome.


The topics presented are determined by the research interests of the graduate school. The main aim of this seminar is to keep the participants informed on the current developments and to critically discuss recent developments.


This semester, we have a look at language models such as GPT and their use in our academic life.


For a theoretical background, we are all invited to the tutorial of Alexander Schönhuth:
Attention networks and diffusion models in big data analytics


Date Topic Responsible Person
04.04. organization of the semester
11.04. – (Roland away)
18.04. – follow Schönhuth's lectures instead
25.04. – Schönhuth's lecture
02.05. brief intro: using the OpenAI API through Chatbot-UI (slides) Tom
live experimenting with ChatGPT
09.05. live experimenting, pictures, etc. Benedikt, Tom, everyone
16.05. local instances (LLaMA, Alpaca, etc.) Luca
23.05. – (faculty meeting)
30.05. plugins (e.g. Wolfram Alpha) Donat
06.06. GitHub Copilot Benedikt
13.06. aspects in teaching Muhammad
20.06. GPT in singe cell analysis Raghuram
27.06. Building a tiny language model Tom
04.07. ethical aspects Leonard
11.07. – (Roland away)