AiSpresso
A weekly casual gathering to sip coffee and discuss fascinating AI and deep learning papers.
About
Welcome to AiSpresso ☕🤖, a weekly casual gathering where AI enthusiasts come together to sip coffee and dive into fascinating papers about AI and deep learning. Each week, one participant shares a paper they found intriguing, sparking informal yet insightful discussions about cutting-edge ideas in AI research.
- Organizers: Tianxiang (Adam) Gao, Kenny Davila, Dong Jae (DJ) Kim
- Location: Room 107, CDM Building, Loop Campus
- Time: Wedsdays, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
- Zoom Link: Join the Meeting
Schedule
| Date | Paper | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 04/02/2025 | Learning to Generate Unit Tests for Automated Debugging, ArXiv 2025 | DJ Kim |
| 04/09/2025 | Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision, ICML 2021 | Kenny Davila |
| 04/16/2025 | Demystifying Oversmoothing in Attention-Based Graph Neural Networks, NeurIPS 2023 (Spotlight) | Adam Gao |
Additional Recommended Readings:
How to Participate
Join us to explore groundbreaking ideas in AI and deep learning. If you’d like to present a paper, please reach out to Adam, Kenny, or DJ. Everyone is welcome, whether you’re here to share or just listen and learn!
Past Schedules
Winter 2025
| Date | Paper | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 01/13/2025 | Transformers Are RNNs: Fast Autoregressive Transformers with Linear Attention, ICML 2020 | Adam Gao |
| 01/20/2025 | Meeting Canceled (Martin Luther King Jr. Day) | |
| 01/27/2025 | An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale, ICLR 2021 | Kenny Davila |
| 02/03/2025 | Score-Based Generative Modeling through Stochastic Differential Equations, ICLR 2020 | Adam Gao |
| 02/10/2025 | SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?, ICLR 2024 | DJ Kim |
| 02/17/2025 | Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models, NeurIPS 2022 | Adam Gao |
| 02/24/2025 | Meeting Canceled | |
| 03/03/2025 | TextDiffuser: Diffusion Models as Text Painters, NeurIPS 2023 | Kenny Davila |
| 03/10/2025 | Meeting Canceled (AI Seminar and Workshop with Red Hat) | |
| 03/17/2025 | Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models, ICLR 2023 | Adam Gao |
Additional Recommended Readings:
- Attention Is All You Need, NeurIPS 2017
- Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution, Dr. Yang Song’s Blog, 2021
- DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report, ArXiv 2025
- Training Language Models to Follow Instructions with Human Feedback, NeurIPS 2022