Videos

Discover a curated collection of talks which dive into AI/ML applications and lessons learned by practitioners.

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Deploying RAG in Bedrock vs. Local: WattBot 2025 Case Study

Videos
ML+X
UW-Madison
RAG
Retrieval
LLM
Cloud
AWS
Bedrock
Hugging Face
Foundation models
GenAI
Sustainability
Energy
GPU
Deep learning
NLP
Many researchers are exploring retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to build document-grounded, trustworthy AI tools, but it is often unclear how design choices around…
2026-02-17
Nils Matteson, Blaise Enuh, Chris Endemann

Efficient KV-Cache Compression for Long-Context and Reasoning Models

Videos
ML+X
UW-Madison
LLM
Deep learning
NLP
GenAI
Foundation models
GPU
Large language models (LLMs) increasingly handle very long input contexts, and their inference relies on storing key-value (KV) caches for past tokens to avoid redundant…
2025-11-04
Zefan Cai

AI’s Environmental Footprint: Insights and Actions

Videos
ML+X
UW-Madison
Trustworthy AI
Sustainability
Energy
Benchmarking
LLM
RAG
Retrieval
Cloud
GPU
This forum explores how ML/AI practitioners can measure and reduce the environmental costs of AI. It pairs two complementary efforts: one that retrieves emissions and cost…
2025-09-09
Chris Endemann, Nidhal Jegham

Generative AI From Multiple Perspectives

Videos
ML+X
UW-Madison
LLM
Healthcare
EHR
Explainability
Deep learning
Education
Retrieval
RAG
NLP
This forum brings together two UW–Madison presenters exploring how generative AI can serve as a collaborative tool in high-stakes environments—whether surfacing clinical…
2025-05-06
Benjamin Lengerich, Kaiser Pister

Harnessing the Power of Foundation Models for Healthcare and Life Sciences

Videos
ML+X
UW-Madison
Healthcare
Medical imaging
Foundation models
Multimodal learning
Deep learning
Image data
Computer vision
Retrieval
Zero-shot learning
LLM
Microsoft Copilot
Azure
Jameson Merkow, AI engineer at Microsoft, presents an overview of recent advances in applying foundation models to healthcare and life sciences. This forum explores the use…
2025-04-01
Jameson Merkow

Automating Scientific Discovery: From Natural World Data to Systematic Literature Reviews

Videos
ML+X
UW-Madison
Multimodal learning
Benchmarking
Retrieval
Computer vision
Zero-shot learning
Contrastive learning
Deep learning
CLIP
Biology
Ecology
Image data
LLM
Hugging Face
Edward Vendrow, a PhD student at MIT, presents his research on automating scientific discovery using multimodal AI. In this talk, he explores how AI can accelerate research…
2025-03-04
Edward Vendrow

Auditing Equity in Large Language Models: Insights from Dialogue and Image Classification Tasks

Videos
UW-Madison
LLM
Trustworthy AI
Science communication
Computer vision
NLP
In this talk from LSC’s 2025 Science Communication Colloquium, Associate Professor Kaiping Chen presents findings from two studies examining how user identity influences…
2025-02-12
Kaiping Chen

Learning Through Comparison: Use Cases of Contrastive Learning

Videos
ML+X
UW-Madison
Deep learning
Contrastive learning
Clustering
OOD detection
Multimodal learning
Trustworthy AI
Representation learning
CIFAR
Contrastive learning is reshaping how models learn, driving widespread progress in feature learning, clustering, out-of-distribution detection, and multimodal applications.…
2025-02-10
Yin Li, Chris Endemann

AlphaFold and Protein Language Models

Videos
ComBEE
UW-Madison
Biology
Protein engineering
LLM
Deep learning
Alphafold
Transformer
Protein language models
In a talk hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Computational Biology, Ecology, and Evolution (ComBEE) community, Dr. Hannah Wayment-Steele discusses AlphaFold, a…
2025-01-28
Hannah Wayment-Steele

AI for Music and the Humanities

Videos
ML+X
UW-Madison
Deep learning
GenAI
Conformer
Humanities
Audio search
Music
CSI
Signal processing
Spectral analysis
LLM
  1. What Tune Is That: A Humanities Application of Deep Learning — Alan Ng
  2. Fake Artists, Fake Listeners: AI and the Music Industries — Jeremy Morris, PhD
2024-11-05
Alan Ng, Jeremy Morris

Using Electronic Health Record Data to Predict Deterioration in Hospitalized Children

Videos
ML4MI
UW-Madison
Healthcare
NLP
Text analysis
EHR
Boosting
Decision trees
In this talk from the Machine Learning for Medical Imaging (ML4MI) community, Anoop Mayampurath (PhD) discusses the use of electronic health record (EHR) data and machine…
2024-10-14
Anoop Mayampurath

Vision, Language, and Vision-Language Modeling in Radiology

Videos
ML4MI
UW-Madison
Medical imaging
Healthcare
VLM
ViT
U-Net
LLaVA
Computer vision
CNN
LLM
Deep learning
Multimodal learning
In this talk from the Machine Learning for Medical Imaging (ML4MI) community, Tyler Bradshaw (PhD) discusses the historical context (e.g., CNN, VGG) leading up to the new…
2024-09-16
Tyler Bradshaw

Intro to Out-of-Distribution Detection

Videos
ICCV
OOD detection
Trustworthy AI
The below tutorial from Sharon Li, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, introduces a pervasive problem faced…
2024-07-11
Sharon Li

A Biophysics-based Protein Language Model for Protein Engineering

Videos
Cross Labs AI
UW-Madison
Transfer learning
Biology
Biophysics
Protein language models
Foundation models
LLM
Deep learning
Protein engineering
Simulations

We introduce Mutational Effect Transfer Learning (METL), a specialized protein language model that bridges the gap between traditional biophysics-based and machine learning approaches by incorporating synthetic data from molecular simulations.

2024-06-18
Sam Gelman

Using Large Language Models for Meteorological Fact Finding

Videos
IT Prof
UW-Madison
LLM
Meteorology

This talk demonstrates harnessing the power of AI to open new avenues in data analysis, including for meteorological fact-finding. Discover how cutting-edge large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5 and 4.0 hold are poised to help the field of meteorological data analysis.

2024-05-30
Zekai Otles

Trustworthy LLMs & Ethical AI

Videos
ML+X
UW-Madison
NLP
Text analysis
LLM
Deep learning
Trustworthy AI
DeTox
Topic modeling
  1. DeTox: Denoised Toxic Embeddings for Editing Model Toxicity — Rheeya Uppaal
  2. A Project on AI Ethics — Mariab A. Knowles
2024-05-11
Rheeya Uppaal, Mariah A. Knowles

Advancing Healthcare and Agriculture through Computer Vision

Videos
ML+X
UW-Madison
Computer vision
Ultrasound
Medical imaging
Agriculture
LSTM
CNN
Deep learning
  1. An ultrasound-based method to measure knee kinematics enabled by deep learning — Matthew Blomquist
  2. Plant breeding in the age of computer vision — Will de la Bretonne
2024-04-09
Matthew Blomquist, Will de la Bretonne

Exploring Model Sharing in the Age of Foundation Models

Videos
ML+X
UW-Madison
Multimodal learning
Foundation models
Model sharing
Hugging Face
LLM
LMM
LLaVA
Deep learning
  1. Model sharing and reproducible ML — Chris Endemann
  2. LLaVA-NeXT and model sharing — Haotian Liu, PhD
2024-03-12
Chris Endemann, Haotian Liu

Navigating Gravitational Waves with AI Insights

Videos
ML+X
UW-Madison
Physics
Simulations
Spectral analysis
Signal processing
  1. Welcome and small group discussions — Chris Endemann
  2. Classifying gravitational wave modes from core-collapse supernovae — Bella Finkel
2024-02-13
Chris Endemann, Bella Finkel

Exploring Science Communication and Drug Synergy Analysis using GPT

Videos
ML+X
UW-Madison
Science communication
Healthcare
LLM
Text analysis
NLP
  • GPT for Science Communication: User-Interface and Developer Pipeline Approaches — Ben Rush, PhD
  • Advancing Biomedical Research with GPT-4: A Novel Approach to Drug Synergy…
    • 2023-12-12
    Ben Rush, Jack Freeman

    World Knowledge in the Time of Large Models

    Videos
    SILO
    UW-Madison
    VLM
    LLM
    LMM
    Multimodal learning
    Foundation models

    This talk will discuss the massive shift that has come about in the vision and ML community as a result of the large pre-trained language and language and vision models such as Flamingo, GPT-4, and other models.

    2023-11-22
    Kenneth Marino

    LLMS in Genomics and Health Coaching

    Videos
    ML+X
    UW-Madison
    Healthcare
    Clustering
    Deep learning
    LLM
    Genomics
    1. Clustering of genomic sequences of mycoviruses using deep learning — Rohan Sontahlia
    2. Spurring self-improvement and intrinsic motivation using LLMs and reinforcement learning — Michael Roytman
    2023-11-07
    Rohan Sontahlia, Michael Roytman

    LabelBench: A Framework for Benchmarking Label-Efficient Learning

    Videos
    MLOPT
    UW-Madison
    Active learning
    Semi-supervised
    ViT
    Benchmarking
    Labeled data are critical to modern machine learning applications, but obtaining labels can be expensive. To mitigate this cost, machine learning methods, such as transfer…
    2023-10-27
    Jifan Zhang

    Time-Series Analysis

    Videos
    ML+X
    UW-Madison
    Time-series
    Genomics
    Biology
    Healthcare
  • Computational Methods for Comparative Time Clocks in Early Development and Tissue Regeneration — Peng Jiang, PhD
  • Controlled Differential Equations on Long Sequences via…
    • 2023-10-10
    Peng Jiang, Sourav Pal

    Biomedical AI Research and Applications

    Videos
    UW-Madison
    Exploring AI@UW
    Biology
    Healthcare
    LLM
    Computer vision
    Multimodal learning
    This session features lightning talks about biomedical applications of artificial intelligence from UW–Madison researchers working to develop algorithms and models to help…
    2023-09-22
    Anthony Gitter, Junjie Hu, Yin Li, Anoop Mayampurath, Vikas Singh

    Racism in AI

    Videos
    UW-Madison
    Exploring AI@UW
    Trustworthy AI
    Bias
    Fairness
    Is artificial intelligence racist? In short, yes, it sure has been. But there’s more to the story. Lori Kido Lopez, UW–Madison professor and author of “Race and Digital Media”…
    2023-09-22
    Lori Kido Lopez

    Multimodal Learning

    Videos
    ML+X
    UW-Madison
    Multimodal learning
    Deep learning
    Computer vision
    Healthcare
    Genomics
  • Multimodal learning and analysis for understanding single-cell functional genomics in brains and brain diseases — Daifeng Wang, PhD
  • Transforming healthcare: AI-enhanced…
  • 2023-09-19
    Daifeng Wang, Zachary Huemann, Pedro Morgado

    Exploring Generative AI: An Introduction to Large Language Models and Diffusion Models

    Videos
    ML4MI
    UW-Madison
    LLM
    VLM
    LLaVA
    GenAI
    Diffusion
    Deep learning
    Multimodal learning
    In this talk from the Machine Learning for Medical Imaging (ML4MI) community, Kangwook Lee, PhD, provides a comprehensive introduction to generative AI through the lens of…
    2023-09-11
    Kangwook Lee

    AI and Medical Imaging

    Videos
    Exploring AI@UW
    UW-Madison
    Healthcare
    Medical imaging
    Image classification
    Computer vision
    Deep learning
    Dr. Alan McMillan discusses the growing role of AI and machine learning in healthcare, particularly in radiology and medical imaging. He outlines how AI is being applied in…
    2023-08-11
    Laurel Belman, Todd Shechter, Alan McMillan

    AI in Action: Intelligent Systems and Business Operations

    Videos
    UW-Madison
    Exploring AI@UW
    Business
    Bias
    Ethical AI
    Laura Albert, professor and the David Gustafson Department Chair of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the UW–Madison College of Engineering discusses how artificial…
    2023-07-28
    Laura Albert

    Unifying Audio-Visual Machine Perception – Tasks & Architectures

    Videos
    ML4MI
    UW-Madison
    Healthcare
    Multimodal learning
    Contrastive learning
    Autoencoder
    Accurately recognizing, localizing, and separating sound sources is essential for effective audio-visual perception. Traditionally, these tasks have been approached…
    2023-07-12
    Pedro Morgado
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