ML+X Forums

Explore our library of ML+X forum recordings below! Each monthly ML+X forum highlights two ML applications that share a theme followed by communal discussions and project feedback.

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  • Where: Orchard View Room (rm. 3280), Discovery Building & via Zoom.
  • When: Typically monthly on Tuesdays, 12-1pm CT. Join the Google group to receive a calendar invite (with Zoom link) and other updates. Please email us if you have any trouble joining.

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We encourage anyone who is using ML in their work to present at one of the ML+X forums. If interested, please fill out this brief presenter sign-up form.

Generative AI From Multiple Perspectives

Videos
ML+X
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
Healthcare
Medical imaging
Foundation models
Multimodal learning
Deep learning
Embeddings
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
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

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

AI for Music and the Humanities

Videos
ML+X
UW-Madison
Deep learning
GenAI
AI & society
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

Trustworthy LLMs & Ethical AI

Videos
ML+X
UW-Madison
NLP
Text analysis
LLM
Deep learning
Trustworthy AI
DeTox
Ethical AI
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
Athletics
Agriculture
LSTM
CNN-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
Drug synergy
LLM
Text mining
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

    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

    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

    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
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