[VSAONLINE-10] Season 10 opening. Anthony Thomas. January 27 , 20:00 GMT
Evgeny Osipov
Dear all,
Happy New Year! I am happy to announce the first talk of the 10th season of VSAONLINE! We have prepared an exciting program for this spring, check the schedule of the talks here: https://bit.ly/vsaonline
We open the season with the talk by Anthony Thomas from UC Davis, USA as per details below.
Date: January 27th, 2025
Time: 20:00 GMT
Zoom: https://ltu-se.zoom.us/j/65564790287
Title: ”Sketching a Picture of Vector Symbolic Architectures”
Abstract : Sketching algorithms are a broad area of research in theoretical computer science and numerical analysis that aim to distill data into a simple summary, called a "sketch," that retains some essential notion of structure while being much more efficient to store, query, and transmit.
Vector-symbolic architectures (VSAs) are an approach to computing on data represented using random vectors, and provide an elegant conceptual framework for realizing a wide variety of data structures and algorithms in a way that lends itself to implementation in highly-parallel and energy-efficient computer hardware.
Sketching algorithms and VSA have a substantial degree of consonance in their methods, motivations, and applications. In this tutorial style talk, I will discuss some of the connections between these two fields, focusing, in particular, on the connections between VSA and tensor-sketches, a family of sketching algorithms concerned with the setting in which the data being sketched can be decomposed into Kronecker (tensor) products between more primitive objects. This is exactly the situation of interest in VSA and the two fields have arrived at strikingly similar solutions to this problem.
Evgeny Osipov
Dear all,
Due to a collision with teaching for the next presenter (Anthony Thomas) the starting time of the first session (ONLY) of the webinar is changed to 17:00 GMT (9am PST, 18:00CET).
I hope many of you can join!
Welcome! Evgeny
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Evgeny Osipov
Dear all, I am sorry in advance for spamming, but today due to the irregular start time of the webinar I will send couple of more reminders!
ONLY TODAY the webinar will begin at 17:00 GMT (9am PST, 18:00CET)
Date: January 27th,
2025
Time: 17:00 GMT
Zoom: https://ltu-se.zoom.us/j/65564790287
See you today online!