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<p>We are pleased to announce our first International Student
Workshop on <b>The Interplay between machine learning and
communication systems</b>.</p>
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General Information<br>
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<p><a href="https://www.cttc.cat/">CTTC</a> organizes a five-day
workshop for early-stage researchers including PhD students and
postdocs, who are willing to dwell into the latest advances in
artificial intelligence and machine learning and their interplay
with telecommunication systems.<br>
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The workshop will be held at CTTC premises (Barcelona, Spain) on
May 13th – 17th, 2024 and will combine lectures, demos and
practical hands-on the experimental facilities at CTTC as well as
visits to local industrial partners and key players. Moreover, the
attendees may have the possibility to present their work,
interacting among themselves and with the senior researchers
attending the event.<br>
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The workshop is supported by <a href="https://telecorenta.es/">Teleco
Renta</a> and will fund <b>15 travel grants</b> for
international students to attend the workshop. The grant will
cover the travel expenses and accommodation. <br>
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The workshop is however open to any PhD student and postdoc. A
minimum of 15 places will be reserved for international PhD
students or early-stage postdocs applying for Teleco Renta
support, the rest will be open until the workshop vacancies are
completed.</p>
<p>More information at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://telecorenta-workshops.cttc.es/index.php">https://telecorenta-workshops.cttc.es/index.php</a><br>
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Workshop vision<br>
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<p>The advancement of machine learning (ML) techniques, especially
deep learning, reinforcement learning, and federated learning, has
led to remarkable breakthroughs in a variety of application
domains, including computer vision, natural language processing,
Internet of Things (IoT), connected vehicles, environmental
monitoring, and mobile network management. <br>
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Despite the success of ML-related research, the main outcomes are
grounded on the availability of big amount of data and high
computational resources at a central (cloud) entity. However,
modern information sources are distributed and generate data far
from the cloud computing centres. Streaming and processing data at
remote centres results to be highly inefficient and
energy-consuming. Hence, distributed/decentralized learning has
emerged, enabling a pervasive computing system where data can be
processed directly or closer to the sources. In such a way,
communication overhead, latency, memory requirements, energy
consumption are reduced, and privacy concerns are mitigated.<br>
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The objective of this workshop is to bring together the
state-of-the-art research approaches in distributed ML,
energy-efficient algorithms and understand the interplay with
communication systems to achieve pervasive and sustainable
sensing, computing, and communication platforms, in which every
agent has an active role in the learning process, regardless their
capabilities and tasks to be accomplished.<br>
We will provide seminars on the following topics with amazing
speakers:<br>
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<ul>
<li>Federated learning - Lorenzo Valerio (IIT-CNR)<br>
</li>
<li>Continual and lifelong learning - Vincenzo Lomonaco
(University of Pisa)<br>
</li>
<li>Reinforcement learning - Jordi Perez (Universitat Poiltecnica
de Catalunya)<br>
</li>
<li>Spiking neural networks - David Kappel ((University of Bochum)</li>
<li>Reservoir computing - Claudio Gallicchio (University of Pisa)</li>
<li>Physics informed neural networks - Patrick Gallinari (Sorbonne
University)</li>
<li>Machine Learning for Communications - Adriano Pastore (CTTC)<br>
</li>
<li>Industrial applications (visit at Telefonica Human-AI Lab)</li>
</ul>
<p>Complete program:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://telecorenta-workshops.cttc.es/index.php/program">https://telecorenta-workshops.cttc.es/index.php/program</a><br>
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Important dates and links<br>
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<p>Registrations for travel grants: April 15 2024 (AoE)<br>
Registration link:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyHBsuB2rgZvAswwUFNokWpVaSGw19sjODd2Hm6Pr4oL7PmQ/viewform">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdyHBsuB2rgZvAswwUFNokWpVaSGw19sjODd2Hm6Pr4oL7PmQ/viewform</a><br>
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<p>Any query, please reply to this sender email address.</p>
<p>Hope to meet you in Barcelona!</p>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Paolo
Dini</strong> <br>
Researcher (R4)<br>
<span style="font-size: 1pt;"><strong> </strong>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sustainable Artificial
Intelligence (SAI) research unit<br>
Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
(CTTC)<br>
Av. Carl Friedrich Gauss, 7 - Building B4<br>
08860 - Castelldefels<br>
Tel.: +34 93 645 29 00</span></span></span></font></p>
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