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Research Grant for GHOST

Together with KN RAI we decided to take part in a joint project. Our aim is to build a miniature of an autonomous car controlled by deep neural networks. The grant application has been approved positively! Soon KN RAI will start building the car, and then we will take the baton up and conduct a driving course 🙂

GHOST members won the competition for the best engineering…

Three of us recently won the first place in a competition for the best engineering thesis in the fields of Information Technology and Bioinformatics. The competition was conducted under the patronage of IEEE. More information on: https://fc.put.poznan.pl/fc2/drupal/node/1116

GHOST in new semester

According to the arrangements made at the organizational meeting, GHOST will operate in six groups in the current semester

1. AlphaGo Group – a group that aims to understand the AlphaGo algorithm developed by Google DeepMind, which a few years ago defeated best human player in the game of Go
2. VIZDOOM Group – a group whose goal is to extend the VIZDOOM library for reinforcement learning
3. Probabilistic Programming Group – a group working on understanding the Probabilistic Programming paradigm and its use for machine learning
4. DeepRacer Group – a group which builds a miniature of an autonomous car controlled by deep neural networks. The group, in cooperation with the RAI scientific club, will submit a grant application and (if grant will be awarded) RAI will build a miniature of the car, and GHOST will design algorithms analogous to those used in self-driving cars.
5. GHOSTDay Group – a special group organizing a conference related to machine learning at the Poznan University of Technology
6. IJCAI Group – (for now we have only one person – join us! 🙂 group starting in the competition about adversarial examples

GHOST: Episode IV – A New Hope

GHOST is now nearing its fourth semester, and it is time for a revolution! Starting next week, meetings will be more interactive – instead of the usual ‘seminar’ format (where each week the presenter prepared a presentation, and lead a discussion on a chosen topic) we will split up into project teams. Each team will work independently towards a specified goal, and discuss progress and potential difficulties during weekly meetings. Participation will now require more active engagement from each GHOST member, and everyone will chose a project, whose topic and complexity suits them most.

If you are interested in participating in GHOST in the upcoming semester, please come to the organizational meeting, which will take place on Tuesday, the 26th of February, at 11:45AM, in room 423 WE. You’ll learn about the planned projects and get to sign up for your chosen team. If you’ve never participated in GHOST, come meet us on Tuesday – we’re always happy to invite new members and answer any potential questions!

GHOST Report 2017-2018

We are proud to present a report on the activities of GHOST Machine Learning group in the years 2017-2018 prepared for His Magnificence Rector of PUT for evaluation purposes.