Events

Introduction to modern LLM pre-training: Sailor use case
ISTD COIL Seminar by Qian Liu – This talk will present some key techniques in modern LLM pre-training, including scaling laws, data quality engineering, data mixture optimization, and efficient training strategies. We will use Sailor, a family of open language models (0.5B to 14B parameters) tailored for South-East Asian languages, as a case study.


Alessandro Luongo (National University of Singapore) – Quantum Algorithms and Their Applications in Finance


Future of Innovation
EPD Distinguished Lecture Series & Innovation Forum in partnership with The James Dyson Foundation – Join us to explore how innovation, technology, and engineering are shaping our future.


Ling Chun Kai (National University of Singapore) – Learning and Solving Games in the Presence of Teams


Warut Suksompong (National University of Singapore) – Weighted Fair Division: Additive Preferences and Beyond


Congratulations to Associate Professor Liu Xiaogang’s PhD Student in winning the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Excellent Student Award
He was honored with the “Winner of RSC Excellent Student Award” by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) this September. This award recognizes his academic excellence in leveraging computational chemistry to facilitate interdisciplinary research and his contribution to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect (DEIR) within the scientific community.

DH Asia Webinar Series: “A Sandbox for Humanistic Data Scientists” by Dr. Setsuko Yokoyama
DH Asia Webinar Series: “A Sandbox for Humanistic Data Scientists” by Dr. Setsuko Yokoyama

It's all in the mix: Wasserstein machine learning with mixed features
It’s all in the mix: Wasserstein machine learning with mixed features


DH Asia Webinar Series: “Recreating Chinese Mythical Creatures in the Digital Age” by Dr. Kaby Wing-Sze Kung
DH Asia Webinar Series: “Recreating Chinese Mythical Creatures in the Digital Age” by Dr. Kaby Wing-Sze Kung

The Design Ethics of Autonomous Machines
In this presentation, I describe and explain why ethics has become even more salient as autonomous machines move out from factories and laboratories into the open, complex and unpredictable environment of cities.