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Below is the tentative list of the topics that are available. Please, consider the specified literature as starting point for your literature research.

Topic Area 1: AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning

1. Computer Vision: Convolutional Neural Networks and Vision Transformers (Andre Luckow)
• Dosovitskiy, An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale, https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929, 2020
• Liu et al., A ConvNet for the 2020s https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.03545.pdf, 2022
• Krizhevsky et al., ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, 2012
2. Natural Language Processing and Transformer Models (Fabian Dreer)
• Brown et al., Language Models are Few-Shot Learners, 2020
• Devlin et al., BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding, 2019
• Vaswani et al., Attention is all you need, https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
3. Generative Models (Pascal Jungblut)
   • Rombach et al, High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models, https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10752, 2022.
   • DALL-E: Creating Images from Text, https://openai.com/dall-e-2/, 2021
   • Ramesh et al, Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents, https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06125, 2022
   • Goodfellow et al., Generative Adversarial Nets, https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661, In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2014
4. Federated Learning (Korbinian Staudacher)
   • Konečný et al., Federated Optimization: Distributed Machine Learning for On-Device Intelligence, https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02527, 2016
   • Yang et al., Federated Machine Learning: Concept and Applications, https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04885, 2019
   • Kairouz et al., Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning, https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04977, 2021,
   • LEAF: A Benchmark for Federated Settings, https://leaf.cmu.edu/, 2019
5. ML in Computational Sciences and HPC (Sergej Breiter)
   • Fox et al., Understanding ML driven HPC: Applications and Infrastructure, https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.02363, 2021
   • Fawzi et al., Discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms with reinforcement learning, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05172-4, 2022
   • Li et al., Fourier Neural Operator for Parametric Partial Differential Equations, https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08895, 2020
   • Pestourie et al., Active learning of deep surrogates for PDEs: application to metasurface design, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41524-020-00431-2, 2021
   • Karniadakis et al., Physics-informed machine learning, Nature Reviews, https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-021-00314-5, 2021
6. Explainable AI (Daniel Diefenthaler)
• Explaining Explanations: An Overview of Interpretability of Machine Learning: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.00069v3
• Stop explaining black box machine learning models for high stakes decisions and use interpretable models instead: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-019-0048-x
• The challenge of crafting intelligible intelligence: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3282486
• Li, M., Zhao, Z., & Scheidegger, C. (2020). Visualizing Neural Networks with the Grand Tour. Distill, 5(3), e25.
• Smith, E. M., Smith, J., Legg, P., & Francis, S. Visualising state space representations of LSTM networks. Presented at Workshop on Visualization for AI Explainability
• Gärtler, J., Kehlbeck, R., & Deussen, O. (2019). A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes. Distill, 4(4), e17
7. AI Sustainability (Sophia Grundner-Culemann)
• Wu et al., Sustainable AI: Environmental Implications, Challenges and Opportunities, https://proceedings.mlsys.org/paper/2022/file/ed3d2c21991e3bef5e069713af9fa6ca-Paper.pdf, 2022
• Dodge et al., Measuring the Carbon Intensity of AI in Cloud Instances, https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.05229, 2022
• Strubell et al., Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.02243.pdf, 2019.

Topic Area 2: Data Management and Tools for AI

8. Modern data management systems (Dang Diep)
   • Behm et al., Photon: A Fast Query Engine for Lakehouse Systems, SIGMOD, https://cs.stanford.edu/~matei/papers/2022/sigmod_photon.pdf, 2022
   • Armbrust et al., Lakehouse: A New Generation of Open Platforms that Unify Data Warehousing and Advanced Analytics, CIDR, https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2021/papers/cidr2021_paper17.pdf, 2021
   • Armbrust et al., Delta Lake: High-Performance ACID Table Storage over Cloud Object Stores, https://www.databricks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/p975-armbrust.pdf, 2020
9. AI Programming Tools (Fabio Genz)
   • Barham et al., Pathways: Asynchronous Distributed Dataflow For ML, https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.12533, 2022
   • Bradbury et al, JAX: composable transformations of Python+NumPy programs, https://github.com/google/jax, 2022
   • Frostig et al, Compiling machine learning programs via high-level tracing, https://mlsys.org/Conferences/2019/doc/2018/146.pdf, 2022
   • PyTorch, 2017
   • Abadi et al., TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems, White Paper, 2015
10. Scaling Machine Learning (Minh Chung)
• Narayanan et al., Efficient Large-Scale Language Model Training on GPU Clusters Using Megatron-LM, https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.04473, 2021
• Shoeybi, Megatron-LM: Training Multi-Billion Parameter Language Models Using Model Parallelism, https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.08053, 2019
• Hoffmann et al., Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models, Deepmind, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.15556.pdf, 2022.
• Kaplan et al., Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08361.pdf, 2021
• Dean et al., Large Scale Distributed Deep Networks, 2012
• Alex Krizhevsky, One weird trick for parallelizing convolutional neural networks, 2014
• Li et al., Scaling Distributed Machine Learning with the Parameter Server, OSDI, 2014
11. AI Domain-specific Architectures (Sergej Breiter)
    • Hooker, The Hardware Lottery, 2020
    • GraphCore, https://www.graphcore.ai/
    • Cerabras, https://www.cerebras.net/
12. Edge Computing and Edge to Cloud Continuum (Andre Luckow)
    • Beckman et al., Harnessing the Computing Continuum for Programming our World, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9116796, 2020.
    • Rosendo et al, Distributed intelligence on the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum: A systematic literature review, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0743731522000843
    • Simmhan et al., Characterizing application scheduling on edge, fog, and cloud computing resources, https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.10125, 2018.

Topic Area 3: Quantum Computing

13. Quantum Machine Learning (Michelle To)
    • Lloyd et al., Quantum machine learning, https://www.nature.com/articles/nature23474, 2016
    • Schuld et al., An introduction to quantum machine learning, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.3097.pdf
    • Hubregtsen et al., Evaluation of Parameterized Quantum Circuits: on the relation between classification accuracy, expressibility and entangling capability, 2020
    • PennyLane, https://pennylane.ai/
14. Quantum Benchmarking (Michelle To)
    • Cross et al., Validating quantum computers using randomized model circuits, https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12926, 2018
    • Blume-Kohout et al., A volumetric framework for quantum computer benchmarks, https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05546, 2020
    • Mills et al., Application-Motivated, Holistic Benchmarking of a Full Quantum Computing Stack, https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.01273, 2021
    • Martiel et al., Benchmarking quantum co-processors in an application-centric, hardware-agnostic and scalable way, https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12973, 2021
    • Lubinski et al., Application-Oriented Performance Benchmarks for Quantum Computing, https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03137, 2021
    • Finzgar et al., QUARK: A Framework for Quantum Computing Application Benchmarking, https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03028, 2022.