My Keynote, on AI Policy in Africa, from IndabaX Rwanda 2023 at #ICLR2023 is now available to view online. Thank you for the organisers of IndabaX Rwanda and Black in AI for having me.

https://iclr.cc/virtual/2023/14362

@indabaxrwanda@twitter.com @black_in_ai@twitter.com @uptuks@twitter.com @LelapaAI@twitter.com
#AfricanMachineLearning

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DSFSI @ #ICLR2023 coverage by @uptuks@twitter.com.

UP computer science students feature at first Africa-hosted machine learning conference https://www.up.ac.za/news/post_3152042-up-computer-science-students-feature-at-first-africa-hosted-machine-learning-conference

@iclr_conf@twitter.com @siminyu_kat@twitter.com @vukosi@twitter.com #AfricanMachineLearning #AfricanNLP #NLProc

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DSFSI_Research/status/1661019520704872451

How many of those who want to create “AGI benefiting ALL of humanity” & concerned about
“existential risks” were at #ICLR2023 in Kigali? We know they show up to any of the conference rotations when they’re in their usual places with visas barring most ppl in the world. But I am blabbering on about the global apartheid system of visas that restricts the movement of non white people. Genius minds like Hinton & others can’t be bothered with such minuscule issues: they’re thinking about HUMANITY!

And that is it for #ICLR2023.

Thank you for all following this thread and attending @iclr_conf in Kigali. It was a pleasure organising this and working to make it the strongest conference it can be.

FIN/n

We are still live at #ICLR2023 at the ICLR

Some of the posters at the #AfricaNLP workshop at #ICLR2023

RT @gneubig
I had to travel 26 hours and spend $2000+ to join #ICLR2023 in Rwanda.
But people in Africa have to do this every time a conference is held in US.

What happens when we make it easier to participate?

1530% higher registrations from Africa.

This is important and must continue.

Some of the posters at the #AfricaNLP workshop at #ICLR2023

#AfricanMachineLearning
#AfricanNLP

We are live at the #africaNLP workshop at the #ICLR2023

We are also discussing our new works in Geo-semantics (contextualizing locations within natural language, both in text and audio).

Meet Anthony Soronnadi on-site for discussion on collaboration and strategic support.

Our poster at the AfricaNLP workshop at #ICLR2023. Rozina Myoya, from our lab @DSFSI_Research , will be at the poster session.

#AfricanNLP
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I'm presenting a poster in the Sparse Neural Network workshop @sparsenn at #ICLR2023 on "Efficient Real Time Recurrent Learning through combined activity and parameter sparsity". Come by if you're around!

Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05641

Join Jade Abbott (@alienelf), our Lelapa AI @LelapaAI co-founder at the Practical Machine Learning for Developing Countries workshop today.

27/n

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TODAY! If you are at #ICLR2023 go check out these Lacuna Fund grantees present.

AfricaNLP - @asmelashteka, @Shmuhammadd

Machine Learning for Remote Sensing - @j_nabende

Practical Machine Learning for Developing Countries - @RKiire, @alienelf, @asmelashteka
https://twitter.com/LacunaFund/status/1654365313566400512

The final day of #ICLR2023. At the Practical Machine Learning for Developing Countries workshop, Kathleen (@siminyu_kat kicked off the day with "Honoring Kiswahili with Technology and Community" 25/n

Why we fight
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RT @gneubig
I had to travel 26 hours and spend $2000+ to join #ICLR2023 in Rwanda.
But people in Africa have to do this every time a conference is held in US.

What happens when we make it easier to participate?

1530% higher registrations from Africa.

This is important and must continue.
https://twitter.com/gneubig/status/1654053264965369857

Evening before the last day of @iclr_conf #ICLR2023. We are almost there. What a busy conference. Great reconnecting, meeting new people and forging new collaborations. 24/n

Take a look at these two exceptional research papers that were presented at #ICLR2023

1. "Towards Understanding Ensemble, Knowledge Distillation and Self-Distillation in Deep Learning" by Yuanzhi Li.

This research delves into how ensembles operate in deep learning and how the dark knowledge embedded in the ensemble's outputs can be utilized in distillation.

Read more here: https://openreview.net/forum?id=Uuf2q9TfXGA

2. "Universal Few-shot Learning of Dense Prediction Tasks with Visual Token Matching" by Donggyun Kim.

This paper introduces Visual Token Matching (VTM), a few-shot learner that leverages non-parametric matching on patch-level embedded tokens of images and labels for arbitrary dense prediction tasks.

Read more here: https://openreview.net/forum?id=88nT0j5jAn

We also had Kathleen Siminyu @siminyu_kat - "NLP for African Languages"

IndabaXRwanda #ICLR2023 is going deep into policy, regulation and protecting people as part of our AI Research. We are also very proud to have Kathleen as a new member @DSFSI_Research at @UPTuks 23/n

This morning, I had the opportunity to deliver a keynote speech at IndabaX Rwanda, which was held concurrently with #ICLR2023. The topic of my speech was AI + Policy for African Researchers, and I focused on the importance of addressing policy and trust 21/n

Just gave a keynote on AI + Policy on the African continent at IndabaX Rwanda colocated with #ICLR2023

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“What got you here, wont get you there” @vukosi

#indabaxrwanda #ICLR2023
https://twitter.com/IndabaXRwanda/status/1654019978280984577

RT @GoogleAI
At 2:30pm today at the Google booth hear @poolio describe DreamFusion, winner of the #ICLR2023 Outstanding Paper Award. This text-to-3D system was built by optimizing a NeRF from scratch using the Imagen text-to-image diffusion model. No 3D data needed! http://dreamfusion3d.github.io

We are live at #iclr2023, a leading global AI conference holding for the first time on the African soil in Rwanda.

2 of our academic papers on the use of AI for reproductive health & emergency medical intervention using crowdsourced data will be presented as posters.