Valahia Summer School 2024

Ioan Toma:

Ioan is Chief AI Officer and Co-Founder of Onlim. He holds a doctorate in computer science from the University of Innsbruck and, together with his team, is primarily responsible for research and development in the field of AI components of the Onlim platform.

https://sites.google.com/site/ioantoma/

Dumitru Roman:

Professor at OsloMet, Faculty of Technology, Art and Design, Department of Computer Science
https://www.oslomet.no/en/about/employee/dumitrur/
Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF Digital Oslo. Department of Susteinable Communication Technologies
https://www.sintef.no/en/all-employees/employee/dumitru.roman/

Corneliu Stanciu:

Corneliu is co-founder of Onlim and as Chief Solutions Officer responsible for the development and implementation of industry solutions and special applications. He studied computer science at the University of Innsbruck and has been involved in numerous research projects on the topic of “semantic technologies”.
https://www.onlim.com

Program

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18.07.2024

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10:00 – 12:00 (2h)

Conversational AI (Corneliu Stanciu)

Conversational AI setup and designing a chatbot interface

Building a chatbot using Onlim Conversational AI framework

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 15:00 (1.5h)

Semantic Knowledge Graphs and their role in Conversational AI (Ioan Toma)

15:00 – 16:30 (1.5h)

Basics of Large Language Models (LLMs) (Corneliu Stanciu)

Subword tokenization, word embeddings, and neural language models (LMs)

Encoder, encoder-decoder, and decoder LMs

16:30 – 17:30 (1h)

Q&A (Corneliu Stanciu & Ioan Toma)

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19.07.2024

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09:30 – 12:00 (2.5h)

Prompting techniques and LLM APIs (Ioan Toma)

Zero-shot and few-shot in-context learning

Chain-of-thought prompting, retrieval augmented generation, and ReAct

The chat completion API and LangChain

Pre-training and fine-tuning

12:00 – 13:30  Lunch break

13:30 – 16:00 (2.5h)

LLMs-based applications & use cases (Corneliu Stanciu)

Introduction to LLM-based Data Processing

Knowledge Extraction using LLMs

Document Classification, Summarization and Comparison using LLMs

16:00 – 17:00 (1h)

Q&A (Corneliu Stanciu & Ioan Toma)

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20.07.2024

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10:00 – 12:00 (2h)

Graph data management (Dumitru Roman)

Intro to graph data structure

Knowledge Graphs

Graph data management (graph databases with Noe4j, graph data model, graph construction and querying)

12:00 – 13:30  Lunch break

13:30 – 15:00 (1.5h)

Data analytics and enrichment (Dumitru Roman)

Graph data visualization

Data linking

Tabular data enrichment

Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) for data enrichment

15:00 – 16:00 (1h)

Q&A (Dumitru Roman & Corneliu Stanciu & Ioan Toma)